Amnesia

I’m following Wil Wheaton, Felicia Day and Dr. Horrible on Twitter. Apparently at the panel during comic con, it was confirmed by Wil that there will be another Dr. Horrible.

Hurray for good news.

Now I must go and tend to my infection in my mouth. (I know, gross right?) Wish I had a freeze ray.

…but reptiles?

If you’ve got two minutes, watch that video above. It’s very touching and I would think provides insight into the many things we still don’t know about the animals that roam this planet.

I’ve been a busy bee. With the wordpress 2.6 issues with podpress, I went looking for a temporary fix and ended up altering my site a little.

First things first:

Vince O’Connor has joined us on the blogosphere. His new blog is here. Please go check him out. There have been some really great posts so far and I can’t wait to see what he’s got up his sleeve. I’ve also posted a static link over in my links to get to when this post gets buried.

Second:
I’ve updated the music and professional works pages. You can now listen to each song that I’ve posted with an added flash player. Let me know if you have any issues.

Third:

I’ve grabbed some of the better songs and compiled a zip file for download. It contains 90 percent instrumentals, so have fun. I do ask if you use one of the songs on a not-for-profit project that you send the credit back here.

Fourth:

Here is where I shamelessly beg you to contribute to my cause. Right after the dl link, is a paypal donate button. Even if it’s a dollar, it would be greatly appreciated if you are right clicking on the zip file, to show some love in the form of small bills to support the “buy Kate a new furnace so we can eat through the winter” creativity fund! Muhahah.

As always, thanks for taking the time to listen. I love creating.

My video reaction to the conclusion of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is below. It does give a spoiler, so if you haven’t watched it, don’t watch this. If you have, you’ll get exactly what I was talking about.

EDIT: Finally found a plugin that actually works! You should be able to see the video now, instead of downloading it.

You won’t be sorry.

*Disclaimer — it may not be safe for work or children, even though it’s censored.

Anytime I leave the house for numerous hours at a time, my father decides he wants to save money by turning off the central air. Considering temps rose to about 95 today, you can imagine my surprise when I got home and my entire living space was effectively hotter than the surface of the sun.

I can understand he wants to save money here and there, but when I get too hot (Especially after driving to Boston, sitting through a 9 hour meeting and then driving home) I get just a wee bit cranky. Not to mention, it takes about 8 hours for central air to effectively drain the house of heat to cool it again, which I’m assuming probably wastes more money than leaving it on a stable temp.

I went from freezing to death at the company meeting, to withering on the proverbial vine.

I’d hug ya dad, but I’m too sweaty.

If you use podpress, you will receive an error when trying to post or edit a post in Internet Explorer.

You have two options:

Install and use firefox. No issues have cropped up just yet.

Deactivate podpress until a fix comes out.

If you haven’t upgraded yet, I’d wait a few days until a few of the bugs that have appeared are coded and patched.

…and though the news was rather sad, I just had to laugh.

I don’t normally go on political rants here at Amnesia, only because usually it’s a topic I leave to people more experienced than I am in the field. Yet, the more news that came in about the banking industry and the economy made me shake in my skin.

Let’s take Bush’s most popular soundbite of the day, shall we? He was quoted as saying that our banking functions and facilities in the US are “basically okay.” Now, as an intelligent person, that description made me pause for a moment. I know that I am not the only one on the planet that understands the adverb in his sentence subtly hints at a bit of doubt.

Let’s deconstruct the following:

“The Hindenburg is glorious in her stature! The most brilliant dirigible the world has ever seen! She’s basically safe.”

Had that last sentence been used in any descriptions of the big hydrogen balloon, and had I been alive and wealthy in 1937; I would have probably stopped short of paying actual money to secure my transport to Lakehurst from Berlin; lest I became a crispy critter falling from the New Jersey sky.

What’s my point exactly? Well, the worst thing this administration could do for the people of this country is place GWB at the podium when we are suffering. I don’t know about you, but when we are failing so soundly as a democracy with institutions such as the Patriot Act, and our constitutional rights are eroding faster than the beaches we are swearing to protect, (I know, major run-on sentence there) this administration might as well be handing out flogs to further the suffering of its less-than-wealthy population. I cringe when anyone in our current government tries to smooth things over or make everything better by giving me back some of  my hard earned money to ultimately stimulate the failing economy.

So far, every time our great president has tried to strike down the reasonable fears of his general public, something else breaks and life for the hardest working Americans gets a little more bleak.

Let me ask you this:

The plane you are sitting on, has just been described as basically safe.

The bridge you are driving over has been declared as basically safe.

The car in which you’ve strapped-in your children has been certified by a mechanic as basically safe.

While this may be a comfort to apathetic people who are riding through life with blinders over their eyes, the smarter folk of the world take a step back and start weighing in the consequences and benefits of subjecting ourselves to scenarios which involve the word “basically”.

This is just yet another example as to why the international community must laugh at our country. We are constantly being represented by someone who can’t even grasp the language well enough to comfort his own people.

But don’t worry good people of the USA, we’ll be basically okay…

…aside from the poor who can’t afford a doctor. Or the middle class who are getting laid off at an alarming rate. Or the single mother who has to rely on government assistance once again because she can’t afford the rising food costs. Or the gay couples who want to adopt an orphan who would normally be raised in a dilapidated and degraded facility or the….

Get my point, now?

Furthermore, while I’m ranting; solutions for high gas prices shouldn’t be to open up off-shore and protected wild land drilling in Alaska. Hell, I almost threw a shoe through my TV when I saw the Chrysler commercial touting that they were “protecting me from high gas prices” by capping prices at the pump at $2.99 a gallon for 3 years if you buy an overly expensive and cheaply made vehicle.

Give me a fucking break.

Had Chrysler not built the huge ass gas guzzling behemoths, they wouldn’t have contributed to the problem we currently have. It is the rare person who actually stops to think about that. So while corporations that have continually made money off making this world a shittier place to live, tout green and environmentally friendly fixes to all of our biggest problems, lets all go ahead and stick another fattening french fry in our mouths and wallow in our ignorance and apathy when the good ole boy waddles up to the podium in a vain attempt to make us feel better with a concerned smirk on his face.

UGH! *steps off podium, kicks it, and stomps off in a disgusted huff*

…That come with being a toddler.

Allyson’s first attempt at mini golf was fun had by all. She pretty much kicked my ass. Enjoy. Although, I must warn you that you will be hearing my horrible giggles and laughter. I sound like a f’in hyena.

and….

Leaving for a few days to the beach for a chick weekend with the girls and my aunts! I will be bringing my laptop, but I doubt there will be any access there, so don’t worry about me, I will be soaking up the rays and dancing in the surf. I will be liberally applying sunscreen as well.

I will take pics too for consumption upon my return.

Have a great weekend!