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The show my mom was interviewed for, NOW on PBS, is set to air tonight.

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We just bought new printer cartridges, printed about 6 pages of color and look at those levels! Once these cartridges go bad (probably sometime next week) I am trashing the stupid printer and going back to the HP DeskJet we bought five years ago. I will never buy another Epson in my life!

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To make a long story short: Rachel and I recently bought Firefly (thanks to her brothers) and loved it.

In anticipation of the Firefly movie, Serenity, coming out soon, I joined the Browncoats, the Serenity fan club. I am shamelessly asking for some help with it, though. I need 8,000 credits for these shirts and can earn points by recruiting new members. So go signup! Besides the fact that you are helping me out, it is probably the coolest club on the internet. Make sure you sing up via my link, otherwise I won’t get the 50 credits.

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I have been checking Amazon on a regular basis for the release date of Arrested Development Season 2 and today was my lucky day, October 11th will be a great day.

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I have been reading The World is Flat on and off for quite a while now and recently read about all the amazing things UPS can do. This morning I experienced it first hand. Rachel ordered a belt from J. Crew last week and had it shipped to our apartment. We have been at work in the afternoon on their first two attempts to deliver. We only get three chances and then it gets sent back to the sender (after a brief holding period somewhere in KC - I’ve been once and don’t want to go back). So I called, talked to a nice lady (probably in India - another thing I learned from the book) and they are now shipping it to Rachel’s parents’ house and it will be there Tuesday. Amazing.

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Google released Google Moon today, it’s just like Google Maps, but of the moon.

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I got the new Son Volt album today on Dual Disc today and have so far been unimpressed. For one, I don’t care too much about watching the DVD content, I just want to put the songs onto my iPod. I don’t like the idea of buying albums from iTunes because I never actually own the physical good of the CD. The biggest problem I have with the Dual Disc format is that it breaks the standard CD format, which means the Dual Disc doesn’t work in all CD players, like my G5 iMac. From the reading I have done on the web, it looks like the Dual Disc is a bit thicker than a standard CD, and the iMac doesn’t know how to handle it.

To get the audio to my iPod I had to import the CD to my Dad’s computer and then zip up the wp-content and use YouSendIt to get it to my computer.

I have only listened to the first few songs so far and it sounds pretty good. In unrelated research, while reading about the new album, I saw that Dave Bryson, of the Counting Crows, plays drum on this album.

UPDATE: Don’t quote me on this being the same Dave Bryson as in the Counting Crows. I should have done more research, but I watched the other side of the DVD and this Dave doesn’t look too much like the one from CC.

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My mom was interviewed for the PBS television program NOW regarding Kansas’ underfunding of women’s health clinics (I think) . She thinks the episode will air July 29th, so set your Tivos.

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Rachel and I went to see Fantastic 4 last night. I enjoyed the movie, but as Rachel says, I enjoy EVERY movie.

Willie Wonka comes out next week and Scott is going to take us to see it on the IMAX.

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We are on our way over to Rachel’s parents’ house to celebrate the 4th of July in just a few minutes, but I have enough time to share my latest masterpiece. Last Thursday I found the music to Woody Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land and decided it was easy enough to learn in time for the 4th. So here it is, This Land is Your Land.

I especially wanted to learn a few Guthrie tunes after reading that Woody penned the following words on a songbook he sent to listeners in the late 1930’s:

‘This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.’

In the spirit of the quote above, I say the same about my recording, except I say it with a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. Enjoy.

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