Remember “How You Remind Me of Someday”? The Nickelback mashup with Someday on one channel and How You Remind Me on the other? NPR has an interesting interview with the creator.
Can’t get enough? Here’s How You Remind Me of Someday.mp3.
Found box of vintage film from 1958
The other day Waxy.org linked to someone who found several boxes of negatives at an estate sale. I found the scan #14 particularly interesting because it looks exactly like my Grandpa Scoville. (It isn’t him).
Update: Link rot. Here’s a link to Flickr’s blog about the photos instead.
And here is a photo of my Grandpa:
(via Waxy)
For a Limited Time
I made a short video starring my cousin Don’s kids, Brendyn and Ty. I added some really cheesy laser effects and some background music from Star Wars. Check it out (8mb .mov). (Sorry the limited time is up).
Family Photos
Last weekend Anna-Maria and I went to Medicine Hat to have our pictures taken with my family. After we spent some time at Gainsboro we decided to take some of our own shots at Strathcona park. Here is a one that my brother Gary got of Anna and me. (We all wore matching outfits).
More pictures at The Milner Blog.
Update: I guess he took the photos down because now that he isn’t in Canada he’s not getting internet / free hosting at Telus. Try browsing some Flickr photos of the same day, instead.
Photoshop Technique
I just completed a Photoshop tutorial I found online. What do you think? I think I like it — a lot!
New Media Special Effect
Today after work I created this little clip (3.5 mb Quicktime) of Anna-Maria chasing me through the backyard.
Jeff Milner’s Free Gmail Account Giveaway – Part III
I have 6 more Gmail invites today. This time you only need to write a limerick but posts must not be posted anonymously. Read last time’s entries for ideas. The limerick can be about anything — ones about me or stuff I like are a good starting point if you have writers block. I will give 5 invites away and save one for a cousin I went kayaking with today.
Now onto your limerick writing. Remember Gmail invites are waiting; contest ends Sunday at Midnight with prizes awarded next week.
If you already have a gmail account but are interested in the fine art of limerick writing then you might be interested to know about some dedicated limerick writers that are rewriting the Oxford English Dictionary in limerick form.
Update: The contest is now closed. The results will be posted shortly.
Andy Returns?
Checking out the Andy Kaufman website I read a message that says, “Andy Returns!!
After 20-years Andy Kaufman has a message for all:
SHAME ON YOU, BEST FRIEND.
Andy”
What does it mean? Is he back? Is he going to show up at 8:00pm tonight at the House of Blues in Los Angeles?
I Heart the Ladies
As promised here is my review from the BNL concert on April 1st in Calgary. It was great! As we were getting seated Anna questioned me about the tickets I purchased, “Do people that sit in these seats really get more nosebleeds?” Very funny. :)
The concert itself was a blast. Jason Plumb and Ron Sexsmith were the two opening acts. They seem like unknowns to me but Anna recognized Ron Sexsmith’s name and apparently Jason Plumb played for the Waltons — which I vaguely recall.
Anyway it was a great concert in which almost every song they played seemed like my favorite. I know I’m a big geek for this Canadian band, but whatever – it was fun. They played:
- Maybe Katie
- Too Little Too Late
- Enid
- Some Adlibing
- It’s All Been Done
- Another Postcard
- Celebrity
- More Adlib
- Never Is Enough
- I Live With It Every Day
- Roadrunner
- For You
- One Week
- Upside Down
- A Bass Solo
- Alternative Girlfriend
- Testing 1,2,3
- Never Do Anything
- Blame It On Me
- Shopping
- Concert Going
- Pinch Me
- War On Drugs
- Beat The Crew
- Shoe Box
- Old Apartment
- Brian Wilson
- Rio
- If I Had $1,000,000
- What A Good Boy
They weren’t planning on playing Alternative Girlfriend but got talked into it when someone in the audience held up a big sign that said quote/unquote Please let my husband drum Alternative Girlfriend with you. So they did. Ed told the audience that if he was at least half decent we should really cheer him on, but that if he sucked then we should beat him to a pulp. He was actually pretty good and it was really fun to watch. It’s stuff like that that makes a concert so memorable.
They had a fun choreographed shopping cart ballet in which they ran around with shopping carts, passed around boxes of cereal and made snow angels on the stage. They did three encore songs, which was more than the last time they were in Calgary, and I must say it was just a perfect concert.
Ed wrote about the concert tour and specifically about Calgary’s show. Ed and Steve are by far my favorite bloggers in BNL – not just because they do the majority of the singing.
Social Theory Trading Card – Old Sailor
Old Sailor sent me a plastic message in response to the unofficial trading card I made about him.
Thanks, friend.
Your card reminds me of when I was a lad, trading driftwood paintings of our favorite nautical heroes.
So happy sails to you, and take it from this old sailor, a fair greeting is as rare as a Berlin pearl fish, and half again as long.
Yours,
Old Sailor