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Two days, two awesome shows. Playing a 1 hour set each day, including some acoustic songs, Rancid blew their audiences away at Emo’s Austin. Thei played a bunch of songs from all their albums including some Operation Ivy songs, managing to distribute their “Hits” pretty evenly across both days, so if you went to only one show you still got a good deal. If one night they played Time Bomb, the other they played Ruby Soho, if you got Roots Radicals, the next day got Salvation, etc.

I had tickets for the first day and after witnessing the show and the insane crowd, I began pondering if I should go the the Monday showing, after much thinking I decided to do so. I don’t regret it.

As if Quicksilver is not useful enough, the brilliant folks of blacktree recently released Visor. These people are productivity enabling machines.

Update: I just noticed I didn’t explain what visor actually was. It is basically a drop down terminal window, similar to the console in FPS games.

Brilliant, just brilliant

TextMate has a new Blogging bundle. I’m just testing it out here.

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I just got back from a night at the Alamo and R. Kelley is probably the most retarded person ever, he rhymes “in” with “in”, dresser with baretta, and he’s proud of it too.. Check out these deep lyrics…

Then under the dresser 
He looks at the closet 
I pull out my Baretta 
He walks up to the closet 
He comes up to the closet 
Now he's at the closet 
Now he's opening the closet...

profound shit, I’m telling you.

I was anxiously waiting The Sopranos season finale today, it turns out it’s next week, they are giving 4 encore episodes today, bummer.

I just got back from seeing X-Men: The Last Stand. I was really worried when they changed director and writer, and my worries came true. It’s not a bad movie, but it is totally devoid of character development, reducing the movie to a summer blockbuster. One funny thing though is that they reference I’m the juggernaut, Bitch! in the flick.

I got to Houston on Thursday and when I started using my MacBook Pro, I noticed that my battery died rather quickly. I charged it up, tried again, fifteen minutes later it was dead again. I’m not sure how long my battery has been fried (although if I would have to guess, I would say from the storms a few weeks ago) since I mostly use it plugged in with the new display.

Well, today I made an appointment at the Apple Store in Galleria for 2:10PM, by 2:25PM I was walking out of the store with a new battery. Apple service rocks! (In the US at least).

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A fallen tree in front of IBM, those storms were strong!

An interesting essay analyzing Bob Marley’s Career.

Geoffrey Philp’s Blog Spot: Bob Marley and the Seven Chakras: “If you are a big tree, sings Marley in a perfect mixture of Rastafarian mythology and King James Bible lyricism, we are the small axe (Small Axe)”