August 2006
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YouTube & You: Music Videos Galore
Posted by Thomas on 26 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General Ramblings
As we all know, MTV really shouldn’t be called “Music Television” anymore, because they hardly play music videos anymore.
Yeah, I know, VH1 and MTV have another channel (usually in the “high 200’s” on digital cable) where they show music videos. But that’s old hat.
Yeah, the word of the day is “video-on-demand”. (Yeah, I guess it could be a phrase. I’m too lazy to figure out if a hyphenated word counts as one word.)
If you do a little searching on YouTube, you’d be surprised at how many music videos are on there now.
A few of my favorites, after the click.
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Take a second…
Posted by Thomas on 24 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General Ramblings
Netflix’s Showing of “Raising Arizona” - Picts & Review
Posted by Thomas on 21 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General Ramblings
So, the other day, the wife and I went to Lost Dutchman State Park to see Netflix’s Showing of Raising Arizona.
Click Read More to read a review, and some picts of the cool scenery…
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You have new Picture Mail!
Posted by Thomas on 20 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Bob Barker’s first Appearance on “The Price is Right”.
Posted by Thomas on 16 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
September 4th, 1972, Bob Barker’s first TPIR. He looks a little ‘young’.
What a week… so far.
Posted by Thomas on 16 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General Ramblings
..ready for another vacation.
So I finally got Windows XP running on my Apple MacBook Pro, thanks to Parallels Software.
But now I’m like, ehhh…why did I bother?
After just going through reinstalling Windows on my work laptop, I forgot what a pain it is.
Oh well.
So, this weekend we’re going to go see The Netflix showing of Raising Arizona at Lost Dutchman State Park by our house. Should be a good time, especially with such a classic movie.
In case you’re missing the Matterhorn..
Posted by Thomas on 13 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General Ramblings
The Howard Johnson Anaheim, a not too bad hotel, but no Candy Cane Inn, has added a pretty cool MatterCam, a webcam that you can see Disneyland’s Matterhorn.
It’s pretty cool:
Got Change for a Nickel?
Posted by Thomas on 12 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
You have new Picture Mail!
Posted by Thomas on 10 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Of course, the power has been off at the house for the last 2 hours. Workingg from Starbucks.
Metrocenter Mall… in it’s 70’s goodness
Posted by Thomas on 09 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General Ramblings
Check this link out.
It’s a postcard from Metrocenter Mall, shortly after opening in the 70’s.
I remember the nice ’stone-looking’ walkways.