{"id":537,"date":"2009-08-23T20:37:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T20:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/2009\/08\/23\/yeah-yeah-im-being-an-alarmist-whatever-well-see-whos-still-standing-when-the-hampocalypse-arrives\/"},"modified":"2009-08-23T20:37:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T20:37:58","slug":"yeah-yeah-im-being-an-alarmist-whatever-well-see-whos-still-standing-when-the-hampocalypse-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/yeah-yeah-im-being-an-alarmist-whatever-well-see-whos-still-standing-when-the-hampocalypse-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, yeah. I&#8217;m being an alarmist. Whatever. We&#8217;ll see who&#8217;s still standing when the Hampocalypse arrives."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a crazy couple days, doing all kinds of cleaning, unpacking and even more cleaning.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also been slowly ripping a good portion of my CDs and putting the music onto my Zune.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been taking longer than I thought it would, but then again, I have more music than I remember!<\/p>\n<p>Check out this really cool music video, I&#8217;ve never heard of the song or the artist, but I really like the art style: <\/p>\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"400\" height=\"220\"><param name=\"height\" value=\"220\" \/><param name=\"width\" value=\"400\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5904993&#038;server=vimeo.com&#038;show_title=1&#038;show_byline=1&#038;show_portrait=0&#038;color=&#038;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"220\" width=\"400\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5904993&#038;server=vimeo.com&#038;show_title=1&#038;show_byline=1&#038;show_portrait=0&#038;color=&#038;fullscreen=1\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/5904993\">Two Weeks &#8211; Grizzly Bear<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1904617\">Gabe Askew<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I started reading the new Star Wars series, &#8220;Fate of the Jedi.&#8221;\u00a0 I flew through the first one, and just picked up the second one, I think the third one comes out pretty soon, but most of the rest won&#8217;t come out until next year.\u00a0 The strange thing is that all of the books are coming out in Hardcover.\u00a0 For whatever reason, Star Wars books have this awful way of being published where the more important ones come out in Hardback (and then a year later in paperback), and the rest in paperback.\u00a0 This was not a problem, but an annoyance, especially during The New Jedi Order since it was such a long series.<\/p>\n<p>I do realize I&#8217;m a dork.\u00a0 Just so you know.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ll stop.\u00a0 For now.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick, DC Metblog&#8217;s captain, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmbosstone.com\/2009\/08\/being-that-blogger-friend\/\">an awesome entry<\/a> on his blog about his circles of friends, and the reading of his blog.\u00a0 A lot of it I think applies to my own friends as well, although I would add that I always find it strange when one of my friends talks about what I wrote.\u00a0 One, because I never expect them to read my blog, and secondly, because like Patrick, I keep my blog primarily as a record for myself.\u00a0 But I am thankful to my readers, I am.\u00a0 I would like to find out a way to somehow automatically port comments from facebook over to my blog.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if that is possible, but I&#8217;ll start to do some research for that.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I think that&#8217;s it for now.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be ramping up Pittsburgh Metblogs as we get ready for the G20, but until then, I&#8217;ll catch everyone later, have a great one! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a crazy couple days, doing all kinds of cleaning, unpacking and even more cleaning.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also been slowly ripping a good portion of my CDs and putting the music onto my Zune.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been taking longer than I thought it would, but then again, I have more music than I remember! 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