One Year Ago Today: Politics: Illicit Acquisition of Game of Thrones in Australia and the Death of CISPA

Five Years Ago Today: I discuss my 365 Project.

One Year Ago Today: 5 Tips for Taking Photos of Toddlers.

Five Years Ago Today: No Post.

Every day Boing-Boing posts a blog post from a year ago, five years ago, and ten years ago. I think it is pretty revealing and I want to do it too since I’ve almost been blogging for 10 years now. We’ll see how long I can keep it going.

One Year Ago: I reviewed Fall Out Boy’s Save Rock and Roll.

Five Years Ago: I did not post on 1 May, five years ago.

It’s the First of MAY!! The original version of the song is quite, quite dirty and vulgar.

But there are clean versions.

I cut the cord and left cable TV about five years ago. I had tested the over the air (OTA) channels and they came in well enough. Plus there was innovation going on that might mitigate not having cable. The other day my sister-in-law’s boyfriend mentioned that Aereo was going to start working on Chromcast. They have a micro-antenna array technology that allows them to get the local signals clearly and then allow their customers to watch the channels on computing devices. I’d been following them for a while and checked to see if they were finally in Baltimore. They were! So I signed up for the free month trial.

Posts like this one and others I’ve mentioned recently help explain why I’ve had an increase in hatred of pop music as my music tastes have expanded. (Although I don’t think there’s anything wrong with enjoying Bubblegum - as it was once known - most of it is garbage) The record industry, as with any established industry (and not too differently from fast food chains), hates risk. They take artists who put out amazing mix tapes and make them bland. As a corollary, when I do enjoy mainstream acts (as opposed to indie), I tend to enjoy the songs they don’t play on the radio. (Lana Del Rey and Fall Out Boy are perfect examples)

Don’t worry birds, I will feed you. Dad, feed the birds.

-Scarlett speaking to the birds in the woods behind our house (and then to me) a couple weeks ago

Some things people don’t know because they weren’t taught. Or it was taught in a way that didn’t make sense to the way their brains work. Or it was beyond them for some reason. All of this is fine. It’s the prideful ignorance that is really wreaking havok with this country. The following Daily Show clip is what inspire this mini-rant:

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Yesterday I read through the intro of Don’t Know Much About Mythology. It posited that one possible reason for myths was for the rich to control the poor. I thought, “Yeah. Makes sense back then with their god-kings, but we’re smarter now.” Then I thought about American politics and realized nothing has changed over the past 10000 years.

By the way, so much of the Christian discourse in America is so far away from the actual content of the Bible that regardless of whether you believe in Yahweh/God and Jesus’ divinity, you should regard most of what you think you know about Christianity as mythology.

I know I’m late to the game on this, but hurrah to JK Rowling for making the Harry Potter ebooks DRM-free! Just because of that, I’ll be sure to buy it this summer! Before I was scared about DRM-issues. I’ve been burned before - I have a bunch of Microsoft LIT books that I legally bought and can no longer read.