Five Iron vs. Banana phone

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Nick Bradbury wrote about Banana phone and now I’m responding by saying: get the new and last Five Iron Frenzy album. There’s two CD’s (a live last concert album and their last official studio album). I’ve listened through the two and am actually finishing up their last song. Good stuff. But I won’t make any promises you won’t be walking around singing ‘cannonball.’

Hope others enjoy them as much as I do. I saw Five Iron (FIF or 5Fe) several times in concert in the last 8 years and loved every bit of it. I was actually in Denver the night of their last concert and couldn’t go (I was visiting family for a short weekend, no time to go). Bye Five Iron, we’ll miss you, but all is good – new bands have sprouted from this dead one.

Note: if you haven’t seen it, you should check out: “You have bad taste in music” [not responsible for content on this site]

Yeah Taxes!

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I’m sure you’re thinking, “Randy, Taxes are behind us, April 15th was last month.” Which is true. In fact I remember because I was on the road to Colorado that day – we’ve been here for over a month now. However, we worked out a budget and some tax stuff today and all looks good. Now we’ll just need someone to go over it an make sure we’re not way off.

If there’s one thing that’s certain it is that there is more than one thing that is certain. And if the only constant is change, then how reliable is the statement that the only constant is change? When ET phoned home, was the phone bill as high as I’d expect – that’s some serious long distance. Enough of my tired non-sense.

We saw Van Helsing last night… and it was as dumb as the critics said as well as being as fun as the $54 million dollars it made the weekend before. Just because there was cheese involved doesn’t mean that it can’t be fun. You should go expecting a crazy fanciful movie. And when you leave the theater you’ll say, “I just watched a fun fanciful movie.” Hugh Jackman as Van Helsing surely looks like Wolverine in a few parts, and I’m sure that when the next X-Men movie comes out we’ll see a little Van Helsing in Wolverine. The special effects are fun more than anything else, and there’s something special about a real batman and a real set of bat women.

Influences

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Eric Meyer’s writes about his influences: Under The Influences. He thinks he’s not an influence. If it wasn’t for him and Jeffrey Zeldman my passion for web standards would not exist. On top of that Alt-N‘s site would in no way be standards compliant (OK, it took more than those two without Dave and Trint working so hard) because I would have never been interested in standards. I put a bug in Dave’s ear about standards and he screamed through DWWS and then anxiously awaited the new site design.

Eric, you’re an influence, be proud, but keep going: with your help some day Internet Explorer may see the light of web standards [or, it doesn’t hurt to think optimistically].

Biking Foiled

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Today my dad and I were supposed to go mountain biking… and then the clouds rolled in with rain. Oh, well. Say, in case you didn’t go see them I put up pictures of the views from our apartment. Soon I’ll put up pictures of views inside our apartment. And then, maybe some day I’ll put up views from inside out of our apartment. Or not.

Playboy seeks Home Depot women

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I’m thinking that this is just as wrong as the ‘Women of Walmart’ issue.
Playboy seeks Home Depot women for pictorial – May. 13, 2004

  • This is not liberating to women
  • It will degrade them into being objects
  • Try to ask, “May I help you?” to a construction worker who’s seen you in the buff and get anything but a come-on

I know I may not hold the majority view on this, but I don’t see it as being morally good, productive for a work environment, and I find it most frustrating on a biblical level. What men who look at Playboy are doing is engaging in adultery. What women who pose for Playboy are doing is being adulteresses. Yeah, that’s a good industry to work in.