Well, now that I’ve managed to alienate all of my readers with talk of Buffy and Ultimate, perhaps it’s time for a post on something else? (I did play tonight 🙂
Jeff proposed an interesting idea a couple days ago: make an “Essence of You” playlist. The songs in the playlist should be reflective of who you are (not necessarily what you listen to on a regular basis). The only restriction is that the total time must not exceed the length of an audio CD — 79 mins or so.. let’s say 74 to be on the safe side. There’s no restriction on the number of tracks or the length of the tracks. If you think one big long track describes you best, well that would be fine.
I’ve started “Essence of Krishen” and man is it tough. 74 minutes really isn’t long enough to describe me! But that’s what makes it so interesting. I’ve only got a few tracks so far, but I will post it as soon as I’ve got it worked out. I am challenging you, the krishenblog reader, to come up with your own “Essence Of” playlist. Once you’re satisfied with it, send it to me, and on Wednesday, I’ll post the results here.
Link fun:
* Ouch. Sony introduces what looks to the iPod’s first serious competition. While I think the iPod still has fundamentally better physical design (based on what I can see from the product shot on the news page) [and a better moniker: the Sony player is called the “NW-HD1 Network Walkman”; for something that weighs just four ounces it’s sure got a clunky name], at a comparable price, the Sony has 30 hours of battery life compared to the iPod’s eight. Pretty hard to ignore.
* The New York Times interviews Ronald Reagan’s son. Seems like a pretty sensible guy to me (via eclecticism).
Tonight’s photo is from the archives — downtown St. Pete, taken a couple weeks ago. Haven’t been out with my camera nearly enough. Hope to rectify that soon. 🙂
Happy Canada Day everyone!
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Between the 33 people showing up for Ultimate at Lakewood Ranch Sunday, organizing my frisbee team, the Canadian Federal Election AND the WWDC keynote yesterday, and work just getting piled on, I feel like my circuits are bit on “overload”. I’ll try an post later tonight — thanks for stopping by 🙂
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Fahrenheit 9/11
Watched Fahrenheit 9/11 today. I think everyone should see this movie. As has been suggested elsewhere, it is not kind to George W, but I think it does a good job of telling a side of the story that simply has not been told — that the emperor is wearing no clothes.. and this movie is the little kid who screams it out. Moore plays a much more diminished role in this film than he did in Bowling, instead using video clips — such as a tape from the elementary school where George W. was reading to kids in Florida at the time the second plane hit on Sept 11 — to tell the story. It’s a stunning piece of video, and I’m amazed that it had not been aired until this point.
The film is getting good press from unlikely sources, too. Check out this writeup on Fox News.
A few pics from the event — this was the lineup to get tickets when we arrived (thankfully we had bought ours the night before and walked right in):
The movie was playing on both of the main screens inside Burns Court, alongside SuperSize Me.
After we got out, tons of people were waiting in line for the 3pm showing:
Turning 180-degrees:
While we were leaving, one lady was handing out flyers for a houseparty where people will be watching Moore speak (7pm EST tomorrow night via streaming video at moveon.org). I won’t be attending, but I will probably be watching from home.
Speaking of home viewing.. I checked the mail today, and what did I find?
Oh, nothing but Buffy seasons 1, 2, 3, and 5 🙂 Since the US Postal Service doesn’t deliver today, that means it must have come in on Saturday. I placed my order late Tuesday night meaning… it took four days to get to my house. Not bad for free shipping! Gonna settle down with an episode or two of Season One after Ultimate methinks. 😀
