Gas in Alabama

 

A sign of the current times for gas in Alabama.

Arsenal Back In Race on Own Goal

Bolton was up 2-0 and Arsenal were down to 10 men, but they came back on 3 goals - one from a penalty and the winner on an own goal by Bolton. Never mind, they needed the win. See this for more.

Mission to Buy Old Christian School

According to today's Times the Downtown Rescue Mission will buy the old campus of Westminster Christian Academy. See the article here. The location is on Evangel Drive in Huntsville. This puts in north of University and near Sparkman, not to me the optimal location. We will see.

Finally Looks Like Wimax Might Be Real

See this article for more. No discussion of the pricing, or if internet will be one of the products, but one would assume it will be. If this comes true then the utility of my iPod Touch has just increased multi-fold.

Huntsville to buy Mission, Complains About the Price

The City of Huntsville in order to fix a road problem is forcing the Downtown Rescue Mission to move. They agreed to buy it, but complained about the assessed price. There is a simple solution - don't buy it and don't move it. The Mission doesn't want to move. See this for more.

Howard Dean is Really Smart

You think? Dean: Bickering Democrats May Hurt Party.

Photoshop Express

Adobe has created Photoshop Express as a way to increase awareness of Photoshop. It can be found here. It is a site like Flickr, but adds some of the editing functions from Photoshop. We will give it a whirl and see what we can do.

Movie Angers Star War Fans

The movie, Fanboys is about four friends on a quest to see Star Wars - Phantom Menace before one of them dies. At least originally it was, but the movie studio edited out the dying part as it was not considered happy enough for a movie. See this article here. Now the Star Wars fan community is upset and plans revenge on the movie studio. It will be an epic battle, so buckle up and enjoy the ride.

Arsenal Loses, Season Over

Arsenal plays Chelsea this afternoon. If they lose they fall to third place, with not much of a lead on Liverpool. This is it for the Premiership.

Arsenal lost 2-1, and Man U won 3-0. Arsenal now third, barely ahead of Liverpool who they play three times early next month. Arsenal now 4 D - 1 L over last 5 games. Too many injuries and not enough movement by Wenger. It is really all on the Champions League now.

Raiders Continue to Spend Freely

The Raiders executed the trade for Hall from Atlanta. Then handed him lots of money. They have been spending like crazy this year, but if Hall can perform it is a significant upgrade in the backfield. We will see.

If This Exists I Am Going To Buy It Tomorrow

OK, the Macbook Air I really want, but when the Macbook Touch comes out I am not even waiting. I will buy it the first day it is out. It will revolutionize computing. See this.

Piling on TMZ

While it is piling on, read the comments, this article is so asinine I figured I would just do it. See this for why so many people are upset with TMZ.com. First, I don't know who the Bachelor is, but it looks like he is doing his job. Also, if the people at TMZ.com don't understand that the US government has been doing this for years they shouldn't write about it. Everyday they are trying to identify the Missing in Action (MIA) people all over th world. If you Defenselink.mil Press Releases they have recently identified people in Germany from WWII, and also in the US. They are looking hard in the South West Pacific as the terrain is terrible. The US and North Korea recently signed an agreement to work there of all places to find Korean War remains.

All I can say to TMZ.com is shut up. If you don't understand something, don't write about it.

Modern Country Music

I went to see Sugarland, Little Big Town and Joe Nichols perform. As one of their encores they all performed the Dream Academy's Life in a Northern Town; which is a classic New Wave song. To me, Country has become the new Top 40 music. It is also pretty much all of the hard rock left as well. Country today sounds like the music I listened to in the Seventies and Eighties.

Here is the Dream Academy on Saturday Night Live:

New Banditos in Huntsville

I went by the new South Parkway location of Banditos. Same good food and cast of characters, but a bigger, newer location. Go by the food is good.

David Baerwald

David Baerwald was half of David and David, a band from LA in the Seventies. They had one album.

In 1991 he released a solo album, Bedtime Stories, that was ahead of its time. It was a fin de siecle collection of songs that seem more appropriate now at the current time then they did then.

He then opened a club that led him to write an album for a women who had begun performing there - Cheryl Crow.

Since then he has contributed soundtracks to several movies.

Why am I writing this? Because his music was so good, and he made so little. Anyway it turns out one video exists on Youtube. Dance from Bedtime Stories.