Entertainment

Still Awake…

rmiles7721March 17, 2007Entertainment, Parenting/Family

…and I don’t know why. I have been surfing the web aimlessly as I watch Papillon. Steve McQueen kicked serious ass. He’s always been one of my favorite actors and for some reason I have never seen this before. A Damn good movie I must say, with a capital D.

I started watching it shortly after I got home and thought it was almost over. Here it is two hours later and still going. I think I may have to rent it so that I can see the parts that I missed.

I only ended up working until about 10:30 tonight, so I guess it could have been worse. I have about half of my night shift terrified that I am going to fire them now, so hopefully I will get most of my money in the cash register tonight.

Just a geek

rmiles7721March 12, 20076Blogging, Entertainment

I don’t guess this is really a meme in the sense, but I ran across this list over at Elisson’s who got it from Modulator, who in turn picked it up at Pharyngula. It’s “The Most Significant Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years.”

I don’t know exactly how significant some of them are, but there are some really good reads in the list. Books I’ve read are bold, return favorites are red, and one’s I have never heard of are struck out.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
 2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
3. Dune, Frank Herbert
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
 5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson
7. Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
 9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
 10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish
16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
 18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
 19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
 20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
22. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl
 26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone*, J.K. Rowling
27. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
31. Little, Big, John Crowley
32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
39. Ringworld, Larry Niven
40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
49. Timescape, Gregory Benford
50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

Personally I would have had Alan Dean Foster among the list. Timescape was OK, but certainly shouldn’t be in this list. The Sillmarillion was boring as hell the first time I read it (I was about 13), but I am very interested in history, and it made more sense as an adult. I find it hard to believe that I have never heard of eleven of them. If I saw the covers I would probably recognize them, and probably have at least two or three upstairs with the rest of he books.


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THAT’S what they remind me of…

rmiles7721March 11, 2007Entertainment

Every time that I start talking or thinking about my employees, I instantly become Jerry Springer. It’s funny how life imitates art, although I wouldn’t exactly call what he does art.

This sounds so much like the crap that I deal with on a daily basis. I am just waiting to see one of my employees on the show any day.

Watch deleted YouTube Videos

rmiles7721March 10, 200710Entertainment, Technology

Update – August 9th 2008
I posted this link way back in March of 2007 and since then it’s had over 8,000 hits so I figured it was time to get rid of the crappy ads in the middle of the page and update this place!
The original link I posted to delutube has been removed. So I have done a bit of searching to see if there was something else useful around.
Supposedly FTVTeen works. Let me know how your results are with this one.
Undele Tube was pretty useful at it but when you visit the site it just says “under maintenance right now. Keep checking back.
WikiHow also has some information on how to access recently deleted YouTube videos as well. The Wikihow article is below:

How to Access Recently Deleted YouTube Videos

from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit

This article’s accuracy is in doubt. See the discussion page. Please fact check, edit, cite references and remove this notice when the article has been improved. You may also comment on the discussion page. Notice added on 2008-02-18.
This article is intended to guide you on how to view videos that are usually deleted on the video sharing website, www.youtube.com.

Steps

  1. Go to the search bar.
  2. Type what you wish to search for.
  3. Where it asks you how you would like to sort the search results, click “Date Added”, this will show the most recent videos added to YouTube that match your search terms. You can now see the videos that will soon be deleted. YouTube will usually delete videos violating its Terms of Use in the first 2-4 hours.

Tips

  • Videos that are deleted will still be displayed in the search results for a few hours, so prepare to be disappointed if the video you wished to watch has been removed.

Related wikiHows

Article provided by wikiHow, a collaborative writing project to build the world’s largest, highest quality how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Access Recently Deleted YouTube Videos. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.

If you found any of this helpful or you have other links to programs or sites I don’t have that will allow us to watch deleted YouTube videos please feel free to leave a comment, or if it’s been awhile shoot me an email using the Contact Me link on the sidebar. Thanks!

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I came across a site here that will let you watch videos that have been removed from Youtube, because apparently they are still there, just not listed. Sneaky but cool. Thanks to Vincent Chow.


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Prayer at Rumayla Podcast…

rmiles7721March 6, 20078Entertainment, Parenting/Family

…chapter two is up now. I haven’t had the chance to listen to it yet, most likely as soon as I get home from work tomorrow.

Go visit Charles’ blog if you get the chance and listen to the book.

Growing up with Music

rmiles7721March 4, 200712Entertainment

The Carnival of the Posties is coming up, and this weeks theme is music, so this is my submission.

I grew up with music. I think most people do, but I have a particular love for it. I can listen to just about anything that has a beat, and only really dislike a few things. As a kid I did as all children do and listened to whatever my parents happened to have on at the time. That meant a lot of Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and the like. My father was more into older stuff though. Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper. REAL rock. I love all of it.

As I got into my teens though, I got hooked on Metal, and that has been my love ever since I listened to that first KISS album. I’ve posted a few songs here over the last few years, here are a few of them.

Megadeth – Wake up Dead

I first saw Megadeth at the Metroplex on Marietta Street in Atlanta back in the mid ’80’s. Man, Dave Mustaine kicks some serious butt. I spent the entire show about ten feet from him, just banging my head.

Here are a couple more Megadeth tunes.

Megadeth – In My Darkest Hour – This song was written after Cliff Burton (Metallica) Died.

Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction – By the time this came out, I was married and had a son. It was released at some point while I was in my short-lived college career.

Metallica – Sad but True – The wife likes to joke sometimes that this is our song.

Armored Saint – Aftermath – A hard rocking band. The lead singer ended up joining Anthrax.

Alice Cooper – The Ballad of Dwight Fry – Alice Cooper is great. Love it to Death is probably my all time favorite of his albums. His early years are when he was truly at his best.

King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man – You wouldn’t think that something from the 60’s would fit into my list, but I fell in love with Emerson, Lake & Palmer the first time I heard anything by them, and later on while looking through my dad’s albums, I found this one and once I realized that Greg Lake was doing vocals on their first two albums, had to listen to it. One of my favorites.

Guns N Roses – Used to Love Her – Guns N Roses were pretty good for awhile, but they just blew themselves out of the water with too much drugs, too many good times.

Willie and the Poor Boys – These Arms of Mine – This is also one of my favorite albums. I turned my wife onto this and the song was played at our wedding reception.

Nowadays I mostly listen to the Pixies, Evanescence, and stuff like that, but I always return to the staples that I grew up with. I can’t imagine NOT having it be part of my life.

Prayer at Rumayla

rmiles7721March 2, 20074Blogging, Entertainment, Parenting/Family

One thing I don’t believe that I have mentioned before is that my little brother is a writer, and a pretty decent one at that. One of his books that I believe is currently out of print is called ‘Prayer at Rumayla; A Novel of the Gulf War’. He is doing it in an audio podcast and the book will be going back into print later this year. Right now you can get the podcast for free through iTunes, but he is asking for reviews over at his site. You can get more details about Prayer at Rumayla here and don’t forget to visit his blog while you are there.


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BeyondTV 4.6 Review

rmiles7721March 1, 2007Entertainment, Technology

Several months back I was emailed asking if I would do a review for BTV. Actually it may have been closer to a year, I don’t really remember. Now that I have no internet connection, I figured this would be the perfect time.

You can read the entire review in the extended entry.

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Grey’s Anatomony

rmiles7721February 21, 2007Entertainment

I’ve been sucked in to another damn TV show. The wife has been watching it since last year, and I have caught bits and pieces of it over the last two weeks. The third part of three is on tonight tomorrow and I will probably get sucked into watching it as well.

Dinner is just about done. I’m just making a simple chicken and rice thing, the oldest girl has softball practice tonight, so we don’t want to wait too terribly long to eat. They have to leave in about 40 minutes.

I hate that my BeyondTV box is not connected to the TV now. It means that I have to record to my computer, but if it is over channel 100 I don’t get it and have to watch it in real time or miss it. The Sopranos should be starting again soon and I am a fan.

Flash for File Sharing

rmiles7721February 21, 20075Entertainment

I am trying to decide if I want to use this on my sidebar or not. It’s kind of cool, but it is limited in that I actually have to upload the files or music to a server and access it from there. It’s a flash widget from Box.net. It is actually kind of cool. It is a little big but I may be able to mess with the code to see if I can resize it. I did add some good thrashing tunes to listen to either way. If you want, you can get your own Box.net Widget at their web site.


Get your own Box.net widget and share anywhere!

Let me know what you think about it. I may stick it on the sidebar somewhere. Like I said, I can’t configure it for a bunch of music or anything. That would be pretty cool it it would serve up the stuff in my files directory. This was originally posted a couple of days ago, but I was able to take it as a paid opp today, so here it is again <g>.