Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 9:27AM Apparently bands still make videos and this one is pretty cool. I wonder how many takes it took? Honda claims this was done in one (not pieced together from several takes):
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 9:58PM Rules:Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.(To do this, go to "notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 8:02PM 
Don't worry, Mike. We're good.
I assume that my blog showed up in the Google results because I had mentioned in a post a few weeks ago that one of the people I follow on Twitter is a person calling themselves "Hot Amish Chick" who is certainly fake but quite amusing in their irreverant posts about being Amish and using the Internet. However, the fact they found my post by searchin about the Hot Amish Chick on Twitter isn't noteworthy. What's noteworthy is the words they actually searched upon "twitter hot amish chick real or fake". I wonder if they got their answer? That Google is good.Monday, July 7, 2008 at 8:39PM Every once-in-awhile something shows up on my screen and I grab a quick screen cap to document it for no particular reason.
Here are two such images:
Who's error do you think this was? Was Google really down or was Vista acting up?
Blind Melon, Sister Hazel and Seven Mary Three in Indianapolis? June 20 was a heck of a day for fans of late 1990's rock to buy concert tickets in the Circle City.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 10:02PM I must admit, I feel a little left out as Iowan living in Indiana. As you may have heard, 2008 is an election year and thus for the last ten months or so the political world has been focused on my home state.
You see for one out of every four years the little Tall Corn state in the middle of flyover country is the focus of the east coast (if not the free world) as those with the odd wish of leading this country duke it out amongst the unions and legions halls to win this funny thing called a "caucus". Not only, a caucus, I s'pose, but the first caucus of the season and thus the initial barometer for whomever will represent each party on the first Tuesday of November.
This "first in the nation" status does more than put Iowa into the lead story on The Today Show each morning, it also puts Iowans into the (sometimes precarious) position of being spoken to, advertised at, polled, proded, and pictured by every candidate, campaign, and news service that matters.
It's kind of neat.
Where else in the country can a little town(1) of less than 8000 people draw two of the most intriguing and diverse political figures of modern times like Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton to march in the same Independence Day parade?
Indiana gets none of it.
Caucus/primary season begins tomorrow and I've yet to see one political ad or get one phone call asking my opinion or asking me to support a candidate. I'm not necessarily complaining - those can get annoying - they are all for good reason. I've always felt like a big part of the election process. On top of voting in 1996 and 2004, I've caucused twice, for Harkin in 1992 (I was underage and probably not supposed to be there) and for Edwards in 2004 (yep, my record's not great). In 2000, I spent a big part of my summer fielding phone calls from Republican campaign staffers asking me to get my "frat brothers" to vote for their guy at the Straw Poll (in exchange for keg parties - no joke).
I'm fairly disenchanted this year. The candidates either don't care about my vote yet (as Hoosiers we don't caucus, er, primary until May when the race will all but be decided) or assume that I'll vote red (I won't).
Oh well.
As a side note, I mentioned that the caucuses can get a little annoying to Iowans. It doesn't mean they don't like their role in the process but it sometimes goes a bit over the top. To that degree, Jason Walsmith (of The Nadas) and Kyle Munson (apparently of the music critic ilk at the Des Moines Register) put together a satirical little youtube video that I caught through an RSS feed and enjoyed:
(1)Clear Lake, Iowa
Monday, September 17, 2007 at 10:05PM I boldly predicted that the Cyclones would most likely go winless after watching the UNI debacle in person. I'm very happen to report that I was wrong. As you undoubtedlby, have heard, the Cyclones took the Hawkeyes and their 17.5 point favoritism down (and how!).
I'll write more on this later but I put our pictures up on picasa so I thought that I'd get them linked here.
Friday Night before the Big Game out at People's and Shorty's in Des Moines:
Game Day!:
Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 2:53PM 
There were eight of us (or eleven depending on your definition of "us") and none had ever been to the event in any of the prior years so we weren't sure what to expect. We knew that the tickets paid for food and drinks throughout the four hours and that the band would be there but that is about it.
Speaking of Chipotle, the band was setup right behind them. Literally right behind them. There wasn't so much of a dance floor as the place the Chipotle guys were working and then Mike and the boys singing and playing. We snuck through the vendors and tried to re-create a mini-version of People's right here in Indy (and I think we did a pretty good job). We met a couple new friends - other Hoosier fans of Hello Dave and together we lamented the fact this probably wasn't the type of show the band was hoping for to make a surge into the City. The four of us sang along to every song (even the cover of Tom Petty's "Last Dance with Mary Jane" with obvious local references) and our other friends filtered in and out as their interest waxed and waned. It pretty much turned into our own private show.
As the afternoon started to come to a close, we noticed that the combination of free drinks and "tasting glasses" made it hard to track our individual amounts of consumption. We paid a little for that later on but nonetheless it was a great time. Now if we could only get The Nadas to make a stop in Indy...
1. Extra wide not tall 2. Not necessarily "Indy's" since several were from restaurant chains