Make sure you take a look at the photos towards the bottom.

http://www.indy.com/events/view/75129?end_date=2008-08-09&start_date=2008-08-09

This has got to be the coolest thing I've seen on the web in a long time:

http://goosh.org

I just stumbled across a cool band called Glass Hammer last night. Some pretty damn good Prog Rock. Like a combo of Yes, Rush and Kings X.

Sveet.

To all interested, I have a question:

How would you define how ‘pornified’ something is?

Rush rocks!

Ok, I know that just about everyone who reads my blog is rolling their eyes. But I am continually amazed that there is so much good music out there that I have passed by.

As many of you know, I an a HUGE Yes fan. Yes, is of course, the consummate Progressive Rock band. And I also love many other Prog Rock bands . Prog Rock is one of my "things", as the kids say. But for a long while Rush, another of the Prog Rock legends, has not really been a part of my listening spectrum. The reason is that many years ago when I was in middle school, when all my friends and I were just getting into Classic Rock, there was a little falling out. I discovered Yes. One of my other friends, Jeff, discovered Rush. We brought our discoveries to the group, and there was some dissension. The mainline of the group seemed to reject both, keeping with the party line of Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin. Jeff and I however, continued to pound the drums of Rush and Yes. And because of that a resentment of Rush took root withing my musical tastes.

Since then I have pretty much not paid Rush much attention. Oh how wrong I was! In recent years I have opened up to Rush a bit more, realizing the bullheadedness of my youth was completely unfounded. Last weekend hilhas1 and I went to a Rush concert here in Indy. WOW! It was freakin' awesome! Why, oh why, Lord God did I not realize this before?

So Yes, now I am also a die hard Rush fan. Jeff, if you are out there, you were right as well.

Does anyone out there know of any really good Java programmers in the Indianapolis area that have Spring and Hibernate experience that are looking for a job? I have a big hole in my team right now, and man, is it hard to find experienced programmers in Indy . . .

This week, July 9th-15th, is Nude Recreation Week! No, it is not anything dirty, it's a week long celebration to encourage people to sit back, relax, and try life naked! Try doing something nude, from Telecommuting to work to Nude Gardening.

To find out more about Nude Recreation Week, try out the American Association for Nude Recreation or The Naturist Society websites.

Or if you are in the Chicago/Indiana area and want to go somewhere nice to relax in the sun au natural, try out the Lake O' the Woods Club.

Just thought I'd pass on a cool article:

AMD Dual Core vs Mac Plus

It seeks to put metrics around a fact that many of us realize in the backs of our minds but don't want to admit: All the bells and whistles and coolest, latest tech hasn't really improved a damn thing. It just made everything more complicated.