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this little diversion comes courtesy of kal. (i'm sticking it on my radio webpage, too.)
i got a pretty good giggle out of this this morning. (though i'm not ashamed to admit "out of the blue" was one of the first tapes i ever bought.)
speaking of music, since i'm here at the station all day, i'm inspired to write about musical sorts of things.
i had a thought on the way to work, which was a little surprising, as i was (and still am) half asleep (but the paycheck will be HUGE! well, maybe a little bigger than usual, anyway)- not exactly the ideal condition for yours truly to come up with brilliant plans.
here goes: find the connection between the following pairs of bands. it may take one step...maybe more than one....possibly more/fewer steps than i need. at any rate, if you have time to kill, take a crack at the list. i'll try to remember to put up my answers after a few folks have a taken a shot. (i predict larry, penny, kal and kristin will be all over this. digitalicat, however, will be too busy making obscene phone calls.)
let me use this one as an example, since it'd be a pretty tough one to get (unless you're as much of an 80s music geek as i am):
u2 -->the cult
bono of u2 was good friends with michael hutchence of inxs (in fact, during a concert right after michael died, "one" was dedicated to his memory), who was up for the role of jim morrison in the doors...a role currently being played (on tour) by ian astbury, of the cult.
(yes, i fully realize the magnitude of my musical geekiness....and i can cook too!)
your turn:
l.a. guns --> blind melon
depeche mode --> erasure
michael jackson -->george harrison
chic -->duran duran
alice cooper -->new edition
okay, that should keep you busy for a little while.
rest assured that i'll be back- it's going to be a long day.
finally- one of those pictures i promised you a week ago. nothing like delayed gratification, eh?
there i am, braces and all, with montezuma's castle (arizona) in the background.
find more pictures from my trip here.
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Michael Jackson-->George Harrison
I of course take the easy one. He owns, what, half the rights to the beatles music catalog.
All the rest have me stumped, my queen.
actually, i had a different connection in mind. i was going for just george harrison, not the whole group.
i'm a little slow on the "my queen" part.....i didn't notice it at first.
but it gives me a great idea in case i do this sort of thing......
btw, on your mj-->gh connection, think "weird al"
i mean, you don't have to, but if you want a more challenging link....
or something like that.
Yeah, see, now you sound like an old aquaintance's programming professor. The prof wanted them to write a program that accomplished a certain thing and told them it would turn out to be a certain number of lines of code. this aquaintance did the program using about 50% less lines of code than the prof thought would be nessesary and the prof tried to tell him he failed the assignment. the aquaintance told teh prof, "no, you never said we had to use a certain amount of code you just said it would turn out to be a ceratin number of lines. My program gets the job done more efficiently and therefore is right and less time consuming to build and repair." Prof passed him with hihest grade in class.
along those lines:
Michael Jacson owns part of the beatle music catalog, george harrison was a beatle.
as for the more difficult link, I have no clue. but, doesn't matter, see explaination above.
I can't wait to see what you do with "my queen". whatever it is it will be entertaining
so, you're calling me "anal-retentive", aren't you?
i suppose i can deal with it, as long as i'm stil your queen.
i had no idea alice chopped the head off new edition. that wasn't the connection, though.
No just more knowledgable, and willing to take the long way.
I am just lazy, but, it is saturday, I am off work, and have not really moved form my room this morning. Why would I put the extra effort in if I am right without it?
Duff, meet Roy. My other musically knowledgable friend. We used to change radio stations and see how fast we could name songs and artists. Back then i was quick, now, not so much.
roy's passed through here before. (i'm too lazy to look up posts- forgive me.)
at any rate, good to see you again, roy.
so you're saying your skills have atrophied to the point that i could beat you?
i mean, despite you being older and worldlier and whatnot.
Yes, that is what I am saying. Now if I turned the station I probably know the words bu the title and artist, unless it is one of my favorites, will almost definitely be beyond me.
Now about the older and worldlier comment...
you are older.....the worldlier part is assumed.
Okay, I just thought you were trying to call me old. And being as that I am not too much older than you I would have been insulted. But, now I will let you continue with your worldlie assumption.
you're slightly older. hang on- let me visit your profile and figure out by how much.
uh...yeah....mr. p.i. who gives up nothing personal about himself.....
you're still older- i have just under a month to go before the big 2-7.
you have finally figured it out. the second reason I have not posted my pic. Small world.
Example: My neighbor in philly used to come to st. louis to visit his aunt and uncle for a month each summer. he is my age. His aunt and uncle live in a neighborhood that is approximately a 1/2 mile from the neighborhood i grew up in. He used to hang out with people I knew back 15 years ago. Small world.
Long story short you are approximately 8 months younger than myself.
Mesa Verde? Or just another location of cliff dwellings?
and if that is the pic you were talking about earlier than it wasnot coming up for me either.
I'm jealous of the pic. I wanted to go there when I was living in az. oh well. btw, did you know there are a lot of people that don't secure their WANs? I hopped online and I'm not even paying for it at home.
Yep, duff's sis, mine for some reason will be secure sometimes and not others. Being that I have no computer skills to speak of I can't figure it out. Also when I am out working every so often i pirate someone's signal to get online.
larry: not finally- i've had that reason in the back of my mind for quite a while.
it's just more fun to pretend you're secretly hideous.
i hadn't realized the picture was up already.
my profile pic was the one misbehaving, though it seems to be working now.
onto the matter of birthdays: that'd make you 1977, and therefore, old.
jeez- what a geezer.
forgive me, i have dial-up. what's a WAN?
Wireless Access Network
And who says I'm not hideous?
Hi-ho, sorry to bust in on the shameless flirting ;), but for MJ>GH, how about
Michael did Ebony and Ivory with Paul, who was of course a Beatle with George?
Weird Al? Well, both Al and Michael used Eddie Van Halen (unless I am completely wrong Eddie did do the guitar work for "Eat It", as he did "Beat It"), but I have no idea how to get to George Harrison from Weird Al.. Have to work on that...
And... compared to me, Mossy, Ms. Shagwell, and even Digi, you're both young 'uns...
i didn't say you weren't...then again, if women are hitting on you, you can't be that bad.
Thanks Kal. I love feeling like a young bastard every once in awhile.
Duff, not often enough for my tastes, but, I will take that as a compliment anyway.
kal:i was looking forward to your creativity. do you have any of weird al's 80s albums, by any chance?
and i can hang with the older crowd because i am mature beyond my years.
or maybe it's just because i make you guys laugh (or try to anyway.)
or that they are dirty old men and women but you just can't look for the negative in people can you. :)
i try to give benefit of the doubt.....but once i'm crossed, that's pretty much the end of it.
sounds familiar
hmmm...i don't have any long lost brothers- to the best of my knowledge, anyway.
There are actually two types of WANs. One is Wide Area Network, which is actually normal internet access. (LAN is local area network) The one that I meant to say was the wireless access network which larry was talking about....I was going to correct myself in case someone thought I was talking about the first WAN. The wireless is a network that you can set up providing that you have a cable modem, dsl, or t3. pretty much anything that can become an ethernet system. You can do it off of dial up, but it won't work very well. the cable modem, for example, is actually a router that goes out to the cable company's switch or hub. The router can be set up so that you can attach it to a base station for wireless use. the big thing on how well it will work is the amount of bandwidth that you have to work with.
Larry, you should have a way on your computer under whatever wireless thing you use to set up security features. I know on apple it's under wireless security. It basically is an encryption system with keys so only those that you want to have access to your wireless network will be allowed on.
Hope that helps in allowing you to secure your network.
sorry bout the long posting.
no need to apologize, kiddo.
the technical stuff makes my head hurt, though.
or is it lack of sleep?
it makes my head hurt too, so i guess i'm slightly masocistic for being a network security major and doing what i do for work.
why don't you have aim up?
the above is suppose to me....just pulled a mama
eh- lazy, i guess.
Aw come on, you can admit it to me. You linked to that first guy because he is kind of cute. lol
actually, he left a comment on one of my previous posts, so i wandered over to his blog, where i found the yoda thing....which i think is hilarious.
thanks for stopping by.
Hey - isn't WAN Wide area network? And LAN is local area network? WANs are basically bigger LANs?
And, re Weird Al: Actually I have a couple of Dr. Demento albums, and a slew of Dr. Demento shows I taped off the radio while in junior high. They are among my most precious possessions (ha ha).
Erasure/Depeche Mode: Vince Clark was original to both DM and Erasure.
As to the others, I have no idea.
Although I do know the guys from Chic became producers (Madonna's Like a Virgin) maybe the connection's there...
"u2 -->the cult" that sounds like a new game: 6 degrees of musical separation.
and you made it in only 3.
I meant WLAN...i was smoking crack at the time that I wrote it out. Sad being that I had this info (the LAN and WAN) shoved down my throat while in the military and WLAN in my network security classes. So here is the proper breakdown:
WLAN for Wireless LAN
WAN for Wide Area Network
LAN for Local Area Network
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