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You Asked For It Todd Davis...

Life Lock CEO's Identify Stolen Remember all those commercials recently tell us to steal Life Lock's CEO Todd Davis' Identity? Well seems as though someone did. (via MeTaFilter.com)

Check this out

GraffitiResearch.com has some pretty cool stuff. Especially the LED Throwies.
Click around. (another example: QTmov)

Here's a sample of how they turn it into $$$:

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3.0 is blingblingboy (or so he says)

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Internet: SERIOUS BUSINESS

Tom Waits in Tulsa, OK

Tom Waits may be an acquired taste. His original songs and traditional ballads both sung with that wonderful voice (like a chainsaw running on jet fuel, or described by one critic as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car."[1]

The 59 yr old's latest US tour has him in Oklahoma. Gotta admit the dude throws a great pre-tour press conference. Believe me, this guy will tear Tulsa a new one. Tickets $77 and only 2500 seats. One_hot _show.

The Democratic Primary Season in 7 Minutes

Via -- Emily Freifeld @ WaPo: "... Slate.com created a seven-minute satirical depiction of the Democratic primary season thus far. It covers Sen. Hillary Clinton's "cackle," Sen. Mike Gravel scowling at the camera, debates, former Sen. John Edwards staying in the race and Sen. Barack Obama in traditional Somali clothes.

Those are just a few highlights from the video. To experience the true story, excitement and humor, watch the whole thing...."

Fast Detector

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How to Catch, Skin, Cook, and Eat a Rat..

Sweet.

Will Ferrell/Dave Grohl Leather and Lace duet

Just Click it, you'll thank me later.

Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme performing Black Hole Sun

(via http://raincoaster.com/)

Yes, really. Here is the immortal Vegas lounge duo Steve and Eydie putting their silken throats to that heroin-laced grunge classic Black Hole Sun, from the album Loungeapalooza. And this time no chipmunk effects.

And by the way, Eydie’s got a blog.

Audio of this culture-clash train-wreck below. Click arrow to play and lyrics below:

In my eyes
Indisposed
In disguise
As no one knows
Hides the face
Lies the snake
The sun
In my disgrace
Boiling heat
Summer stench
neath the black
The sky looks dead
Call my name
Through the cream
And Ill hear you
Scream again

Black hole sun
Wont you come
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun
Wont you come
Wont you come

Stuttering
Cold and damp
Steal the warm wind
Tired friend
Times are gone
For honest men
And sometimes
Far too long
For snakes
In my shoes
A walking sleep
And my youth
I pray to keep
Heaven send
Hell away
No one sings
Like you
Anymore

Hang my head
Drown my fear
Till you all just
Disappear

I Love the Whole World

Nice:

Fields of Gold - Sungha Jung

This kid is 11 years old. Not his compositions or songs (except for a couple), but the fingerstyling is complex and pretty astounding. List of Songs/Vids.

Another 10 Year-old Prodigy?

Carry On My Wayward Son performed by a 10 year-old on some kind of organ. Plays all parts, but I think the drums were pre-recorded. Smattering of applause at the end is kinda sad..

Springtime Evening @ the Neighborhood Park

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Arcadia, OK restored Round Barn

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Inside Ceiling of Arcadia, OK's Round Barn

Truly an impressive landmark on Route66 in Arcadia, OK. You have to see to believe the craftsmanship involved. This pic does not do it justice. Free admission! Website link here.

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2.0, 3.0 and their best bud go to the Arcadia Round Barn!

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Clunk the CRUNK!

A Sunday Tradition! Pop at Pop's! Three weeks in a row and a new inductee - Austin our quickest sprinter, barely beating 2.0 in a race to the fence and back at 28 seconds. 2.0 was close behind with 29 seconds. 3.0 held his own in one leg to the fence at 17 seconds! We love this place even though a bottle of pop is $1.99. about 10 times as much as I paid for the same thing at their age (ouch!)

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John McCain Breaking Campaign Finance Law that HE WROTE!

LATE BREAKING: DNC to FILE SUIT TO COMPEL FEE INVESTIGAT'I"ON "INTO MCCAIN:S PUBLIC MONEY"

Original Post:

Joe Sudbay of AmericaBlog and Reverend Lennox Yearwood delivered 32,000 signatures to the FEC, cosigning the complaint filed last Thursday against John McCain and his campaign. It took three reams of paper and 1,400 pages to print it all out.

This morning at a McCain event in Alexandria, McCain was introduced as a "hero" because of his work in campaign finance reform. Right. The guy who helped to write the law now doesn't want to obey it, just because there's nobody around to enforce it (thank you George W. Bush for gutting the FEC). The McCain campaign's defense is "Obama did the same thing," but that's a crock. John McCain applied for public financing. Obama never did. John McCain was accepted into the public financing system. Obama never was. The chairman of the FEC, David Mason, says McCain is therefore still in the system and bound by its limitations, but McCain is just ignoring him.

It goes to McCain's character. He believes the law is for someone else, not for him. He's chiding Obama for not agreeing to public financing, even as he's 4 million dollars over the $54 million spending cap imposed by the public financing system.

For Thee But Not For Me. The John McCain story.

You can still cosign the complaint here, and you can tell your friends about it here. We're now at 34,350 signatures. We're gonna keep doing this until somebody starts paying attention.

Red Bud Bed Bugs

Beautiful Spring day at Pop's66

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Clunk the Crunk

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New Shoes!

RAIN! OH NOES!

Rain just means I get to wash again!

Summer Shoes!

Spring Break at Six Flags Over Texas

Well, the boys and I invaded enemy territory by crossing the Red River. The goal of our mission was to take over a vast section of Arlington for our own. After paying our bounty we planted an Oklahoma Flag, sang "Boomer Sooner" and renamed Six Flags Over Texas to Seven Flags Over Texas.

Below are a few quick pics from the trip.

KISS plays live!! (tribute)

My Rockstar/Guitar Hero kids were unimpressed.

Waiting for the Choo-Choo

Gonna get wet!

The Roaring Rapids turned out to be the favorite of the boys. Since it wasn't too hot (60-70 degrees) the three days we were at the park the lines were non-existent on the water rides. The boys ranked them in this order: Roaring Rapids, followed by Aquaman, and then the two different log flume rides. They rode this one about 20 times in three days. We rode the log ride about 10 times also. Aquaman was 3 or 4 times (only once for me because it completely soaked us).

Day 2 begins

Third Ride of the 1st Day

Tester Road Trip

Just to see how the boys did on-the-road I took them on a jaunt up to the Jenks Aquarium then back down Route 66 for an all day road-trip. We ended up at Pop's66 which is a really cool landmark/restaurant/gas station that has 1000's of different bottled sodas.

JT = 60

"The press want something that'll sell copy. They pick up on the mental hospital, family stuff, try to invent some category of rock that I belong to, or perhaps they pick up on my drug problem. But it gets to the point sooner or later when you start to think about your kids: "What does your daddy do for a living?" "He plays the guitar and he talks about his drug problems." It's embarrassing to read the drivel that comes out of your mouth sometimes. So I guess maybe the question is, why am I doing this in the first place? And honestly, I suppose I'm doing it because I'd like to promote my record. "-1979 .

James Taylor is sixty today.

HornBlasters

HornBlasters.com reminds me of the horn in my parents old 88 Park Ave. (though it was nowhere as loud as this)

Summer Tires and Rims (one more month!)

Power Plant

FW: 2.0T GTI Goodness!

OOOOHHHHHHMMMM (MANTRA)

The Cutest Pirate

AAARRRGGGHHH!!1

Bloody Chicken Planks

AAARRRGGHH!

Got Tint?

Got the ride tinted (for about 3 bones inc. tip) with 18% Llumar Axcess. This stuff is supposed to be the best tint out there right now. New carbon-based non-metallic tint is supposed to be the enemy of UV (98% block), but RF-friendly so as not to interfere with bluetooth, AM/FM antenna, etc. Once it was installed I put the GPS in the hatch window and it synched up easily with 6 SATs. The signal strength indicator did not change visibly when I moved it in and out of the car. The FM and AM signals are fine. No Tire Pressure Monitor or Keyless entry issues. Either I bought in on hype, or this stuff is for real. Regular tint would have cost about 1/2 the price of this. Gah!

2007 - Worst Year of My Life

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I stumbled across the following info today. I seem to have experienced 6 of the 8 "Top Stress Occurrences" described further below - all 6 in the span of one lousy year. All I can say is: "It's 2008, and I'm still here mf".

The following is from divorceinfo.com

Divorce Sucks:
There's just no getting around it; divorce is a cruddy process. It takes the person who at least at one time in your life was your lover, perhaps your best friend, and turns that same person into your opponent.

I originally called this page "Divorce s_cks," but I had to change the name because it was getting blocked by obscenity filters. This is probably fitting, because in many ways it is obscene what our adversarial divorce system forces good men and women to do to each other when they need to end their marriage.

There are all kinds of things both of you can do to keep from going to war, and Divorceinfo.com is all about the options you have. But even if you choose not to go to war, you do have different interests, and you just have to face that.

Every now and then, the news media will report a new study on the levels of stress caused by various occurrences in our lives, and divorce is always near the top of the list. Here are a few of the events and the levels of stress they produce, according to one such study:

Event	Stress
Death of Spouse	100
Divorce X	73
Marital Separation X	65
Death of close family member X	63
Jail term (I narrowly avoided this when illegally, but forcibly evicted)	63
Personal injury or illness X	53
Marriage Problems X	50
Fired at work X (wife quit without notice)	47

To put it another way, divorce causes more stress than getting fired and more stress than a jail term. In fact, it causes more stress than any other single event except the death of a spouse. And one of the many frustrations about divorce is that your spouse is still out there walking around, and in most cases, still dealing with you. The pain just keeps coming.

But if you really want to delve into this, reflect on what happens after your spouse dies. You can check out Death after Divorce for a quick summary. It's not pretty.

What makes divorce so awful? Start with the disadvantages of divorce. And it's no surprise to you that divorce hurts. It almost always produces crushing loneliness, and it also costs money.

The risk of suicide is three times greater for divorcing people than for married people. You're also more vulnerable to psychiatric illness, homicide, depression, anxiety, motor vehicle accidents, and even physical illness.

Trying to keep divorce from happening? Then check out the alternatives to divorce. If you know you're heading for divorce, you've got two choices. You can either sit around and think about how awful this is, or you can get to work.

When you're ready for the latter, jump to Cutting Through the Crud, and let's get started.