My friend, Katie, and I went to see Jamie Cullum at the Cobb Energy Center last night and it was an amazing show. He is so energetic and has a great stage presence. They also did a few unique and well chose covers like Rhianna, Radiohead and Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" which they did off the stage and out in the middle of the audience. At one point a girl (a hot girl to boot) ran up and started dancing with him and a few people came up to have pictures take with him in the middle of the song. At the end of the song he practically pulled people along with him to rush the stage shouting, "if you all come at once, they can't stop you!"

So I saw

 this story

yesterday. The story is about how a blogsite posted a blog about Facebook and AOL announced a partnership titled "Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login." Pretty standard stuff but this particular blog somehow became the #1 search result on google when you search for "Facebook login" resulting in the indirect ousting of all the internet's stupidest users. Apparently a great number of internet users go to facebook every morning by typing "facebook login" into google and then clicking the first link that comes up, without even reading what it is, mind you.
With that said, here's how it basically went down: Dumb internet users opened their browser (ie6 most likely) which came up with google since that was probably their homepage. They typed "facebook login" into google like they do every time they want to visit facebook. They click the first link that comes up but on this particular day they were taken to a blog called ReadWriteWeb which is primarily a red color scheme and looks nothing like facebook. They proceeded to read the story about facebook and AOL and then used the option to login with with their facebook account to leave a comment on the story. Of course, they thought this was just logging into facebook and didn't know for some reason why they were being forced to leave a comment. Needless-to-say, they left the comment anyway which resulted in one of the funniest comment threads I have ever read. Comments like "Ok If I have to I will comment,I love facebook so right now just want to log in if thats ok with you..lol Keep up the good work..." and "please give me back the old facebook login this is crazy................." were plentiful.
This whole realization to me has made me wake up to the type of people for which I am trying to make/build stuff. It has saddened me to no end. I don't even feel like getting out of bed anymore.
Anyway, the original blog with comments can be found

here.

Enjoy. (Note, they have since added a disclaimer in the middle of the blog telling people this is not facebook.)

"Midnite Vultures" is such an underrated album. Everyone talks about "Odelay" (which is great too) and "Sea Change" (which I don't why people it's so good). "Midnite Vultures" was nominated for a Grammy for Alternative Album of the Year up against Radiohead (neither of which won though). It's definitely my favorite Beck album.

I got to meet Wayne Coyne after the Flaming Lips show tonight! It was an awesome night.

I really don't write on here often enough. I just finished my new website at www.embeuu.com last night although I'm still going to build an iPhone only version too just because I can. I'm taking the entire week off work this week because I'm moving to a new apartment so I'll be spending the time painting and cleaning and packing and moving, not to mention, my brother and sister also moving this weekend so I'll have to help them too. Anyway, I'm excited about moving but not looking forward to all the actual work of doing so. The new place is going to save a lot money though which is the whole reason I'm moving. I really don't need to keep wasting money on this two-bedroom if I'm living alone, especially since I plan to quit my job and get a job in design or web development which will most likely pay a lot less than what I make at current job.

I had a really fun day with my family for Easter. I drove with my brother and his girlfriend down to my parents' house and we spent all day flying kites and playing frisbee. After that we went to see "Adventureland" which was ok but not nearly the comedy of sorts that the advertisements make it out to be. I hate it when they do that because I think I would have liked it so much more if I went in knowing what it was supposed to be like.

So Micki has moved out and now I'm going to be starting a new chapter of sorts in my life which will contain much less drama for sure since drama always follows immature people that want to do nothing but party and refuse to grow up. It's funny how she always passed judgment on the people on MTV reality shows when in actuality, she wasn't all that different from them. Anyway, I got a new couch since the old ones were hers but I haven't for sure decided if I'm moving and where to if I do. That's all still up in the air. I think I'm going to shave today or tomorrow to get rid of this beard and clean myself back up again.

My friend, Chris, looks a lot like Dustin Hoffman in the 70s.

I have a website up for my free-time, freelance design company now. And I've got a lot more projects I'm working on that will be added to the site soon.

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I put up the coming soon page for my personal website today. embeuu