Replaced
Being replaced must feel really bad. Football players (and all athletes for that matter) experience this as do factory workers, cleaning ladies, McDonald's employees and all other jobs that can be performed by robots. What is even worse than being replaced by a robot is not knowing that you've been replaced. I just stumbled across these pictures from the eccentric, eclectic collection at The House of the Rock. Sorry Andrew, it looks like you were replaced 100 years ago by this automatic violin machine (a steam-powered robot?... that sucks!).
This organ is not automatic, but it does look really sweet!
Here are some more great pics.
Now Available
I know I have put up a lot of stuff today, but here is one more thing:
The Blog of Daniel
Enjoy.
Music Downloading
There are a couple of ways to hear new music. You can: talk to your friends (assuming you have... the ability to talk) and find out what they are listening to. Or you can listen to corporate radio to find out what some suites in an office want you to buy today. Or you can download random music.
I received a $15 iTunes card for my birthday (thanks) and decided to do the latter. Here's what I got:
Ray LaMontagne - Three More Days - This song is really cool. Ray rocks!
Lucinda Williams - Right in Time
Crooked Still - Can't You Here Me Callin' - Sound like Allison Krauss
Abigail Washburn - Keys to the Kingdom
Pieta Brown - Pass You By
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Sleepy Jackson - Good Dancers
Asobi Seksu - Lions and Tigers
Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage - this is more of a contagious song than a good song. I just can't help listening to it.
Porcupine Tree - Lazarus
Teddy Thompson - My Heart Echoes - This guy has a really nice voice (His version of King of the Road is great... but gay)
Philip Aaberg & Scott Mathews - The Warmth of the Sun/Surfer Girl - nice soft version of the Beach Boy classic.
Madeleine Peyroux - Half the Perfect World
I'll have a player up so that you can listen soon...
Back by Popular Demand...
Here are some more pictures of Daniel, sorry it has taken so long to post these... our camera is broken so taking new pictures is kinda hard.
More coming real soon...
Ndola, Zambia
This is a slide show that the Wegener family put together of their home in Zambia (many of the pictures were taken by Michal a few years ago).
What's My Name?
I guess there are some bloggers out there playing tag. My Mom got tagged and has now tagged me... thus, this post: (oh, and one note before you read on, I hate telling other people what I think traits of myself are because they probably think "yeah right, if he only knew!")
W - White - the color of my skin. Though it's not really white, we only say it is to make really white people feel good. It's more of a "flesh" color if you ask me.
I - Interested - There are things that I am interested in. Some things I am not. But "I" stands for the ones that I am.
L - Light - This, the first of the "L"s stands for light. Compared to the United States Ship, Carl Vinson, I am light. Did you know that the Carl Vinson, a Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier, weighs 100,000 gazillion megatons (according to Wikipedia)!!!
L - Lighter - this is a cop-out since I didn't want to come up with another word with "L".
I - Indigo - There are many men in the world who claim to only know of five colors (six tops if you consider "camouflage" a color). I however know of many more names for those same colors. Indigo, for example is just another name for "darkish medium purplish blue".
A - Anti - There are some people who always say "I'm all for it!" Well I'm not. There are some things that I am not for: Public Urination, for example, is one thing that I am adamantly apposed to.
M - Mxolisi - Okay, this really isn't a "trait" of mine, it's actually just the name of a child in South Africa. But It's a really fun name to say (you have to cluck the "x" - ending the cluck in the "o" sound: Mmm-[cluck]+oh-leesee). Daniel loves it when I say this name.
So there you have it... so now, who should I tag?