Some milk in my refridgerator looked funny a few minutes ago. I think the Klez worm got it. Damn, this thing is everywhere...
9:06:33 PM
I'm Going to Soak Up the Sun
Tomorrow my friend Ched is going to come pick me up and we're going to my dad's wooded summer home in Pearlington, Mississippi. We're taking our guitars and we're going to play music -- some that we figured out, and some that we made up. I'm probably going to keep working on the Sheryl Crow song "Soak Up the Sun", which I figured out today. Figuring out the chords is easy. Learning the words (especially as I get older) is hard. My daughter Charlotte, who's ten, learned the words in like 10 minutes. Hopefully, one day she'll take up the guitar and join the band.
Later: I've had searches that indicate people want the chords to this song. I don't have my guitar handy to make sure I've got this right, but here's what I remember for those of you that want to figure this song out. It's in the Key of E Major. So you start with that. The beginning riff has E and then B and A (sort of around and around, as I recall). This is the basis of the part that goes with the lines "My friend the communist..." Then when you start the chorus it's E to B (this is the part that goes "I'm going to soak up the Sunday"). Then it's to C#min to A Major, and then to B Major and back to the the first part.
So it looks like this Part I - E to B to A (lather, rinse, repeat) and then Part II - E to C#min to A to B.
Then that weird part where she sort of hangs on the words "everytime I yada yada..." is like an A thing or something. I don't remember. But you should be able to figure it out. Good luck.
9:03:39 PM
Sometimes a man's got to do what a man's got to do...
And sometimes that means strapping 40 weather balloons to a lawn chair and boldly going where no sane man has gone....which would be about 16,000 feet. [Darwin Awards] via [Memepool]
6:10:38 PM
Wiretapping run amok?
From Rich "When we will wake up. We should all be bothered by the ever-increasing use of wiretapping powers. With the New Patriot Act now in action this activity is only likely to increase. At first we can take comfort in the hurdles necessary to secure a wiretap including the independant and careful review of a federal judge. In fact, Title III (the federal wiretapping statute) requires that investigators and prosecutors make a showing of "necessity" before resorting to this investigative measure. In other words that other less intrusive investigative measures have been tried and failed or are unlikely to succeed. I think about this and feel better until I read:
This alongside a statement that tapping increased by 25% from 2000 to 2001. Suddenly, I don't feel better anymore. via [Attorney for the Defense] (NOTE RECENT NAME CHANGE)
Allright, now Rich is picking up some steam.....
12:01:48 PM
Scoble on XP, Windows, What's Wrong with Microsoft, and the Pesky Problems of Having New Tech Tools at Conferences (hint: speakers can't juggle everything to use them)
There's lot's more so don't rely on me; go read it on his site. Scoble's on a roll....
11:59:18 AM
What's in a (blog) name?
A New Name for My Blog . . . Gideon's Promise - After some additional thought, I have decided on a new name for my blog. "Gideon's Promise" is a reference to Clarence Earl Gideon the defendant in the case in which the Supreme Court first held that the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel provision means that every criminal defendant should be provided with a lawyer, whether or not they have the ability to pay a lawyer. Gideon v. Wainwright was decided in 1963 and has everything to do with our current practice that no person will be denied the right to effective assistance of counsel in a criminal case. Gideon's story is well told in the classic Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis. [Gideon's Promise]
Formerly known as "Attorney for the Defense" and run by the postmaster general, my friend Rich.
11:50:46 AM
Michigan Law School Discrimination case - Instapundit feed
"STEVE CHAPMAN has a column about the Michigan Law School diversity case. Here's an interesting passage:
If you take a look at the University of Michigan's Web site, you can find all sorts of information, including some that would come as news to its administrators. A "Nondiscrimination Policy Notice" says the university "is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons regardless of race." But the school has been fighting a court battle for years for one simple reason: It discriminates on the basis of race and wants to keep doing so.
I wonder why people who give schools and other organizations money in reliance on these policies (the Association of American Law Schools tells applicants for law-teaching jobs who use its process the same thing, and then sets up the process to facilitate such discrimination, which it encourages, among its member schools) don't just sue for fraud. No fancy-pants constitutional claims just: you took my money under false pretenses, and I was harmed thereby. It certainly looks to be as strong a case as a lot of class actions that get filed." [Instapundit]
Disney's signed a $100MM deal with Home Depot to market a line of branded Disney housepaints in exchange for tons of Home Depot ad-placement in movies, parks, TV and print. Link via [bOing bOing]
And I think the Home Depot down the road is building a roller coaster back there at the end of Aisle 12...
12:18:48 AM
"Flush from their victory against Big Tobacco, activists are now gunning for the purveyors of junk food.
George Washington University Law Professor John Banzhaf, a veteran of the tobacco battles, has publicly declared that he thinks it possible to sue companies like McDonald's for misleading advertising, for failure to warn about the health dangers of their products and, if public opinion swings his way, for, well, making us fat." via [Salon.com]
I'm going to close my eyes and count to ten. When I open them I want someone to tell me that I've been in a very strange dream.
12:16:26 AM
Stop the presses: Bi-polar people have greater emotional range. Okay, you could have guessed that, but they kick ass with finger paints too. [Story] via [Daypop Top 40]
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