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Yes I know I mispelled it in the video…

(Sigh, story of my life)

Without furher digression, here’s a movie made with iMovie in, I kid you not, 2 minutes.

So thanks to The Conk, who bought me a pro account to Remember the Milk for Xmas, I’ve become very task oriented. I don’t know how I lived before without truly being task oriented before, but if you are one of those people that think that they can remember everything - you’re wrong!

So this post is me telling you how to live your life (but I wont tell you how to organize your tasks). When Andrew bought me the Pro Account (25/yr), I felt obligated to use it. I highly recommend you check out their site and sign up. Also, I’m glad to have paid it forward and have given an account to a friend. Now I can cross off “Write blog post” as a task. only 114 more tasks to go.

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Thank you Grace, for making sure that we finally get those long awaited answers.

I’ve started to write a children’s album (one of my goals). Below are the lyrics for the first completed track, The Kiwi Fruit Blues.  There is music already composed for this but I haven’t recorded it yet.  In case your wondering - it’s 12 Bar Blues in G.

The Kiwifruit Blues

Verse
I don’t wanna be a kiwi because I’m fuzzy and brown
No, I don’t wanna be a kiwi because I’m fuzzy and brown
No one wants to eat me
and that’s what’s got me down

I tried to make some friends with some bananas and pears
Yeah, I tried to make some friends with some bananas and pears
But then someone got hungry
and then they weren’t there

Why am I so squishy? That just ain’t right!
I said, Why am I so squishy? That just ain’t right!
Be real careful when you hold me
Don’t squeeze me too tight!

Chorus
I’m singing the kiwifruit blues.
I said, I’m singing the kiwifruit blues.
So if you want a ballad
chop me up in a fruit salad
This is the kiwi fruit blues

Verse
I was named after a small bird that can’t even fly
Yeah, I was named after a small bird that can’t even fly
Although the bird is from New Zealand
they imported me from Italy last night!

They put me in this cold box with some dude named Grape
I said they put me in this cold box with some dude named Grape
He turned to me and told me
From here there’s no escape

Chorus
I’m singing the kiwifruit blues.
I said, I’m singing the kiwifruit blues.
So if you want a ballad
chop me up in a fruit salad
I’ve got the kiwi fruit blues

I’m singing the kiwifruit blues.
I said, I’m singing the kiwifruit blues.
If I end up forgotten
Then I’ll feel really rotten
This is the kiwi fruit blues

In a conversation with Tru about an inappropriate comic he placed on my desk:

Tru Huynh says:
excuse me sir
Tru Huynh says:
have you seen a webcomic of mine around somewhere?
Edwin Soto says:
yes, i saw your offering
Edwin Soto says:
it has been processed, cleaned, smelled, vomited, accepted then rejected
Tru Huynh says:
hmm both acceptance and rejection
Edwin Soto says:
no — read it again — accepatance THEN rejection
Edwin Soto says:
it’s a slippery slope
Tru Huynh says:
well i used and to indicate they both happened =P
Tru Huynh says:
slippery slope indeed

In case you were unaware of some awesome comic goodness being created by me, Andrew, Daniel, and Tru — it’s all up there on www.wevebeenframed.com. So far, so good. I like where it’s headed and hopefully we can post just about every day. GOOD TIMES!

I hope you are reading this post before NBC pulls it off.  I would intro this but it needs NO INTRODUCTION:

I bought this app for the iPhone and saw that it was available for the PC too. Very neat game — I hope to possibly do a series a videos of the iPhone apps I’m using, this included.

Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo.

Andrew, at one point, had gotten into a very entertaining conversation with a spammer.  I thought it was hilarious (we had also read some online).  I VOWED to wait until I got one through to my personal email account, and it has!  BEWARE LINK IS A GOOGLE NOTEBOOK LINK TO PORN! The email follows:

From: Galen Eaton
To: A crapload of People
Subject:Take her to the seventh heaven grow

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Galen Eaton <gesn24@gmail.com> wrote:
not house cheer smell floor.

http://www.google.com/notebook/public/16006380139427268822/BDRcoQgoQ2Ly8z90j/?gravewerzspmaitpewtyr3he

I decided to have some fun! Here’s my reply:

Dear Galen,

I really like your haiku!  I was trying to interpret its meaning.

“Seventh Heaven Grow” sounds like a garden that you would like to take your significant other to (may I suggest Strawberry fields in Central Park, NYC?) and “not house cheer smell floor” tells me that you are unhappy with her housekeeping duties? Taking her to a garden sounds like a great idea to get her motivated with housework.  Kudos to you!

I noticed you included a large group of us here.  I’m glad to see that you are making more friends.  Although be careful, I hear there are a lot of creepy people on the Internet.

I clicked on the link you sent me.  Is that a picture of your wife or girlfriend (whom I bet inspired the poem) naked?  I might add - she is LOVELY and the photos are very tasteful.

I noticed you use google notebook. I LOVE Google notebook. The link your page took me to required a credit card to sign in.  As I’m sure this is an error, I hope you provide me with some credentials to view more pictures of you and your family.

So how have you been?

Best Regards!

–
Edwin Soto

I’ll let you know if I get a reply back.  *crosses fingers* HERE’S HOPING!

We all grew up with an assortment of musical styles and have developed our own taste at or around our teenage years.  I have been haphazardly throwing around the word scrobble in casual language not realizing some of you have no idea what I’m talking about.  Frankly, just over a year ago, I didn’t know what it was either.

At first, when Andrew mentioned the idea behind the scrobbling service, Last.fm, I was curious but ultimately not interested in any of this whatsoever.  Honestly, I just didn’t see myself seeing any benefit to me.  Obviously, I have changed my tune (no pun intended).  I have used other cool services, such as Pandora, Playlist, etc and was just not excited about the prospect of this idea of scrobbling.

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