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Bailouts are for airplanes.

I just casually glanced at the cost of this bailout socialist attack. Adjusted for inflation it is more expensive than WWII!

This is from some news site: "The bailouts cost more than the total combined costs in today's dollars of the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the entire historical budget of NASA, including the moon landing."

I want a list of what I get for my tax dollars!

• WWII I would pay for to have freedom from communism and to deter aggressive nations.
• Moon landings and spaceships? Oh yeah! Sign me up.
• Bad mortgage debt and companies that build bloated unoriginally designed gashogs?
• Elitist parties in Scottsdale and corporate jets?

I wish I could pass.
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Two Track Tuesday

Yeah, I know it's Monday. Time for compare and contrast. Go and listen to these two amazing synthpop tracks:

Gwen Stefani - Wonderful Life
and
Black - Wonderful Life

Now go and report your findings.
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The Perfect Vanilla Ice Cream

Homemade ice cream should only come in one flavor. Eggs should be in a chicken, not your ice cream! Anyhow, here is the Perfect Vanilla Ice Cream recipe:

This is for a Six quart size maker:

• 1 Quart Shamrock Whole Milk
• 1 Quart Shamrock Half & Half
• 1 Quart Shamrock Heavy Cream
• 2 Cups Vanilla Sugar (made by storing a whole vanilla bean in the sugar for a week)
• 1 Teaspoon red mined salt (use a little less if table salt)
• The powdery insides of a real vanilla bean
• Enough Molina Mexican brown vanilla to change the color (about 3 tbsp, to taste)

Warm the milk, half and half, and cream in a sauce pan and stir the sugar in. This gets the sugar granules all dissolved, and makes everything play nicely together. You want to stir it constantly and avoid scorching. The ideal temp is just before bubbles form on the outside edges. This is nowhere near boiling, like 140 degrees. You would not want to put your finger in, but if you did you could not keep it in. Remove from heat. Stir in the rest of the ingredients and cool the whole thing half an hour. If you are pressed for time, just warm the milk to melt the sugar in and mix the half and half and cream in cold. Try this for variety: A tiny pinch of cinnamon, and a pinch of clove powder. Another variation: Scorch only the sugar until it caramels just a bit. Then cool gradually and mix water into it to avoid it turning into candy.

I use a full 20 lb bag of ice and about two cups of rock salt for the maker. (Get the blue big Morton's bag of softener salt, after all you are not consuming this.) The more ice and salt you melt the faster it will harden. I use a dasher to poke down into the ice all the time it is running. If the mix churns too long it will make butter bits. You can gain a couple minutes by pouring a cup or two of water over the ice when you first load the maker. (The water connects the cold of the ice to the metal of the maker)

Four Quart maker:

• 3 Cups Milk
• 2 Cups Half and Half
• 3 Cups Whipping Cream
• 1.33 Cups Sugar
• .5 Tsp Salt
• 1 Tbsp Vanilla

I know the ingredients as listed are not cheap, but if you cared about money that much you would just grab some Dreyer's Rocky Road or Dreyer's Cherry Vanilla. At some point you must decide, "Are you making cream, or are you making art?"
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The New Romantic Revival

The New Romantic revival is dawning again. Remember when "Alternative" and "New Wave" meant almost the same thing? That was twenty to thirty years ago. The following mentions are rated minor NSFC - Not safe for Christians (profanity and explicit lyrics). Some of the tracks are very listenable.

The industry let the term music be redefined. For two generations it has been forced into a little hole where the only valid instruments were the electric guitar, rock drum set, and one angry singer with no harmonic support. Fortunately this trend is loosing its grip. Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm are returning.

• The Killers - Day and Age just NAILED the 80s romantic. Are we human or are we dancer? The required elements are all there. Even the almost not English-correct things make it awesome. I keep thinking, "Shouldn't those words be plural?" Favorite Track: Human of course. Lyrical moment: "Will your system be alright?"
• Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots the male and female vocalists taking turns. Very light bouncy synths, background chorus. Simple drum sets. Most enjoyed tracks: Waiting, You Are the One, Don't Cry Out. Lyrical moment "Why are the robots so sad?"
• The Mary Onettes - Traditional "rock" instrumentation that fools you into thinking that you missed this album from the 80s, but it is brand new. Sweden does Liverpool! Favorite: The Laughter, ironically moody.
• The Postal Service - Death Cab's side synthpop project. They used lots of quirky sounds and the witty boy/girl responses on Nothing Better are not to be missed. Lyric Moment: "I'll be the water wings" on the Nintendo-esque Brand New Colony.
• Fischerspooner - Odyssey is not exactly as current as these, but it helped pave the way for them. Tracks: Just Let Go, Everything To Gain, All We Are. Lyric brilliance awarded for "We need a war".

An honorable mention is M83 - Saturday=Youth. This is more indie, and not as popular as the above groups. If nothing else they get eleven points for the sweet recreation of 80s on the cover:

The brilliant part of this is that these groups fall into the modern "alternative" category and will be pushed down the throats of the teen generation. Thus the groups can restore some intelligence, harmony, and fun into the music. This will balance the angst and noise that has been so prevalent of late.
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I have a blog??

Information Society made good on the Apocryphon CD set. Finally I have solid media for those Napster days collections.

Apocryphon's insets are full of rare photos and tasty blurbs. The track remastering is clean and crisp as you would expect. Personal fave turns out to be "06 - Xmas At Our House" with suffering, torment, and pain. There are so many more tracks for a collection like this such as the Christmas track where "Santa's comin'" was all twisted and sounds like we need to hide, or the cover of "One". How about the 3DO tracks? Can we get them?

I followed rumors of a third Think Tank album as well, even saw track lists online! Were these fanciful fabrication only? Lately I want to know where the samples "It's the information age, brother" and "Do you know that bad girls go to...?" come from.

I went nuts jumping and screaming when watching the 1995 movie "Death Machine" on some late-night cheese-a-thon and heard the samples from Think Tank - Googelplectic.

Why are all the pages I created about Think Tank, Brother Sun-Sister Moon and Hakatak deleted from Wikipedia?? That will teach me to keep information on a public forum.

Anyhow, the third Think Tank Album can be heard on Amazon:
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Mythos is down T__T

I have never experienced a beta that did not move on to a final production. Mythos has shut down their servers. We all gathered in the town hall and had a big fireworks and special powers party on Friday night until midnight. Even then there were beggars. "Give us a rare item." What are they going to do with it for the last fifteen minutes? The unable to connect message I encounter now breaks my heart.

My gremlin sharpshooter could unload explosive stun rounds for twelve seconds without running out of mana. My giant Cyclops Mage had psycho meteoric fury and waddled like a duck.
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New laptops with Vista

Needed a powerful laptop to take to Africa for photo storage and presentation. I settled on ASUS G1sn. It was loaded with Vista64 but I figured I could wipe it clean and upgrade to XP. No Drivers! I wanted to list some of the neat features about Vista that make it tempting to keep:

After heavy research and in some cases hacking drivers to make them fit, I have XP running! It is more than twice as fast for some things, and all games run FPS better.

A friend needed a laptop and insisted on XP. I found that Newegg sells XP laptops, but no retail stores do! Walmart has a nice basic Toshiba for a great price, so I figured that they would have drivers out there. No such banana. Same hammering procedure will be needed to get XP running.
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Mythos

Mythos is so awesome that posts have ground to a halt. There is a quest I need to work on, so no time for updates! (Actually I did manage to update the eats page.)

Diablo 2, for free. Massively online and smooth as digital butter. Picture a hulky cyclops as a fire mage! Hard choice between that and a Gremlin gadgeteer.
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