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My oldest son went over to Fargo last night (more like early this morning – 3am-5am) and did a interview on NDSU radio. He’s got a band, and they’re getting better than what they had been in the past. I’m not really “into” that type of music, so I really don’t know.

Anyway, I tuned into the stream, online and recorded the whole two hours. I created four different versions of the recording. A full version, complete with all of the other music that was played during the two hours (NDSUFull), another version that was chopped down to just their voices (NDSUVoice) and their song (which was played twice). There’s a high quality WAV (High) and a low quality MP3 (Low) of each.

Rather than link them, directly, I’ll just give you a directory listing of them, so you can decide which one, if you want to listen. At the time I’m writing this, the only one that has completed uploading is NDSUVoiceLow.mp3. It might take a while for the others, and I’m going to bed. I’ll yank out the last part of this paragraph when I get up.

A blog about people that died in groups of five. Interesting.

My brother, Troy, is moving away from Northern California to [the midwest]. How’s that for vague? Anyway, he flew out for a few days, took a bunch of pictures of the area and the new place. Leave a comment, right here on this post, welcoming him back to the real world.

Yeah… okay, so you live in California and took offence at that. Sorry. But you know it’s true. California is just “different”.

Anyway, he’ll be living days closer to where I’m at and the travel time to visit him can now be measured in hours.

If you have a few minutes, take a look at the pictures that he sent over to me. Here’s a slideshow.

I know some of my readers have already checked out the Croncast podcast, on my recommendation, but in case you missed it, I wanted to bring it up, again. Many of you know that I was “highly” involved with podcasting, when it first started, and ran PodcastHost.com, until it became too busy for my hosting company to handle.

Back then, I subscribed to a lot of different podcasts, but lately, I only listen to one, consistantly.

Right now, they are having a contest to try and get an additional 300 subscribers. There’s only a month left and about 100 more to reach the goal, and every new subscriber is entered in a drawing to win an iPod. No matter if you win, or not, if you subscribe to Croncast, you won’t be let down.

I’ve been using Skype for the past couple years. Earlier, this year, they started offering free calls to everybody. At the end of the year, Skype will no longer offer totally free calls throughout the US and Canada. Rather than sticking with them, and paying a “per-minute” fee, I’ve been thinking about signing up for a VoIP service like Vonage. I really have no idea about how reliable the service is, or what to look out for, though.

I found a Vonage forum that has over 34,000 users, though, so I’ll be subscribing to a lot of thier feeds to get an idea of how it all works. There’s also a bunch of news and reviews on thier site, so hopefully I can get a good idea of what others think of the service.

Since Skype has been free, I’m usually on “the phone” for an average of 6 hours a day, or so. If I had to pay for Skype-out, I’d end up paying over $200 a month. With Vonage, it looks like I’d get unlimited calls for about $25 a month. Definetly worth keeping an eye on, before Skype’s current deal ends!

Have any of you had experience with other VoIP technology? What do I need to look out for?

I don’t think so. I think that the theory about the conspiracy being a conspiracy is a conspiracy. This is a vast left wing conspiracy that tries to show that the vast right wing conspiracy developed the vast left wing conspiracy to appear more powerful. At this point, I’m ready to blame Canada, again! [See The Video]

Greg Tinti at The Political Pit Bull has the whole episode posted.

Interesting coincidence, pattern recognition, numerology?

NEW YORK – A small plane with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard crashed into a 50-story condominium tower Wednesday on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, killing two people and raining flaming debris on sidewalks, authorities said. Yankees’ owner George M. Steinbrenner confirmed Lidle was one of the two dead.

An event that turned the US upside-down on 9/11/01 brings back memories on the date that’s flipped upside-down. A plane plows into a building in NYC – Today’s date is 9/11/01 turned upside down.

I’ve been white, my whole life…or have I? Does it even matter?

This is too interesting! It also shows that a lot of people put way to much importance on “race”. Sure, it’s important to know your heritage, but what if your heritage isn’t what you thought it was, all along?

Think about giving it a vote, while you’re there.

Wow! 42.7% of North Dakota’s underage population have drank alcohol in the past 30 days. I’ve seen studies that say that the further North you are, the more you drink. Could it be that Marijuana just doesn’t grow as well up here, and it costs more?

Tell me what causes more problems. Tell me what’s more dangerous. Seriously!

Personally, I wish they would make alcohol illegal and “Legalize It” (Mary Jane)…don’t criticize it! That being said, I’ll say that I haven’t touched the stuff (pot) in over 12 years, now. Honestly, I think that if I’d given up drinking, all-together and kept smoking the weed, I’d be a lot smarter and more interesting than I am, today. Marijuana seems to expand the mind, rather than making it shut down and pass out.

Maybe it’s time to find a good dealer. The last time I bought a quarter it cost $25. I imagine inflation has affected that, as well.

Disclaimer: I wrote this post after drinking 4 beers within an hour-and-a-half. If I would have been “high”, instead, it would have been a lot more analytical and made more sense. Instead, I’m gona’ go pass out, now… Good night!