Showing posts with label Weirdness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weirdness. Show all posts

Weirdness

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Thursday, January 21, 2010 14 Of Your Sparks

REVISED TO ADD:

So, it seems it was one of the stat counters that has been on The COuch for over a year...once I removed it everything got better...maybe the company closed their server and that was the hang-up...

Nonetheless, I thank all of my loyal Couch-sitters who wrote telling me of the problem and who helped me get a feel for what happened by answering some questions.

You guys ROCK!


OK, so I am still not sure what happened here yesterday and whether it is going to happen today, so maybe my writing this is a waste of time.

The damn page took up to 5 minutes to load most of yesterday. I have done nothing different to it in the last week.

I did research, as it seemed to be stuck loading and the little message area on the lower left said 'waiting on csi.gstatic.com'.

I did some research on this and it appears to be a google thing ---GEE SHOCK SURPRISE!

Here is what I found out...Seems most people have this problem when they are trying to access their igoogle home page - Guess what? I have one of those, but never even knew it, I have never been there before today!

On all the boards I read, it appears if you disable CHAT, the problem goes away...well...I found chat over there, at that place I have never been and guess what? My chat WAS disabled!


So...I am hopeful this dang thing will fix itself and I will be left alone. It is really scary how many things google is now intertwined with and how they have so much of our information...

And when my spell check tells me that google should be Google, I just ignore it...

So maybe that is why they are giving me crapola and making my life miserable, as only a few people seem to have taken the time to let this joint load (JOINT?...maybe that would help...)

If the problem is still occurring, you are not reading this anyway...so you can't respond or give a good crapola I guess.

If the problem is gone, my post yesterday addressed a situation I think is important, so y'all might want to scroll down.

Thursday Thunks...

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Thursday, August 27, 2009 26 Of Your Sparks

The bloggosphere is going through one of it's molting phases - where people leave, people arrive, people change and it always feels so wonky.

I guess I can look back on two other times in my 3+ years here.

Do you get what i mean? It just feels like something is off and everyone is being moved around like little chess pieces.

I go through my blog-roll somedays and there are more blogs that have not been updated than those that have. Like walking into an office the day after a layoff.

Ever been through one of those? I have been on both sides and when it happens to you it is very strange, but to be left there...in an office where the staff has been cut in half - or in the case of an ad agency who had just lost a big car account - half a floor went dark in the course of three hours...

OK, well, where was I...OH...I started with that crap...Let me know...does anyone else feel it?

Will it go away soon? I hope so!


HEY - you over there in the corner...YES YOU!

Have you started working on your PEACE GLOBE yet?

You DO know it is being held on November 5th...right?

HECK-A-DOODLE...you HAVE to have a PEACE GLOBE that day or all your friends will call you a wanker-head...

Seriously, they have to - by law...if you are a blogger and you do not have a PEACE GLOBE on November 5, 2009, you are officially a wanker-head...

Go look it up in the "Book Of Rules About Things That need Rules" - page 2,456,987

Look, just go HERE and you'll learn everything you need to learn.

And if you need help creating your globe, just send me an email and I will lend a hand.







Idol Idiosyncricies...

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Thursday, March 06, 2008 31 Of Your Sparks



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OK...that show has some 'splainin' to do Lucy...

Now...remember that they told us this was "The Best Group Of Singers We Have Ever Assembled", or some hype-crap like that.... Ideocincricies

Seems they have slipped a tad when doing their "Is this person worthy of our touting them as the next 'American Idol'" background check.

YES, it is a reality show...it is manipulated like all reality shows...showing us only what they want us to see (OH, we certainly DO believe that)...we have always thought that the person who wins is supposed to fit a mold...if not musically, but from a values standpoint.

Think about it...there have been people who have been disqualified because of their backgrounds and because criminal activities have shown up in their past.


* Corey Clark was disqualified when the producers found out that he lied about his criminal history. Later, he claimed to have had an affair with Paula Abdul.

* Semi-finalist Frenchie Davis was removed from the competition when topless photos of her surfaced on an adult website purportedly featuring underage content.

* Terrell and Derrell Brittenum were twins who were featured prominently on the auditions and successfully made it past the Hollywood rounds in season 5 but were subsequently arrested for identity theft and disqualified

The have also given passes to some contestants - Taylor Hicks' teenage pot bust is one that comes to mind-



How do you think the producers feel about this little gem hitting the youtubes airwaves?

Seriously folks... there is some real bad language here, so please be aware....this Emotard (GREAT WORD Starrlight!!! We also found this from her site BTW) should be gone by the time you read these words, but if he is not - then he should be soon...whether the public votes him off, or the producers do their little voodoo and work it so he does get kicked off...

All we can say is, we never really saw him until this week, and he is just too over-the-top, flamboyant for us...

WARNING...FOUL LANGUAGE - but it is only 30 seconds....



shivers....



Then this taken from an AP story...

updated 4:09 p.m. CT, Tues., March. 4, 2008

LOS ANGELES - David Hernandez won’t be stripped of his chance to compete on “American Idol.”

The 24-year-old from Glendale, Ariz., once worked as an adult entertainer at Dick’s Cabaret in Phoenix, appearing fully nude and performing lap dances for the club’s “mostly male” clientele, strip club manager Gordy Bryan told the AP on Monday.

...Antonella Barba remained in the competition last year after racy photos of her surfaced on the Internet. The source who confirmed that Hernandez will remain said Davis’ situation was different because of the site’s age-themed content.

Fox and the producers declined to comment on Hernandez. All the singers, including Hernandez, have been unavailable for interviews.

On a video posted on AmericanIdol.com, Hernandez said he broke the lease on his apartment and lived out of his car before auditioning for “Idol.” And, when asked in a Q&A posted on the site which talent would he would most like to have if he couldn’t sing, Hernandez responded: “Dancing! I’m horrible at that.”



We all have things in our past...but are these "American Idols"? Should they even be in the Top 12?

After watching last night, they could take 8 of the women and 4 of the guys and that would be fine with me. the two women going home are those who do not have callers (I KNOW that is what it takes!)...what we mean is they ALL deserved to go to the next step tonight...much more so than the guys last night

This is in direct contradiction to quiet a few people we know....but we call 'em as we see 'em...

We do think that they were out of time and that is why the judges used one word comments for the last girl (We do not even know their names - that is how uninterested we are, to be honest), and they should have made that clear as we think people would feel she was not worthy and she was very good.

How the he!! did we end up spending a post talking about this show? Is it the video traffic accident we can not look away from? Is it some sort of infectious disease that they spiked out water with?



Travis had a cool meme on Wednesday, think he cribbed it from Ian...and we are going to 'borrow' it tomorrow...

As it involves a shuffle of the iPod, we will just select one today. We are finding music we never really listened to often when they were CDs sitting on the shelf. Yes, it is silly - but it happened...

Some of the music we are hearing, some even for the first time is jazz we picked up the year we did some work for the JVC Jazz Festival (which includes the Newport Jazz Festival, the grand daddy of them all)...

This is the ELVIN JONES JAZZ MACHINE. The album is The Truth - Heard Live At The Blue Note.

Mr. Jones (September 9, 1927 – May, 18 2004) fell in love with the drums as he watched the circus bands march past his home in Pontiac, Michigan as a boy.

After he spent time in the army he was the drummer for the JOHN COLTRANE quartet from 1960 - 1966. His free-flowing style was a major influence on many leading rock drummers, including Mitch Mitchell (whom Jimi Hendrix called "my Elvin Jones") and Ginger Baker.

The album was recorded on his 72nd birthday in 1977...the song is "Three Card Molly", by Elvin Jones.

ENJOY!

Elvin Jones - Drums
Michael Brecker - Saxophone
Antoine ROney - Saxophone
Robin Eubanks - Trombone
Darren Barrett - Trumpet
Carlos McKinney - Piano
Gene Perla - Bass



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