These are some of the best songs on the album, and this guy has made a YouTube video of how to play them on the piano!
Interlude:
Exitlude:
His DVDs are available for sale at PlayPianoDVD.com.
Seth Godin at Gel 2006 (direct link)
It seems like everyone has an opinion on bottled water, and why you shouldn’t drink it. Or why it’s a waste of money. Or that you can get some disease if you reuse bottles, but only if left in the refrigerator. (that urban legend via my girlfriend & the Oprah-watching set)
So, to settle this once and for all, here’s a simple algorithm to help you determine if it’s OK (by my arbitrary standards) to buy & drink bottled water.
How to Determine the Best Drinking Water Option for You…
A: Does your tap water taste good, right out of the tap, to you? (sorry, have to ask)
If yes, your solution is #3 (see below).
If no, please continue.
B: Do you live in an area where the water is clean enough that using an inexpensive Brita filter on your tap water, makes it taste good (or acceptable)?
If yes, your solution is #1 (see below).
If no, please continue.
C: Can you afford roughly $25 - $35 per month for quality drinking water in copious volumes?
If yes, your solution is #2 (see below).
If no, your solution is #3 (see below).
Solutions
1. Brita Filter
Buy an inexpensive Brita Filter that can be filled up from your tap and stuck in your fridge. The filters need to be changed out every few months, and sometimes you find little flakes of a charcoal-like substance in your water. Othan than that, these are great!
Cost: $10 to $20 for a pitcher and another $30 or so every few months for the replacement filters
2. Arrowhead Delivery
Since I live on the third floor of an apartment complex, I’ve tried to find inventive ways to get other people to carry up really heavy objects (like 5-gallon water jugs) up the stairs for me.
Arrowhead Water offers a home delivery option which will deliver 4 of these 5-gallon jugs (more than enough for a months worth of water) for only $25 to $35 per month (varies by area/zipcode).
Cost: $25 to $35 per month
3. Tap Water (no filtration)
Get used to how your tap water tastes, or, live beyond your means like a king on bottled water that’s more expensive per liter than crude oil! (hint: it’s actually not, if you order in bulk)
Just got word that my high-school buddy Andrew Volpe and his band (Ludo) have signed with Island Records:
On Tuesday, October 3rd we signed our final papers making Ludo an Island Records recording artist. Island Records is home to artists like Bon Jovi, Fall-Out Boy, Mariah Carey, Lionel Richie, Thursday, Sum 41 and The Killers. Our search for a label has been a long one, but we were lucky enough to have several options and we’re thrilled with how things have turned out. What does all this mean? All it really means is that the next Ludo album will come out on Island Records. Which means we’ll have their help in getting our music to more people. Other than that, it’s the same Ludo.
If you haven’t heard these guys, check ‘em out on their MySpace. (esp. Hum Along - which, if on their next Island Records album, could very easily end up on pop/rock radio stations across the country, imho)
This is destined to be a classic.
My favorites:
C++
You accidentally create a dozen clones of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can’t tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, “That’s me, over there.”JAVA
After importing java.awt.right.foot.* and java.awt.gun.right.hand.*, and writing the classes and methods of those classes needed, you’ve forgotten what the hell you’re doing.Ruby
Your foot is ready to be shot in roughly five minutes, but you just can’t find anywhere to shoot it.PHP
You shoot yourself in the foot with a gun made with pieces from 300 other guns.ASP.NET
Find a gun, it falls apart. Put it back together, it falls apart again. You try using the .GUN Framework, it falls apart. You stab yourself in the foot instead.SQL
SELECT @ammo:=bullet FROM gun WHERE trigger = ‘PULLED’;
INSERT INTO leg (foot) VALUES (@ammo);Perl
You shoot yourself in the foot, but nobody can understand how you did it. Six months later, neither can you. (via Andy)CSS
You shoot your right foot with one hand, then switch hands to shoot your left foot but you realize that the gun has turned into a banana.
My old pal Andrew Volpe & friends performed their hit single Hum Along in front of a sold out crowd at The Pageant in St. Louis recently.
Out of all the people I’ve met in my life, Andrew is one of the few dudes who I think could actually be famous one day.
UPDATE: The embedded video was foo’bard. You can just check them out + the video on MySpace.
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Looks like it’s too late to hit Lebowskifest this year. Wish I had heard about it sooner!
This GTD Prayer is just great.
At age 26:
American anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote her famous dissertation, Coming of Age in Samoa, which claimed that in some societies adolescence is not a particularly difficult time.
Albert Einstein published five major research papers in a German physics jornal, fundamentally changing man’s view of the universe and leading to such inventions as television and the atomic bomb.
Benjamin Franklin published the first edition of Poor Richard’s Almanac, which was to play a large role in molding the diverse American character.
Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Chereshkova became the first woman to travel in space.
College dropout Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, revolutionizing the economies of the United States and Britain.
Antoine Joseph Sax invented the brass saxophone.
“Johnny Appleseed” brought apple seeds to the Ohio Valley.
Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Italy.
Gon Yangling memorized more than 15,000 telephone numbers in Harbin, China.
Orion Krynen of Denver, CO reached this age without much incident.
British ethologist Jane Goodall set up camp in the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve on Lake Tanganyika and began studying the lives of chimpanzees.
Ken Kesey published his first novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Thomas Pynchon published V., for which he won the William Faulkner First Novel Award.
Kirsteene Luhrmann of Melburne, Victoria quit smoking.
Stephen Breen from Dublin, Ireland found this site.
Darren Blackburn became the first and only athlete of the Principality of Sealand, despite being somewhat lacking in athletic ability.
(via this generator)
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