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Peter racing and playing music

Ready… go!

Peter and Elijah bike race from zebtron.

Now play some music….

peter and vince play from zebtron on Vimeo.

Is that god behind Sears?
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I saw this little thing running looped video on monitors at Target.
041908_20241 target CF video promo player

Saw this disgusting stuff at the store the other day: Budweiser and Clamata mixed in a can… yech!
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How common are crazy plane landings?

There was a video on YouTube recently of another commercial flight with insane crosswinds landing successfully.

How common are landings like this? Are they far more common than one might think and the sheer number of cameras in the world are just now showing us these incidents?

These pilots are great. They need to get special pay for saving such a friggin’ crazy landing.

And here is a Hong Kong flight that I saw on Dvorak’s blog.

Trancers: crap-tacular sci-fi

From the makers of “Puppet Master” comes a movie that is even worse. The acting is horrible, stunts laughable, effects cheesy, and acting abismal. If that if your cup of tea, rent “Trancers”. I had not seen it until today and man do I wish I had not, but at least I now have the experience of seeing a seriously bad ‘USA network in the 1980′s’ genre garbage-flic. The budget was obviously less than that of an episode of MacGyver and the overall quality of the film/video was just junk. Perhaps it was shot straight to video? Anyway, here is a boom mic in one of the scenes… not even really an important few seconds that couldn’t have been dropped in the edit, but they let it in. Super sloppy and lazy.
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I almost want to remake this whole movie shot for shot as a parody. I could surely do better effects and can borrow a scooter (they ride scooters around).

The DVD menu link that labeled ‘web site’ plays a video of the mailing address and says “Send us a letter”… really? Wow.

Some hot bloggy linkness

‘Scratching’ (spikes sent this one to me) with audio cassettes and the guy isn’t even from Cuban or Russia

or some other place where it is hard to find a turntable.

Some twitter tools
Utterz: Pics and such to social shizzle from your cell
Hellotxt: post to multiple microblogs from one place.
Tweet Clouds: search through twitter data for tags and such
Want to get rid of those files OS X leaves on your Windows drives?  Lifehacker has a fix for you.

BillShrink: find the cheapest cell phone plan in your area (via TechCrunch)

MUSIC

All Songs Considered sneak preview of cool upcoming music.

MsPinky’s “Maxi-Patch”: control digital files (including video) using your turntable

MuxTape: make free custom online MP3 ’mix tapes’.

Facial Hair: O what time changes

me

Looking into the mirror after a fresh hair clip and shave today, I couldn’t help but think back (wavy lines) In high-school I was a bit down about my lack of facial hair. Unfortunately, this was one of the few things in life my ‘wishing’ worked. I now have facial hair everywhere on the sphere of my head except: 1. 2 ‘silver dollar size’ circles below my eyes. 2. one mom’s side of the family balding region on the top of my head. 3. one dad’s side of the family balding region on the front of the top of my head. 4. inside my ears (time will change that I suppose)