I’ve noticed that this seems to be the year of the remix/remake/sample.

Flo Rida has “Right Round” (which I kinda like…the g/f does not)

Someone covers a Phil Collins song…or maybe it’s Genesis. Sounds all the same to me.

Divine Brown samples Corey Hart’s (I apologize, on behalf of a country) ‘Sunglasses.’

I heard some chick (Kristina DeBarge, accoring to YouTube) today who sampled “hey hey goodbye.” Side note Kristina…sharpies aren’t for doing your eyebrows.

There’s a recent remake of Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac.

I know I’m leaving a bunch out and I know that this isn’t anything new. But, shit, I thought Hollywood was out of ideas with crap like “The Dukes of Hazard” and “Transformers 2.” This is almost pathetic.

If you can think of any others, please leave them in the comments.

Wow..it’s been a while since I last posted. Sorry ’bout that.

I’m a fairly uninteresting person and so little goes on in my day-to-day life that I’ve got basically nothing to talk about. I will try to change this though.

However, I come to you with an airing of grievances (and it ain’t even Festivus yet).

My biggest pet peeve are table manners. Poor table manners. Nothing pisses me off more than people who eat with their mouths open, offering up a wad of “cud” for the world to see. You are not a horse, you are a human being.

Slurping gets me too. OK, I get that there are some foods you can’t help but “slurp” (soup, for example). Dry foods (Ie mashed potatoes) shouldn’t be slurped (hell, no food should be). I was recently in the company of a family member who slurped every spoonful of cereal. I was ready to kill or worse by the time the bowl was empty.

Holding your fork/spoon like a shovel. How hard is it to properly hold a utensil? I knew a girl would would hold her knife/fork like she was going to stab someone (gripping them with a fist), jamming the fork into her meat and hacking away with the knife. It’s dead Jim!

Gulping/slurping your drink. There’s more water in the tap/pop in the bottle/etc. You can have more. Unless you’ve run a marathon, you don’t need to attack a drink.

In the same vein, scraping at the sides/bottom of a plate or bowl to get every single last drop of milk or steak sauce. There’s more. Children won’t starve in Africa if you empty that down the sink. I promise.

The worst. By a mile. Scraping utensils on your teeth. Why? Do you think you’re missing a morsel if you don’t? It’s like nails on a chalkboard for me. I had a friend who did that and I always wanted to jam the fork in their eye.

Am I perfect? No…didn’t say I was. But it’s like manners (please/thank you) or common sense. Is it that hard to be ‘civilized?’

The people to whom this is intended probably won’t read it, so you can leave the paranoia of “Is he talking about ME?!” at the front door.

I would be remiss if I didn’t note this day. Today, 65 years ago, the Allied Forces landed on the beaches of France. Their heroism in the face of death turned the tide against the Axis forces.

I share this quote from Lieutenant General Omar Bradley…”I…honor the valiant men who died. Every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.”

Was talking with my friend Roger last Friday and we were discussing browsers. I had asked if he had ever tried Chrome. He had and suggested I give it a try.

I may have found a new browser. I know Firefox has all the bells and whistles and IE is the most used but I’ve been impressed so far.

My comp is kinda pokey (maybe I should call it Pookie. Pookie, the Pokey PC) but Chrome is FAST. It loads up way faster then either FF or IE.

FF is great. I mean the add ons and tweaks you can have are very impressive. But it suffers from FLASH issues (it can/has bogged my comp down and I’m not the only one who has said the same) and it leaks. If you have a PC and are running FF, open the Resource Meter (Ctrl + Alt + Del) and you can watch the memory being used by FF increase like an odometer. Not good. (Also, I’ve heard FF wants to drop tabbed browsing…no, I like my tabs)

For me, IE8 has been a real dick. IE7 was ok but if I open a new tab…IE8 has to think about it, then releases IE once it decides to open a new tab. Could be my slow-ass computer but IE7 didn’t give me those headaches.

The only thing about Chrome is that it is fairly minimalist. No drop-down menus (along the top like IE/FF) and very few buttons. Slight learning curve but it wasn’t too bad.

So, in conclusion, if you’ve got a POS (or slight POS) computer…give Chrome a try. At worst, you just uninstall it and go back to what you were using before. Unless you get the “no install” version of Chrome…suitable for putting one file on a USB thumb drive and having your full browser ready to go.

Oh, one last thing about Chrome. It (like IE8) has a “porn mode” where it doesn’t keep track of anything you’ve done or sites you’ve visited. Not just for porn either…suppose you want to buy something for your sweetheart without them knowing. Easy peasy.