New Iconage

As I drove down to Las Cruces today, my laptop/MP3 player (no, not the laptop with the failing hard drive) played the part of Alan Parsons Project's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, specifically Orson Welles' narration of Dream Within A Dream.

Welles was such a great narrator. I'm really tempted to get a microphone with good bass response and try my hand (or voice, perhaps to be more accurate) with podcasting snippets like that.

Anyway, I thought it would make a great minifesto icon.

COOLNESS!

I just watched a deer walk through our front "yard"!

Russ was on a phone conference, sitting at the dining table and started snapping her fingers, pointing out the window. And there it was. It was fairly young, maybe a couple of years, small rack of antlers. Unfortunately my camera is in my car.

I love it up here!

Bastards

I just called Overstock about my laptop's harddrive. I was told Thursday that I should hear from them Friday to arrange a service. No word Friday. Sunday I'm in Las Cruces and pricing new drives at Best Buy, I was very tempted to buy one but didn't. So I just got off the phone with Overstock.

Turns out that I won't hear from them for a minimum of 3-4 business days.

We leave town for Colorado Friday, come back Sunday, I leave for Phoenix Tuesday.

I have a feeling that I'm going to end up canceling the contract with Overstock, which the guy on the phone said he could do, and buying my own drive and installing it myself, something that I could do in ten minutes or so.

Nothing, ANYWHERE, gave me any indication that this contract would be anything but a rapid service. Well, rapid is one thing that it is definitely not.

Bastards. This'll probably be the last high-ticket item I buy from Overstock.

A Weird Al song called Bob

and a music video -- the entire song is palindromes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg&search=weird%20al%20yankovic


Wow. That's about all I can say about it.

A couple more You Tube/Weird Al videos

A Firefly fan vid of Al's That's Your Horoscope For Today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTXINlN6CPM&search=weird%20al%20yankovic

And Weird Al's Amish Paradise done as a World of Warcraft mechanime vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxAgiyWIGII&search=weird%20al%20yankovic