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Santa Comes Early (Just Move Your Hands)

Shea’s been wanting a Wii for a long time and it was looking like we’d get one this Christmas. But then, she came across the XBox Kinect – a motion-based gaming system where, instead of any handheld controller, your body motions are scanned by a camera/scanner combo placed somewhere near your TV and that’s how […]

Posted 24 November 2010 § Family § Technology ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “I’M crazy? When I went to YOUR schools, I went to YOUR churches, I went to YOUR institutional learning facilities? So how can you say I’M crazy?”

A classic from my undergrad days (originally released in 1983 and re-recorded in 1993.  I did not know that!)

Posted 22 November 2010 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Don’t Let Me Down(load)”

After years of back and forth between Apple (the Beatles record label) and Apple (the technology company), the Beatles are now on iTunes!

Posted 15 November 2010 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Sports Cliches

Looking forward to the big Riders game this weekend (though I’ve managed to double-book myself for Sunday afternoon so am thinking “PVR game and try to make it home from event without hearing/seeing/webbing the score” will have to be my strategy.  Not ideal since my most direct route home goes right past the stadium where […]

Posted 12 November 2010 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “I guess he’s an X-Box/And i’m more Atari/But the way you play your game ain’t fair.”

Sure, the original Cee Lo Brown song is mega-catchy and will have kids getting detention after being caught singing it on the playground for months to come. But really, didn’t the song just call out for a ukelele cover by a young woman sitting in what appears to be a closet?

Posted 08 November 2010 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

A Once-A-Year Post

Technically, I should’ve posted this clip yesterday.  But with the way the so-called “weather bomb” snow blizzard crap hit us, I wasn’t really in my usual jaunty “first snow of the year” mood. It’s still supposed to get up to +9 by early next week so maybe I’ll have a do-over then…

Posted 27 October 2010 § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “There’s a high-wire zombie ‘tween the World Trades/A King Kong zombie on the Empire State/But the biggest zombies Tokyo to Rome/The zombies who call the city home”

I first saw Spike Lee’s documentary, “Do It Acapella” back around 1990 or 1991.  In those days, if you saw something on TV, it was gone unless you were watching a channel like MuchMusic that repeated it’s programming on a set (six hour?) rotation throughout the day.  In that case, you could set your VCR […]

Posted 25 October 2010 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Rock and Roll?

Pace gives new meaning to the term “rock and roll” at the playground today…

Posted 24 October 2010 § Family ‡ Comments (0) °

I Want This!

Basement knee hockey rink:

Posted 21 October 2010 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – The Best iPhone Commercial Apple Never Made

This clip went viral over the weekend so you may have seen it by now. It’s by a band from New York called Atomic Tom who decided to do a performance of their latest single on a New York subway train using only the music apps on their iPhones – one for a microphone, one […]

Posted 18 October 2010 § MusicMonday § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,