Dave Kellam

Taking the passion a little a bit too far:

Melissa Salzmann, who took her 4-year-old son J.T., said the program was inappropriate for young children. “He was crying and asking me why the bunny was being whipped,” Salzmann said.

It’s kind of funny to tell you the truth. I want to see vidcap footage.

To the assortment of copy editors that read my site:

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!

And to anyone else who wants to fight my mad writing skills; How grammatically sound are you?

Got up early this morning to finish off the poetry portion of a take-home Math & Poetry exam that was due at noon. It involved creating found poetry; I made a found Haiku from sentences on the back of a Sun Chips bag.

The post mail proceeded to inform me that Queen’s has accepted my application to teacher’s college for next year. I’m going to take it, which means that I’ll most likely be certified to teach high school around this time next year. Ooo, scary. That was a nice high point for the day.

I spent the afternoon wrestling with the camp computers and failing miserably. The router wasn’t behaving nicely and one of the computers has a messed up windows installation that fails to reinstall, making the data on it a pain to recover. Then a bunch of girls who are moving into the house next year showed up with their mothers to look at the shithole that I live in. I didn’t know about it and was the only one around. It was a waste of my precious internet browsing time.

Alanah’s been sick the last couple of days; her parents were going to come up and take her to the hospital. I went out around 10 to get some food and stuff, she stopped by in the half hour I was gone. Left a message saying there was a five hour wait at the hospital, so she was going home for a couple of days. Boo.

Now I’m watching The Butterfly Effect by myself. I had the urge to post.

An NYT article claiming to have a heretical view of file sharing, in other words disagreeing with the RIAA. I’ve known this for years; I’ve been downloading music since 1998, or maybe 1999, back when it use to bring my Pentium 90 to its knees.

The industry response, titled “Downloading Hurts Sales,” concludes: “If file sharing has no negative impact on the purchasing patterns of the top selling records, how do you account for the fact that, according to SoundScan, the decrease of Top 10 selling albums in each of the last four years is: 2000, 60 million units; 2001, 40 million units; 2002, 34 million units; 2003, 33 million units?”

I remember learning, “Correlation does not causation make,” in a first year psychology class. Maybe the music sucked, maybe the economy was bad, hmm… think about it some more and then try to tell me that every album I’ve bought in the last 6 years hasn’t been influenced by mp3s or live shows.

Who: Grampa aka Crackmoney
When: Tonight (April 4th)
Where: The elegant Plaza Hotel

Bear witness to the first CD released on Bolderstone Records — Pop it up Son by Grampa. The website is pretty shaky right now, I was hoping to have a better site up by tonight, but school conspired against me. Go there and download some samples. There will be a cover to get in; you can also buy an album or mp3 cd.

To serve and protect, to serve and protect:

“Contrary to his normal habits, Teddy climbed inside a PC printer and was unable to get out because of his corpulence,” police in the northern city of Flensburg said in a statement, adding that they initially thought it was an April Fool’s joke

The cops are doing a bangup job in Germany. (article)