This quote was both too good to pass up and too long for our random quotes section in the upper right. It’ll have to be now rare ’short’.

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

- Andy Warhol

Coosje van Bruggen died last week. For those who don’t know (and I’ll admit this is an obscure one) Coosje and her husband were artists who made really big versions of common things.

I know that no one is really all that shook up over the death of an obscure American artist and I’m no Photoshop master, but when I heard about this all I could think of was the photo below.

I can’t believe it’s been over a week since my last post.  I was doing so well!

Here’s a Sunday Sampler…cause I’m lazy.

• David Sop has some great baby handling tips that are posted here.
• Dan Quayle has a reputation for being a moron thanks to a disrespectful punk kid at a grade school. He didn’t however quip that he’d wished he’d studied Latin in school so he could have spoken to people on his tour of South America.  Check out the true story of how this came to be (boring) and some actual Dan Quayle quotes that helpe’d him solidify his reputation for being an idiot.
• As long as we’re talking about Latin, check out the Handy Latin page over at the MIT website.

That’s it kids. I promise I’ll do better. I’m also posting over at the other site too.

So I’ve added some Amazon ads to the site with some recommended products. These are all items that I own for the most part so don’t look here for gift ideas. What you should do though is always come here first before visiting Amazon.com. When you do, I get a little cut.  It doesn’t cost you any more either.

Thanks for your support.

I really, really want to like Microsoft but they just make it so hard sometimes. Back when I was flush with cash in Texas I decided the time was right to buy an MP3 player. It really isn’t right that someone who is as in to music as I am that I don’t own one. So I did some shopping, rejected the iPod as an option, and headed towards the Microsoft Zune. After many hours attempting to install the software on my laptop I gave up and returned my 30G player to Target just 12 hours after purchase.

I’ve since sometimes regretting returning the little piece of hardware. My laptop isn’t the best piece of equipment, in fact it hasn’t even been turned on in months, and my desktop is fairly modern and very current on updates – the Zune would have likely worked without issue.  But now I’ve come to realize that I’ve made the right decision.

At around 2 AM on December 31th 100% of the 30G Zunes locked up. It seems that the software writers over at Microsoft ‘forgot’ about  leap year which caused the small computers inside the players to get confused and just shut down. Engineers out in Redmond say that it should be okay later today if owners allow the battery to drain completely then recharge it, though a complete new Sync will likely have to be done for DRM reasons. They also say they should have a fix out by next  leap year, 2012.

So does anyone have a player out there to recommend?  Zune is out for good and I really don’t like the idea of an iPod. What else is there?  I need something big, really big…30G really wasn’t enough.