Warning: This video contains graphic depictions of radical left-wing ignorance.
The best exchange:
“Wars in general would stop if we didn’t have weapons, just like violence in our streets would stop if we didn’t have weapons.”
“So if we didn’t have police, we wouldn’t have crime?’
” … Potentially… ”
We’ve been a very musical family lately, my wife having been reviving her interest in singing in the last couple of years, and with me having the RPM Challenge last month, her own work has increased in pace as well.
So now comes MySong, a program from Microsoft Research that supposedly puts instrumental music to your singing — seriously, you sing, and the program sings along.
That sounds nice, in theory, for those who can actually sing. For the rest of us, I don’t know, I haven’t watched the video yet.
This video:
(The actual demos start at about 2:45, so skip forward if that’s all you’re interested in.)
I did something on Tuesday night that I’ve been itching (figure of speech) to write about ever since, but I wanted to post video for full effect, and I’ve been having problems with the video (which I’ll go into later …)
Anyway, the video is now ready, so I’m ready to report:
I infiltrated the local Democrat Caucus.
I’m surprised I didn’t do this (or something similar) years ago, but the fact remains that I did it, and got some interesting video. This is some local Dem honcho or other, giving a pep talk to the faithful, because everyone was having to wait three hours for the stragglers and procrastinators to finish voting before the actual caucus to begin (and the Democrats sure do seem to have a lot of them!). Let’s listen in:
There’s a surprising lack of Republican bashing, although he does take a swipe at McCain’s temper.
Anyway, I’ll write more in the next few days. In the meanwhile, it’ll be interesting to see if I get any hits on YouTube …
We had snow yesterday, for the second time in a week, and I don’t think we had any snow at all last winter.
And unlike a few days ago, there was actually a substantial amount of snow this time, with people making snowmen and everything. I sent this picture in to a local news station, but so did another 2000 people, so I have no chance in finding mine in their 17 galleries.
But anyway, I’m just posting to say that I’ve really been trying to post something since Tuesday, but my video editing program keeps choking on the final 1% (I’ll nickname it my Tony Romo program), so that will have to wait …
But trust me, it was quite an adventure, at least for boring old me …
It’s snowing! And it’s the first and probably the last time this winter, but it snowed quite a bit, already 3 inches accumulation on our cars at 9:00. This is on top of the fact that it was 80F here on Saturday, and pretty warm yesterday too.
And yes, I probably should have posted this a couple of days ago … but I did actually finish the RPM Challenge! And since I actually finished, on time, and my finished album isn’t a total humiliation, I’ll gladly give credit (as opposed to blame) to Yay Kim, who told me about the challenge and encouraged me to enter.
Of course, I also need to thank my wife, who told me I really needed to do the challenge, and was patient through all the time I spent doing music. She understands creative urges like that.
Anyway, I’ll give you a link soon to listen to my stuff, but until then, listen to somebody else’s stuff, namely that of Another Cultural Landslide (ACL), one of my favorite artists from the challenge, in an instrumental track cryptically entitled Fred and Ethel Go Bowling.
So why hadn’t I posted until now? Because I was at the Irish Festival yesterday, duh, and that brings me to a shout-out that I promised Emily from Luton, England. Emily works in one of the clothing shops during the festival. I bought a shirt from her last year, and we talked about the TV show that she & my wife like (“Keeping Up Appearances”), so this year I decided to snap a picture and make her a part of my festival commemorations.
You can see more of my festival pictures (just the first 100 that I’ve uploaded so far) by clicking here. (That picture yesterday was one of them, the most amazingly healthy bit of festival food I’ve ever heard of, a fruit salad served in a hollowed-out half-pineapple! And it was great!)
More pictures forthcoming.
And speaking of this month’s Irish celebrations, our Flickr friend Miss Sarie rode in the Saint Patrick’s Parade and fun dog show in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia (they have it early to beat the rush, apparently). The first year she went, she won the coveted “Best Irish Costume”, and this year she got her picture in the paper. Click on the picture to see more!
And now for something completely different: One of the commercials in the Snickers “Feast” series.
I didn’t really care for them at first, since the whole concept seemed kind of pointless, but for some odd reason I get a kick out of this one that they’re showing these days:
You can just never tell what’s going to make me laugh …
It’s snowing! And it’s the first and probably the last time this winter, but it snowed quite a bit, already 3 inches accumulation on our cars at 9:00. This is on top of the fact that it was 80F here on Saturday, and pretty warm yesterday too.
So why hadn’t I posted until now? Because I was at the Irish Festival yesterday, duh, and that brings me to a shout-out that I promised Emily from 
