Worst Band Ever

Sorry, I read Rolling Stone. A great x-mas gift from my wife. I am realizing that I really only read it for the articles. Apparently I don't read it for the music.

Case in point:

I read a very enthusiastic article obviously written by a fan. The "artist" is MGMT. (thats pronounced management for those of you not on the up)Now, either the writer is a big fan, or a really good writer.The day after I read the story, I logged in to my Rhapsody account (3rd greatest invention) and pulled up a playlist. The first song starts out with some droning, boring, non-rythmical pattern. I lasted about 40 seconds, gave it the benefit of the doubt by scanning to the chorus. Even worse. I skipped to the next song in the playlist, with the same results. After giving the third song the boot I cleared the playlist and searched for something with a little soul. (I recently discovered a live James Brown bootleg in my iTunes library that I must have lifted from a clients library. Two words, BAD ASS)

So, after thumbing through the issue again this evening, I realized something about the cover- Once again its the Black Eyed Peas. Please spare us from more bad,annoying rap with aerobic music. (And take Lady Gaga with you to the pit of despair)

When will their 15 minutes expire?

I even gave MGMT another chance. I was watching a tape of last weekends Saturday Night Live. (I have to tape it now since I can't stay up to watch-how times have changed) Dark, depressed, staring at the floor, no soul, no groove, and most of all, no talent. YOU ARE ON NATIONAL TV. You don't have to do a full on Bruce Springsteen but come on! If you hate your own music that much, please make your band a tax write-off for the label and go away.

iPad review

Not impressed, too bulky to sit and surf or read. I could imagine your hands would tire from holding it on a plane. Seems clumsy enough to drop when shifting from hand to hand. The screen looks brilliant, especially on the maps app. I only had a few full screen apps to look at, mainly USAtoday. This was the best thing I found. The weather app with radar map was cool, but- if you have WiFi, there are a million options to consider.
I guess if you don't want to carry a $1400 laptop, and just surf the net-this would be the option. Otherwise, my MBPro runs programs and lets me upload information. My iPhone lets me take pics, and make phone calls and SMS messages-on a 3G network.
So, if you are stuck riding in a car for a period of time, there's a better chance of dropping the 'pad than the iPhone.
I just found out I can text message to my blog, and send an email.

Holy Shit! The Nerd Trifecta

I am phoning in my blog.

New Roomate

Jake around 1968 in Viet Nam

Bulldogs

Congrats to the Butler Bulldogs. It's Saturday night, and they just defeated MSU to go to the final game. Last time I was excited was the year Indiana played Maryland and lost. (2001?) It's been a bad year for my teams. Red Sox missed the World Series and the 'Effing Yankees won. The Colts lost to the Saints. At this point just seeing the "dawgs" get to the Final Four a mere 36 blocks from their campus was cool enough. Not a big sports guy, but Its a nice feeling to see the home teams do well.
In other news, I was finally able to purchase a new Macbook Pro. My wife caved in and let me put it on our Best Buy card. I used to enjoy working on my PC at work, only 1.5 years old, dual 19" monitors, fairly fast. Now I loathe just powering it on. My little MBPro sits next to the monitors,looking like a toy, but I can actually work on the Pro while waiting for the PC to reconnect to the server. I guess it may be the server, not the PC, but after a an exhaustive search of the network, the problem still alludes everyone.
Snow Leopard seems to work fairly well. My last Mac was a G4 running Tiger. Transferred most of my older programs, 50Gig of music, and re-assigned the iPhone to Mac. It seems to actually seem happier now, I don't know how-my old iPod reacted the same way-but it's definitely working better.
Too-da-loo.

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