Blog of Josh Hall

NIN (Nine Inch Nails) have released their latest album under the Creative Commons license, which means that anyone can download it and use it how ever they like for free as long as the credit the original author.  Trent Reznor, a western Pa native, is a smart dude.  I can’t wait to see them live at lollapalooza.  Radiohead, the first big band to release an album completely free and online, will also be headline that show.

you can get the tracks here: http://dl.nin.com/theslip/signup 

So I had a dream last night where I rode my guitar case all the way from pittsburgh to my mom’s house.  The case had 4 wheels on the bottom of it and it stool vertically, and I sat where the handle would be.  I was just kicking off the ground for momentum.  The dream really lasted all the way home as I remember riding along 79, down through scenery hill, stopped at the national city in richeyville, and then to my mom’s house.  Everyone was so impressed that I did it, and I demonstrated how easy it was to just kick off the ground and coast for a bit.  It worked out to 3 hours to get all the way from pittsburgh, which is what I said in the dream, but now I’m realizing that would mean I was doing ~20 mph on a guitar case…that’s pretty fast.

"Treat problems from the perspective of a dog;  If you can’t eat it or hump it, pee on it and walk away."

 – Friend’s cube flare

heh, so I have been wanting to try some vitamin supplements for a while now, just to see if they help with energy/metabolism.  Get some vitamin b12 in me and see what happens, ya know?  So i go to my local wally world and start looking around at the bottles, and I find the one-a-day bottles, pretty well known brand name, right?  they say they help with energy and stuff, so i get them.  I took them for the past week…not really feeling any different at all…then I noticed today…"For age 50+" written on the bottle.  DOH  No wonder I’ve been a grumpy old bast….person, i’m taking the pills of one!  Placebo affect or not, that’s what I’m blaming it on.  So, anyone know any 50+ year olds that want some pills?  …some more pills?

There’s certainly pros to being single, I will not dispute that.  Maybe someday I’ll highlight those too.

10.  when I go to church, it’s hard not to be looking for single girls.  That’s the wrong reason to go to church, and the distraction is usually a reason for me not to go.

9.  family always asks "what happened to so-and-so" or "when are you going to find someone?"

8.  It’s so much easier to make a good meal when i’m cooking for 2.

7.  there’s no one that has to tolerate my annoying tendencies.

6.  I always have to find something to do.  I miss the default being "hanging out with so-and-so" instead of "sitting at home by myself"

5.  My friend base isn’t expanding quite as rapidly as i’d like.

4.  Neither are my cultural horizons.

3.  It’s getting harder and harder every day to find a girl that likes bald men.

2.  eHarmony never fails to say it can’t find any matches for me.  Wonders for the self-confidence.

1.  I write blog entries like this one.

What the heck is up with Don Barden?  This guy is probably the worst business man I’ve ever read stories about.  He didn’t want to play ball with the penguins when he first got the license, then he didn’t want to play ball with the steelers and pirates, then he didnt want to play ball with the science center, then he didn’t want to play ball with the city on the parking garage design, then he wants to take his $3 million ball and go away from the hill district, and now he’s saying that everyone is picking on him.  For someone who will ultimately be wanted to attract customers, he’s not being very customer focused.

Even though it’s true that the financial failures of his other casinos and larger companies should have no affect on the Pittsburgh venture, I think a few flags should be raised on what’s to come.  Barden seems like a guy who sees the growing potential of pittsburgh as something to take advantage of, not something to be a part of an encourage.  He doesn’t care about what’s in his way, just get it out of his way.  He’s not making any friends, and that’s not going to get him any slack or favor in the long run.

If you ask me, when you start saying that there’s a conspiracy and everyone is out to get you, you’re about to crack.  You’ve lost your marbles and you need to snap back to reality before reality snaps you.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08115/876258-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml