Their love of Gulfstream G5’s:
What is the plane of choice for a Speaker of the House? Well Nancy Pelosi prefers to fly in Gulfstream’s G-5, made famous by Jay Z and 50-Cent rap videos.
“It is my understanding there are no G-5s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable . . . The speaker will want to know where the planes are,” a Pelosi aide wrote in one of the e-mails to the military.
Simply: Time.
This is the problem with Vista. Too many security measures that become annoying. This is the problem with antivirus and firewall programs. Right now, I’m trying out COMODO firewall and while I like having the security benefits, every time I install a program it pops up a hundred messages (slight exaggeration). Vista does the same thing, hitting the “continue” box as the rest of the screen darkens.
For years I have despised antivirus programs (I’m looking at you Norton) because they hog so many resources and slow down computers.
Am I asking too much? Isn’t there a way to achieve all this, quietly in the background?
While, I can’t recommend COMODO yet, I am a huge fan of Avast! Antivirus. I can’t attest whether it is the most efficient program, but it runs well and works. Downloading torrents, it finds trojans hidden in files without me prompting.
I’m curious though, what is the best solution? Is there an all in one way to achieve all of this? (And don’t say switch to Mac.)
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This is my favorite track from tschwab, so I decided to do some minor editing with some free tools available online.
This isn’t anything ridiculous and probably not better than the original track, but a computer is like any other instrument – you can only be as good as the frequency that you practice. So this is a practice run at a tschwab/spencerb collaboration. I’m hoping after finals and after my final project to dig through the song and find some good samples. Look out for the hiphop mix dropping this spring 
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I just wanted to pass this link a long to a BBC article about the relationship between life choices and health risks. I thought it was interesting.
Enjoy. This has been at the top of my playlist all week, I can’t stop playing it, so I decided to share it.
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You can’t hear…well, but this is not promising…versus an acting career which was.
Well, this is my second to last set of final exams for undergrad. Overall, I’m pretty excited about that. But as Dan discussed in his last post, it is not exactly the best time to be graduating. Nonetheless, it certainly signifies a transition to something new. Needless to say, I will not ever be reattending an undergraduate institution after I do this. I’m taking economics degree and running with it.
A few posts ago, I offered for some Euro cents and a beer a more complete update on my thesis. To complete that promise (although having not received the goods yet), so far I have not started writing anything.
I have chosen a topic and have been collecting data this quarter. I can now say that my data set is complete. This will remain true unless running regressions and doing all the statistical work reveals that I have egregiously admitted some important variable.
Judging by the research that I have done on the literature in this subject area, this will not be the case, but we shall see.
When this 30-40 page behemoth is complete, I will certainly post my results up here!
Any given day that I decide to play TF2, I am probably play more than I should have in a week. You can ask anyone from the Middlebrook days when I forced everyone to install Team Fortress Classic (TFC). There is something so addictive and entertaining about the game that I cannot put my figure on.
For instance, I should apologize to tschwab for texting him yesterday after I felt particularly victorious in a round of cp_gravelpit, my new favorite map.
A few things to note about gravelpit: 1) play on a big server 2) your team needs some coordination to succeed. These factors are explained quite simply by the lay out of the map. It is a triangle of three capture points. You spawn with easy access to two of those points. Therefore, you have to be coordinated to cap and keep all 3, while you also need enough people to cover the large map.
Yesterday, I had an amazing round as engineer. 7 dominations in one life…as engineer. (All gloating intended.) It was strange how honestly great I felt about being so successful. So strange to think that a video game inspired such strong emotions. All I did was click a few buttons and a few keys for about an hour.
I’m not sure the point of this post, but to reflect a little. Oh yeah, play gravel pit cap A + B, then build a sentry gun in the hallway to C. If you have 2+ engineers, you can be super-aggressive and build into the hallway. Seriously, it was a lot of fun.
I’ve been using this great site to find and listen to new music. The site is called Hype Machine. If you have heard of it, I certainly would not be surprised. If you’re not using it, then you should be.
There is only a very very small subset of the population that stays on top of new music trends. And an even smaller population that finds new bands and new music before it’s big. For the rest of us, we listen to our favorite bands, classics, and try things our friends tell us about.
Hype Machine is a personal music concierge service for those of that don’t predict trends, but listen to the current trends. The site crawls the web and aggregates tracks that blogs are posting on their site. Conveniently, it streams the tracks so you can listen to them free of charge.
The great thing about HypeM is the organization system. You can listen by all blogs, the top 25 blogs, most favorited, and most listened to. Once you start listening, it will continue to stream tracks in the order that it has found them on the web. An overall, great experience.
If you aren’t a big fan of “new” music, that’s okay because Hype Machine aggregates all tracks posted on blogs, this includes bands like The Doors, Nirvana, just anything that someone has posted. If you want the new stuff, listen to the top 25 blogs and the popular tracks. There, you’ll here some great remixes and some great new bands people are listening to online.
Of course, you don’t have to like it all…that’s the great thing about music, it’s up to you. But if you do, you can favorite it to help other people know it’s a potentially good track and add it to your favorites list. If you make an account, your favorites list will be saved and you can stream it to your computer.
Go check it out.
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