Don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind’s blowin’.
If you aren’t busy at 9:00 pm Eastern tomorrow night, you should think about visiting Wilco World dot net and listening to the webcast. I’ll be joining my friend Ken in Charlottesville, Virginia to assist him in producing the webcast.
Update: setlist below.
I want more, more, mmmooorrre…
The cats misbehaving, caught on camera.
Click below to see the video…
I got the bright idea awhile ago to create a collage of concert tickets and photos of some of my favorite shows. You may recognize the top photo from a previous post about My Morning Jacket. The photo on the left is Sigur Ros at the Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland. The photo on the right is Wilco at the 9:30 Club. And lastly, the photo at the bottom is me with one of my favorite artists, Ted Leo, after the Wilco show.
Travis and I were fortunate enough to join our friend Ken at the Wilco show October 19, 2006 and assist him with webcasting the show from Wilcoworld.net. The setlist on the left is from that show.
Here’s the finished project:
I have to send a big “thank you” to Senator Diane Feinstein of California, for creating the most frightening piece of legislation this Congress: S. 265 - The PERFORM Act. According to Senator Feinstein’s website:
This bill would require satellite, cable and Internet broadcasters to pay fair market value for the performance of digital music. Additionally, the bill would require the use of readily available and cost-effective technological means to prevent music theft.
emphasis mine
Senator Feinstein intends to compel content providers to embed digital rights management in their content streams. Digital Rights Management is the technology that prohibits you to use your own property as you see fit: such as the AAC format in iTunes. The government should not be requiring anyone to protect their content. If a content provider feels their property is being compromised, then they can take their own measures on their own accord. Perhaps a new business model may be required. Whatever, the solution: it should be the government’s place to require content providers to embed DRM on their streams.
See the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) response.
Here’s to hoping this law fails miserably…I can’t recall being this upset with legislation since Bush decided that he could spy on anyone at anytime (that one’s also not a winner).
As you from my previous post, we had some snow here today. We thought it would be interesting to see how the cats would like the snow this year. You may recall our video of Stewart’s first snow from last winter. Make sure to watch this video until its end, you’ll notice the abrupt ending…See the full post for the video.
It appears winter has decided to finally bring itself to DC today.
It’s nice to see snow, although bike riding may be interesting tomorrow.
If any of you have watched 24, you are no stranger to its drama, nor to its absurd twisting of reality. Ridiculousness aside, Dana and I are big fans. We found this tips from Jack Bauer pretty amusing:
Actions speak louder than words. Though shouting can also be effective.
If you shoot a man’s wife in the knee and he still doesn’t give you the information, he’s bad.
The only thing harder than racing to stop a madman from releasing a deadly virus that will kill thousands of people is doing it while simultaneously trying to kick heroin.
If I say “dammit,” either something bad just happened, something bad is about to happen, or I’m going to do something drastic.
If you have to trust someone, make it a quirky computer genius.
When interrogating a suspect, I’ve often found it effective to ask the question loudly and repeat it several times.
Remember, terrorists use the phone as much as we do.
There are so many more, but this is getting long…
You may have seen my previous post, about people dumping water in their computer. Well, how appropriate to end this day than to nearly die? Well, that may be an exaggeration, but I would have been hurt pretty seriously.
Here’s the story. People need to respect bicyclists. I was riding my bicycle home from work, in the bike lane, and riding very quickly (which is not illegal, as I was certainly not speeding - it’s fairly difficult to ride a bicycle at 25 mph in a suit in 30 degree Fahrenheit weather). Someone decided that they would open their car door without regard to anyone traveling in the bicycle lane, which mind you is fairly busy given that we’re in DC. If he would have opened his door 1/2 second later, I would have flown through his door.
So, there you have it. I was 0.5 seconds from being in the ER tonight, potentially worse. Needless to say, please respect bicyclists.
If you’re curious as to statistics: the full facts & figures here.
person in my office:
My computer is beeping and won’t turn on
me, after noticing water on the case and surrounding the computer:
Did you spill water on it?
PIMO:
Well, yes a little
This is why I will be very wealthy in the future. I will compile all of my stories and write a book. Then you can say you all know someone famous.
If you’ve visited the site recently, you may have noticed a bit of re-organization at the top of the screen. One of the key additions is the “Archive” page. This page, as it will tell you, “allows you to ‘dig’ into the Comfortable Disappearance repository in a fast and efficient way without having to reload this page as you explore.”
I hope that you’ll find this useful. I’m still undecided as to whether I will keep it or not…only time will tell.
You’ll also see the new page “Lists Galore!” I’ve decided to reorganize my past lists of Albums of the Year and concerts under this parent category and show only the link to the current year’s concerts. I’m still working on a better way to keep the concert information flowing, but for now, this will have to suffice.
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