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Hey everybody! Last night I saw an ad for Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad - on Muchmusic! They're holding a Marathon on this Saturday the 13th. Just passing that note along to anyone who might be interested. If anything, check out the opening (which is in English anyways) - it's a fun little ditty. (Or you can just see the clip on YouTube, like just about anything these days. :P)
Speaking of anime, wow - the "Abundance of Savings" deal over at Right Stuf has been ended prematurely. I can understand why. :P
I just saw the video for a game called LittleBigPlanet - this video and this one shows off what you can do with the creation tools in-game, and then play with them using teamwork. It looks incredibly cute and fun, but I wonder how it works when you're all by your lonesome.
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About two weeks ago, I watched an episode of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. The episode in particular was "Bell Maker", where he helped create a bell (complete with smelting the metals, but the mould used for the bell is made of high-temperature sand and - oddly enough - horse manure O_o - apparently a time-old tradition at the place he had gone to).
(Speaking of which, one of the funniest scenes is when he's having to grease one of the bells in a Church tower. I don't want to spoil it, and I can't find it on YouTube, so if you ever get a chance to watch the episode, please do. Poor Mike. XD)
A few other jobs that I've seen just recently featured him harvesting lobster from the cages in the fishing boats, tagging Lake Erie snakes and even something simple like removing the seaweed from Lake Erie (ever since the Lake's been clean, the seaweed grows really fast, and the boats chop the seaweed up, and one man has a task of simply pulling it out of the water).
After watching the episodes, I've become quite addicted to the program as I have with MythBusters. Discovery Channel has a ton of great programming. :)
Something I've always thought about is something that I believe I've heard about in Japan - being able to just travel from one job to the next, not really holding down a permanent job for more than a week or two, but doing a number of jobs and becoming a "Jack of All Trades" as it were. Mike Rowe's "job", as it were, is doing exactly that, doing one job for no more than a week (depending on the job, it seems that many are over in a day). I've always seen a lot of jobs on TV and elsewhere and wondered what it would be like to be, say, a Police Officer (probably a Parking Authority than an actual "Upholding the Law"-type) or a Crab/Lobster Farmer (what exactly is the term for those on the boats, anyhow?).
But I don't think I could ever keep it up, doing a different job every day. I bet there's a lot of work that goes into securing a new "Dirty Job" each week. And I love my job too much to consider giving it up. :D But it'll always be a thought in the back of my mind...
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The final performance on Jackass Two is a large musical number, which features many goofy and stupid stunts, but without any gross-out gags, mostly slaspstick. I've been meaning to link it because I found it to be particularily fun to watch, even if you don't like the antics of Jackass. :D
Bonus clip: Rip Taylor on Super Password.
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Oh, and finally, one last thing: Clocks "spring forward" one hour as of Sunday morning at 2am! Be sure to set your clocks ahead one hour Saturday evening! (and keep in mind that some computer systems - like mine, a Windows 2000 box - may not have this time correct on Sunday as its DST program hasn't been fixed due to the OS being "out-of-date". However, you can find Unofficial patches - like this one here. They also have a Win98 patch, if anyone's still using that...)
Speaking of anime, wow - the "Abundance of Savings" deal over at Right Stuf has been ended prematurely. I can understand why. :P
I just saw the video for a game called LittleBigPlanet - this video and this one shows off what you can do with the creation tools in-game, and then play with them using teamwork. It looks incredibly cute and fun, but I wonder how it works when you're all by your lonesome.
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About two weeks ago, I watched an episode of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. The episode in particular was "Bell Maker", where he helped create a bell (complete with smelting the metals, but the mould used for the bell is made of high-temperature sand and - oddly enough - horse manure O_o - apparently a time-old tradition at the place he had gone to).
(Speaking of which, one of the funniest scenes is when he's having to grease one of the bells in a Church tower. I don't want to spoil it, and I can't find it on YouTube, so if you ever get a chance to watch the episode, please do. Poor Mike. XD)
A few other jobs that I've seen just recently featured him harvesting lobster from the cages in the fishing boats, tagging Lake Erie snakes and even something simple like removing the seaweed from Lake Erie (ever since the Lake's been clean, the seaweed grows really fast, and the boats chop the seaweed up, and one man has a task of simply pulling it out of the water).
After watching the episodes, I've become quite addicted to the program as I have with MythBusters. Discovery Channel has a ton of great programming. :)
Something I've always thought about is something that I believe I've heard about in Japan - being able to just travel from one job to the next, not really holding down a permanent job for more than a week or two, but doing a number of jobs and becoming a "Jack of All Trades" as it were. Mike Rowe's "job", as it were, is doing exactly that, doing one job for no more than a week (depending on the job, it seems that many are over in a day). I've always seen a lot of jobs on TV and elsewhere and wondered what it would be like to be, say, a Police Officer (probably a Parking Authority than an actual "Upholding the Law"-type) or a Crab/Lobster Farmer (what exactly is the term for those on the boats, anyhow?).
But I don't think I could ever keep it up, doing a different job every day. I bet there's a lot of work that goes into securing a new "Dirty Job" each week. And I love my job too much to consider giving it up. :D But it'll always be a thought in the back of my mind...
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The final performance on Jackass Two is a large musical number, which features many goofy and stupid stunts, but without any gross-out gags, mostly slaspstick. I've been meaning to link it because I found it to be particularily fun to watch, even if you don't like the antics of Jackass. :D
Bonus clip: Rip Taylor on Super Password.
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Oh, and finally, one last thing: Clocks "spring forward" one hour as of Sunday morning at 2am! Be sure to set your clocks ahead one hour Saturday evening! (and keep in mind that some computer systems - like mine, a Windows 2000 box - may not have this time correct on Sunday as its DST program hasn't been fixed due to the OS being "out-of-date". However, you can find Unofficial patches - like this one here. They also have a Win98 patch, if anyone's still using that...)