I am your customer. I pay YOU for providing ME with a SERVICE.

When I call you because the service I have paid you for has stopped working… don’t start asking me a list of questions designed to establish what I did wrong. What *I* did wrong, apparently, was to [...]]]>
An open letter to BrightHouse/RoadRunner…

I am your customer. I pay YOU for providing ME with a SERVICE.

When I call you because the service I have paid you for has stopped working… don’t start asking me a list of questions designed to establish what I did wrong. What *I* did wrong, apparently, was to rely on you to provide the service I am paying for. When I am sitting at my computer, as I do every single day, doing nothing different than I do every single day, and suddenly my connection to the internet disappears… YOU are the problem… not me.

Cut to the chase… tell me what the problem is and what you are doing about it.

I don’t need to be on the phone for 45 minutes answering questions about how I am connected to your freaking system. I was connected to your system for MONTHS…. YEARS…. exactly the way I’m connected to it now. I didn’t CHANGE anything… IT QUIT WORKING!

I know more about computers and how they connect to the internet than ANYONE WHO ANSWERS YOUR PHONE!

STOP TRYING TO BLAME IT ON ME AND TELL ME THE TRUTH.

The Tea Party is just like a religion. It’s based on irrational beliefs and fears, which are therefore impervious to facts. They have developed a mythology based on personal feelings and emotions, which they then try to prove by only recognizing things that appear to provide real world support for it.

Scientific method starts with a [...]]]>

The Tea Party is just like a religion. It’s based on irrational beliefs and fears, which are therefore impervious to facts. They have developed a mythology based on personal feelings and emotions, which they then try to prove by only recognizing things that appear to provide real world support for it.

Scientific method starts with a question, and then searches, by trial and error, for the best conclusion. The Tea Party movement, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then searches for anything that appears to support it, labeling anything that doesn’t as “enemy lies”.

They can’t be fought with facts. They must be offered a more attractive and emotionally satisfying mythology. It’s not lies vs. the truth. It’s not good vs. evil. It’s Coke vs. Pepsi.

Another “commercial free” re-issue.  About a bizarre job I had one summer.  And then a little editorializing.

I actually told the story of that job when I subbed for a vacationing Dawn & Drew on their podcast.

The usual suspects appear in support… 3 Blind Mice, Hank Marr, and Rob Costlow (I always go back to the best).

On May 13th 2005, Adam Curry’s Podshow premiered on Sirius Satellite Radio.  This is the actual opening I produced for that first show.  Most of Adam’s online “Daily SourceCode” listeners never heard it.

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A story that starts in 1955 and ends in 1961, that involves my PERMANENT RECORD CARD. A thing, I was told, that would follow me, and possibly haunt me, for the rest of my natural life.

This one gets an explicit tag only because I believe I can make out [...]]]>

A story that starts in 1955 and ends in 1961, that involves my PERMANENT RECORD CARD. A thing, I was told, that would follow me, and possibly haunt me, for the rest of my natural life.

This one gets an explicit tag only because I believe I can make out some bad words in a song that gets played in the middle. The song fit so perfectly though.

Speaking of music…

3 Blind Mice (my theme)

The Beau Hunks

7-10 Split

Hank Marr

By the way the picture above is NOT my permanent record card. It’s my report card from the 2nd grade, where the story starts. In fact the “N” in conduct in the 2nd marking period is a direct result of the first half of this story. I was looking through some of my Dad’s things just lately and discovered all of my old report cards, 1st grade through high school.

Click here to download -> Bubbling Demonstration Video

An entire episode devoted to the nectar of the gods… BEER. I also touch upon a very particular beer. Something I call a “life beer”. I’ve had many “life beers” but the one I chat about here was THE most important beer of my life.

I play some [...]]]> (commercial free re-issue)

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An entire episode devoted to the nectar of the gods… BEER. I also touch upon a very particular beer. Something I call a “life beer”. I’ve had many “life beers” but the one I chat about here was THE most important beer of my life.

I play some wildly varying music in this one…

“This Bud’s For You” by The New Duncan Imperials from their CD “Fried”.
“There’s A Tear In My Beer” by Hank Williams
“Dancin’” by Emmett Lee Brooks on “Detroit After Hours”
“Beer” by Johnny Boy from his CD “Champagne Dance Party”
“Beer” by Snap-Her from their CD “It Smells, It Burns, It Stings…”
“Cold Pizza and Warm Beer” by Saffire–The Uppity Blues Women from their CD “Live & Uppity”