Archive for April, 2008
A question of restaurant etiquette
Please tell me how you would deal with the following situation.
I went to lunch with two co-workers the other day. A nice Chinese restaurant in Chinatown. We all look through the menus and it takes a while for everyone to reach a decision. A lot of options.
As the waiter comes over, [...]
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Political Conspiracy Theory … Testicles
Category: News and Politics
I have a distasteful conspiracy theory. And you’re going to think I’m crazy. But imagine this (sorry to my Republican friends). Imagine this:
A room full of powerful men. The Vice President, lobbyists, businessmen all gathering at an exclusive country club. They sit around and talk about the [...]
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Food – Gary Young MySpace Blog
Food
Category: Food and Restaurants
Haagen Daaz green tea ice cream. I never stood a chance.
When’s the last time you were barefoot in the grass.
NEWS AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING? Al Sharpton said he and protestors were going to shut down NYC over the verdict in the Sean Bell case. Black man shot by police early [...]
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Race and Isms, Part 2
in a loose way, this is related to last night’s blog.
so, there was a woman … the woman pregnant with twins shot in the stomach during a bank robbery.senseless. infuriating. she survived.
lost her twins today.
aol.com news page. comments section
1. “I hope they kill the scumbag who did this”
expected. but then…
2. “I [...]
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Race and Isms
Hey, e’rybody.
APOLOGIES (written a few nights ago)Sorry about that blog craziness last night. If you’re seeing a bunch of entries listed it’s because I had some myspace troubles last night. Every time I tried to post the blog I’d get a server error. So out of frustration I kept trying. And myspace kept [...]
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New Things
Category: News and Politics
NEW THINGSI’m trying out a few new websites:
http://www.mint.com An online money management web site. Pretty. Easy to set up, easy to use.
http://virb.com/garyarthuryoung Imagine myspace but pretty, clean, made for you to customize and without all of those annoying, demoralizing ads and spam. A beautiful site for your beautiful music, art, [...]
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Melodyne D.N.A.
Category: Music
I dedicate this blog to you, Stan.
“What doesn’t work in theory can still work in reality.”
- That German guy
Remember the sexiness of the Melodyne plug-in? Well, prepare to be amazed, all you computer music geeks! I thought this was an April Fool’s Day joke but it’s for real.
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Turns out that I uploaded the accompaniment of “Amazing Grace” and not the … you know. The rest of the stuff. Thanks, Tony, for looking out.
I’ll be uploading that in a bit. After dinner.
You know what it could use? Vocals and a soaring horn solo.
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New song: “Amazing Grace”
Our family celebrated my (maternal) grandmother’s 90th birthday yesterday. There were a lot of people there. We had a program with songs and poems and tributes. I was asked to play a tune and I chose “Amazing Grace” because it’s one of Grandma’s favorites and one of mine.
I decided to put together [...]
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The McCain Girls?!
This is partly funny, part surreal, part traumatizing. From the RiffTrax blog.
RiffTrax had nothing to do with this political ad
McCain Girls Update
Is it McCaining with you?
I’d just put the videos here myself but I can’t top the commentary and time-marked highlights.
-g
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