This is a pre-recorded message. I might not be conscious.
Happy 2009. May it kick the shit out of 2008.
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January 1st, 2009
December 20th, 2008
The 2008 Zeitgeist
Hmmm. I missed it for the last couple of years, I guess.
Anyway, Google’s top 10 searches for 2008, worldwide:
- sarah palin
- beijing 2008
- facebook login
- tuenti
- heath ledger
- obama
- nasza klasa
- wer kennt wen
- euro 2008
- jonas brothers
US-only for 2008:
- obama
- att
- iphone
- youtube
- fox news
- palin
- beijing 2008
- david cook
- surf the channel
And the most important one, my own site’s search results for 2008 to date:
- sons of albion
- comment
- yarbroughs
- dot to dot pictures
- penny arcade we run shit
- a game of thrones pilot
- rings
- multi
- women
- photoshop
This might be the last year for this; I’m changing some things around next year, assuming the blog survives the year (not a given, yet).
November 28th, 2008
November 25th, 2008
Would life have been different?
The question posed to us earlier this evening, at one of my online haunts:
So do you think growing up with the internet would have changed your life? And if so, how?
I gave it a lot of thought, and realized that it really wouldn’t have made an iota of difference. In fact, availability of internet was a moot point.
I grew up in the sticks. WAAAAAAY out in the sticks. As in, there was only one home between mine and my grandmother’s, a mile away. My next-door neighbor on the other side of me was my sister’s piano teacher, and she was about 3/4 of a mile away. As you can imagine, with such a small population, penetration of either Cable or DSL is pretty much moot.
The other reason against it, as eloquently stated by Mr. Jerry Clower years ago, is that “We was SO poor.” Assuming I had a local internet service provider (and no doubt, this is what would have made the internet “available” to me), there would still be the hurdle of contacting the ISP. So either I got another phone line (which wasn’t happening), or I monopolized the one we had. Now it sounds feasible, but I had 2 teenage sisters and two parents. So yeah, that wasn’t happening either.
I think the only thing that would be different is that I’d be more jealous of the rich kids, the ones that actually lived in town. Other than that, it would have had exactly zero change in my life.
November 22nd, 2008
Emma and her Papaw, part 2
Emma and her papaw, 2 years and 1 day removed from their last (and only other) meeting. There’s been a bit of change in both since the last time. 
November 12th, 2008
Sixty
Sixty is also known as:
- Three Score
- the smallest number divisible by the numbers 1 to 6.
- the smallest number with exactly 12 divisors.
- the maximum number of marbles (game pieces) in Chinese checkers.
- the highest score which can be achieved with a single dart (triple twenty)
- The code for international direct dial calls to Malaysia.
- The atomic number of neodymium
- the sum of a pair of twin primes (29 + 31), as well as the sum of four consecutive primes (11 + 13 + 17 + 19). It is adjacent to two prime numbers (59,61)
- New York Yankee Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927.
- “Sixty Years On” is a song by Elton John.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD!
November 11th, 2008
A Game of Thrones pilot to be produced
This excites me more than I thought possible.
From the author himself, HBO has given the order for the pilot episode of A Game of Thrones to be filmed.
For the uninitiated, the series is A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, which currently consists of 4 titles: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows are available at Amazon or at your local library if so inclined. It’s more political than magic, though as the series progresses, magic becomes more of a factor. Also, the series is fascinating as no character so far appears to be “safe” from death; Mr. Martin is not afraid to kill anyone. Currently, the series is expected to stop at 7 books.
I’m stoked. You?
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