Radiohead, In Rainbows.
I downloaded the just-released CD of Radiohead's newest album, In Rainbows. They offered it online as a preorder for both the download version and the box set. The interesting part? Radiohead let their interested fans choose how much they wanted to pay for the album. Since Radiohead is not currently signed to a label or a contract, the move is intended to drive traffic to their site and to obviously generate a buzz in doing so.
While many people will clearly freeload and take the album for free (which isn't so bad for them anyway), many will pay something to the artists for their work. In fact, I theorize that many indie rock fans and hipsters will argue over who paid more for the album.
You can check it out here. Pay something or don't pay at all, but definitely check it out. It's mellow, though I'm not sure what to compare it to.
New iPod.
I had a $200 gift certificate to OneCall.com from PokerStars sitting around, and I eventually decided to spend it on a new blue iPod Nano that plays video. Looks pretty decent and shaped in a more aesthetically pleasing way as well as probably being more comfortable in an armband when I'm working out or running. We'll see if the video gets any usage in the gym; I can't imagine I'd use it anywhere else.
Indians!
Ah Joe Borowski, you are awesome. And by awesome, I mean please suffer a debilitating injury in a major car accident before we play the ALCS.
Booya!
Pathetic.
FLY IT, BABY!
The Cubs are pathetic. $200 million+ in added payroll couldn't buy you a single game in the playoffs.
Now, time to hedge my 50:1 Diamondbacks win the NLCS bet.
Tribe WINS!
Going to NYY up 2-0 yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus
Let's go D-Backs let's go *clap clap*
Let's go Diamondbacks! I may or may not have a substantial bet on them at 50:1, a bet I made preseason at the Venetian in Las Vegas.
One down, two to go. Brandon Webb is the man.
Power outage, part 3
Remember this? The apartment management called me and told me they'd credit my account for $427 for next month's rent.
Booya!
(Of course, the sick thing is that's not even half my rent in a 2 bedroom place in a non-desireable area of Seattle)
This is why I hate politics.
Hillary Clinton Proposes $5,000 'Baby Bond
“I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to make that down payment on their first home,” she said.
The New York senator did not offer any estimate of the total cost of such a program or how she would pay for it. Approximately 4 million babies are born each year in the United States.
I read total idiocy like this and I wonder how the fuck the American people are so stupid to think that this could possibly be a good idea. It makes me really, really dislike Democrats for being even more retarded than Republicans, which is one hell of an acheivement in today's society.
If that story makes you angry, you probably shouldn't read this:
“I think it's a wonderful idea,” said Rep. Stephanie Stubbs Jones, an Ohio Democrat who attended the event and has already endorsed Clinton. “Every child born in the United States today owes $27,000 on the national debt, why not let them come get $5,000 to grow until their 18?”
And people wonder why libertarians like me and !['[info]']('http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif')
ikilled007 have been buying gold and investing in foreign markets since 2001. This country is being run into the ground by socialists who have little to no grasp on the most important subject in the world: Economics.
I suppose none of this should be surprising, since every other major nation goes down this self-destructive path, but it pisses me off that I'm living here while it happens.