Duck Goes Moo!

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geico kash mascot
tim conway hitler puppet
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These are the first ten search engine hits of the year for Duck Goes Moo. The "Charles" one is a bit odd. I don't know how a search for "charles" would have gotten anyone to my site; I'm sure there are millions of other sites that would rank higher for that. Perhaps it was on a local search.

I know I already made a post about the worst named products ever, but this one would have definetely made the list.

I still can't believe that they had the one guy say, "My wife would like that...".

I made a new squiggly painting recently. I call it "Gilded Interior".

For Christmas my brother got me a gift certificate to ThinkGeek and I bought myself two of the three Korg nanoSERIES controllers.

I got the nanoKEY and the nanoKONTROL, which they just started selling on ThinkGeek, and am anxiously awaiting their arival. I am going to try to use them with FruityLoops, which I hear works fairly well.



The nanoKEY is a 25-key, velocity sensitive keyboard that can communicate via MIDI with a USB slot. Its not something up to scale and sturdiness as a full proper keyboard, but the price is right and its extremely light and portable.



The nanoKONTROL comes with 9 knobs, 9 faders, and 18 switches. Once again it's not up to snuff as a full and proper unit, and its not motorized, but for the stuff I am looking to do it is more than enough and an awesome price.


Here is a review of the nanoKONTROL which shows it being used with the nanoKEY:

SonicState review


I also want the nanoPAD, but will wait to get that after a month or so if I am still interested in making music and performing. Here is a review of the nanoPAD:

SonicState review

Are the Lightworkers fighting the Illuminati or are they just another faction? I've gone on an hour-long online conspiracy theory and Illuminati lore binge and my head is spinning. I've already heard about the two factions of the Illuminati, but I've also heard of a mysterious third faction. Are the Lightworkers this third faction?

Or is this group and offshoot of the Discordians? Then again, the Discordians might actually be faction two of the Illuminati, according to some sources.

Any rate, here's a Lightworker website:

http://www.lightworkers.org/

They refer to the Illuminati as the "Dark Ones" who want to control with pain and hate.

I think I need to re-read the "Illuminati! Trilogy" and look for the fnords...

It never fails. Every time winter comes around a political cartoon like this one always surfaces:



The basic premise being, "It snowed this year, therefore global warming doesn't exist".

I have heard some very powerful and well thought out arguments against global warming, but this isn't one of them.

And yet every year political cartoonists redraw the same premise after the first snowstorm of the season.

Though I must say that these cartoons still pale in comparison to the infamous "Peanut Butter Pastor" for its full and complete lack of understanding of the science behind the issues:



and of course the "Banana Crafted By God For Humanity" argument:



Now, don't get me wrong. I am not using these individuals to say that anyone who doesn't believe in global warming or evolution is just as silly and misguided. I really despise that sort of tactic. It's one of the reasons I do not like "Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t" show.

They pick out the worst examples of people who hold a certain belief, make them look like idiots and then say the belief is therefore idiotic as well. Really a vile way to disprove something.

Still, I have to say that I didn't have an issue with Penn & Teller's show until they went after something I believed in. Then I noticed what they were doing.

I think it is often the case that when someone is defending your views you tend to ignore any major fallacies in their argument or any underhanded tactics (which is probably why I chuckle whenever they draw Bush as a short little monomaniacal troll and I get a little ticked when they draw Obama as a withdrawn elitist beanstalk).

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry died today from complications from leukemia. She was the widow of science fiction god Gene Roddenberry and performed roles and voice-overs in nearly every incarnation of Star Trek.

I don't know if the term "Ball Buster" had the same connotations back when this commercial was made as it does now, but I still have to giggle when I watch this.

A very sad thing, but in all honesty I didn't even know she was still alive.

I imagine the St. Louis burlesque community will be in grieving.

This is GEICO's new mascot, "Kash".

Is it cute? Creepy? An example of a bored and truculent ad agency?

Discuss.

Check out this article in the New York Times that makes the claim that the happiness of those people at the periphery of your life matter more to your own happiness than those at the center.

In other words, people you never meet but meet people that you know affect your happiness more than the people you know.

That's it, everyone better make me happy or St. Louis suffers.