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-Keith Pelczarski
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High sticking
Hello party people in the place to be! Y'all ready to get crazy nutty?
Let me hear you say "Ahem."
Yeah, so we moved to Palo Alto and stuff. Did you know that "Palo Alto" means "high stick" en Espanol? Now that's educational.
The new house kicks ass, even if the new DSL still doesn't after numerous phone calls and service calls from the *new* AT&T (same as the old boss). To be fair, when it was SBC, and at our old house in Mountain View, the DSL was screamin' fast, way faster than their advertised service levels. Which just makes it that much more disappointing when I pay for a higher service level and get speeds slower than dialup. Seriously. I got a 26.6 kbps result on one speed test. It was so slow that Blogger's website kept timing out on me when I tried to post. Ugh.
After multiple visits and incremental work upstream as they've finally come to grips with the fact that it's not us, it's them, they've worked the speed up to the 200 kbps mark, which is still super painful after having speeds over a megabit per second for so long.
Anyway, I know y'all don't care about that bullshit, but I've got to vent to someone about it.
Party people say "ahem!"
The missus was at TED this week, so Max and I were kickin' it two dudes style. Lots of legos, lots of eating out, and lots of trips to the park. We did drive down to Monterey to visit Kerah for a couple days. We rocked the aquarium, the Dennis the Menace park, and the MY Museum (which was more like the coolest playroom in the world than it was like a museum... the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum is way better).
So I haven't spent much time with the Google video, but did find this while stumbling around: "SuperMoves" from americanparkour.com. It's like Jackie Chan meets Jackass, with the crashes edited out.
If you're a JC geek like me, you've already heard the TheyNow podcast interview with my man JC. If you don't already subscribe to his "Thing a Week" podcast, well, you should, 'cause it's free and it's good.
Rhyming aside, let me take another opportunity to mess with Tracy, my brother from another mother.
For those of you who haven't been following along at home, he blogs at imheavyduty.com, posting pictures and a review of a vinyl album everyday. In a previous post, I poked some fun at him. In turn, Tracy poked back in a p.s. where he said "Rock and roll is not about convenience."
Now that you're up to speed, and now that I'm moved in, and now that I've had time to think of a suitable retort:
Rock & roll may not be about convenience, but convenience ROCKS! (Embarassing effort for two weeks, eh?)
I used to have time to poke around at used record stores, and believe me, that's one of my favorite things to do, but now it just doesn't make the list of stuff to do.
I've been really happy to find that digital music, whether through commercial venues like iTunes, or community venues like MySpace, or individual sites like JonathanCoulton.com, has really made it much easier for me to gain exposure to interesting new music that I would never have had the opportunity to hear otherwise.
[ed: Congratulations to Apple on 1,000,000,000 downloads sold.]
Don't get me wrong, I'll love my vinyl 'til I die, but I'm really happy that I can keep up with new music while keeping up with my family.
Peace!
:: Keith 22:12 [link] :: ::