At the request of Mason Poe:
Q & A With Maple Streaming Quicktime
You may need a translation.

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YouTube Killed the Video Star at themuy
One of my favorite bands, which happens to be made up of my friends, has made a kick a$$ video that you should check out. Also, buy the record!
(tags: halfass luigi band video atlanta atl)

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Parent: Maple, what does the cow say?
Maple: Moooo!
Parent: Maple, what does the Austrian say?
Maple: Grüß Gott!
Parent: Maple, what does a German say?
Maple: Ich liebe Dich!
Parent: Maple, what does an Italian say?
Maple: Ciao Bella!
Parent: Maple, what does the Cajun say?
Maple: AIiiiiiieeeee!
Parent: Maple, what does the Coloradan say?
Maple: Fresh tracks in the pow pow!
Parent: Maple, what does [...]

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CC Era Scans – a photoset on Flickr
My buddy Jason posted a bunch of photos from our college era.
(tags: halfass history colorado photos scans coloradocollege college)

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While getting organized, or at least a feeble attempt at thinking about getting organized, I remembered this video from a couple months ago and thought I’d share. It is Maple singing “Pat A Cake” in the back of a rented van somewhere in the middle of Utah or Idaho during a January snowstorm.

Pat-A-Cake by [...]

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Apple vs. Apple BS
“The court will be treated to a demonstation of an iPod, but it is unlikely to play a Beatles song, as they have not been licensed for download and it would therefore be illegal. ”—totally false. Typical stupid journalism.
(tags: halfass ipod music mp3)

Hurricane Donation Earmarked for Bush Firm – Yahoo! News
Think about [...]

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Q: Maple, what do you have?
A: I have an elephant on my laptop.

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Willkommen .::Vienna Blues Spring 2006::.
“All of Vienna has the blues.”
(tags: halfass vienna wien festival blues music)

Eastermarket Schloß Schönbrunn
(tags: halfass wien vienna easter market shopping)

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What Happened To Dynamic Range
Great rant against compression
(tags: halfass sound noise compression mastering)

Metroblogging Atlanta: Driving 55 on the perimeter
Ha! Funny little experiment. I remember when I first moved to the ATL, the AJC did a study and found that the average speed on the Perimeter was 68 MPH.
(tags: halfass perimter traffic)

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As mentioned previously on this site, my friend Val is in town for a week or two as part of her ‘round-the-world trip. She came here directly from Prague, but was in Budapest before that, and SE Asia before that.
Tonight, we decided to dine at 7 Stern Bräu, a brewery and restaurant right near [...]

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Originally uploaded by scottpartee.

Behold the fifth most Interesting photo on Flickr for March 5, 2006. “Interestingness” must not take into account quality or popularity, which is neat.

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Hacking Made Easy
Horrifying.
(tags: halfass security cracking pirates identitytheft)

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So Close! XP on a Mac by the Man Who Came in 2nd
Clay, my friend who got Linux to boot up a 64-way Sun Enterprise 10000 back in 2000, comes in second in the Windows on Mac contest and gets Digged. Clay will be visiting me in Vienna next week, too!
(tags: halfass clay daemons geek [...]

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Updates are sparse once again, despite my best intentions. My main problem: I won’t blog from work and my evenings are best spent away from the computer and with my family and my Vienna. However, it’s been an interesting and busy time here.
We attended a party thrown by the U.S. Mission of the Member States’ [...]

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Gateway Grizzlies Introduce “Luther Burger”
Not the orginal, but a good start. (via Kottke)
(tags: haflass lutherburger grizzlies viakottke.) Update: Kottke responded to my comments and links to the Snopes article that, for the time being, gives Mulligans the credit for the burger’s invention.

Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon S3 / Amazon Web Services
WHoa.OK Lazyweb request: somebody [...]

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