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March 31, 2006
Links of the day
Gull keeps coming back to motel year after year for donuts.
You probably haven't heard Canon played like this. (video)
March 28, 2006
Podcast Ep. 2
Email The James Gang: jamesgangpodcast@mac.com (send us some questions or comments and we'll read them! It'll make you feel famous and distract you from your otherwise boring and dull life!)
I'm going to work on making it a "real" podcast you can subscribe to in iTunes.
EDIT: Click here to subscribe to The James Gang in iTunes.
March 27, 2006
Tubular
This guy re-enacts scenes from movies... playing all the characters himself. My personal favorite is his Princess Bride. (via Waxy)
Find album art easily for your iTunes songs.
NY radio dial scan from 12-8-1980.
March 22, 2006
Podcast!
BK, Cody and I are trying our hand at the whole podcast thing. Here's our first attempt. Best listened to in iTunes (or iPod). Right click to save.
P.S. You can email comments or questions to the pocasters at jamesgangpodcast@mac.com.
March 18, 2006
Fun with LEGOs
March 15, 2006
I got a 29
Web 2.0 Website or Star Wars character?
What's your score?
March 14, 2006
Snow way!
A little story about the trip home from Duluth this weekend. Normally it's a 6 hour trip. Yesterday it took 9 hours and 15 minutes. At least we made it home in one piece... but it took a looooong time.
Minnesota trees. Snow and ice now included.
Here's were we were stopped for about 40 minutes on I-35.
A truck jack-knifed about 300 yards ahead of us. Before and after this we were moving about 20 miles and hour behind snow plows -- probably just as well through, much faster and it wouldn't have been very safe.
Here's the truck that was jack-knifed after it got helped out by a tow truck. I really have no idea where he thought he was going facing backwards.
More truck trouble...
and more...
and more...(this one is really blurry but you can kind of make out the contents spilled on the ground).
My car the day after. It was clean before we left. Notice no snow anywhere. One good thing about Iowa!
The wheel well was nice and caked, too.
March 10, 2006
I've wondered about this too..
The Torn-Up Credit Card Application
...lesson: a shredders are a good thing.
March 09, 2006
Nada es imposible
Des Moines Register article on Tasty Tacos, a Des Moines staple.
Went to Ben Folds at the Val Air Ballroom tonight. Good show, only hampered by the talkative crowd- and it seemed like half (or more) people there were smoking. Sometimes I wish I lived in Minnesota... bring on the indoor smoking bans already....
He had good crowd interaction... using the crowd to sing along on some songs or harmonize certain parts at his bidding. Good stuff.
Highlights: Army, Rockin' the Suburbs
Missing: Steve's Last Night In Town, Your Redneck Past
March 08, 2006
Lucky's new house
Lucky has always had a curiosity about looking into holes.
Aimee or I can cup our hand and make a "hole" with the other making a small space to look into and he'll peer down to see what's inside. He also likes hiding underneath the speaker covers as another game to play.
So, I thought he (she) would like a bird house. Aimee and I went to hobby lobby to look at a few. They had some unfinished bird houses, but they didn't seem right. The structure was too large, the entrance too small, or it didn't open up at all. We decided to just wait. Then we stumbled upon an unfinished tissue box. It was perfect.
(click to enlarge)
At first, as with almost all new things, Lucky was scared of it. But put something shiny next to it, and he will go right up and check it out. All it took was a mirror near the box and he went over to it Eventually he went inside.
The hole was a tight fit so I filed it to make it larger. He's crawled through it a couple times, but as you can see it's been with the bottom sliding "door" open- he hasn't been in there with it shut. Currently he is in his new house just hanging out.
March 06, 2006
R.I.P. 34
Game 6 of the 1991 World Series- amazing catch and 11th-inning walk-off home run- one of the best games ever.
Went 4-5 his first major league game (9th ever to do it).
Has had two 6-for-6 games (only one ever?).
Touch 'em all, Kirby Puckett.
March 05, 2006
Real life cartoon and cartoonish real life
Real life Simpsons intro (via waxy)
and
Bill O'Reilly will send police after you if you call in and praise his competition....
March 03, 2006
Olympics = No Win for NBC
I didn't watch that many hours of Olympic coverage this year, and I don't want to say NBC did a great job, but I think some criticism is a little unfair. This "Nation" article, for example, has a few. But overall, NBC is in a no-win situation.
Gripe: Too U.S.-centric:
It's amazing. America has never been a more dynamic, multicultural society and the world has never been more of a global village, but NBC still treats the games as if it were 1980 and the United States were taking on the Eastern Bloc.
Yes, what we saw was U.S.-centric, but if they covered more nations then we'd get: "NBC spends too much time on other countries with athletes we don't care about! What about our competitors? Nobody cares about Djibouti snowboarders!"
Gripe: Tape Delays
In the age of real-time video on the Internet, showing the games on ten-hour tape delay is as anachronistic as shoulder pads and piano-key ties. ... . If it were on live, I would have watched it or taped it. But for NBC to do that would mean losing precious advertising dollars.
So, the solution is watching the games in the middle of the night? Or taping them in the middle of the night and then watching them when you would have if they were shown normally? Not really NBC's fault... blame the sun.
Gripe: Idiot Sports
Is your water cooler abuzz with news of the skeleton finals? What about the half-pipe? The slalom? No? Then congratulations, you don't work in an insane asylum.
There are only so many watchable winter sports on TV, and most of them have found a home (hockey, ice skating every so often). If NBC cut out all the oddball events, then people would complain they aren't covering everything.
Gripe: Bode Miller
For reasons known only to members of the United States Olympic Committee, skier Miller was chosen as the person who would lead the American public to their television sets. Instead, after the publicity machine of the USOC got him on the cover of Time, Newsweek and every publication but Modern Bride, Miller emerged as a petulant brat. This would be forgivable, if he actually won--or even medaled--at his events.
Ok, they pretty much got this one right. But did Bode ask for the attention? Maybe by going on 60 Minutes he did, but for the most part the media latches on to someone and makes a whole lot of hype. I think you can mainly blame the media for this one.
