Sunday, September 11, 2005

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Find a Human

If you are calling your credit card company or cell phone carrier or bank and would like to talk to a human being, check out this list of phone system shortcuts. It's a list of large companies and the direct phone route to a person.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Play on, Player


On the left is the iPod Nano. On the right is the iPod Shuffle.
My birthday is Monday.

Name the Rapper

Can you match these rappers with their real names? (answers below)


Rapper
1. 50 Cent
2. Ol' Dirty Bastard
3. Coolio
4. Chuck D
5. Diddy (Puff Daddy)
6. DMX
7. Snoop Dogg
8. Dr. Dre
9. Eazy-E
10. Everlast
11. Flavor Flav
12. The Game
13. Ice Cube
14. Ice T
15. Jay-Z
16. LL Cool J
17. Method Man
18. Mystikal
19. Sir Mix-A-Lot
20. Nelly
21. The Notorious B.I.G.
22. Master P
23. Q-Tip
24. Redman
25. Busta Rhymes
26. Ja Rule
27. Twista
28. Vanilla Ice
29. Xzibit
Real Name
a) Trevor Tahiem Smith Jr.
b) Micheal Tyler
c) Carlton Ridenhour
d) William Drayton
e) Eric Wright
f) Cordazer Calvin Broadus
g) Percy Miller
h) Robert Van Winkle
i) Christopher Wallace
j) Curtis Jackson Brown
k) Erik Schrody
l) Jonathan Davis
m) Clifford Smith
n) Tracy Marrow
o) Artis Leon Ivey, Jr.
p) Jayson Taylor
q) Reggie Noble
r) Anthony Ray
s) James Todd Smith
t) Russell Tyrone Jones
u) Cornell Haynes, Jr
v) Jeffrey Atkins
w) Sean Combs
x) O'Shea Jackson
y) Andre Young
z) Carl Mitchell
aa) Earl Simmons
bb) Shawn Carter
cc) Alvin Nathaniel Joiner




Answer key:
1-j, 2-t, 3-o, 4-c, 5-w, 6-aa, 7-f, 8-y, 9-e, 10-k, 11-d, 12-p, 13-x, 14-n, 15-bb, 16-s, 17-m, 18-b, 19-r, 20-u, 21-i, 22-g, 23-l, 24-q, 25-a, 26-v, 27-z, 28-h, 29-cc

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Friday, September 02, 2005

Good Show

I was fortunate enough to see Coldplay two nights ago at the Germain Amphitheatre (Polaris) in Columbus. It was a great show even though we were on the lawn. I even enjoyed Yellow, and I've heard that song eleventy billion times. It was great to add one of my favorite bands to the list of people I've been fortunate enough to see in concert:

Ray Charles
Stevie Wonder
Phish
The Allman Brothers
Aerosmith
Foo Fighters
Ben Harper
Red Hot Chili Peppers
G. Love and Special Sauce
The Black Crowes
Lenny Kravitz
Galactic
Weezer
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Smashing Pumpkins
Tenacious D
Guster
Travis
Blues Traveler
Ziggy Marley
Gov't Mule
Jimmy Eat World
Phantom Planet
Barenaked Ladies
Cheap Trick
Huey Lewis and the News

Thursday, September 01, 2005