I just cannot get enough of this guy. New songs are popping up all over the place now. This week’s choice: “Edelweiss”…..yeah, I know, awkward choice.
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=ISGiP1nyBoo]
He critiques his own voice in the side column, noting that he needs to work on his pitch stability and enunciation. Yep, he said enunciation.
Why am I so amazed by this?!
Since when did “Emo” become a disease? I never knew there were “advanced” stages of being Emo.
Channel 4 News (I’m assuming in Utah) believes there are stages judging from this video
“My next album is probably going to be with Willie Nelson. I’ve been wanting to do a country record, because its just my roots.I aspire to be Patsy Cline.”- Jessica Simpson tells the August issue of Harpers Bazaar
Fire Controlman 2nd Class Petty Officer Russell Tavares, 27, of Virgina, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading no contest to arson. Tavares drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to “teach a lesson” to someone who mocked him as a “nerd” over the Internet.
The feud began when John Anderson, 59, joined a picture-sharing Web site and posted his artwork and political views. After blocking people because of insults, they retaliated by making obscene digitally altered pictures of him. “I didn’t think anybody was stupid enough to try to kill anybody over an Internet fight,” said Anderson.
Investigators say Tavares boiled over when Anderson called him a nerd and posted a digitally altered photo making Tavares look like a skinny boy in high-water pants, holding a gun and a laptop under a “Revenge of the Nerds” sign.
Tavares obtained Anderson’s real name and hometown from Anderson’s Web page about his Museum of Horrors Haunted House. Tavares threw a piece of gasoline-soaked plastic foam into the back of Anderson’s mobile home and lit a flare, authorities say.
Anderson suffered smoke inhalation while trying to put out the blaze that caused $50,000 in damage to his trailer and computer equipment. Tavares claimed he didn’t expect Anderson to be inside of the trailer at the time.
Tavares would not let the feud go even at his sentencing. According to police, Tavares took cell-phone photos of Anderson in the courtroom while the judge was hearing another case. Authorities ordered the photos erased.
Anderson, an ex-Marine who served in Vietnam, said he continues to be harassed online, has been startled by people knocking on his window late at night and found bullet holes in a door to his business. He’s convinced the harassment is related to the Internet squabble and plans to spend $30,000 on fencing topped with barbed wire.
How ridiculous is this?! I have a hard time believing this was the result of a fight over the Internet. Then again, it’s not that surprising. Tons of people fight over the Internet. It’s amazing what one will say when hiding behind a monitor. It’s pointless to bring up the special olympics joke at this point. It’s safe to say that everyone who fights over the net is a moron.
Remember, he’s only in prison for seven years. So watch what you say 
An autopsy performed Thursday determined that the unidentified 29-year-old man who died after falling eight stories from a balcony in Macy’s State Street store was a suicide.
Witnesses say they saw the man on the eighth floor near the balcony shortly before he fell to the floor in the atrium. Several customers and employees on the first foor saw the man land, but police officers still haven’t found anyone who saw how he fell.
Read the original article here
It would appear as though the magical wonder that is Tay Zonday has released a new song Internet Dream sometime yesterday. (How did this occurrence slip past me?! More importantly, how did it slip past the boyfriend?)
It’s been up for about 24 hours and already it has more than 57,000 views. I’m still amazed at how much attention this guy is getting. Where did he come from and how long has he been trying? More importantly, is that voice real?!
He was nice enough to provide us with a free MP3
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LYRICS:
Internet Dream
“Man this internet’s something else”
[Verse]
Cuttin it close
Let the dishes turn green
Everyone chasin their
Internet dream
Some like it hot
In a triple X funk
‘Winnin the auction
‘Turnin money to junk
‘Cappin the flag
In a virtual dash
‘Skippin your wedding
To play in a match
[Chorus]
Shut all the blinds
You mighta been seen
‘Sittin alone
With your internet dream
Winning the race
For your digital fix
Living your life
With a clickity-click
(Repeat)
“So every day I swear
I’m gonna go to bed at like eleven.
And all of a sudden its 4AM . . .
And I was just watching Youtube and
reading Wikipedia for five hours.
It’s like MAN . . . you ask me the
next day. I can’t even remember
what I was doin. Crazy.”
[Verse ]
[Chorus]
“I was talkin to my mom the other day
And she’s like ‘Oh,
My computer’s been acting up again!’
So I’m thinkin she got a virus
or something . . .
And I’m like ‘ok what’s wrong?’
And she’s like ‘You know that bar that
you type the website in! It disappeared!
I can never remember how to get it back!’
I’m like ‘ok Mom. We did this last week.’
I love my Mom and Dad.
The lyrics just hurt my head when I try to make sense of them.
Need a new online video player? I just so happened to stumble across Miro this morning. It’s a free video platform based in Worcester, MA. With it you are able to play any type of video file (Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID, etc.), view a crap load of HD content, subscribe to any RSS, podcast or video blog without fussing around with iTunes, download and save videos from YouTube, Google Video and more, as well as download any BitTorrent file.
Now I haven’t tried it out yet, but I wanted to share it anyway. It seems like a pretty neat project and since it’s free, why not help spread the word?!
If you check it out, let me know what you think. Is it worth keeping? Would you be willing to donate $5 to help them keep their site free?
Macy’s just can’t catch a break. Most Chicagoans know that Macy’s bought out the beloved downtown Chicago landmark Marshall Field’s a couple years ago. Since then, Macy’s sales have been down (mostly from angered consumers staging a boycott), their food court was shutdown this past Monday after a case of drosophia melanogaster broke out and now this.
Last night around 8 p.m., after the store closed, an unidentified non-employee of Macy’s, plunged over the balcony near the atrium on the 8th floor. He was pronounced dead soon after his arrival at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Police are treating it as a suicide, but so far it is unclear if he jumped or just fell.
I believe many Chicagoans will chalk this up to Macy’s bad luck. Perhaps he was a Field’s fan and this was his plan to stop sales at Macy’s. It sucks for Macy’s and it sucks for the man who fell/jumped.
An autopsy will be done today to make a final ruling on the cause of death.
As far as I know, Macy’s on the corner of State and Washington, is still open for business today. Their food court has reopened as well.
Dear Starbucks,
I’m writing to suggest that your individual Starbucks Coffee Frappuccino coffee drinks be bigger. Your lowfat creamy blend of Starbucks coffee and milk does my mind good. However, I am noticing that at 9.5 ounces, it just isn’t enough. And since these bad boys cost a hefty penny, I refuse to buy two. Sometimes I get the four pack at the grocery store, but I still pay around $6 for all four. I’d hate to drink one after another and then have the tasty drink run out even quicker.
I get that it’s a ploy by your company to have the consumer purchase more. Keep the bottles small, drink more, bottles are gone faster, must buy more. I get it. But I don’t like it. I’d be more inclined to purchase the heaven that’s in the bottle more often if it didn’t cost me a crap load of money.
So with that said, let’s make these bottles bigger. I’d drink more, thus leaving me much more productive and perkier. And honestly, who doesn’t love a perky Jenn? (I swear if someone so much as mentions boobs I’ll e-punch you). The bigger sized bottle will also benefit my body. Without enough caffeine I’m forced to fall asleep in awkward positions at the office or at school. It hurts.
This can also benefit you though. If you increase the size, I’ll walk the extra half of a block to Starbucks instead of stopping at Dunkin Donuts for one of their coffees. They’re not as good, but they’re bigger. And sometimes Starbucks…bigger is better. Especially when it includes caffeine. You want my money? Give me my caffeine!
Sincerely,
Falling Asleep On the Job in Chicago
