Simple test post from the wordpress iPhone app. Included is a pic from a recent hike.

As the title of the video says “Why every guy should buy their girlfriend a Wii Fit” , Guess I should put it on loop

Ahhh boo, looks like Youtube removed it, but I found another version.

If your not sure what she is doing head on over to the Nintendo Wii Fit Site.

Rumor on the net has it that this is the girl in a bikini on Flickr

Tahoe City Meadows,
originally uploaded by Gate-Way.

This is very close to the cabin in Tahoe City, in fact its about 25 min walk from the cabin. Each Year this meadow changes from snow, to a swamp, to a nice field. Just thought I would share this picture from Lake Tahoe. It’s been a while since I had a chance to update my blog.

Of course this was during Memorial Day weekend, usually this time of year its in the 70’s and shorts weather, but we ran into snow this time around.

I was fortunate enough to get invited to a screening of the new Indiana Jones movie that comes out later this week and I have to say I really enjoyed the movie, it brought back old childhood memories from the first one and kept the action going from the minute you sit down in your seat.

I have to say I really like this one and the story was great, I had heard rumors over the years that the next Indiana Jones would be about Atlantas and I think they finally decided to go with something else and have been hard at work on this new one. Harrison Ford as old as he is, he still does a great job in the movie and the action, humor and mystery is non stop.

Don’t worry I won’t give anything away but I did really like this one and I need to go back and watch the previous ones again, to see where it fits in my list of Indiana Jones movies I like.

Enjoy some photos from a private lunch after the screening, these are some props from the movie and of course these wont give anything away. They wouldn’t let us take pictures of the really cool stuff, and I agree it would give some things away.

Unfortunately I only had my shitty camera phone for these photos, oh well next time

Sorry for the poor quality, oh well, also I’m not going to post some photos due to the lack of potential spoilers… but if you want to see some more head on over to my flickr account also no spoilers there either.

I’m curious as to how this movie will do when it opens up next week, I do say I had a great time and getting up at 7am to catch the movie was worth it.

Head on over to nin.com or dl.nin.com

Here is a quote from Nin.com today, as pointed out in the free track Discipline they said in the ID Tags to visit NIN.com on May 5th… Happy Cinco De Mayo

“05 May 2008:HALO 27

Click HERE to get the new full-length nine inch nails record: the slip

(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)”

more..

as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.

the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.

for those of you interested in physical products, fear not. we plan to make a version of this release available on CD and vinyl in july. details coming soon.”

And if your live in the Bay Area, get ready because NIN is coming to town.

9/5/08 Oakland, CA [Oracle Arena]
Pre Sale: 6/12 (5:00PM)
On Sale: 6/15 (10AM)

The Crew over at NIN or Trent is at it again, giving away a free track titled “Discipline”.  You need to simply head on over to this site, enter your email and zip code, a email will be sent to you with a link to download this free track.

Here is a screen shot of the singles cover and we found something interesting looking at the id tags stating to visit www.nin.com on May 5th…  Hmm makes you wonder whats going on next.

Here is a screen shot of the Id Tag pulled from iTunes.

Trent seems to amaze me at the things they are pushing with web technology and releasing more media in digital format.  I hope just more artist pick up on this type of stuff and move to more towards digital downloads, screw the Record Companies!

The other day my friends and I wanted to check out an upcoming DJ show in San Francisco, so we followed the link from the site and it took us to ticketmaster, ok thats fine, i’m used to a bit of extra charges and I can usually add in few bucks here to get my ticket mailed to me or printed out, but low and behold, a $35 show ticket ended up costing me $52.30.

WTF is that about?

Thats an additional $17.30 extra added onto my ticket price. Holy outrage Batman, what the hell are they getting away with here. Ok let me look at my order again to make sure I didn’t accidentally order the gold plated ticket.

Here is the break down:

Main Ticket: $35
Total Convenience Charge: $9.56 (wtf thats not a convenience)
Order Processing Charge: $5.15 (you know processing feeds for cc’s are about 2-3%, thats about $1.05 buddy)
Ticket Fast: $2.50 (oh sure, I just wanted to print my ticket, so you charged me more than a stamp, envelope, paper and mailing it)

I could drove from my house, across the Golden Gate Bridge, paid the $5 fee to go across the bridge, then went down to the Warfield ticket office probably paid $37.45 (im taking into consideration 7% tax), That still leaves me almost $10, where I could of went to this cheap Thai place for some good ass spicy drunken noodle.

This is a complete outrage as to what these companies get to charge now. I mean things on the web are supposed to be cheaper. WTF kind of rip off is this Ticketmaster?

Sasha and Digweed, I need to have a nice chat with you guys at the show, this is really crazy, at least if they threw in a free drink or two I would be happy but I sure feel ripped off.