Well, It’s June 1st and that means the Bonnaroo Fest is just around the corner. 13 days 3 hours… and counting, actually. This year I’m actually going.My ticket arrived yesterday
And well, this is going to be a good time.
I’ll be back soon to tell you more!
Warned you that I wasn’t likely to keep up the updates… Two days in a row was a lot to ask, it seemed. Fear not, however, here I am, back within a week.It’s Monday so, don’t forget to check out The Dead.Net Tapers Section. It’s a nice looking update with some 80s and 90s material.
Over the weekend, I scored some tickets to the Washington Wizards game on Sunday. I went with my eldest daughter and we were treated to a helluva game. Bogus call or not (I’m no expert) that was one of the more exciting finishes to a game I’ve seen in a long time.
Check out the write-ups at the Washington Post:
A Last-Second Reprieve – washingtonpost.com
Warriors Are Left With a Bad Taste – washingtonpost.com
For the sake of fairness, the San Francisco Chronicle‘s take on things:
Sudden loss fits Warriors to a ‘T’
Also, for the record, I still think they should never have changed their name from “The Bullets”. (Yeah, that’s Moses Malone.)
101 days until Bonnaroo 2007
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It’s Tuesday and that makes this the second post in as many days. Don’t get your hopes up, folks, I’ll probably get bored with this again before long.Anyway, one of my frequent stops on the web nowadays is:
Woot.com is a simple site; each day, they sell one product until either midnight or they sell all of their stock. Two-For-Tuesdays is the exception, of course. The ‘deal’ is not always great and sometimes the product they’re trying to move is old but, if you keep your eyes peeled and know what you’re getting into, you can get some cool things for a good price once in a while. You have to be quick, though. The experienced ‘wooters’ check the page right at midnight and a hot deal can sell out before 1am.
No. I didn’t get paid to tell you about that.
-rowjimmy
It’s been nigh onto forever since I updated this thing so, here goes.I thought I’d start by giving you a peek into what I look at day-to-day online and, as today is Monday we’ll start with my favorite Monday update:
Tapers Section @ the Official Site of the Grateful Dead.
Every Monday, the Grateful Dead’s archivist, David Lemieux, posts a blog that’s loaded with free, downloadable mp3’s from the band’s archive. Usually they relate to the current week (this week, for example there are tracks from 1970-02-28 and 1970-03-01,) and they are always worth the bandwidth. Check it out!
More tomorrow. (I hope.)
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Part two of a two part series.
Happy Birthday to the United States of America.
Happy Birthday to the United States Declaration of Independence.
Let us remember too, on this day, the 180th anniversary of the deaths of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
And let’s not forget to say Happy Birthday to the Freedom of Information Act. Enacted 40 years ago on this notable date on which we celebrate our freedoms to speak, drink, and cook hot dogs, The FOIA is designed to open up the U.S. government to scrutiny by the people.
Monday, in a Washington Post Editorial, President Jimmy Carter called for the expansion of the FOIA to encompass all three branches of the federal government (only the Executive Branch is presently subject to FOIA requests) and a sweeping improvement in responsiveness to requests. (OpenTheGovernment.Org has, this week, released a report rating responsiveness improvements made by agencies as per a Presidential mandate from December, 2005. Not suprisingly, they seem to be unimpressed.)
I’m not going to go on much about this because President Carter does a fine job but, I’ll say that I heartily agree. Remember, as you eat your dogs and burgers and watch highly dangerous explosives light up your night sky, your freedoms do not stem from someone monitoring your bank records or listening in on your phone calls. Your freedom stems from the vigilance of individuals who stood up when their government no longer represented the interests of the public at large.
So, now, I’ll leave you with the immortal words of The JB’s,
I’m paying taxes,
So, what am I buying?