kill your tv

got up and made michelle breakfast and washed dishes from last night's steak and arugula salad. now i'm tired. must rest.

breakfast was rewarmed left over polenta with two fried eggs and marinara. it's a tasty breakfast. unless the "marinara" is ragu that you happen to have. goddamn, that shit tastes like ketchup. ugh.

age of the internet giants. i think that we'll be seeing a lot of consolidation of internet companies soon. microsoft recently reorganized to become more of an internet company. with google moving so far beyond its searching service, i think the threat of hosted software is finally being realized at microsoft. already, i'm using hosted software for this blog. blogger (a google acquisition) provides all the computing, i just provide the input. could all applications be served this way? the end of the home PC? i sure hope so. its a better value, really. no need to invest in hardware at home. all of your data (pictures, movies, emails, documents, etc) are stored remotely. this means that they are backed up with no effort on the consumer's side. (if your hard drive failed, how much would you lose?) there would be real competition between providers. travel the country and access your documents easily. no need to invest in software titles that need to be upgraded. simply subscribe. if office currently costs a couple hundred dollars, would you pay $10 a month to use the suite? all those patches and updates can happen once on the server side rather than getting every consumer to adopt. that's good news for software companies. computers would essentially become consoles. purely a way to access the internet. your A/V set up? stream music and video from your storage or online providers. the hardware is totally integrated with the TV and stereo. forget CD's. who needs 'em? not me. the best? control music from anywhere in the house over the network. but you know what all this means? windows is irrelevant. any high school student could write the code for an OS that ran on linux because the OS wouldn't need to be nearly as capable or complex. its a brave new world.

TV programming is evil. is it still evil on an ipod?

went TV shopping last night. jesus, they're expensive. and big. but not in the direction i'm interested. they're about as deep as they are wide. so big and clunky. but i (michelle) aint payin' $500 for a flat 24" screen. guess i'll just buy on craigslist.

the blues are rockin' me this mornin'. elmore james. i know i'm shaking my moneymaker. are you? mississippi fred mcdowell. "you want to rock fred, you set me down in a rockin' chair". hearin' mcdowell talk on those tracks is awesome. a bit tough to understand at points. when i want to get some real good blues, i got to fat possum (not tom crawford, but a record label). RL Burnside. Robert Belfour. Junior Kimbrough. this aint no bb king "i got diabetes and sing for burger king" bullshit blues with huge horn sections and a gazillion producers. these are guys with a guitar and the blues. and probably a bottle or two of bourbon. here's a bit from junior kimbrough's bio:

If Junior's sister had been any kind of baby-sitter he might not have picked up the guitar. When Junior was too small to help his father work the fields his eldest sister stayed home with him. She was supposedly watching him the day he took his father's guitar "off the high shelf," where his father kept everything he didn't want his children fooling with. It became routine: when his father left for the fields, Junior carefully took down the guitar. He learned fast andwell, well enough to teach a local white boy, Charlie Feathers, how to play.

yeah, that guy knows the blues. you think he grew up with some shit? only one of his family to work off the farm? black kid in the deep south in the 50's and 60's? yeah, that's tough.

michelle got an email from a college recruit that addressed her as Mrs.. she's feeling kinda funny about it.

another reason to get firefox: the search bar. integrated google search bar (like the one that you can download for IE. except this one can be configured to include any number of other search engines as well as amazon.com, wikipedia, dictionary.com, ebay, google desktop, its good stuff. check it out.