'Star Wars (John Williams Is The Man)' medley - Corey Vidal and Moosebutter - a cappella tribute

give him 60 seconds before you quit him!

Where I'm At

As you can see, I'm not blogging much anymore (did I really blog that much in the first place?). If you want to see what I'm up to, find me over on Facebook or Picasa Web Albums (macbuoy) or, heck, just give me a call sometime: 202-905-2071

Terrible accident - Well told story

I recently heard a guy on This American Life, an NPR weekend weekly, telling the story of how, when he was in High School and was a young driver, a girl from his school rode her bike right in front of his car and died from accident. He went through some crazy shit, in the short time following the accident, before he left for college. But the story went beyond that, well into his adulthood. It was, somehow, a good story to listen to.

Balance Board Roomba hack floors us - Nintendo Wii Fanboy

This gives a whole new meaning to COUNTER-intelligence!

Balance Board Roomba hack floors us - Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Wireless recharging one step closer to reality - CNN.com

Yeah, but how will that effect this metal plate in my head?

Wireless recharging one step closer to reality - CNN.com: "Wireless recharging one step closer to reality"

My first Moleskine(s)

I just bought my first Moleskines. I got three pocket sized, graph cahiers. Ruled paper is annoying for me and my left-hand slop, but I figured the grid would be something to try that might help me write on paper similarly to how I write in code--nice, tabbed and nested short lines. If this goes well, I'll be looking for a larger form for larger ideas. For now, the small form will help me get a start on how I'm going to begin organizing my life of thoughts. I spend a lot of time in my mind but time spent actually expressing myself is at an all time low. I hope that getting some things down in paper will both inspire me to share more and help me actually realize more of my ideas. These ideas, sometimes are just "things I should do or want to do, and other times they are creative ideas.

I was inspired to regroup on paper (in a Moleskine) by this blog entry by a guy who is really into graphs and the like:

The importance of a good quality notebook

Next, I went looking for more info on the brand and found this awesome water color on a site dedicated to exhibiting the art of moleskine users:
» http://carloscaminha.blogspot.com ’skine.art. - Moleskine Art

Watched Pot: The New Yorker

Clarence Thomas: If you got 'em, smoke 'em! Who knew?

This is from a New Yorker from back in 2005. I found it while looking for a way to share the awesome story in there a couple of weeks ago about the Medical Marijuana industry and sub-culture in California. All I could find was some audio commentary by the author.

The following is from the older story:

Watched Pot: The New Yorker: "“In the early days of the Republic, it would have been unthinkable that Congress could prohibit the local cultivation, possession, and consumption of marijuana”) could have been written by Justice Cheech or Justice Chong. Thomas’s private views on marijuana are unknown, but if he had his way, as expressed in this particular opinion, any federal interference with homegrown, home-smoked pot, whether for medical or recreational purposes, would be ruled out as an unconstitutional usurpation of the states’ powers “to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their citizens.”"

We really ought to get off our butts and get the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment passed. It "would deny the Department of Justice funds to surveil, arrest, or prosecute patients in states that have medical-marijuana laws."