Watching V (spoilers)

Spoilers to follow…

Badger Pride: On Wisconsion (The Hip-Hop remix)

Music Break – The Violent Femmes cover Gnals Barkley’s Crazy!

Here is the Violent Femmes Version:

Here is the original:

Here is Gnals Barkley covering the Femmes:

RIP Jim Carroll

I just read Jim Carroll died on 9/11/2009.
RIP punk poet – this is for you my brother:

Digging Glee

I am really liking the new TV show Glee. The first episode blew me away.

The blog TV Squad had the idea to suggest 5 songs you’d like to see them cover. Well here are my choices (the first 5 that came to mind anyways):
- Rick Springfield’s Jesse’s Girl- Bee Gee’s Lonely [...]

You tell him, Jack!

Thoughts on the upcoming Green Bay Packers Season

I usually don’t watch any pre-season games, but I will be watching tonight’s Packer games.
This is going to be a challenging season for the packers.
IMHO, there are three big issues for the packers:
1) Defense: How will the defense adjust to using primarily a 3-4? There is a lot of “fingertip feel” that the defense is [...]

Les Paul, RIP

Goodbye to the Wizard from Waukesha:

From Guitar-Tech on Flickr

Happy Birthday Louis Armstrong!

Thanks for everything Pops!

Twitter, Damn you!

I’d like to micro-blog to Twitter about my frustration with Twitter down, but D’oh!!!!

Bill Bailey – The Original Moonwalker

Look for it at the end (via The Deacon’s bench)

US Marines + South Park + Saadam = Awesomeness!

Found via Slashdot:

During his captivity, US marines forced Saddam, who was executed in 2006, to repeatedly watch the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, which shows him as gay, as well as the boyfriend of Satan.[...]“I have it on pretty good information from the marines on detail in Iraq that they showed Saddam the [...]

Rejected by Facebook

Also rejected:
Mr. Purpleslog
Purpleslog
Fuck You

Here is a nice blog that reviews podcasts: “Anne is a Man!”

Here is the link: http://anneisaman.blogspot.com/
I thought I would be subscribing to a books-on-DVD service, but I have found plenty of good/great free podcasts so I haven’t bothered.

“Put it in me, Scott”

When I saw the commercial on TV I LOL’d:

Kudos to Quizno’s.
I think it has now been edited down to be safer for young viewers.

“Long relegated to the portion of consumers that were interested in blue animals, dolphins have finally made their move to take over the other half of the Cetacean market share…”

Read about it at the always funny blog Fuck You Penguin. Read the comments too.

Listen to this: “Bad Bank” from This American Life…

…here. It is not just from This American Life, but from the folks associated with Planet Money (and their Podcast).
Part of “On the Bailout”.

Funny Serial Killer Comment on Reason.com

Heh:

David Berkowitz, because his reason is hilariously ridiculous. Honestly, your neighbor’s dog is possessed by a demon, tells you to kill people, and you think it’s a good idea? Am I the only one looking for any excuse to shoot my neighbor’s dog for excessive barking? If I heard something along the lines of “rhoot [...]

RIP, Blossom Dearie

I just read in the paper that Blossom Dearie passed away on 2/7/2009.
I discovered her music in the late 1980’s and was entranced by her.

“Being a geek, it feels a little strange watching a sitcom that wants to cater to you and make fun of you at the same time”

So says a writer at TV Squad about Big Bang Theory. I find the show quite funny and a “Must Watch” each week anyways. I can do without the laugh track though.

1234567890

For Unix geeks and number freaks from the ISC Handler:

Today is Friday the 13th, and also the day when we reach the symbolic 1234567890th second of Unix time.  This will occur at  11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009.
 A quick note:  To see when this time is going to occur in your locatime:
perl -e ‘print scalar [...]

“I love you more then bunnies”

The line comes from a work friend ’s 6-year old kid.
I love that turn of phrase from a future maybe author or songwriter.
I must be in an ear-candy mood.

 Awwwww
Update: Hmmm…the kid wasn’t the only one with this thought

“It’s like watching your crazy aunt challenge your boyfriend to prove that fairies aren’t real”

I loved that line. Here is the  context/link.

What? Did you expected a photo of Rep. Waters?

By Request: Sudoku Blank Grid – 2 on a sheet

The small blank grid is here.
For reference, the large version is here.
Update – Hard tricks explained:

Hidden Pairs, Hidden Triples, Hidden Quads
X-Wing and Swordfish
XY Wing

“Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce”

I have been running through all of the old Ted Talks via my iPod. It was a joy to hear this one again: “Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce”.
Here is the video version from youtube: