A Log Fit For Burning

Amy’s 30th birthday party is coming up, so here’s a video of Stompin’ Tom Connors playing the greatest party song ever written, Sudbury Saturday Night :  And now, Chris Elliot:

Count Grishnackh : Undetermined age
 
Euronymous : 10 years old
 

   An interesting hour of Richard Dawkins on a radio show with terrible sound.

• Weird Al is playing Tastefest on July 5. #

Overheard the doormen for the Athenium Hotel talking today : ”If I could find some good breast milk I’d be all right” 

According to Judicial Watch, the F.B.I. is now saying that Osama Bin Laden probably chartered flights out of the U.S. with his family and Saudi Royals eight days after the 9/11 attacks. They’re not really sure about who was on the flights or even how many people were involved, because they didn’t deem it important enough to detain anyone or even investigate a little bit. It’s funny that George W. Bush, a man who is in favor of executing the mentally retarded, doesn’t care at all as to the whereabouts of the alleged mastermind of a terrorist attack on our soil that killed 3,000 people. You’d think he would be warming up his favorite electric chair.  Here’s a video of him saying that he doesn’t give a crap about where Bin Laden is.   
 

If you haven’t watched The Power of Nightmares yet, watch all three episodes right here. It’s a good introduction to the history behind the neocons and radical Islam. It helps to gain a little perspective beyond listening to The Decider’s mindless rhetoric about evildoers.   Read the F.B.I. document for yourself

[edit] Somebody’s mouse had some unexpected glue on it. See comments and proceed at your own risk.
I really love my Apple computer. I’ve had it for about a year now and if they keep making them like this I’ll always have an Apple. There are only two problems I’ve had with it. One is that there’s no phone jack on it. This is only a problem because the companies I work for are still hanging on to the old fax machine and not being able to get a land line to communicate with my computer really ties us to the office. But that’s a different post. The other problem is that the mouse is designed to break but not designed to be repaired (Google “manufactured obsolescence”)
The traditional design of the computer mouse is to have a big tracking ball on the bottom. When you move the mouse up and down and side to side, the ball moves rollers surrounding it which tell the computer how to move the cursor. Over time, the tracking ball will collect anything it can and eventually you have to take the ball out and scrape the rollers with a paper clip. This is a common problem, and so these mice are designed so that anyone can easily remove the tracking ball and clean the rollers. Over the last few years, tracking balls have been replaced with tracking lights, which pick up no debris. The Apple “Mighty” Mouse has a tracking ball on top, which allows the user to scroll up and down and left and right with their fingertip. 

This is a great feature. HOWEVER, the people at Apple forgot the problem about tracking balls picking up debris and designed the Mighty Mouse without a way to clean the rollers. So, you have to break it if you want to fix it. On the underside of the mouse there’s a plastic ring which is welded to the body of the mouse. you have to snap this off. Keep it intact because it can be taped back on when you’re finished.  
 
Once You’ve broken your mouse, you can pry apart the two halves of the body. There are two things which need to be disconnected.  
  
 Once you’ve disconnected them, there are three screws to remove in order to expose the roller ball housing. 

  The housing pops apart and the four magnetic rollers surrounding the ball can be removed and cleaned. 
  
 Now follow the steps in the reverse order, but use scotch tape to hold the ring on the bottom of the mouse. Enjoy scrolling up and down with your hoopty mouse. Try not to have any left over parts. That’s usually a sign that you screwed it up.

The Wordpress theme I’m using has little puffy cartoon stars for bullet pointsI changed them into cute little pink and blue pentagrams. You like?

I have no chance of these people remembering about this show on thursday. That’s o.k. because they’re probably busy that night, cutting toenails that no one else will ever see (save the mortician).

We haven’t practiced yet but don’t let that bother you. Here’s a video from the last time we played a show, when we hadn’t practiced for three years. Warning : Bob Dylan song ahead.

You may have noticed some links to amazon.com in this blog here and there. I had this plug in where if I directed traffic to Amazon and somebody bought something I’d get four percent (I already have the t-shirt!). Well, it keeps crashing Safari. So don’t ever buy anything from Amazon. I’m currently listening to “Thank God for Mental Illness” by Brian Jonestown Massacre, one of their more stellar efforts. Go buy it from someone. Anyone from Amazon, for Coe’s sake.

See that red thing on the lawn? That’s a FOR SALE sign! I’m making a website for this house I’m trying to sell, I’ll post a link when I’m done.