Oddly

I've griped previously about celebrating odd anniversaries (like the 32nd of this event or the 12th of that event) so I thought I'd join the bandwagon. Today is the 8th anniversary of my initial post about an Ideal Band. Read it here.

Power... Those Word Have Power

http://theresurgent.com/must-see-video-khizr-khan-is-the-most-powerful-moment-of-either-convention/

Christmas 2016 Wish List has an Item Already

This is beyond awesome! Master of Puppets is beyond an icon.

Boys Will Be Boys

I was surprised when I came across this video - one of my favorite punk bands of all time. I realized I don't know how to create a video like this one or, for that matter any video for a song I like. Perhaps I need to figure out how to do so since no one else has done it...

In the meantime, this is my standard warning issued about language (f-bombs) for the video below. No sensitive ears, please.

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103 Happy Tunes

The Best Way to Listen to LP?

Reactions to the DNC

http://theresurgent.com/last-night-was-ridiculous/

• This section hit a grand slam in the bottom of the 9th in game 7 of the World Series
• I got a text message from a senior Republican congressman after hearing President Obama’s speech last night. The congressman wrote, “We were supposed to make that sort of speech.” Barack Obama offered optimism and “Morning in America” to Trump’s “Midnight in America” doom, gloom, and despair.

http://theresurgent.com/a-few-thoughts-about-day-3-of-hate-america-2016-in-philly/

• Love the opening of this article:
• The Democrats, the party of secular atheists who think it is okay to crack open the skulls of children and suck out their brains while tearing them limb from limb, spent far more time during prime time television coverage talking about God and faith than the Republicans did last week.

townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2016/07/28/what-a-horrible-country-n2198810

• Agree with this analysis:
• Having Michael Brown’s mother up there was a direct slap in the face of police and the concept of law and order. He ripped off a liquor store and attacked a cop, trying to take away his gun for reasons we can only assume weren’t friendly. He was killed because of his violence against an innocent man. You can argue he didn’t deserve to die, but his actions earned it.  
• As well as this:
• “The system is rigged” shouted U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., after recounting her rise from nothing to being a millionaire. Not too rigged obviously. Warren also railed against Donald Trump for seeking profit from foreclosed properties, which just so happens to be how she made a nice chunk of her fortune. The only difference is Trump never pretended to be a minority to get a job. Maybe Warren’s Indian name should be “Whiter Than Fresh Snow”? 

townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2016/07/27/when-do-the-mothers-of-isis-speak-n2198962

• Good for Ann Coulter to chisel away lunacy and conclude her column with these words:
• Donald Trump, along with every other Republican ever to run for president, is required to repeatedly "disavow" David Duke -- someone he's never met, never mentioned, never thought of, and certainly didn't invite to speak at his convention. But Hillary invites to her convention the mother of a man whose criminality destroyed a police officer's life, tore the country apart and gave birth to a murderous cop-hating movement. Will a single reporter ask Hillary to disavow that?
•  Side note: Charles Barkley chisels away the lunacy about race in the United States when he said this, as reported here.
• Charles Barkley made some spot on points in an interview [July 12, 2016] with The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz. The interviewers kept trying to make their liberal agenda talking points to Charles but he wasn’t having it. There is no doubt that Charles has a firm grasp on this subject and those that did the interview are probably voting for Hillary or Bernie.
  “The cops have made some mistakes, but that doesn’t give us the right to riot and shoot cops. We need the cops, especially in the black community. We as black people, we’ve got to do better. We never get mad when black people kill each other, which that has always bothered me… I’ve always said if we as black people want more respect, we have to give each other respect. You can’t demand respect from white people and the cops if you don’t respect each other. We’ve got to do better as black people.”

As for me and what I thought of the DNC? I didn't watch a moment of TV last night. I ripped some CDs and taped CD booklets to the den wall as Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" played. I drummed on the Yamaha electronic set for a few minutes. Then I went to bed and slept like a rock on the bottom of a lake.

Fake It

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harry-reid-trump-fake-briefings_us_57991916e4b01180b5317f6e

Vote for My Wife!

I know it's not the same thing as what former president Bill Clinton did last night when he talked at the DNC about why his wife should be the next President of the United States, but I can't help but recall this episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. I won't spoil the episode with how it ends - so you can enjoy it too - but I can say, safely, Raymond doesn't have the same attitude about Debra that Bill does about Hillary.

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Everybody Loves Raymond Season 6 Episode 20 A... by gigabeat-g

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Compare that to the actual speech given as well as EE's summary of Bill Clinton's speech about his wife.

On my Reading List

Batman: The Killing Joke Movie Review
Spoilers for the film in the review!
http://flip.it/8K6NR

Changing the Way

Microsoft wants you to write better, stay focused and bore fewer people http://flip.it/hF_hw

Broke One

Check out @Metallica's Tweet: https://twitter.com/Metallica/status/757589838610599936?s=09

1000 Years from Now

http://www.metalsucks.net/2016/07/21/editorial-single-metal-band-will-someday-represent-metal/

Hodgey-Podgey

There are a lot of subjects in this post so hold on tight.

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) started last night and I couldn't stomach a lot of it. Instead, I chuckled when I read about how HRC believes she is held to a different standard than others. Well, duh! Here's the link.

I read this article: Tech company accuses US Navy of Software piracy - seeks 596 million in damages through lawsuit! and this is the part of the article that blew me away:

The lawsuit alleges that the software has been deployed on at least 558,466 Navy computers

Holy BUCKETS!! The Navy has to only acquire 41554 more computers to reach 600,000 computers! If there was ever an enterprise or organization that was in dire need of technical support, I've never heard of it! It's unfathomable to me that there would be that many c:\ drives within the US Navy. I would love to read their backup policy manual and understand how their system admins handle Windows and upgrades for products like Microsoft Office.

Speaking of "how their system admins handle Windows," I became aware that the free upgrade to Windows 10 expires on Friday. What this means is that I can upgrade our family laptop as well as Megan's laptop (she is running Windows 8.1) for free until Friday. After that, it will cost ~$119 to upgrade. Being what I thought was a good & cautious tech person, I started this process last night with the idea that I would create a system restore for Megan's laptop. I admit I didn't babysit the laptop as diligently as I should have but I managed to burn 7 DVDs with an 8th one in the drive this AM. There is an existing issue where I have to format the DVD-R first, then tell Windows to continue with the process of creating the system restore. I had her laptop in the den while I watched WWE in the other part of the basement.

WWE was a compelling show last night. Coming off of the PPV the night before, the show started with Mick Foley & Stephanie McMahon announcing a new "Universal Champion" for the Monday Night Raw show. They announced 8 wrestlers would fight in 2 Fatal Four Way matches and the winner of those two matches would fight in the main event and the winner of that match would face Seth Rollins at SummerSlam in August. As soon as the name "Roman Reigns" was announced and as soon as the name "Finn Balor" was announced, I knew they would win their match and would be in the main event. Balor was in NXT - the developmental league - and called up to the main roster with the draft that coincided with SmackDown becoming a live show on Tuesday nights. The Internet loves Balor and hates Reigns. I admit I thought for sure Reigns would go on to face Rollins at SummerSlam but that didn't happen - Balor won in a compelling match that told a great story. And it wasn't the only match on the show that was really good. Sasha Banks "The Boss" faced Charlotte [Ric Flair's daughter], the Women's Champion for the title and actually became the new champion. Right before the end of the match, the TV showed Charlotte saying, "You will never ever beat me" before she lunged at Banks and then was pinned. I imagine that, prior to the match and backstage, Banks and Charlotte determined that would be the cue that the match was to end. There were a couple of throwaway matches that aren't worth mentioning as well.

While I watched, I also was busy with counting out stacks of 10 CDs on my spindles. I have always put a sticky note on every 10th CD on a spindle so that I can quickly know how many CDs remain on a spindle. As I watched WWE, I worked on that. I continued with ripping my 4th spindle. With this project, I fully realize that each CD on each spindle will need to be ripped. That said, when I came across 30 of what I consider my favorite CDs, I put those at the top of my list. I came across a huge pile of Metallica CDs so, guess what, those CDs moved up to the front. It's my project, my rules, no? <grin>

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Thus far, I've created these files from the CDs on Spindle 04 (and yes, the font is set to "smallest" to avoid a super long scrolling page even though, yes, the page will scroll. Notice how many Metallica MP3s I have now ripped to MP3: 79. That's a lot!

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Y:\Music_Shell\04_Spindle\Megadeth\Rust in Peace Live\02_Hangar 18_Megadeth_Rust in Peace Live.mp3
Y:\Music_Shell\04_Spindle\Megadeth\Rust in Peace Live\03_Take No Prisoners_Megadeth_Rust in Peace Live.mp3
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Y:\Music_Shell\04_Spindle\Metallica\Reload\08_Bad Seed_Metallica_Reload.mp3
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Y:\Music_Shell\04_Spindle\Ten Foot Pole\Bad Mother Trucker
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Y:\Music_Shell\04_Spindle\Where Fear & Weapons Meet\The Weapon
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And I think that's about enough for this post.

Long Live DOS!!

http://www.howtogeek.com/263177/how-to-write-a-batch-script-on-windows/

Melania Trump's White Dress

I nearly spit out the Pepsi that was in my mouth.

If HRC is elected, will there be more articles like this?

To hear about HRC's vision for the future, try to stomach this. Here's quotes that I have chosen that, had a Republican said it, the liberal press would be all over the speaker. Here's the quote:

I want an economy that gets back to raising incomes for everybody. Most Americans haven't had a raise. I want an economy that's going to help lift millions of people out of poverty. Because, given the great recession, we have fallen back in the wrong direction.

Says the de facto leader of the Democrat party that has been in charge for 8 years.

...we know that there are Republicans who share our concerns and want to be part of the solution, not just peddling fear and bigotry.

Says the supporter of "Black Lives Matter"...

Let's separate the mass murders that we have at places like Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Aurora, Colorado, and recognize that those are rooted in the much too readily available weapons of mass killings, mostly the assault weapons, and usually some kind of underlying motivation whether it is mental health or in the case of the killer in Charleston deep racist hatred. Those are homegrown. And they have to be addressed.

It's the people, which she kind of seems to imply, before falling back on "much too readily available weapons" as the cause. If the issue being discussed was drunk driving, would this statement be changed to "rooted in the much too readily available cars"? C'MON!

And I'm not going to engage in that kind of insult fest that he seems to thrive on ... he's perfectly free to use up his own airtime and his own space to do. I'm going to talk about what he's done, how he has hurt people in business time after time after time. His vicious language against immigrants. His insulting a distinguished federal judge of Mexican heritage. His mocking a person with a disability. His really inflammatory language about Muslims, about American Muslims, about Muslims all over the world. His demeaning comments about women.

I'm not going to engage, but I'm going to do the same thing he's doing, which is to make this election not about policy, but about emotion. I sincerely think when Trump mocked "a person with a disability," I was shocked.

Hillary Clinton: Well, I didn't hear it, because I wasn't watching. But I certainly heard about it, yes.

Scott Pelley: Did you feel threatened by that?

Hillary Clinton: No, I felt sad.

Scott Pelley: Sad?

Hillary Clinton: It felt very sad, Scott. I mean-- I don't know what their convention was about, other than criticizing me. I seem to be the only unifying theme that they had. There was no positive agenda. It was a very dark, divisive campaign. And the people who were speaking were painting a picture of our country that I did not recognize. You know, negative, scapegoating, fear, bigotry, smears.

So... you didn't watch it, but you know what was said? There was a letter to the Cedar Rapids Gazette years upon years ago that claimed The Lion King proved Disney was "anti-Christian." The problem? The letter was written & published prior to the movie being released.

And that's about all I can take the time to respond to as my gag reflex has been working overtime as I wrote this post.

21 Links to Elsewhere

When I surf the Internet on my cell phone, I often see articles or videos or "something else" that intrigues me. Sometimes, I will send the link to myself in an email when I don't feel like going through the cumbersome UI of the "blogger" app on my phone - creating a link is a lot more time-consuming that I wish it was. Thus, by sending myself a link to the page, I can create a blog post when I am sitting at a PC.

However, when I have 21 such emails to create 21 such blog posts for... Eh, I'll simply create a single post and list the links.

1. http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/fox-accuses-maddow-having-meltdown-calling
2. http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/ozzy-osbourne-i-am-not-really-happy-being-sober-but-i-dont-want-to-get-drunk/
3. http://www.howtogeek.com/elk/1304/9366/24921
4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-republicans-afraid_us_57926972e4b01180b52ee802
5. Iowa City West 2016 Football Schedule
6. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMwRBtRqeh8a6hwyJSQGvdbFKgXYQasKz
7. https://www.yahoo.com/news/parents-tried-break-college-relationship-190000133.html
8. https://youtu.be/_iu5TnvEUs8
9. https://youtu.be/0vPOK_h_U48
10. https://youtu.be/4ajcNpHqCR0
11. https://youtu.be/9ZlV9dlL_rc
12. https://youtu.be/AKSHoKR05EQ
13. https://youtu.be/dgvZVZLmYyQ
14. https://youtu.be/DQsEpCaIeVs
15. https://youtu.be/HXI-Y7KmcwQ
16. https://youtu.be/iCsobZYhsNU
17. https://youtu.be/IHcqpB7fuYw
18. https://youtu.be/iLh3uX5hR8E
19. https://youtu.be/MeVuFrOO7GY
20. https://youtu.be/oe1fcX1TJ44
21. https://youtu.be/xyJZH2UPifo

Editor's Note: In the future, this post needs to be modified to convert the links to the youtube.com videos to embedded videos. This applies to items 8 - 21 above, then remove this note.

Predict the Future

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/if-the-miami-shooting-doesnt-prove-america-has-a-problem-what-will_us_5790e715e4b0fc06ec5be7aa?section=

PPV Settles ... Not a Thing

The New Day vs. The Wyatt Family: The Good, Bad and Ugly of Current WWE Feud | Bleacher Report http://teamstre.am/2aBqbYM

I have been a fan of this feud because it was a contrast in style. The New Day jokes about its opponents while the Wyatt Family scares its opponents. I agree with the point in the article about Xavier Woods in a pivotal role. However, I think he could replace the dude who is going to be on the other show. I don't think that the Wyatt Family disbands - I think X becomes the replacement member. Even if WWE isn't bold enough to make X a heel, at the very least, I predict X causes the New Day to lose.

Hello Fam

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/07/22/big-bang-theory-casts-pennys-family-for-season-10.html

Confused

Being somewhat skeptical, I wonder what hasn't been told to us following this incident and the sensational headlined article: Cops Shoot Unarmed Caregiver With His Hands Up While He Helps Man.

From what I've learned thus far, there appears to be nothing that justifies the cop shooting the man. Then again, nothing is as it seems...

Odd Anniversary

While this article is great and there's all this hoopla about Guns-n-Roses touring, it seems really strange to highlight the 29th anniversary of the release of the Guns-n-Roses debut release Appetite for Destruction and yet, - caution: the page at the other end of this link has the f-bomb on it - here it is!

Providing Context

For a long time, it has been a Republican credo* about HRC's incompetence that her "What difference does it make?" comment in the Benghazi hearings demonstrate why she is incompetent. I had read the actual context of her comments and I get her point. That's the curse I've described previously, in some other post, where I typically understand both sides to an argument. It's why I watch both Fox & MSNBC - to form my own opinion. And I'll just say this, today, 5 months, 4 weeks, 1 day, or 182 days before the next President of the United States is sworn in, I understand the point HRC was trying to make.

For some, it doesn't matter, though:

Maybe... Possibly... Hopeful... Excited!

I replied with an email indicating my interest. It'd be awesome to dip my foot in the playing drums pool again!

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Hateful

Social media gives people insanity. I'd like to think it was that insanity that allowed the writer discussed in the article to know that he would never be in the same room as Pat Smith, who, by the way, lost her son in the Benghazi attack. Whether you believe something could have been done or not to prevent Benghazi, NO ONE deserves to have this said about a grieving mother.

Read more here.

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Editor's Note: Details about the apology that was issued are here.

With an Eye on 2020

Ted Cruz did not endorse Donald Trump at the RNC. Think he wants that to bite him in the a$$ in 2020?

Issues

There I was, at 6 AM, looking at our water heater. I am a technical writer. I write about technical things, but I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be, a technical person. I can't even begin to describe how hopeless one feels when you are looking at a contraption, like a water heater, and have absolutely ZERO idea what to do. All I know is my shower was cold and that really sucks.

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I called the plumber that installed it at 6:15 AM, cleared out the majority of the storage room where the water heater is located, and came to work. I am hoping to get a phone call soon.

Editor's Note: Take comfort in the fact that this is the first time, in the history of this blog, that you needed a tag called "water heater issues." What is not shown in the photos above is that it was installed on 4-8-2010 so it lasted 6 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days or 2296 days, without an issue. That's longer than you've been sober by 8 months, 3 weeks, 2 days!

More Speech Drama

I would like to suggest "somebody" get the transcripts for Michelle Obama's speech and for Trump's speech and put them into separate MS Word documents. There is a feature that allows the user to compare two different documents - it's quite remarkable. I have used it countless times over the last 21 years, 5 months, 1 week, 2 days that I've worked as a technical writer.

Somebody please compare the two transcripts and point out exactly what percentage of words in the same order exist in both speeches. I can't say that "no one has done this yet" because, frankly, I don't really care enough about either M. Obama or M. Trump to do an exhaustive Google search to find out.

I have other issues to deal with this AM, which will be explained in my next post.

And yet, after reading Ann Coulter's article, it really seems like the obvious task that needs to be done.

Popped into My Head

I didn't hear this song on Rock 108... I didn't hear it on 100.7... I don't listen to any country radio stations... There is NO REASON that I should have this song in my head and yet, there it was.

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Leia is an only child

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jj-abrams-major-star-wars-opening-crawl-error_us_578cd70ce4b0a0ae97c28c6e

Fork It, it's Done

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/take-break-rnc-clinton-emails

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Editor's Note: But... it's not done.  http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/07/20/video-hillary-lies-to-charlie-rose-about-comey-rebuke-n2194737

Sick of Yptyps

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Editor's Note: Yptyps = Typos

The Number of the Beast

For the first time ever, I published 666 posts in a single year. I took the screen capture below after I published the previous post:

Whenever I see that number, I think of Iron Maiden!

Scary Bugs

Yesterday, I encountered a scary bug in my bank's online system. Here's what happened.

1. I reconcile my bank account with an Excel file very routinely and when I had done so in the morning, the account balances were fine.
2. In the afternoon, I went to my bank's online system and viewed my account balance - I had paid a few bills and wanted to see if they had cleared. For this example, my balance was 1.
3. I went to look at the details of my account and the information was very strange. While the account balance was correct at the top of the page, the actual balance showed a huge negative number.
4. I stopped at my bank on the way home and spoke with a personal banker. She read an email she had received that day between when I had checked my balance in the morning and when I had checked my balance in the afternoon and saw the out-of-whack discrepancy. I was never more relieved to hear there was a bug in the system that they were aware of and were working to resolve.

Editor's Note: This message now displays on the Detail page:

Pseudo-Crime

Supposedly, Donald Trump's wife gave a speech that used a lot of the same words in the same order as Michelle Obama's speech did a long time ago. MSNBC jumped all over this "issue" which this article calls a pseudo-issue. The pseudo-issue, according to this article, "The possibility that Ms. Trump’s remarks had been plagiarized cast a cloud over the second day of the Republican National Convention.

I say there should be a truce called. Republicans will stop talking about Hillary's emails if the Democrats stop.

Stop what?

Every thing they are doing. Just stop.

Yes, it's a deal too terrible to accept, but maybe the focus of the nation would be able to locate the many issues our country faces and be able to fix them. The fact that my search below turned up 1,220,000 results is sickening.

Beautiful Morning

This is what I saw right before walking in the door a little while ago... Thanking God for all that He has bestowed and blessed me with.

Accepting the Consequences

Good for Castro - I respect that he said that he thought he was okay, but when told that he was not okay, he didn't say that the findings were part of a right wing conspiracy.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/19/watchdog-huds-castro-violated-federal-law-by-touting-clinton-in-interview.html

Highlight of the Night

From the video below, it is this moment that I love almost as much as John Cena trying to give the wrestlers in the ring direction.

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This Makes Me Sick

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/07/19/google-takes-down-mans-blog-erasing-14-years-work.html

Making a backup now...

Matter of Time

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2016/07/19/riders-are-getting-injured-on-los-angeles-tower-glass-slide.html

Suing For the Past

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/07/19/dozens-wrestlers-sue-wwe-over-neurological-injuries.html

I'm a Star Wars Geek, but THIS is INSANE

From this article, I just learned something:

Did you know, the Death Star can actually travel at lightspeed?
It has 123 individual generators, controlled by 1 navigation matrix. That’s how it was able to follow the Falcon, traveling from Alderaan to Yavin in a few hours.

Who figured that out? How is that known by the author? It baffles me the way the Star Wars Expanded Universe has filled in backstories for a fictional universe "in a galaxy far, far away" and is able to "know" facts like this?

Han Solo was in the Imperial Navy. He didn't want Chewbaaca around initially.

What the hell?

Keep IP Safe

http://www.redstate.com/setonmotley/2016/07/19/add-intellectual-property-protection-list-rights-government-eviscerating/

Intrigued

Last night, I saw this on Craigslist:

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We are Solid Shot a Waterloo,Iowa band. We are a classic rock band that plays 70's rock. We are playing Aug 12 and Aug 13 a Dubuque casino benefit. We are looking for a fill in rock and roll drummer to play these shows.You can contact Brian or email me. https://www.facebook.com/SolidShotRock/?fref=ts&pnref=story

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Deth Coming Around

I already sent a text to my friend Kevin to see if he'd be interested in seeing Megadeth, Amon Amarth, Suicidal Tendencies, Metal Church, and Havok in Moline, IL, at the iWireless Center on Friday, October 7, 2016.

Megadeth, Amon Amarth, Suicidal Tendencies, Metal Church + Havok 2016 U.S. Tour Dates:

09/20 – Casper, Wyo. – Casper Events Center
09/22 – Las Vegas, Nev. – The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
09/25 – San Bernardino, Calif. – Knotfest (Amon Amarth only)
09/27 – Seattle, Wash. – WaMu Theater
09/28 – Eugene, Ore. – Matthew Knight Arena
09/29 – San Jose, Calif. – City National Civic
10/01 – Broomfield, Colo.- 1st Bank Center
10/03 – Council Bluffs, Iowa – Mid America Recreation & Conv. Complex
10/04 – St. Paul, Minn. – Roy Wilkins Auditorium
10/05 – Hoffman Estates, Ill. – Sears Centre
10/07 – Moline, Ill. – iWireless Center
10/08 – Milwaukee, Wis. – UWM Panther Arena
10/09 – Detroit, Mich. – Joe Louis Arena
10/11 – Bethlehem, Pa. – Sands Bethlehem Event Center
10/12 – Worcester, Mass. – DCU Center
10/13 – Uncasville, Conn. – Mohegan Sun Arena
10/14 – Newark, N.J. – Prudential Center
10/16 – Camden, N.J. – BB&T Pavilion


http://loudwire.com/megadeth-u-s-tour-amon-amarth-suicidal-tendencies-metal-church-havok/

Awesome

There's No JMcD in My Life

For me, an old guy of 46, the phrase "alternative music" started back when Nirvana burst onto the scene with Nevermind, but then I think about my freshman year at Mount Mercy College and Jennifer McDermott, my friend that was from the Chicago area. She let me listen to the Violent Femmes and the Buzzcocks and Ministry and Erasure along with a slew of bands I can't remember at the moment. These were all bands I had never heard of until I met Jennifer. I still think about Jennifer's lasting impression upon me whenever I heard "Blister in the Sun" or played it in Uncle Rico.

All that to say that there are Alternative Press Music Awards on a yearly basis. As I look over the list below, I have heard of some of the bands - Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy - and I have never heard of some of the bands - Twenty One Pilots, Too Close To Touch - among them. I can say I saw State Champs open for Bayside in concert so I'm at least marginally hip! <grin> I probably need to immerse myself within the list below, especially Black Veil Brides since their drummer won the "Best Drummer" award and get reacquainted with the genre.

It makes me a little sad that there's no Jennifer McDermott in my life to help me on this new quest. I haven't seen or spoken to her in over 20 years. It was like she was in my life and then she was not. I hope she is doing well. I can see her dark red hair and thick black rim glasses in my mind and it makes me smile. She probably looks nothing like that now...

So, without further delay, these are the 2016 award winners.

• ARTIST OF THE YEAR Twenty One Pilots
• ALBUM OF THE YEAR Blurryface Twenty One Pilots
• SONG OF THE YEAR "Hallelujah," Panic! At The Disco
• BEST MUSIC VIDEO "Emperor's New Clothes," Panic! At The Disco
• BEST VOCALIST Patrick Stump, Fall Out Boy
• BEST GUITARIST Jack Fowler, Sleeping With Sirens
• BEST BASSIST Skyler Acord, Issues
• BEST DRUMMER Christian Coma, Black Veil Brides
• BEST LIVE BAND Neck DeepBEST UNDERGROUND BAND Too Close To Touch
• BREAKTHROUGH BAND State Champs
• BEST INTERNATIONAL BAND You Me At Six
• ARTIST PHILANTHROPIC
  Jake Luhrs of August Burns Red for HeartSupport 
• MOST DEDICATED FANS The Ghost Inside
• HONORARY AWARDS:
  
  • ICON AWARD
    
    • Marilyn Manson
      
  • OFF THE WALL AWARD
    
    • Yellowcard
      
  • CLASSIC ALBUM AWARD
    
    • Good Charlotte for The Young And The Hopeless

Maybe No One

Paul Ryan's 'white' selfie with interns shows lack of diversity in Washington? Am I supposed to confess now that I am a bad White person if I didn't recognize that the picture was a symbol of (apparent) racism and had to read the article to learn how awful that picture is? The article says "The picture racked up more than 5,000 comments on Instagram, far more than any of Ryan’s other photos."

Am I really supposed to believe that there was a dedicated effort to reject a minority application for an internship?

What kind of a nation do I live in? Am I supposed to apologize if a minority didn't want to apply to have an internship? That's my fault? Really? If I answer that question... wait, can I even answer that question without invoking outrage from minorities? 

Here's the article that started this line of thought: http://flip.it/tb8m9

John Cena Monologue

UnIdeal

I wanted to capture the reaction my friend and former co-worker Jeremy's reaction to the following ad on Craigslist:

"That person will never play out..."

I didn't send a reply to the poster because I don't even know what "ambient, rock, and jazz fusion" even means. And I'm also not really interested in writing music that would be influenced by "movie scores and soundtracks, specifically those in horror, sci-fi, and thriller films."

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Hello. I play electric bass guitar. I'm nearly 40 years old, and I've been playing for over half of those years. I have quality equipment, and have a good grasp of music theory and technique. I'm interested in working on original songs with other musicians (I'm really looking for a synthesizer/keyboard player and a drummer who are intrigued by similar styles of music, but I'll jam with anyone on any instrument if our interests are in common). I'm interested in writing songs that are memorable and get stuck in the head. I'm heavily influenced by movie scores and soundtracks, specifically those in horror, sci-fi, and thriller films. I'm also into ambient, rock, and jazz fusion. If anyone is interested in getting together to see what kinds of sounds we can come up with, please contact me. Thanks for reading.

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So, basically, this is tagged with "Ideal Band" because it's the opposite of what I want to do in a band.

Fan-made Trailer

Use Me

Making It

The Foo Fighters must now, officially, be declared rock stars as they were on the game show "Jeopardy" as its own column.
http://radio.com/2016/07/15/foo-fighters-jeopardy-category/

Feeding the DNC Beast

There's this perception that Donald Trump is mean-spirited when it comes to women. When he says something like what he said last night, I can sense the beasts in the Democratic National Committee are salivating, imagining the damning ads they can create just by using his own words against him. On "60 Minutes" he opened his mouth and said that it was okay for his running mate, Mike Pence, to vote against the Iraq War but not HRC.

What?

Yep, seriously.

Here's the article.

Editor's Note: From this post forward, the "idiots" label will be used when Donald Trump or HRC says something that makes me think of Debra Barone.

The Best Parts of The Walking Dead

I've mentioned Trevschan2's youtube.com channel before, but I don't embed all of his videos. I really like this one, though, as it traces through "the best parts" of the series. I really like his analysis.

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And, with the season 7 premier happening in October, I am going on record. This is my FINAL prediction about who Negan kills. I am predicting the following. I think there will be two deaths in the season 7 premier. I am making the following an unordered list because I don't think it matters who is killed first:

• Abraham
• Glenn

The other contenders were Rick, Daryl, and Michone.

• Rick is still too central of a character to be killed. 
• Daryl would be too obvious because of the "Riding with Norman Reedus" series that has been on AMC. 
• Michone is too obvious as well. I think Negan's group using part of her hair on the row of chained walkers that Rick's group encountered in the finale for season 6 is a bait-and-switch tactic.

Frankly, I don't care who they kill off. I am just anxious to see the premier of the new trailer - rumored to be this Friday - and then the season premier in October.

Best of Charlie & The Big Bang Theory

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152 days Away

Rogue One is going to tell the story of the events between Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope. It is being released on December 16, 2016. How cool is this video below and the poster for the movie that you can see here.

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End of an Era Until 12

Wide awake @ 6 AM on a Sunday. This is likely the last Sunday morning where I will wake up in my house until another 11 Sundays have passed - I just looked at my calendar.  It will be the 12th Sunday from today - October 9th - before I will wake up in my house on a Sunday. Between camping in Elkader & UNI home football games, that's going to be my schedule.

That's enough to make me sigh deeply.

Infectious 30 Seconds

This video is like eating a potato chip - you can't just listen to it once.

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Brilliant

I read the article below and I'm going to go with it's a good idea to balance between the facts and hyperbole, but I also think that HRC can't really lecture anymore about telling the truth. She has no credibility.

This is kind of twisted but maybe America does need HRC to be President. Hear me out. If she does make our country worse than now, I would love to see the 2020 campaign highlight the last 12 years (most believe that HRC is a 3rd term for the Obama administrationand, which is where I get 12 years). The Republicans can make "what has been done to make life easier for me?" their focus.

Here is my take on the election today.

I really don't think Donald Trump will be a good president. Then again, I know that there is a big difference between candidate and elected. A lot is said that sounds great but it's doing it that is tough. And when I saw the HRC campaign ad where Trump says that he uses himself as a resource and the other one where he says he watches TV to get information about the world... She has him by the jockstrap.

All this to say that the HRC campaign is going to hammer out of Trump a lot of the policy he's not going to be ready to explain. And shouting "Crooked Hillary" isn't a strong strategic plan.

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/clinton-set-troll-rnc-so-hard-better

Was

Mike Pence's agenda? To take control of your womb http://flip.it/LuWGO

News

http://screencrush.com/walking-dead-season-7-poster-comic-con-2016/

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Go behind the scenes of a rebellion built on hope with the cast and crew of #RogueOne: A Star Wars Story.https://t.co/FHPdlVhdq4

— Star Wars (@starwars) July 15, 2016

Trying Not to Cry

I'm not going to dwell about what happened yesterday because I don't have time to break down and bawl like I really want to so I'll keep this short. There was an asshole who drove a semi into a crowd of pedestrians in Nice, France. I admit that I didn't know where that was until Karen showed me that this apparent terrorist attack took place in a town that is 5 hours away from where my son is RIGHT NOW! On Fox News, a talking head stated that he had heard rumblings that there could be another terrorist attack in Germany. Alex flies out of Germany on Monday!

As I said, I'm not going to dwell much about this. I've been on my knees as I prayed for his safe return. This really is mind-numbing and I'm somewhat glad I have a due date for something at work so I can attempt to focus on that instead of the fact that my son is in Europe and there are bad things happening.

I do not mean to sound selfish when I write about Alex and wanting his safe return. There are ~300 kids from Iowa on the trip with him and, of course, the death count at this moment is 80. Of course, I want all of the kids on the IAM trip to return safely and of course I feel sympathy for the victims and their families. It came across earlier today that there were two Americans among the 80 killed - a father and a son.

Fucking terrorist bastards...

Editor's Note: No apology forthcoming for the use of the f-word above - judged appropriate for the situation. Additionally, while the world will come together and mourn for the lives lost in Orlando, San Bernardino, and Nice, it will not come together to mourn for the lives lost in the abortion clinics. Nearly 1 Million Babies Killed By Planned Parenthood Last Year According to Abortion Giant has the horrific details.

Don't Be Distracted by the Facts

http://www.billoreilly.com/b/Staff-Column:%A0%A0Race-and-Crime,-Facts-and-Emotion/-655624020003303927.html

Share the Phone and PC

This article deals with how to unify your PC and Android phone for seamless notifications sharing and more. I need this.

Honoring the Dead by Blaming Them and Target Bathrooms

Two topics that are related only because they seem to represent policies the Democrats endorse.

• Because of the content at the other end of this link, I am compelled to repeat the warning at the top of the destination page:
  OBSCENITY WARNING: Extensive use of profanity in the quoted BLM tweets.
  Here's the link: http://humanevents.com/2016/07/13/hillary-honors-dead-cops/
• There was outrage recently when Target declared you can use the bathroom that you want. Erick Erickson ranted about what that would mean and was then called a bigot and a terrible person (those are my words, not actual quotes) because he refused to support Target's initiative. Liberals proclaimed that this move would be welcoming to those who are men but "identify" as women and vice-versa. When concerns about perverts using this policy to exploit their perversion, EE was told he was being mean. Well, it now appears he was right because in Idaho, a man who identifies as a woman took pictures in a women's dressing room. Read about it here.

Motionless in White

So, when Korn & Breaking Benjamin show up for their concert on 9/27 in Cedar Rapids, IA at the U.S. Cellular Center, they will have this band as one of the opening acts. I'm not super-duper familiar with their tunes and after listening to the video below, I'm not convinced I want to be, but I'm not convinced I wouldn't want to see them in concert. Alex, for his part, is super stoked about the possibility of seeing them in concert. I would be more interested in seeing Breaking Benjamin (at this point) than any of the other 3 bands (Silver Snakes is the 4th band that is on the bill and they opened for Bring Me the Horizon in Clive, IA, back in May).

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All this to say the jury is still out.

Donald... Shut your Mouth!

I read a damning article yesterday about what it would take for Donald Trump to win in November. The gist of the article was that he needs to not speak and let HRC destroy herself. Every time he opens his mouth, he says "something" that is more controversial than the last thing that he said in front of a microphone. Last night was no exception. On Fox News, he said, "I'd like to say I know what it is like to be black because the GOP oppressed me during the Primary season." I don't know if that's a tactic someone told him he needed to try or if he was speaking off the top of his head or some secret option #3. My take on it, though, is that if he would follow the advice of that article, he may have a chance. I suppose next he's going to say that he knows what it's like to be Mexican because he ate a taco... oh wait, he did say something along those lines back in May, on or shortly before Cinco de Mayo.

Never mind.

He just needs to be silent. And quit arguing with a Supreme Court justice!

Editor's Note: It never fails. Click Publish come across another relevant article. Here it is: Donald Trump explained in just one sentence...

Resolving Issues

It's probably gone by now, but this is the URL for the below screen capture.

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Really?

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/pokemon-go-porn-pornography-google-netherlands-uk-canada-a7134136.html