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Agriculture, skepticism, politics

Bull Durham

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We moved Megan and Andrew into their modern appartment in St. Louis today. Turning in now after watching Bull Durham, a Kevin Costner offering from 1988. I’d never heard of it before tonight and I have to say it was one hell of a good show.

St. Louis

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I just had a fantastic time playing in Minneapolis. It was good to play a show with Jimmy Billinger again.

I have time for about five hours of sleep before we head for St. Louis.

Dolly

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The dolly is quite sufficient for the tasks at hand. Dad’s issue with the dolly was only that the tire was flat. I would much rather have my dolly than one with “toy wheels” (ever seen pneumatic tires on a toy?) any day of the week. I’m not moving engines around, and what I am moving around is much better treated by the gentle support of the pneumatic tires than the bouncing of the hard, solid tires. I know pneumatic dollies are much preferred in moving furniture and appliances because of the gentler ride.

Enough about transportation. The power hop joke was the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while. Better than the 13…14 joke on McClure’s MySpace just now.

I’m gtting ready to go load and eat before the trip to the wild west.

Power hop

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Looks like Jim’s going to play the show in Minneapolis with me tomorrow. We haven’t played a show together in years. It’s going to be a hoot, that’s what it’s going to be.

I finally fixed the tire on my dolly today. It’s the one that G and dad always gave me a hard time about. I over inflated the tire, actually. Lucas says it’s going to hop a lot now.

Mountain view too

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It looks like I got credit for G’s post both in Facebook and on Twitter. Perhaps Rob’s right. Perhaps Twitter sucks. I figure it’s a very limited time until someone like Paris Hilton starts using it, causing everyone with less than half a brain to follow her, bringing Twitter to it’s poorly-designed knees. Get it while it’s hot.

Twitter does have one redeeming quality. When used properly, like Facebook, it helps keep users up-to-date with others’ activities, reducing the time spent on actual human contact. Human conversation is inherently wasteful. I can waste 30 – 60 seconds on a phone call to Lucas, only to learn that he’s unavailable to go eat. I called Lucas because I already know that Diane is napping because I spent 2 seconds reading her Twitter in my RSS feed. I’m just pissed because, outside of Diane, nobody else I know uses it which makes it like playing Counter Strike without an Internet connection.

I guess now that I’ve figured out how to make log entries by email I won’t have to fall back on text messages.

Yawn. I’m up too early this morning. It’s 6:19 a.m. and I’ve been working for over an hour already. Holy shit. I just looked outside and it’s light outside. That’s depressing. There’s nothing worse than getting up early and being proud of it only to have time pass and realize everyone else is beginning to wake up. It causes me to feel ordinary again.

I’m fairly excited to go to San Francisco in a couple of weeks. I’m planning on seeing Starfleet Academy. Maybe they’ll teach me how to Twitter.

In other news, this video is unbelievable. My hat is way off to my friend Brian Simpson for this homemade gem.

The full-length sweded version of the 80s classic, Neverending Story. Created by Brandon Todd and Brian Simpson over the course of 4 weekends. I’m guessing a total budget of 25 dollars and cut using a Mac. (dang yeah)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJZ1i0L7QlI[/youtube]

Pole vault

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Google “traffas” and tell me why in the top 10 results is a Youtube video of a guy getting poled in the nuts during a vault attempt. Is that the Traffas move? I don’t remember doing it when I vaulted.