How Does It Know?

My wife got this Etch-A-Sketch at work, and gave it to me last night as a gift.

I attempted to write “Thank you” on it, as an expression of my gratitude, before I realized that Etch-A-Sketch is hard and not that much fun.

She replied, “You’re welc”.

I inadvertently work on making software for Henry Ford Health System. My wife inadvertently has a part in making advertising websites for Ford Motor Company.

Henry Ford is all up in our grill.

Scrabulous on Facebook is no more

Someone brought it to my attention that they could not listen to the songs directly from Part Time Songs, and they get an error having something to do with the ID3 tags when it opens in Windows Media Player… Anyone who reads this, could you test that out and let me know? I haven’t been able to get it to happen on my computers. Just go over there and click on the MP3 and let whatever media player you use open it and see if it plays. Also let me know if you get an error?

I swear this is a testing thing, and not a way to drive you to my other site that you might not be interested in for my own nefarious purposes. Or is it…?*

click here to go there (direct link to mp3)

*It’s not.

Since I love random praise from strangers (in reference to my music, although if you’d like to praise me for other things, feel free), I Google myself sometimes. Today I found that I have one fan on iLike, some woman in Seattle who says “Listen to CHECK YOUR POCKETS: http://www.myspace.com/sunilsawani - smoothness of Jose Gonzales, fresh peppiness of Beatles, ease of My Morning Jacket…” and “Just a lovey [sic] group of sounds!”… Anyway, I thought those were interesting comparisons. I haven’t ever heard much Jose Gonzales, but I am pretty sure I am nothing like him. But hey, random praise is much appreciated, and I’m always interested in hearing the comparisons. Sometimes people are pretty much right on and I have to admit it (like when an acquaintance, upon seeing The Low Hello perform said “I know what you’re like! A cross between Weezer and Neutral Milk Hotel!”, and I had to say, “Yeah, you’re kinda right, I guess.”)…

Anyway, because of this, I was inspired to actually sign up for iLike and also uploaded some songs at Last.fm… Thank you random Seattle lady, for making me make an effort, albeit small.

Remember when I was complaining about the volume of TV ads here? Well, I just heard about a newish bill called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, or CALM, that proposes to lower the volume of those annoyingly loud commercials. So someone (U.S. Rep. Anna G. Eshoo) has noticed (and it’s not just me), and there’s a possibility something might be done about it! Government, sometimes you can be pretty OK.

Posted a new song up at Part Time Songs. Check it out.

I ran into this while taking a walk around the building I work in, in Detroit.

They are running out of the numeral 4 for gas station signs. They just weren’t prepared.

I found this pretty odd. The backstory for why this guy did this is also odd. Recreating the Salt March in Second Life? Sure, why not…

How to build a 17 foot tall cardboard Gandhi

(link via Ultrabrown)