Mic in track

Remember searching Napster for "Mic in Track" to find MusicMatch Jukebox recorded audio? I do, and so does this guy. The difference is he still has the mp3z, and you can download them from him. Check the link for what the page's author calls "unique examples of audio vérité."

Stark Effect - mic in track

Some neat stuff.

On the 100-0 high school basketball game

Dear Micah Grimes,

You know normally I'm supportive of my fellow namesakes, but you really screwed the pooch on this one. If this report is even remotely accurate, you seriously screwed up and got the proper punishment.

Having been a coach on both sides of debacles like this (though not this bad obviously*), you deserve your firing You were running up the score. If you can't keep your team from doing something like this, you lack the discipline and judgment necessary to coach. If you lack the coaching ability to figure out ways to prevent your team from scoring quickly, you're not innovative enough to coach. You had kids shooting treys in the fourth quarter!

This was a ten round boxing match that should've been a second round KO, but the ref was powerless to stop it. The manager, you, instead of instructing your fighter to stand over his opponent for eight more rounds, told your fighter to go out there and wallop them while they were down.

Learn your lesson. Have a good life. If you truly see the err of your ways (and not that you were fired), I wish you success in finding another coaching gig, but know that you will always be the guy that ran the score up 100-0 on a school for kids with learning disabilities.

Thanks,
Micah

*Getting beat 14-0 in soccer is pretty dang close though.

On the ongoing "debate" about Gitmo

To favor due process is to favor Terrorists'; Rights - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com:

"It's not really 'complex' to understand this: the fact that the U.S. Government accuses someone of X does not mean that they are actually guilty of X. That's true even where 'X = Terrorist.' That's why, in America, we have these things called 'trials' and 'due process.' Sometimes the Government is wrong. Sometimes it is inept. Sometimes it is corrupt and tyrannical. Therefore, these things we call 'checks' are necessary before we assume that Government accusations are true and before we allow the Government to put people into cages for life. We don't actually know that someone is a 'Terrorist' until a trial, with due process, establishes that the Government's accusations are true."

I wish I'd thought of that

BobHarris.com - Get These Motherf***ing Geese Off This Motherf***ing Plane

Bob Harris on "Sully's Splash"

Tall ships (and others)

Sailing, around the world - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Go. Look. Now.

National Journal Magazine - Hacking The Hill

National Journal Magazine - Hacking The Hill

"This past June, Rep. Frank Wolf, a Republican from Northern Virginia, took to the House floor and announced that four of his office's computers 'were compromised by an outside source.'

'On these computers,' he said, 'was information about all of the casework I have done on behalf of political dissidents and human-rights activists around the world.' Wolf is an outspoken critic of China's human-rights policies.

'That kind of information, as well as everything else on my office computers -- e-mails, memos, correspondence, and district casework -- was open for outside eyes to see,' Wolf said. And then, without naming names, he added, 'Several other members were similarly compromised.'"

Interesting read on the hack of Congressional computers most likely by Chinese intelligence agents. You have to expect this stuff. As if we aren't hacking on every angle we can of China's government network. Par for the course.

The other thing I never thought I'd see

The Buzzsaw That is the Arizona Cardinals is going to the Super Bowl.

Now that's a miracle.

Welcome to the (new) White House

Welcome to the White House

Good luck Mr. President.

Let's go ahead and add Doctor Who to that list

AMC - Blogs - SciFi Scanner - John Scalzi - Boldly (and Badly) Going Where Star Trek Has Gone Before:

"I'm also reminded that for every Star Trek -- that is, every science fiction television show that has successfully made the leap to film -- there are a dozen or so Lost in Spaces that have crashed and burned in the transition."

The Doctor Who movies have all been pretty bad. In the first one they recast the Doctor, actually called him "Dr. Who", redo the origin story in a way that's not compatible with series lore, give us a third (or fourth) Dalek origin story, and generally screw up just about everything you can about Doctor Who, including actually titling the movie "Dr. Who and the Daleks". The second movie is better, but that's because it's simply a remake of the early great TV serials -- and an ending that will piss off every true fan.

And don't get me started on the 1996 Paul McCann movie. As the first comment on the imdb page says, "I don't know what it is, but Doctor Who it's not."

Now that's a circus

Lady Marmelade Gets Slaughtered Yet Again

Apparently, Guy LaLiberté regularly gets killed in ultra-high stakes online poker games. Dude can afford it, so no problem, but still 20 million a year? Losing an average of $350 a hand over 5000 tracked hands? That's not good. That's not even bad. It's worse than that, but we're talking $500/1000 NL Hold-Em played mostly at short tables.

Muddy Waters - You Can't Loose What Your Never Had

What better way to spend a snow day?

Beastie Boys - B-Boy Bouillabaisse

How did I not realize this what great poesy the first time around?

Al Jazeera just gets it

I'm not talking about their politics, though one suspects any network that has been banned by multiple Middle Eastern countries and had its offices blown to hell by the US twice is probably doing good journalism of the kind we no longer have in this country. No, Al Jazeera just gets it with things like this:

Creative Commons licensed news feeds. Raw high quality (tho not HD) news footage posted on a very open CC license.

Not cool Mr. Lawless

Player faces action over death-taunt allegation (From Bury Times):

"A FOOTBALL player is facing disciplinary action after allegedly taunting fans by mocking the death of 23 people in an air crash.

John Lawless, aged 26, who plays for Merseyside side Marine FC, was given an official police warning at half time in a match against Unibond League rivals FC United of Manchester at Gigg Lane, Bury, on December 20.

While taking a corner at the end of the ground in which most of the 2,122 spectators were gathered, Mr Lawless was seen to wave his arms to make an aeroplane gesture in an apparent reference to the Munich air disaster in 1958.

The crash killed eight players of Manchester United - the sister club of FC United. Three Manchester United staff and eight journalists also died."

Look I hate the Mancs as much as the next Scouser, but I'll make a deal with all of them. We'll leave tragedy of Munich alone, and you leave Hillsborough out of it. Pretty much everything else is fair game, ok? Good... you tossers.

Think much of yourself?

20080509 25 Roland Burris Future Grave
Originally uploaded by southbound_07

The Colbert Report ::: Remix feat Lawrence Lessig (Eclectic Method Mix)

Very Grey Today

That is all. Oh and I got a new class of seventh graders this semester... including my daughter.

Derby Time!

FA Cup - Liverpool draw Everton in Cup - Yahoo! Eurosport UK

Reds vs. Blues at Anfield in the FA Cup Fourth Round.

Some times

Forest Green Rovers FC

Facing relegation in the non-league Blue Square Premier division  Forest Green are currently up 2-0 on Championship side Derby County in the FA Cup third round.  Let me put this in baseball terms for my fellow Yanks.  It would be like the Independent League Saint Paul Saints being up 4-0 in the third over the Louisville Cardinals (St. Louis' AAA team).

Put another way:
Professional Clubs
Premier League 1-24
Championship League 1-24 << Derby is currently 18th in this League
League One 1-24
League Two 1-24
------------------------
SemiBarely-Pro Clubs
Blue Square Premier 1-24 << Forest Green is currently 22nd in this League


So if you smashed it all down into one giant division of 120 teams what we have here is #118 beating #36.

And once again matches like this are the reason that FA Cup is the greatest football tourney in the world.

Update 1/4/9 02:24 -- Derby won 4-3 in a "what could have been" match for Forest Green.

On eating 1/2/9

I had a six inch Club from Subway, a handful of chips, three light beers (only kind available), and a glass of lime-aid today.  I have no idea how many calories that is, but it ain't many.  I'm going to gain any weight eating like that.  The thing is I'm not at all hungry.  I go for days like this with one light meal a day.  I lose weight, but that's not what I want.  6'2" 10 stone 9 pounds just isn't healthy for me.

I flat out need to eat more.

Scale weight: 149 (-1) :(

New Year's Resolutions 2009

Personal:
1) Be more patient with my kids. They're great. I need to remember that. They need help and patience -- not harsh criticism and aloofness.

2) Start dressing better. I have a job that lets me wear very casual clothes (carpenter's pants FTW). I can also get away with unkempt hair and an unkempt "beard"
Like this (that's six weeks on the beard BTW):

Cute eh?  Except that I have blue jeans on instead of khaki carpenters, that's pretty much what I'd wear to work and how I'd look.  So dress pants/button downs except casual Fridays, a real hair cut, and shave three times a week.

3) Get back to my high school weight.  Gain 15 pounds to get back to 165;)

4) Make all my kids' home games.

5) Keep the dishes out of the sink.  (Yeah right).

Geek:

1) AT LEAST ONE POST A DAY!  That will probably last a week, but I really have no excuse, as I don't mean one quality post a day, just one post.  I can post from two different devices I carry on me at pretty much all times (and I always have the craptacular autoupload from the cellie).  No excuses.

2) Brush up on CSS with the overall goal of theming my own Drupal installation.

3) Comment on other blogs more.  Find more good discussions and ask questions.

4) Continue to grow http://2paws.net/ 

5) Integrate the soon to come XP Pro machines at work into the current Open Directory infrastructure.  (Ick.)