Lessons Learned

People with small children who work night shifts 24 hours a week should not take more than 3 classes. Unfortunately the cost of this lesson will be my GPA this semester. My biggest my problem was my initial test and quiz scores. Homework wasn’t the problem, I got most of my assignements and [...]

For all my favorite ‘mom’s’

Happy M’s day!  Here is the Mom dictionary
Amnesia: Condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again.
Dumbwaiter: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert.
Family Planning: The art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you on the verge of financial disaster.
Feedback: The inevitable result when your [...]

Nine Inch Nails: The Slip – a quick review

After arriving home from work Monday morning I checked my e-mail. The little rss feed indicator in my browser popped up that there was a new post at NIN.com.  I was thrilled and amazed to read that a new NIN record “The Slip” (a.k.a HALO 27) was not only completed but available to download for free in [...]

the color green

…Seems to be all the rage these days.  You can’t open a newspaper without someone mentioning ‘going green’.  Are people really that much more concerned about the environment?  Did Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ make such an impact?  Or is it just that gas and petroleum products are hitting everyone where it hurts the most?  [...]

New NINE INCH NAILS album “THE SLIP”

Is currently free to download from NIN.com I’m eagerly awaiting my download to finish!!

Mission Accomplished

I recieved a great e-mail written by James Carville from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.  Pretty much says it all!

Five years ago, George W. Bush got up on that aircraft carrier and fed us the biggest load of bull of his entire presidency .
He told us it was “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq.
President Bush’s flight suit posturing [...]

Guilty Pleasures – Trance 101- pt2

“music for the mind, not music for the masses.”
The Characteristics of trance.
Naturally rules are made to be broken and many of the big guns in trance have expanded beyond the typical rules, but many of the characteristics are still there.
Some say the history of trance music goes as far back as the religous roots of [...]

Death of the Recording industry, part 9

Attached is a great blog written by tycohen, “the red menace”  it’s referencing an article written last year “Russia bans DVD, CD street sales“

Most of us were already aware that there is a big problem of music piracy in countries like China, Taiwan, India and generally in Southeast Asia.  I have had it explained to [...]

A Tribute to stay-at-home Mom’s (and Dad’s!)

Anyone who thinks that not going to a job and being a stay-at-home parent is a cake job, has obviously never done it for any length of time.  Here’s an e-mail that made me laugh.
A man was sick and tired of going to work every day while his wife
stayed
 home. He wanted her to see what [...]