I wrote this song this evening. I had a computer problem that prevented me from finishing it any further, but it works for a good drum practice track. I am going to re-record all the parts soon and add the rest of the parts to make the song complete. Hope you enjoy playing to it.
This is the full song with drums. They are syncopated a bit and are at 120bpm.
The only thing that has provably depleted the ozone layer is the suns gamma rays.
It is a cycle. The earth gets a fraction closer to the sun or it tilts on its axsis or extra solar activity occurs and the ozone is bombarded with gamma rays and the earth heats up and the ice melts. Then the earth moves away from the sun or tilts by a fraction and is hit with less gamma rays and the ozone recovers, the earth is hit with less radiation cools and we have an ice age.
It is so obvious, but the truth will not get you a grant to do more research. So we have Al Gore’s theory of Global Warming. Awesome.
72% of the earth is area that man cannot even occupy because it is ocean. Out of that 28% man has not even touched all of it. Out of the 28% one third is not habitable as a desert. So that means that we live in 9% of the earths surface. Out of that 9% take into account that we have Siberia, Mongolia, Wyoming (lol that is a joke) and most of Canada, Antarctica ect… that people don’t live. We are but a speck of dust on this planet. We could all fart for 3000 years at the same time never stopping and we would have no effect on this planet. We are smaller than ants on an ant hill, but because of our awesome accomplishments we feel we can change the weather.
Because we can fly in planes, rocket ships and boats we think that we are a little bigger than we are. Take away our transportation and it would take years for a person to get from Colorado to New York. It would take me many days to just get from Parker to Denver. Something I do everyday in 30 minutes.
Man does not cause global warming. We also cannot transform Mars into an oasis. We just are not that cool.
Global warming is made up. We are exiting an ice age. The next ice age will hit about 10,000 years and will cover most of north america in ice 500 ft thick. It will then recede carving a new landscape creating new lands. One of them will be called Mordor, the other the Shire. In between there will be the lands of dwarfs, elves and goblins. Man will exist, but will largely be left out of the “in crowd” and will always be a few steps behind in their knowledge of what is going on in middle earth. All magical people will tease and make fun of humans and eventually humans will get pissed and nuke the elves. The radiation will cause the elves to grow incredibly strong and have super powers. They kill most of the humans and chase the rest back into caves. A few of the super-elves will have discovered that their hatred of the humans does not run as deep as they first may have thought and they will mate with human women. These hybrid species of humans and elves will be called Humlves. Humlves will be extremely smart but slightly wicked and will seek to destroy the planet by creating a virus that only spreads to those beings missing the “h” gene. Once removing the filth from the earth, they will then re-design the earth by adding in new water parks, cheap housing and affordable health care.
You can not find secular life before Christianity. Religion was the control system that held society’s together since we quit hunting and gathering. Every culture consists of sets of beliefs in some sort of God or Gods that set up the foundations of moral law in a society. Even today, Science is a religion and atheism is a religion. They both fill the void of knowledge with faith in some construct to which they subscribe. Somebody who claims to be atheistic must therefore think that a God fearing person is crazy. Just as a God fearing person thinks that an atheist is crazy. They are polar opposites. One cannot exist with the other one any more than the North Pole can be the South Pole at the same time. We all subscribe to a belief that covers the holes in our knowledge of things around us that we cannot possibly explain.
Maybe it wasn’t the Christian idea or marriage, but before Christianity there were other religions. Those religions formed one type of construct of marriage, but marriage as we know it is from Old Testament days 6000 years before Christianity. Before that marriage was a status/property concept. Money was passed from house to house and bloodlines were formed using marriage as a tool. It had little or nothing to do with love and devotion. Those are Christian principles that were tied to original marriage traditions from long ago.
Despite what you might want to believe this country was founded on Christian traditions and therefore most of the constructs that we operate under come from these traditions. Even the most secular marriage is usually tied to love and devotion and not obligation. Or at least the types of marriage that they are proposing to want to have recognized by the state. Therefore they are very much similar to biblical traditions. So it is easy to see why a Christian might be offended when their traditions are being distorted by another group. It would be like a Christian going to a Mosque to worship Budah.
No matter what nobody is going to be happy. There is no utopia and never can be in this world. Even if we all were brought under a common flag with one ruler and a single point of view we would fight about where the lines in the grey sand should be drawn over all sorts of issues. Think about it. I guarantee there is a person in this world that thinks it is wrong to brush your teeth with a blue tooth brush. That dude will never be happy until everybody quits using their blue tooth brushes. Problem is that some other dude only uses blue tooth brushes and will kick the crap out of anybody that tells him to use anything but. Now we have a toothbrush war. That is just the way it is
Google is taking collaberation to the next level. This is really going to be a tool that I think all businesses are going to want to have. It could increase productivity and allow web developers to really create unique web content that would be updated faster than twitter.
I love my Zune. I have been a part of the ipod generation, but the Zune is a great product especially because of the Zune Music service. I am excited about the Zune HD. I am going to buy one as soon as it becomes available. Until I get the chance to fork over my money for one of these units I will have to be content watching some other people touch them on YouTube. So here goes.
Windows 7 has a couple features that are nice that have been missing since Windows first began. One of the biggest gripes that I have ever had about Windows was in the ability to change the desktop and the style of windows to match your mood. Sometimes light blue just doesn’t do it. I would even go so far as to work on my Linux machine just to have a change of scheme. Windows Vista offered a nicer cleaner look, but it really didn’t fix the problem of needing to buy an expensive add on pack to be able to change some of the theme. Well it looks like they might have made some improvements with Windows 7.
First off, Windows 7 allows you to add multiple backgrounds and have them alternate every X number of minutes. So you can select a large group of photos or images for your background and have them rotate. To do this right click on your desktop and select the “Personalize” option. This will give you a screen that will allow you to control much of how Windows 7 looks.
It works much like all of the other window versions except you get to select multiple images and run them in a slide show. You can also change the Windows Colors which is more advanced than it has been in the past. Sounds and Wallpapers work much the same. When you select Desktop Background you are able to add multiple images and select which ones you would like to run in a slide show. You can also determine the length of time that you would like each image to remain on the desktop. And there is a nice little Random feature for helping you rotate the images and keep it fresh.
It might not seem like a major change, but it does make using the computer a little bit nicer. With some of the other changes like how icons pinned to the taskbar work more efficiently when multi-tasking, Windows 7 seems to have an overall nice structure to it. Keep in mind that I am used to using Vista which I liked very much and Windows 7 does not seem much different than Vista. Have fun changing up your themes!
I have been waiting for this game to come out on the PSP since the PSP first came out. It was one of the reasons that I wanted a PSP. I like many fathers in this world don’t always have exclusive access to the household TV. Most of the time there is Wall-E or Monsters Inc. playing on the television that is hooked up to the game systems. So the answer has always been for me to play some of my games on a portable unit. The PSP is the best portable unit for people that love games. The DS is much better for the casual gamer, GTA China Town Wars excluded, but the PSP always had the feel of being a full size system in your hands. To be able to have Gran Turismo finally come to the PSP is one of the best announcements at the 2009 E3 show in my opinion.
Not much is known about the game. It looks like there will be a good selection of cars 35 different tracks and probably many other features that we have come to love about Gran Turismo. It comes out in October, so I am guessing that there will be much more quality information coming out in the up coming months. I will be pre-ordering this game as soon as Amazon puts it up for sale. Amazon has made a link available to sign up for when the game will be available for pre-order. You can get to it by clicking below.
Nintendo released the New Super Mario Brothers game at this years E3 (2009). It is a 2d platform game that can be played with up to four players co-operatively. It looks like a good title, but I was hoping for something more like Mario Galaxy 2 because in my opinion that game was a real ground breaker. You be the judge. Here is a YouTube Video showing off the action.
This just in, Super Mario Galaxy 2! Ok, now they have my attention. You must say that Super Mario Galaxy was one of the best games ever. If there was ever to be a sequel to a game I would pick this as my choice. Way to go Nintendo.
Nintendo announced that Wii Motion plus will revolutionize the revolutionary best controller in the entire galaxy. I had the feeling from watching the press conference that it was almost hard for Nintendo to boast about this new controller add on that is built for precision after Microsoft just laid the NATAL bomb on everybody. Wii’s new controller add on is built for precision but from watching the video it seemed to work almost exactly as the old Wii remote has always worked. This left me a little confused and wondering if the Wii motion plus was not just a clever way to milk $30-40 bucks out of everybody. I was left saying to myself “great, in order to play some of the new Wii titles I will have to buy yet another piece of hardware”. I have to have the Wii Remote, the Nunchuck, the Balance Board, and now the Wii Motion plus. I am going to own more hardware than games for the Nintendo Wii system if it keeps going like this.
I just finished watching the E3 show on the new Xbox releases for 2009. They really are coming out with some great stuff. There were some decent games coming out and it was good to see Metal Gear finally hit the Xbox console, but the real news was with the new controller. That controller might just take a huge chunk from Nintendo. It looked amazing. It recognizes who you are, and allows you to interact with the screen without a controller. That will be huge for some of the games like Oblivion for instance where you come up to characters at different points in the game. Using this controller you will be able to talk directly to the characters and have them communicate back. Plus they will recognize you when they see you a second time. Very cool technology.
The other thing that I am excited for is the ability to watch a movie with your friends over Live. You can hang out and talk with them while watching a flick. That is a really cool feature that I think many people will enjoy. Also it is great to see that they will expand on the Netflix system and get rid of the need to use the computer to select movies. That has always been a bit of a problem.
I have been reading some online articles on the Sony Go. It is a cool looking device that is similar in style to the old N-Gauge system a few years back. For years I have loved my Sony PSP because it allowed be to play full console style games anywhere I want. There have been times where I have watched 3-4 movies a week on it as well. What bothers me about the new Sony Go is that it seems to take a step backward. The design is cool, but the lack of dual analog controls is a little strange. If I didn’t know better I would say that Sony was trying to compete with a cell phone rather than just making a super cool portable game unit. The beauty of the old PSP was never in its size, but in its ability to play real games, not those tiny little apps that you can get for $4.99 on Xbox live. This newly designed PSP Go looks like a cell phone without a touch screen.
I like the fact that they went to the digital download system. I think that this is the way of the future. I am thinking however that the hardware needed to be upgraded to where bigger and faster games can be played on the unit. This system seems to be just a revamped PSP with a smaller screen and slightly different controls. I think that despite my love for the PSP, this will be an upgraded version that I will skip out on buying. I will wait until it comes out to make my final judgment, but this new PSP really leaves lots to be desired and has me thinking about getting a DS sometime in the near future.
I just finished reading this e-book on my Kindle and while I was reading I couldn’t help but think what the movie might look like. It is probably the first book in a while where it plays out almost like a screenplay. The action sequences would be cool with all of today’s CGI special effects. Lets face it, we have not had a good dragon movie in a while. In fact, has there ever been a good dragon movie?
This book is $7.99 in paper and $0.00 on the Kindle. I recommend picking it up either way because overall it was a fun book to read. It would be a crazy world if dragons still roamed the earth and helped us fight our wars.
Click below to get His Majesty’s Dragon on your Kindle right now for free. I noticed that some of the free books don’t stay free for ever, so make sure that you download it today and read it the next time you get a chance. I for one will be picking up the next books of the series just as soon as I finish reading My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
If you are a fan of C.S. Lewis like I am and you have a Kindle like I do you are going to be super excited on June 2nd when four books are release on Kindle for the first time. You can pre-order The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity, and The Problem of Pain for a June 2nd delivery. I hope this is just the start of a great trend of bringing Lewis’s entire collection to the Kindle. These are some of the books that I read again and again and again. You can gain so much from reading them once, but so much more when you study the complexities of how Lewis is able to reveal complex truth in simple ways. Be sure to pre-order your Kindle C.S. Lewis books today!
I have not had a chance to talk about any of the books that I have read recently, but I decided that today I would. Recently upon getting my Kindle 2 I downloaded for free a copy of Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island. One of the great things about owning a Kindle is that the second you own it you can download many classics for free and you already have a well stocked library full of classic novels that triumph over some of today’s commercial attempts.
I really recommend reading this book. It starts off slowly, and there were times in the middle of the book that I began to get overwhelmed by the complex descriptions that Verne offers about how this band of Civil War escapees manage their life on a strange island. Verne goes into such depth that the reader can actually tell that Verne probably spent many hours in his own contemplation about what he would do if he were stranded on an island. And let me be the first to say that if I were stranded on an island I would want Jules Verne right beside me. His knowledge of the subject went further than you would expect it to and considering that the book was written in the 1870’s. The type of information that was possessed by the characters given by Verne surpasses what most people would know today. It wasn’t too far after being stranded that the band of men were making pottery, iron and planning to make guns. At one point they even knew to take small whale bones and hunt with them. These are things that are lost in today’s world of luxury.
I think the beauty of the story lies in its ability to transport you to this other place and time. As I read the book I felt as if I was back in the 1800’s trying to survive and thinking as I read, “what would I do?” It is an excellent book that could be read by young and old alike.
I read a rumor that the new Zune might offer Netflix instant viewing on the device. If that rumor is true it will be fantastic. No secret, I am a huge Zune fan. It only makes sense really. The Zune music service allows me to download all of the music in the collection for $14.99 a month. My music stays current; I get to keep 10 songs each month. Some people criticize my love for the Zune however I usually win the argument when I break it down for them this way.
I love music. I used to buy 2-3 albums on average each month at a cost of $16-20 each. I was spending $60 a month on music. Now an iPod can hold 20,000 songs. If I were to fill up that iPod legally (I do not illegally download music) then that iPod is worth $20,000, $3000 more than my latest car purchase. Instead I could use the Zune music service for 111 years and keep my music current, fresh and allow my collection to change with my tastes. One day I am into Jazz, but another I want Hard Rock. Sometimes I listed to Blues, but another time I might want something to play in the background while I study. The Zune is the way to go and I keep thinking that it is silly that people will not look at the device because it doesn’t have an apple on it. The iPod doesn’t work better, play louder or offer anything that other MP3 players do. It proves my point that people in large are followers. They also think that when they buy songs on the iPod they own that music and that they will have it forever. I guess time will tell for all of the users of the iPod, but as for me I will keep my Zune and smile to the fact that when the new albums come out I already have them.
I have been using my Kindle 2 for a little over a week now and it has already changed how I read. I have found that it is easy to read much longer and with greater focus. The screen is actually easier on my eyes than paper! I am not making this up as an exaggeration I have really been able to read more books in a shorter amount of time using this device. Now with this said you probably can tell that I am a huge fan of the Kindle. I love the device I think that even in generation 2 that they have really done a good job in providing a reading specific device that works well has tremendous battery life and will be something that I use every day until I wear the thing out.
There are a few things however that Amazon.com is missing to support the Kindle. These are not things that the Kindle is missing, but rather things that the website is missing that surprises me since Amazon.com was founded on web technology. I just sort of assumed that these features would be a part of the device and never looked into it.
There is no way to add books to your wish list. If you are like me you use your wish list as a way of helping family and friends get you gifts that you will love and not have to return or sell at a garage sale. Now that I own the Kindle 2 I want more books! It would be great if you can wish list your kindle books.
There is no way to gift books. This is sort of the same thing as #1, however if you think about it you should still be able to gift books without having them on a list. Nintendo has this figured out. I can go on my Wii, pick out an online title and gift the game to one of my friends. This is huge because there is nothing more fun that coming home to find that warm blue glow of your Wii telling you that you have a new message waiting for you. When you find that it is a new game you are overcome with excitement. I was happy to find out however that you can gift Xbox live games now and that is a step in the right direction.
Some sort of limited exchange program with your purchased books and people that are your friends on Amazon. Now this sort of thing might never happen, but it would be a cool idea. My thinking is that you could register friends that have kindles and trade/share books with them. The system could take away the copy from your kindle and give it to the registered friends kindle for a length of time like 10 days or something. Then it could return the book back to your kindle after the time is up. Again, I don’t think that they have any intention of doing such a thing but if they did however, it would be AWESOME. Maybe they could put some restrictions on the amount of time you could loan the book out or something like that. I know that my Zune allows me to do something just like this. It gives the listener 3 plays of an MP3 that is borrowed from another Zune.
Changing the screen saver options using an Amazon.com interface. It would be awesome if I could go to Amazon.com and pick out my favorite authors and have them be my screen saver when I turn the book off. I know that I can change this with the USB cable, but it would be cool if I could do this sort of change without any computer knowledge using the Amazon.com website.
There are lots of other cool features that could probably be added, but these seem to me to be a step in the right direction. As for the Kindle itself I hope that one day the Kindle DX can make research easy by allowing me to tie parts of my library together when I find parts and pieces of texts that fit with one another. Then when you open up a book for your work you would uncover all of the links to other books that might talk about the same thing or provide more information about that subject. Maybe even tie it to websites in a Wikipedia like fashion. I think some of these types of ideas could make the Kindle a reference power house.
