Archive for February, 2004

Like Al Pacino’s…cat?

Monday, February 23rd, 2004

Someone found this site in a Google search for “al pacino cat gone like lyrics.”
Sounds like someone’s been mis-hearing their Switchfoot.
It’s interesting to see things in retrospect. I wrote that post about Switchfoot last April, lamenting that they hadn’t made much of a dent in the mainstream with their most recent album. [...]

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Jack Bristow IS Jesus!

Friday, February 20th, 2004

I know Victor Garber (aka Alias’s Jack Bristow) has had a long and varied acting career, but thanks to this article in the Onion A.V. Club I’ve just learned that he played Jesus in Godspell.
I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to see him as Sydney’s father again without imagining him in an afro, [...]

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Spam Blockin’ Puppies!

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

The latest weapon in the war on spam is, apparently, puppies.
My job requires me to email a lot of customers as a representative of different companies, so I end up changing the “From” field on my business emails a lot. This tends to trip up spam blockers, who see that the reply address and the [...]

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A Night at the Movies, old-school style

Tuesday, February 17th, 2004

In his book A Year at the Movies, Kevin Murphy (also known as Tom Servo from Mystery Science Theater 3000 waxes poetic on the dying art of silent film. Friday evening Carla and I experienced this art first hand at Merrill Auditorium during a special Valentine’s Day silent movie, accompanied by the the Kotzschmar Organ. [...]

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Digital distribution confirmed!

Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

So, I’m downloading songs for Valentine’s Day (legally, from the RealPlayer Music store), and come across the following album online, in full DRM-encased, AAC-encoded glory:

Yeah…I know…it’s RealPlayer, not one of the cool download store players like Itunes, but this is my first sighting of us on a site solicited by CDBaby, so it’s still pretty [...]

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