As for President-elect Obama, he can now stop dancing, which he’s been doing for 20 months — in a democracy we want candidates to really, really, really want to be president — and get down to the business of patient, focused, rational deliberation and calculation, starting with the formulation of a Cabinet and a White House staff. Have them write up a presidential order for January 20 saying that America will not employ torture, and maybe issue a blanket presidential pardon for your predecessor and his vice, and then set about the business of disappointing your followers and astonishing your enemies and doing what is right for our country.
A friend of mine just made a video with some kids she works with in a pretty low-income area here in orange county. The point of the video is to win a Converse shoes contest. She had the kids help her design a shoe and if they win, they get 22 pairs of shoes, which for these kids would be amazing.
Let’s all try and help her win:
1. Go this website and click on the image of this shoe.
Right now it’s on page three. It’s called Melting Pot.
2. Then, click on “Leave a Comment and Vote”.
3. Make sure you have the “yes” box selected then leave a comment.
Please help the kids out and send this around to some people. It seems like something small, but it would bring these guys some much needed joy (and shoes).
UPDATE: The shoes are in 11th place. Keep clicking.
So my brief stint of trying every blog software out there and also completely jacking up my theme is over. I learned an important lesson. It’s easily summed up in oh so simple words of one of our founding fathers:
Don’t go chasing waterfalls, just stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to
So now we have (hopefully) a readable design and good content. Now all we need is readers.
One a sidenote: I will continue to keep up my tumblr blog and use it from time to time. My tumblr blog imports all my posts from wordpress (minus the comments) so you wont miss anything here is you only check there. I am going to try and keep this guy updated and we’ll see if we can keep the discussion going.
So yeah I missed the comments. Not that they were very often but its nice to have some interaction. It’s funny that I’ve spent a couple years blogging trying to build a community around it and get some comments and then I chose a blog that doesn’t have any. So here’s the deal. I am gonna keep using tumblr but I am gonna have them imported into this blog. I will also continue to update this blog with it’s own material. So you can comment on tumblr posts on this blog. Hopefully this time it won’t try to take over the world.
The Office begins again this thursday. I am happy and sad. Happy because it brings me pleasure. Sad because life will now “need” to be adjusted to accomodate the timing of tv show schedules. We are having a small get together at the house on thursday for the Season premiere. My wife created the below invitation. It’s perfect and my wife is supposedly the “non-creative*” one.
*taken from the dutch word nocroet which, in english, literally translates to unpretentious.**
**taken from the dutch word dboulsit which, in english, literally translates to bullsh…you get it.
EDIT: Just because you saw this here doesn’t mean your invited…okay maybe if you comment (excluding, Moncrief)
The internet is cool. It was created by mostly nerds and the most avid users of the internet probably are still nerds. This somehow makes nerds cool. Hence, it is now totally appropriate and funny to make star wars jokes or references. Not that this hasn’t been done in the past, but now you can do it and girls still kiss you.
I’ve never been a huge fan of television. Not so much the shape. More the lack of creativity. Recycled ideas that last 10 seasons. That was the great thing about movies until 2007 when there is a trilogy about an ogre, superhero and a pirate and they are all recycled ideas. That doesn’t mean there isn’t great things on TV, but the group titled “great things” has very few members.
Just in case you were wondering “Deal or No Deal” is not in that group.
During the season finale of The Office (US) there was a short ad for a new HBO show called “Flight of the Conchords”. The ad caught my eye with it’s indie-hip asthetic. A quick search on youtube turned up some good results.
Flight of the Conchords is a comedy/music duo from New Zealand. The aptly titled show starring the members of the band is about their conquests in New York. The show breaks out in song at several points and is pretty funny. I won’t subscribe to HBO to watch it, but I would allow them to advertise to me while watching a free online or downloadable version. Below is a clip of the show:
If you’ve kept reading this far, congratulations, most people just clicked on the first video and watched it for 30 secs before their boss walked by and they closed it.
I don’t know if I love the show as much as I love the idea of it. This show seems much more like a youtube series than something a big media company put out. Obviously the production value is much higher but the concept is not. A two man team with a whitty concept that ramble for 25 min. This is the beauty of the internets. I am not a technolovigist (yeah its a word) but the idea of being able to watch only the shows I want, when I want gets me pretty pumped. Not only because it means I can make that content without the steep entrance fees of being NBC, but also because we get shows like Chad Vader or a show about two guys who sing.
The First Seal - Religious Deception and Persecution “I watched as The Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.” (Revelation 6:1-2)
The Second Seal - War “When The Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.” (Revelation 6:3-4)
The Third Seal - Famine “When The Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!” (Revelation 6:5-6)
The Fourth Seal - Pestilence “When The Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.” (Revelation 6:7-8)
