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Happy Thanksgiving
I hope everybody is having a happy Thanksgiving. I wish we were having Thanksgiving. I have been married eight years, and it is still weird when I miss a holiday with my family. My family has rock solid traditions. Thanksgiving dinner is always on Thanksgiving, at Grandma’s house, at noon, not 11:30, not 12:30, but noon. Now it’s been moved to my Aunts house since my Grandma is getting up there in age and has downsized to an apartment.
The Wife’s family celebrates holidays on different days sometimes to work with people’s schedules, so I won’t get my Thanksgiving dinner until Saturday. They also don’t have lutefisk, or lefse, because nobody likes them. I don’t know how they can be Norwegians and not like them. I guess I will have to do without this year.
It was a beautiful day out today. It got up into the 40s, so I took advantage of it and got our Christmas lights up.
Now I gotta find something to eat and watch some football for the rest of the day.
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Thanksgiving Weekend
This year we are spending Thanksgiving with the Wife’s family. We usually go to her Aunts house here in Fargo. Fargo is pretty centrally located for our families, so everybody heads here. Well, her Aunt’s house is a mess because they are remodeling a couple of rooms. That means everybody is going to be at our house. I hate having a house full of people. Our house is also smaller than her Aunt’s, so it’s going to be a little crowded. We are putting heaters and tables in the garage so everybody has a place to sit and eat. My job today is to clean and sweep out the garage. The Wife said she is going to handle everything else, so that’s cool. I will be glad when it’s all done.
Thankfully this is all going to happen on Saturday and I have to work. I will miss out on all the fun. Shucks.
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I Can Has Feed Reader
A blog isn’t a blog without cat photos, right?
Molly is already a fan of the Google Reader.
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Play Adventure on your iPhone/iPod Touch
Back in 1984 I discovered a simple, but awesome game for my Atari 2600. It was simply called Adventure. To this day I still play the game from time to time on emulators. There isn’t much to the game. You just wonder around looking for the trophy to bring back to your castle while avoiding being eaten by the dragons. The coolest thing about the game was that on the hardest level, everything was always found in different places. Back in 1984 that was a cool thing. Every time you played the game it was different. Well, today I just discovered that the game is also available for the iPhone/iPod Touch. I already downloaded it and played it. It’s so cool to play one of my favorite game on my iPod. Now I am off to find what other childhood memories I can relive on my iPod.
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Make Audiobooks
I am a big fan of audiobooks. I like to read, but struggle to find the time. With audiobooks I can listen while I am doing work around the house. I probably listen to two books a month that way. Most of my audiobooks come from audible, but I have ripped some from CDs, and downloaded some free ones. The ones that I rip and download have always been a pain to manage because they are usually multiple files and my iPod doesn’t recognize them as audiobooks.
I have tried editing them to combine them into one file, but that is kind of a pain in the ass. I have finally found an easy solution.
Doug over at dougsripts.com has an app called Join Together that does it all. It combines all the files into one, and marks it as an audiobook so iTunes and iPods handle it just like it was an Audible file. This solution is Mac only, but I am glad to finally have a solution.
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TV Errors
We were watching Mythbusters last night, and I noticed an error. They were seeing if police badges could be bulletproof. They had two batches of badges, both of them with geeky numbers on them. Some had 42, and others had 3.14 on them. At one point they shot at a badge with number 42 on it, and after they shot it, it was a badge with 3.14 on it. I am sure they took many shots at many badges and just didn’t noticed the badge numbers in the editing.
I love looking for errors in TV shows and movies. Sometimes I watch background stuff looking for errors so much that I don’t even know what was going on in the show that I am watching. I am always looking at how they shoot different scenes, rather than watching the actual content. Maybe that’s why most of TV bores me. I just don’t know how to watch it right.
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Do I Talk Funny
So we just watched an episode of Dirty Jobs and they were in Waubun, MN at a leech farm. Waubun is about an hour from here. I actually have family that live in Waubun. The whole time we were watching it we were laughing at how the Minnesotans talked. I have lived in Minnesota since I was six. The past ten years I have been in North Dakota, but I am right on the border, so it is still basically Minnesota. Do we really talk that funny, and why do I notice it on TV and not in real life? Weird.
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My Take on the Election
I have been sick the past few days, but I am feeling better today, so it’s my turn to express my feeling on the past election. To start off remember, I don’t consider myself a Democrat or Republican. In fact I voted some some of each in the past election. I vote for who I think is the bet person for the job. Rarely to I ever agree with everything a person stands for.
I think Obama getting elected was a great thing. Not because I totally agree with him, because I don’t, but because I think it’s time for a change of power. Nothing against McCain. I think he would have done a decent job too, even though I have a lot if disagreements with him. I think the Republican Party was doomed from the beginning. Too many people were unhappy with Bush. My crazy theory of the Palin selection was that the Republicans knew they were doomed and none of them wanted to hurt their political career by being the VP in a losing battle.
I am almost certain that we will have a Republican president in eight years, or maybe even four depending on how successful Obama is. I remember four years ago when all the pundits were saying the Democratic Party was a mess and they needed to find who their leaders were. Well, I think the Republican Party is in that situation now. They will regroup and be back.
I am sick of all the Republican that think it’s the end of the world now, and how rolling back a tax cut for the rich when our country has a massive debt is socialist. I think Obama’s Tax cuts for the working class could help out to economy some. They are the people that will be spending the extra money anyway. That whole “spread the wealth” thing is a joke. I don’t even get it. Are the Republican against the tax cut for 95% of america? If so, then I get the “spread the wealth”, if they think the tax increase for the rich is going to the “bums” then they are wrong.
Another thing that drives me nuts are the people that thing Obama is a terrorist because he has met will Bill Ayers a couple time. Sure Bill Ayers has a checkered past, but that was 40 years ago. Are you the same person you were 40 years ago? People change. Ayers is currently a professor at the University of Illinois. He worked with Obama on education reform in Illinois. Who really cares if he was a rebel when he was in is 20s. Weren’t we all to some extent?
And to the Christians out there that think Obama is a threat to you religion, get real. How is a Christian President a threat? If you are that unsure of your religion, then it seems the problem is you. Just because he wants to unite everyone, and become everyones President, not just the Christian’s President, doesn’t hurt your religion. This is not a Christian Nation. This Nation was formed on the freedom of religion. You have the right to pray to God, Allah, Buddha, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, or like a lot of us no one, and Obama understands that, and that is a good thing.
In the end all both McCain and Obama want is what’s best for our country. They have different ideas, but in reality, they probably have more similarities. If you don’t like was Obama does the next your years, you can show it with your vote. That’s what makes this country so great, and in the end, we are all Americans.
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New Cat
Ok, no election talk here today. There is plenty of that elsewhere on the net.
Over the weekend the wife brought home another animal.
She doesn’t really have a name yet. The wife has had a different name for her everyday now. I am not really ready to have another cat, but she let me get one of these.
Yes, I got an iPod Touch. Since we can’t get iPhones in North Dakota, it’s the next best thing. It’s pretty cool and worth living with another cat I guess.
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MTV Music
Yesterday I read about MTV’s launch of a new site MTVMusic.com. I didn’t think much of it. Whenever I want to watch a music video, I can usually find it on YouTube. Today I was bored enough to check it out. It was actually pretty cool to see a bunch of old videos. I wasted way too much time there. They didn’t have a lot of the videos I was looking for yet, but they did have quite a few. It will be my new first stop for music videos. It’s like MTV of the old when they played videos, but this time it’s only the videos you want to see. Cool stuff.
