Seriously, these two guys have way too much free time on their hands.

Perhaps Engadget should send these guys to do the next iPhone commercial.

If you want to see how academic research is done, you should watch this video:

Now, go read his paper and discuss this in the comments!

Acknowledgements to Dr. Nic McPhee for the pointer to this groundbreaking research

this msg was posted from my cell phone.

I just sent an e-mail to Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber who does a very cool radio show called Crap from the Past on KFAI in Minneapolis and he mentioned that I was listening on the air! I also told him about my radio days at KUMM in Morris (which he seemed to think was near Winona -- can you even pick up KUMM in Winona?) which was very cool.

He has an extensive archive of every CFTP show he's done since 1992 on his Web site. The show I'm listening to now should be available as a podcast on his site in the next day or so.

Update: I just got an e-mail reply from Ron himself:

Joey - Very cool!  I told my KUMM story on the air...

I don't have any of those three songs, but it gives me stuff to look for!

Thanks for writing!
Ron G

The three songs I requested were "Little Girls" by Oingo Boingo, "Garden Party" by Marillion, and "The Animal Song" by The Europeans. I know the first two should be fairly easy to find either on CD or online, so maybe I'll reply to Ron later about those.

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Really? You want to see more?

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I see that soltice has posted her tree. Who else is up to the challenge?

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Yes, I know this video is silly.

Here's the playlist for the HomeKUMMing radio show that Shannon and I just did:

Artist	Album	Song	N/R
Golden	Hurry Up & Wait - Album Sampler	It's Okay	
Thursday	Couting 5-4-3-2-1	Counting 5-4-3-2-1 (Radio Edit)	N
Michael W. Smith	Healing Rain	Healing Rain	
Mint	Magnetism	The Magnetism of Pure Gold	N
Powerman 5000	Destroy What You Enjoy	Destroy What You Enjoy	N
Roachford	Roachford	Cuddly Toy	
Ivor Cutler		Gruts for Tea	
J Dilla (Jay Dee)	Donuts	Track 2	
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Straight Outta Lynwood	Don't Download This Song	
Culture Club	Kissing to Be Clever	I'm Afraid of Me (Remix)	
The Walkmen	A Hundred Miles Off	All Hands and the Cook	N
4HIM	Christian Rock of Ages	Where There is Faith	
Better Than Ezra	School House Rock! Rocks	Conjunction Junction	
Ray LaMontagne	Till the Sun Turns Black	You Can Bring Me Flowers	N
Bruce Springsteen	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions	John Henry	
The Sleepy Jackson	One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird	I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree	N
Gnarls Barkley	St. Elsewhere	Just a Thought	N
Wax on Radio	Exposition	Today I Became a Realist	N
Missing Persons	Missing Persons	Mental Hopscotch	

More later.

"Finer Than Swiss Chocolate" returns to KUMM!

A special Homecoming 2006 event

Sunday, Sept. 24 @ 6-8 AM CDT

On the air @ 89.7 FM and streaming audio

on the Internet @ www.kumm.org

(Cross-posted to the ummorris community.)

I'm sitting at the JAX airport waiting for my plane to MSP, which will be leaving in about an hour!

I'll be attending UMM's Homecoming 2006 this weekend, much like I did last year. I'm excited about seeing Imholte Hall and Big Cat Stadium!

I'll leave you with a new polka medley from "Weird Al" Yankovic:


More later.

R.I.P Steve Irwin

22 February 1962-04 September 2006

DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS SONG!!!

(Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong.)

I've been playing around with GarageBand on my new iMac this weekend. My fiddling has resulted in a remix of Senator Ted Stevens' recent "Series of Tubes" speech about Net neutrality.

In addition to my adaptation of Stevens' speech, there are a couple of others out there, such as this amusing video. Thank you for inspiring us, Ted!

This is what I had on my desk yesterday afternoon:

Before My 6-year-old Compaq Presario 7AP140 desktop (Athlon/800 MHz, 512 MB RAM, 30 GB HD, DVD, CD-RW) and Lexmark Z51 inkjet printer shown with my Dell 1504FP 15" flat panel monitor.

( And this is what I have on my desk now! (pictures) )