Just heard a funny song on the 40's station (satellite radio).

Harry James - Mister Five by Five

I know it hasn't been long since my last post about the demoscene, but here is a trailer for The Demoscene Documentary. Certainly nothing exciting, but it's still cool to me that the demoscene is still alive in a slightly different form.

The demo they used as an example features a track from md/kschzt (1, 2, 3, 4). He was a huge influence on my music and I even own an "appelsap" t-shirt that I still wear. The person being interviewed is one of my favorite artists fthr (1, 2, 3). He was the first person I knew of that did impressive things with photoshop.

Setting up my RSS reader has made me follow a lot more people on twitter. That, in turn, has made me privy to a bunch of useless information. Kind of fun, kind of a waste?

He wants to play. He understands that he can fall on the pillow without hurting himself, but he isn't coordinated enough to do it correctly. He gets a little better every day though.

Stephen's birthday party at his Nana and Grandpa's. I cut it down to six and a half minutes, and it includes some present opening, singing happy birthday, and eating of cake.

Steve came over last night. Felt like I hadn't seen him in forever. We hung around and drank beer, he came to dinner with my family, and we rehearsed this song 5-6 times. The audio quality is not bad for a video camera.

This video is the first time Jaime tried to give Stephen Stage 3 foods. Nowadays, he primarily eats Stage 3 food (basically "real" food), but this was nearly two months ago. I am not sure why this YouTube player is defaulting to 1080p. 1080p is not practical for your average person surfing the web. I emailed the author of the Smart YouTube plugin to see how I (or maybe he) can change that.

This is Nigel. He is our Crowntail Betta. Since Aquarium photography requires a lot of luck, I just shot a video of Nigel using the built-in light on our camcorder. You can't see his colors very well, but you can see his cool tail and fins.

Pogo (otherwise known as "that kid who cuts up scenes from Disney movies and makes songs out of them") is back, with a real-world mix of 100% original samples. The subject: his mother and her pretty garden.

In the words of my friend Adam: "This kid is annoying. Everything he does is perfect." After seeing all those beautiful camera shots, I agree that this guy has too much talent. Everything he does is so ethereal, atmospheric, and professional. I wonder how he made the video. It looks like some really nice lenses, so it's probably a digital camera that can shoot video also.

Stephen certainly is mesmerized as soon as the lady comes on screen. This is one video that he watched the whole way through.

Edit: I don't know why I said that Pogo is "back," considering he never went anywhere.

Stephen figured out how to scroll down a webpage today. On this laptop, you can scroll by dragging down with two fingers on the touchpad (like a mac). So he dragged his hand across the touchpad and the web site moved. Well, this made him extremely happy, so I started guiding him, showing him how to scroll up and down. Everything was going well--it was a cute little moment--until he snatched my left Shift key in one motion. He completely removed it and was chewing on it within a second. He also removed my left Ctrl a few days ago. Fortunately, a replacement keyboard is about 11 bucks for this laptop.

We went hiking yesterday with Russ and his sister. I didn't attempt any time-consuming landscape photos, but I did get some shots of Stephen playing on the path up the mountain. He is on the ground playing with a little stick and there is a huge, distant landscape behind him. Some cute stuff. I can't get them off my camera until I fix/rebuild my computer, though. Also, when I got home and looked through the photos, I realized that every shot was under-exposed by 2 stops. My camera had switched to some "custom" setting that automatically adjusts exposure time to be 2 stops too dark. So instead of getting a proper exposure at 1/500s, it was shooting everything in 1/2000s. Pretty pissed about that. I had to reset all settings to factory default to clear the "custom function."

Apparently a lot of people are going to be here tomorrow afternoon. Tonight and tomorrow morning we have to clean, clean, clean. I am trying to set up Jaime's old desktop computer with Ubuntu to replace Eric's dying computer. Lots of other people are coming over to play SNES and eat pizza.

A good article on Usain Bolt. There is a lot of hype in sports. Among still-active athletes, we are supposed to believe that:

• Peyton Manning is the best quarterback of all time.
• Roger Federer is the best Tennis player of all time.
• Tiger Woods is the best Golfer of all time.
• Michael Phelps is the best swimmer of all time--and maybe the greatest olympian ever.
• Usain Bolt is the fastest man in history.
• James Stewart Jr. is (or will become) the best motocross racer of all time.

These are just claims that I have heard mentioned directly. People like to indirectly claim things about LeBron James too, but I have never heard of anyone coming out and challenging Michael Jordan's "greatest ever" status directly.

Is it really possible that all the greatest athletes in history are alive and active right now? Doubtful. Usain Bolt, however, is not hype. All "what if" discussions aside, he is the fastest man in history. And he doesn't even care.

Some good music-related youtube vids.

Skip James - Crow Jane
Roscoe Holcomb - Little Birdie and Graveyard Blues
Bluegrass Jam in Brookline 2
Leadbelly - Only footage to survive of the legendary Leadbelly
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - need I say more?