I received a DVD copy of “A Hard Days Night” for my birth­day last week and finally got around to watch­ing it tonight. Back when I was grow­ing up you were either The Bea­t­les fan or a Rol­ing Stones fan, but rarely both. I liked The Bea­t­les. In junior high school I wanted to be one of them, I wore pointy boots and grew my hair into a mop top. I bought all their records and prac­ticed a Liv­er­poo­lian accent behind the closed door of my bed­room. No mat­ter how good their music was, if they were just break­ing into the busi­ness now, they’d have a rough go of it. At least until they could get their teeth fixed. George’s were dead grotty.

Bought a set of wipers at KMart a while back and I had a chance to use them on a misty morn­ing drive to work today. They left streaks! Look­ing through the wind­sheild after a pass made it look like the side of a vinyl LP (you remem­ber those things, where music came from before CDs) only with lots of glare. Of course the pack­ing and receipt are long gone, so I guess I’ll just go some­where else and spend another $12 on another pair.

For $90 a night you should get a bet­ter TV than one that is 19″ and slightly out of focus and a bonus of adding snow to the pic­ture above chan­nel 24 with a num­ber­less remote con­trol that the only way to get from chan­nel 17 to chan­nel 39 is to push the up but­ton 21 times.

For $90 a night you should get more than one oper­at­ing ice machine on the sec­ond floor all the way in the back for a 100 until place.

For $90 a night you should not get a toi­let that rocks back and for so much that it threat­ens to dump you on the floor when you lean over to get some toi­let paper.

It’s Pink Eye — stay away from my blog — it’s contagious.

Is it my imag­i­na­tion, but does it seems like Friends is just going through the motions at this point? I watched tonight’s episode and it was like I’d seen this all before, not this episode necce­sar­ily, but this feel, Sein­feld in it’s last cou­ple of years had it too. Sure the char­ac­ters are still like­able, but it seems like it has been done.

Down­load­ing some music off the net for some­one. Down­loaded a whole album from sev­eral sources and burned it to a CD. While lis­ten­ing to my newly pirated music I am sur­prised to find track 5 has got sev­eral beeps and clicks in it. How annoy­ing. You just can’t trust thieves to get it right. Now I have to go get that song from a cou­ple of dif­fer­ent sources and lis­ten to each one to make sure it isn’t the bad song prop­a­gated elsewhere.

A friend let me bor­row his scan­ner so I could try it out. I stum­bled on some slides a while ago and thought it nice if I dig­i­tized them. This Scan­ner comes with a “light lid” that allows you to do slides. Instead of illu­mi­nat­ing from the bot­tom, the lid lights the slide from the top allow­ing it to be scanned. When I got it all hooked up I ran a test scan of a piece of paper.…YIKES, it’s loud. Ran Donna right out of the room. I have an older Microtek Scan­maker III at work that I thought was noisy, but this thing makes that one sound pos­i­tively silent. I’ll try some slides in the next day or two and let you know with another rant if they stink.

Friend gave me a CD to copy for him, “Barry White, All-Time Great­est Hits.” I find it hard to beleive that a CD from 1994 could be copy pro­tected. Maybe it is just my CD burner or soft­ware, but I could not copy the disc, nor could I rip the tracks to MP3s. Thee is more than one way to skin a cat, so off to the ‘net I go. There it is the whole CD as one MP3 file, 69Meg, no prob­lem for Mr. DSL. Once down­loaded I went to use the wave edi­tor to break it back into seper­ate songs and lo and behold there are 19 songs in the file. Funny the liner notes I have say should be 20. Not only that but track 19 ends 2/3 of the way through. Did some­one just get tired of rip­ping? And of course there are now like 6 copies of this 95% com­plete com­plila­tion out there.…

Stum­bled onto Robo­cop last night and started watch­ing it. When they went to a com­mer­cial I start­ing surf­ing again and real­ized what cable chan­nel I had been on, AMC. Am I los­ing my mind or did Amer­i­can Movie Clas­sics use to show movies with out com­mer­cial inter­rup­tion? And now they have com­mer­cials! Well even if I wrong about the com­mer­cial thing, I still have a rant here, Robo­cop is not a Classic.…

I don’t have the typ­i­cal gripe about the 15 clocks I have to change. I’m sure some folks have more, some less, but all just as aggra­vat­ing. I don’t like it for the same rea­son I don’t like fall as a sea­son — it means win­ter is com­ing. Cold wood floors, dry, itch­ing skin, top up on the convertable…

Some­how my mother-in-law started receiv­ing Rolling Stone Mag­a­zine. Hey, she’s 72 and seems to get quite a few things she doesn’t remem­ber order­ing. Need­less to say, she just passes it to me because she isn’t inter­ested. Issue 909 has a one page bit on the 10 things that piss him off. 1 Radio is not even worth lis­ten­ing to “I don’t really give a fly­ing fuck about any of it. I’ve tuned out…

Right on, brother Tom. Read the rest of the arti­cle here: Tom Petty Is Pissed