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  • Scone recipe: how to make/bake/cook fruit scones
  • Pres­i­dent Bush: Sell the Ranch
  • Read­er² [Edi­tor] It’s kind of like del.ico.us or Flickr but for books.
  • iTunes Tip: The “Per­fect” equal­izer set­ting [Edi­tor] On the off chance that this blog is your sole source of news; Apple released a new ver­sion of iTunes this week. Along with the first iTunes enabled cell­phone from Cingular/Motorola and more impor­tantly, the iPod Mini replace­ment.… the iPod nano. Yum!
  • Escape Key
  • The Sig­nal [Edi­tor] This is a pod­cast by fans of the cult favorite TV show, Fire­fly. Fire­fly came out back in 2002, quickly gained a devote fol­low­ing but the dorks in charge of FOX killed it after show­ing only 11 of the 14 pro­duced episodes had been made. The Singal’s goal is to pump up sup­port for the movie follow-up to the tv show, Seren­ity. I just started lis­ten­ing to it this week and have nearly caught up to the cur­rent shows. Prob­a­bly my favorite one so far is the one where they inter­view Gina Tor­res. Although the inter­views are cool my favorite sege­ments are the “learn­ing chi­nese” bits; they lend a whole new insight into var­i­ous scenes in the series. All the more I have to say about that is 易爆的大象腹泻 1.

Oh and in case you’re won­der­ing about almost total lack of posts this week… We’re going into our next beta at work (much extra crudola to deal with). Addi­tion­ally, I’ve been try­ing (and pretty much fail­ing) to write an online, reg­is­tra­tion form for a local sci-fi con2 that cap­tures the data we need and accepts pay­ments via Pay­Pal. *sigh*

1 Explo­sive ele­phant diar­rhea (chi­nese trans­la­tion obtained via Babelfish).
2 ICON 30

Depths of Suckitude

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The idea is to exam­ine, in glo­ri­ous detail, the Depths of Suck­i­tude of the music that was pop­u­lar when you got out of High School. Phi­los­o­phy being, I sup­pose, that the music that was pop­u­lar dur­ing the time you made that high school-to-college tran­si­tion is the music that shaped your Sonic Consciousness.

What­ever.

Any­way, here’s what you do. You go to the Music Out­fit­ters web­site and type your high school grad­u­a­tion year into the search tool. Select the “list of the 100 most pop­u­lar songs” and you will get the Raw Mate­r­ial for the next step in the process, which is to look through the list and decide which songs you hated, which ones you liked, and which one was your favorite.

Post the list on your Online Jour­nal, strik­ing through the songs you hated (or still hate) and bold­fac­ing the ones you liked (or still like). Bold and under­line your favorite song. No opin­ion? Leave it as-is.

Depths of Suck­i­tude for 1994
1. The Sign, Ace Of Base
2. I Swear, All-4-One
3. I’ll Make Love To You, Boyz II Men
4. The Power Of Love, Celine Dion
5. Hero, Mariah Carey
6. Stay (I Missed You), Lisa Loeb and Nine Sto­ries
7. Breathe Again, Toni Brax­ton
8. All For Love, Bryan Adams, Rod Stew­art and Sting
9. All That She Wants, Ace Of Base
10. Don’t Turn Around, Ace Of Base
11. Bump N’ Grind, R. Kelly
12. Again, Janet Jack­son
13. I’ll Remem­ber, Madonna
14. Whatta Man, Salt-N-Pepa
15. Wild Night, John Mel­len­camp and Me’shell Nde­geo­cello
16. With­out You / Never For­get You, Mariah Carey
17. You Mean The World To Me, Toni Brax­ton
18. Can You Feel The Love Tonight, Elton John
19. The Most Beau­ti­ful Girl In The World, Prince Sym­bol
20. Fan­tas­tic Voy­age, Coo­lio
21. Baby I Love Your Way, Big Moun­tain
22. Reg­u­late, War­ren G and Nate Dogg
23. If You Go, Jon Secada
24. Back and Forth, Aaliyah
25. Now And For­ever, Richard Marx
26. When Can I See You, Baby­face
27. Please For­give Me, Bryan Adams
28. So Much In Love, All-4-One
29. Shoop, Salt-N-Pepa
30. Any Time, Any Place / And On And On, Janet Jack­son
31. Shine, Col­lec­tive Soul
32. Said I Loved You…But I Lied, Michael Bolton
33. Return To Inno­cence, Enigma
34. All I Wanna Do, Sheryl Crow
35. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, Crash Test Dum­mies
36. Can We Talk, Tevin Camp­bell
37. Funkdafied, Da Brat
38. I’d Do Any­thing For Love (But I Won’t Do That), Meat Loaf
39. Gangsta Lean, Drs
40. Because The Night, 10,000 Mani­acs
41. Can­taloop, US3
42. Whoomp! (There It Is), Tag Team
43. Come To My Win­dow, Melissa Etheridge
44. Stroke You Up, Chang­ing Faces
45. I’m Ready, Tevin Camp­bell
46. 100% Pure Love, Crys­tal Waters
47. Any­time You Need A Friend, Mariah Carey
48. Because Of Love, Janet Jack­son
49. Linger, Cran­ber­ries
50. Loser, Beck
51. Found Out About You, Gin Blos­soms
52. Gin And Juice, Snoop Doggy Dogg
53. Never Lie, Imma­ture
54. Streets Of Philadel­phia, Bruce Spring­steen
55. Getto Jam, Domino
56. End­less Love, Luther Van­dross and Mariah Carey
57. I Miss You w/ Aaron Hall
58, Under­stand­ing, Xscape
59. This D.J., War­ren G
60. Cry For You, Jodeci
61. Keep Ya Head Up, 2Pac
62. Who Am I (What’s My Name?), Snoop Doggy Dogg
63. Another Night, Real McCoy
64. Your Body’s Callin’, R. Kelly
65. Toot­see Roll, 69 Boyz
66. I Can See Clearly Now, Jimmy Cliff
67. Never Keep­ing Secrets, Baby­face
68. Crazy, Aero­smith
69. Just Kickin’ It, Xscape
70. At Your Best (You Are Love), Aaliyah
71. Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through, Meat Loaf
72 Amaz­ing, Aero­smith
73. Always, Era­sure
74. Groove Thang, Zhane
75. Dreams, Gabrielle
76. Mr. Vain, Cul­ture Beat
77. Mary Jane’s Last Dance, Tom Petty and The Heart­break­ers
78. Any­thing, SWV
79. Beau­ti­ful In My Eyes, Joshua Kadi­son
80. Stay, Eter­nal
81. Flava In Ya Ear, Craig Mack
82. U.N.I.T.Y., Queen Lat­i­fah
83. Prayer For The Dying, Seal
84. Secret, Madonna
85. Here Comes The Hot­step­per, Ini Kamoze
86. Every­day, Phil Collins
87. Don’t Take The Girl, Tim McGraw
88. Got Me Wait­ing, Heavy D and The Boyz
89. Decem­ber 1963 (Oh, What A Night), Four Sea­sons
90. Indian Out­law, Tim McGraw
91. Always, Bon Jovi
92. I’m The Only One, Melissa Etheridge
93. Back In The Day, Ahmad
94. Love Sneakin’ Up On You, Bon­nie Raitt
95. I’ll Take You There, Gen­eral Pub­lic
96. Always In My Heart, Tevin Camp­bell
97. What Is Love, Had­daway
98. And Our Feel­ings, Baby­face
99. Bop Gun (One Nation), Ice Cube
100. I Wanna Be Down, Brandy

Kudos to Kris for the meme. Also, if you’re like me and most of these songs don’t look at all famil­iar to you; the iTunes Music Store is your friend.

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What A Day

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I had orig­i­nally planned on attend­ing a Pam­pered Chef party with my wife last Sun­day. I had been think­ing it would be some pleas­ant social­iz­ing over some tasty food with a bit of some­body try­ing to sell me some pricey kitchen stuff. That is to say a not entirely unpleas­ant to spend part of one’s after­noon. Instead about an hour before the party, our friend Bryon stopped by and men­tioned that Bruce Camp­bell was in town giv­ing a short talk and pro­mot­ting his new book, Make Love the Bruce Camp­bell Way.

I thought about it for a minute, but I knew there’d be more chances for Pam­pered Chef par­ties and I doubted I’d have any bet­ter chance of get­ting to see Mr. Camp­bell in per­son. So after a quick shower1, Bryon and I hopped into the car and drove into Iowa City. We got to the site about 40 min­utes prior to the event began. We waited around and it turned out one of my co-workers was also there2. Then about 10 min­utes before Mr. Camp­bell was sched­uled to begin speak­ing; they opened one set of the doors into the audi­to­rium and let every­body in. And nat­u­rally, it wasn’t the door we’d had been wait­ing at. *sigh*

Even­tu­ally, every­body was inside and mostly seated but then the orga­niz­ers explained how the sign­ing pro­ce­dure was sup­posed to work and said the new book was for sale at the back of the audi­to­rium. So we ended up giv­ing up our fairly good seats to go get in another line. It took a while to get through the line, but it was good that we both went to the line as Laura3 showed up look­ing for us. Appar­ently, she decided the party wasn’t her cup of tea. While we were wait­ing in line; she kindly thanked me for “being so god-damn tall”.

There was a con­sid­er­able amount of wait­ing in line to get the book, but even­tu­ally we all got our copies and headed back to find new seats (the good seats we’d had were long gone). A bit after that Mr. Camp­bell started tak­ing ques­tions. It turns out he’s a very charis­matic speaker. There were a num­ber of ques­tions about him work­ing with Sam Raimi, but the only one that really stuck in my mind was:

Ques­tioner: When work­ing on Spi­der­man, did you hang out with Tobey Maguire?
Bruce Camp­bell: Why would I?

*grin*

After far too lit­tle time had passed, Mr. Camp­bell stopped tak­ing ques­tions and then made a short speech pro­mot­ing B-movies as the only place that is still cre­ative in Hollywood.

…get­ting bit­ten by a radioac­tive spi­der is a b-movie!

After the speech, they started hav­ing peo­ple come up to get their books signed. Bryon & I had rel­a­tively low num­bers but when we were going up they weren’t actu­ally check­ing peo­ples num­bers. Even­tu­ally I got up there and had Mr. Camp­bell sign my book; but I felt like a com­plete twit, the entire time I was there. I mean I have enjoyed all of his movies that I’ve seen and what I read of the book while I was in line was very amus­ing but I didn’t really have any­thing to say to him. He was very polite to me, but it was a rather uncom­fort­able moment for me. Signed mem­o­ra­bilia is nice to have I sup­pose, but it doesn’t do much for me. To tell the truth, I’m not entirely sure why I went up to have him sign the book. Other than I’d waited in line to get the sticker say­ing I could do so. *shrug* Life, go figure.

After that, we took off and headed off to meet up with some other friends for some RPGing. When we got there they were still fin­ish­ing up with the Pam­pered Chef party and I got to munch down some of the left­overs4. Then it was game time and after­wards off to Old Chicago for din­ner. All in all, a very pleas­ant Sunday. :)

1 Bryon arrived before we were expect­ing any­body. And yes, I’m extra-specially lazy on the week­end; so if I’m not expect­ing com­pany I will hang around the apart­ment with­out get­ting myself up and ready for the day.
2 That would be Quincy for those that are curi­ous.
3 Another friend of ours. One who was sup­posed to be at the Pam­pered Chef party.
4 Ah, break­fast at 3pm.…

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