Excellent video. Thanks for posting.

"Instant karma's gonna get you."

On my recent flight from AUS to DFW, we got a late start. The captain came on the intercom to say he wanted to push it and make up the time but ATC said he couldn't because it would screw up the spacing.

I had a chance to sit and chat with Ronald McDonald once. I was playing a children's gig (I'm a musician) and we had some down time, so we were sitting inside in the AC, out of the Texas heat, and so we talked. Ronald said he lives in Dallas (we were in Austin at the time), which makes it very convenient for him to…

Not games, per se. I was playing games that were kludgy because they were reading slowly from the DVD—the game kept pausing when the drive had to spin up. Making an image of the disk with the Disk Utility, then mounting the disk image, means you could play the game without using the optic drive. That 7 GB was jut…

Well, that was nifty. I just freed up 7GB of space from game disk images that I hadn't used in years and forgotten about. This is a terrific tip. I never know about all those search parameters.

I'm not sure which of them is older.

I'll be in my bunk.

That's pretty bad when you have to get your mom to model on your car for you.

Exactly. And I speak from the position of a professional trumpet player. I charge $200 for a service, and that gets you prelude, service music, and a postlude. You could find some college undergraduates or high school kids or family members who would do it for less, but you will get what you pay for.

Don't balk at paying the musicians for the ceremony what they ask for. Compared to what you are spending on the flowers and the reception, it's a drop in the bucket. Besides, nobody will remember the flowers, but they will remember the music.

They essentially filled out the grid of buttons. On the old touchtones, each row had one tone, and each column had one tone. Pushing a button gave you a combination tone for that column/row. It only made sense to fill out the two slots on either side of 0.

I remember when it was a symbol on a touchtone phone and didn't do anything at all. Interestingly, way back in the early days of the touchtone phone, my brother called the operator to ask what the # and * buttons did. She told him that they didn't do anything, at least not yet, but were put there for future…

Gary Larson had it figured out years ago, without the need for a scientific study.

And these guys get paid to fly. What a gig.

As a professional musician, I've played some weird gigs in my day. I've also said no to a few. I feel sorry for these dancers. They get hired by Kia to dance around, god knows who choreographed it. All those years of school and practice for this? Well, ya gotta eat.