http://www.cbcradio3.com

Load it up, go to the table of contents, watch “the peckers”

-dean

Gonna record some stuff for a fun type Dave and Dean project. Sounds like a good excuse to buy the gear I’ve had on my wishlist forever.

These (overkill but I’ve promised myself decent headphones for like 5 years now):
http://www.sennheiser.com/sennheiser/icm_eng.nsf/root/05343

This (even a plain old SM57 will do but we’ll aim high)
http://www.shure.com/microphones/models/beta58a.asp
or even better:
http://www.akg.com/products/powerslave,mynodeid,186,id,462,pid,462,_language,EN.html

This (cheapest I can possibly go I figure… and no, the iMic isn’t a viable option.)
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrackUSB-main.html

This (I like the powder black one.)
http://www.zzounds.com/item–MUSDS7100

and some XLR cable.

I think that should about do it.

Thoughts?

-dean

http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=deanezuela

Deanezuela’s still quite livable.

-Dean

http://edmonton.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ed-same-sex-hutterites20050218

You know… for some reason… I don’t mind the hutterites saying that. If you have as much devotion to your faith and system of beliefs to live like the hutterites, you’re entitled to say stuff like that without me calling you an ass.

Harper on the other hand… You’re an ass.

-Dean

Grandma had me over to dupe a tape for her the other day.
It was quite a well put together documentary that lays everything out. I finally understand why the Christian right likes Israel so much, the link always seemed counter-intuitive to me. They have a lot of interviews with CIA types too, so you know it’s gotta have some good stuff.

Anyway, I did a search to learn more about the filmmaker and the whole flick is online if you wannna see it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1025.htm

I didn’t know Prescott Bush (George W.’s Grandpa and George Sr.’s Dad) was Hitler’s Banker, did you? Details are muddy as to the extent of it, as they always are with this sort of stuff. There was a definite connection through. Whee! I guess if you were around when George Sr. first ran you’d know this stuff because they dregged it up at campaign time apparently.

Here’s the wikipedia link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
wikipedia’s about as balanced a view as you can get considering anyone can edit it so the facts that stick are the ones that it’s impossible to dispute.

-dean

I hate when I click a link and it ends up being a pdf. But it doesn’t bother me AS much anymore because of this little OSX application.

http://www.schubert-it.com/

In-browser PDF viewing.

Also, there’s an in-browser Word Document viewer but I haven’t tried that one.

Thanks to Dave for finding it.

-dean

I listen to CBC radio 3 every month when it hits the net.

It’s kindof annoying that I can’t find the albums of any of bands that I discover on there and dig. Not that I expect it to be easy to find this stuff, but it’s just annoying that it’s easier to find American underground type music than it is to find albums from made in canada type artists.

Kids on TV are rad. (Breakdance Hunx/the Company)
http://www.newmusiccanada.com/genres/artist.cfm?Band_Id=11775

so are Rare Earth Elements (try zooligans)
http://www.newmusiccanada.com/genres/artist.cfm?Band_Id=5174

Anyone have a suggestion for an Edmonton record store that you know for a fact is all about stocking this sorta stuff?

-Dean

Years ago they instituted some law that made it illegal to sell disposable lighters without some form of childproofing. The theory being that small children could start their house (or better still, themselves) on fire by rolling the flint roller along the floor and then depressing the gas button by wedging it up against the ground.

Kids must be pretty resourceful. When I was 4 I’d just hold the gas button down with one hand and flick the flint with the other hand. It never occurred to me to go rubbing the lighter against the ground to get it to light, it was easier just to copy what dad was doing.

Anyway, I was at the 7-eleven today and I noticed they were selling disposable lighters that didn’t even have the flint roller/gas valve button combo. it was more like a Zippo setup. push the button down, click. flame comes out, whoosh. it seemed odd to me that they could sell these items right along side the ridiculous metal-caged government mandated safety lighters.

“Aren’t these things supposed to have safety catches or something?” I asked the lady at the till.

“no,” she informed me “we don’t sell lighters to anyone without I.D.”

“Excuse me?” I need an I.D. to buy a lighter these days?” I asked slowly, as I was sort of stunned and absorbing that idea. ” If I showed an I.D. and I was 16?”

“no, you need to be 18″

“what about matches? can I buy matches?”

“we don’t sell matches”

amazing.

So apparently… those toddlers who were setting their sisters on fire, are completely safe from these easily ignited lighters because the person who bought them proved they were over 18. It’s a good thing too, because if the 2 year old child bought the lighter himself, or if a 17 year old bought the lighter and left it lying around it would be a million times more deadly than the sunshine and lollypops that come out of a lighter purchased by an 18 year old. I heard a story about an 8 year old kid in Hiroshima who bought a lighter once… remember Hiroshima? The Americans tried to claim it was their advanced physics, but now you know the truth. Underaged lighter mushroom cloud.

To be honest, I think the whole kid-safe lighter thing is retarded ineffective overkill to begin with… but the idea of people having to produce identification to buy a device that does something as basic as ignite a fire is another issue altogether… and it pisses me right off. I’m sure it’s probably just store policy, but still

-dean

So uhm… remember troll dolls? Well if you’re anything like me you still have nightmares about them chewing off your face. Apparently they’re back… and they’re slutted up?

http://www.trollz.com

Is it just me or do they remind you of the chipettes too?

I want to go back in time and be at the meeting where they said “hey remember those fat, creepy, neon haired ugly dolls that you scared your little sister with? yeah… let’s bring those back and sex them up.”

Absolutely amazing.

-Dean

Steph had to go to the doctor for some bloodtests doc thinks she might have a thyroid thing going on as she’s lost a lot of weight.
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Heather (not THAT heather): I hope she’s feeling better
Dean: She’s just tired right now. I keep telling her it’s leukemia but she doesn’t believe me for some reason
Heather: hmm…
Dean: also… smallpox
Heather:but she doesn’t have any rashes does she?
Dean: no it’s a new mutation. it crossbred with Ebola.
Heather: you really think so? how would she have gotten it?
Dean:Oh for sure. Also, she’s slowly starting to hate sunlight and she’s craving human blood. She probably contracted it when the werewolf bit her.
Heather: you do know that i am THE most gullible person in the world right?
Dean:of course it could have been the zombie bite too… but I’m not completely sold on that Idea.
Heather:butt head…
if i could i would hit you right now, but i don’t feel like putting on my shoes and walking over there
Dean:probably best you stay away from the house anyway… I hear the virus is airborne and we can’t find the original monkey carrier.

-dean