On this day back in 1980, John Lennon was shot outside of his home in NYC, and people freaked. For good reason. He was, in my opinion, the greatest song writer of music in our lifetimes.
Instead of blabbering on about how awesome he was, I’ll list my top five Lennon written songs(purely Lennon’s, not in tandem with McCartney):
5. Dear Prudence. He rewrote a somewhat boring George Harrison riff into a very under appreciated Beatles song.
4. Revolution 1. Who doesn’t love this song? You can’t listen and not clap your hands.
3. I Am The Walrus. Completely bizarre, musically all over the place, but it all works. And you know you want to say “coo-coo-ca-choo.”
2. Instant Karma. John makes you feel like he’s singing this song about you. Or maybe I’m delusional. Either one.
1. All you need is love. A cheesy pick, but probably one of his best melodies. Bonus points for the French anthem intro, and if you listen closely at the end, Paul killing his baseline right as John says “Yesterday.”
We made a trip to Wal-Mart last week (having my fingernails torn from my hands with a rusty pair of needle-nosed pliers was my first choice), so I decided I’d book it over to the eye center to get some new contacts.
Their hours said they were open until 6pm. It was 5:53pm. Sweet.
Only that stupid metal gate was pulled down. They were closed. Oh, there was someone behind the counter. But she was just shutting everything down. 7 minutes early.
Now some of you are probably saying, “big deal, seven minutes. They just want to go home.” Well you know what? So did I. But I was there, in that insufferable store. And they should have been too, for at least 7 more minutes.
So in case you were wondering, Wal-Mart Eye Center hours are actually 9am - 5:52pm, not 9am-6pm.
Apparently BellSouth is either hungry or needs a nap, cause they couldn’t be acting more like a 2 year old:
Hours after New Orleans officials announced Tuesday that they would deploy a city-owned, wireless Internet network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, regional phone giant BellSouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate one of its damaged buildings that would have housed new police headquarters, city officials said yesterday.
According to the officials, the head of BellSouth’s Louisiana operations, Bill Oliver, angrily rescinded the offer of the building in a conversation with New Orleans homeland security director Terry Ebbert, who oversees the roughly 1,650-member police force.
Horrible PR moves aside, the story here is BellSouth and lots of other huge companies are desparate to compete with new technology and it’s implications on their bottom line. Free WiFi over a city would seriously hurt BellSouth’s DSL/internet service.
But it’s inevitable.
As Bobby would say, they’d better start swimming or they’ll sink like a stone, cause the times, they are a-changin’.
All those years ago…. when all you could do on the internet was send a text email to someone…
I knew what I was doing.
Adam Curry, of MTV VJ fame, apparently has been anonomously editing Wikipedia to inflate this role in the creation of Podcasting.
When someone edits Wikipedia without logging in to a user account, the IP address is recorded to guard against abuse. Four times this year, an IP address controlled by Curry, 82.108.78.107, has made revisions involving the early history of podcasting.
No word on if the Wikipedia entries for “Headbanger’s Ball” and “Bad 80’s Hair” have been modified.
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