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New Music Saturday: We Are the In Crowd
I’ve been a fan of We Are the In Crowd for what seems like forever. In my world they are a pretty big band, and I assume most people know about them. In reality, that’s probably not true. This video is their latest off their debut full length album, Best Intentions.
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Monday through Friday jobs suck; Goodbye Digg
I don’t know why people like Monday through Friday jobs so much. I worked my rare Monday through Friday this week and it sucked. I would take my nights and weekends over Monday through Friday any day. My normal shifts are 12 hours, and usually only two or three days in a row at most. Working five days in a row is a killer. Sure they were only eight hour days, but still five days in a row sucks, and now I only have a two day weekend. Normally my weekends off are always three day weekends.
I feel like I had no time for podcast listening, RSS reading, or Twitter all week. Thankfully I’m back to my normal schedule next week.
In other news, I logged into Digg for the first time in years, and dugg my last article. It was fun while it lasted, but like everything, it has an ending.
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How we use to buy music
This video brings back so many memories. Remember waiting in line until 12:00 AM on Tuesdays to pick up your favorite album seconds after it was released? Remember buying CDs in those long boxes? Remember spending actual cash in stores? Remember being cool with your mullet and stone washed jean jacket?
Yeah, that was totally me back in the day, except I wasn’t a big enough fan of Guns N’ Roses to wait in line. I have those albums. I just didn’t wait in line for them.
(Thanks for the memories mental_floss)
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New Music Saturday: TAT
I feel I’m a little late to the game with this band. I discovered them maybe six months ago. Sure you may not have heard of TAT, but they have been a band since 2003, and their one full length album came out in 2008. They also have a bunch of EPs out. Their acoustic EP is especially amazing. You can check out more of their awesomeness on their YouTube page. They are literally the best new band that I have discovered in years.
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So true… Amirite?
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San Diego fireworks fail
I’ve always thought it would be cool if a fireworks show lit off all of the fireworks at once. I guess that happened last night in San Diego. Do to a technical error, fifteen minutes of fireworks were set off and took fifteen seconds.
After seeing that, I no longer think it would be cool too see all the fireworks launched at once, but it still must have been a sight to see.
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My view of the fireworks from work
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HFCS or Sugar
A day probably doesn’t go by without me hearing some fear mongering over high fructose corn syrup. Should you eat the stuff? No, just like sugar, you should try to avoid it when possible, but it’s not a toxic poison.
In the above video, the latest episode of inFact, Brian Dunning doesn’t go too in-depth about the science, but does explain the difference between HFCS and sugar, quite well.
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New Music Saturday: Candy Hearts
I’m going to start using Saturdays as the day that I post new music that I am really digging lately, if I remember. Today that band is Candy Hearts. I don’t know if they have any official videos. I couldn’t find any. The above video is an acoustic live performance of their song “Lighter Than the Air” off their latest album, Everything’s Amazing & Nobody’s happy. You gotta love an album named from a Louis C.K. bit, but it’s even better because it contains some great songs too. You can probably pick it up wherever you get your music, but I got it from their Bandcamp site.
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Google+ Virtual Star Parties
I love Google+. I don’t post to it all that often, but I’m always reading it, and many of the hangouts people have are cool. My favorite hangouts are Fraser Cain’s Virtual Star Parties every Sunday night. He has amateur astronomers all around the world that hook up their telescopes and broadcast them into Google+.
Google created the above video, and showed it at the Google I/O conference yesterday. Hopefully this will bring even more attention to the great work Fraser and Co. are doing on Google+.