Empire State of Mind (2009) from Jay-Z and Alicia Keys

First heard and enjoyed Empire State of Mind in my early 20s after graduating college.

Prince Siddhartha Book - illustrated children's book about the life of Buddha

Prince Siddhartha by Jonathan Landaw
Illustrated by Janet Brooke

See the Second Edition on Amazon

This beautifully illustrated book about the Buddha's life was read to me as a child and is still in my collection of books.

Custom iPhone ringtones and text tones

Skip to 4:55 in the video to see the steps in iTunes after creating ringtones in Ringtone Designer.

With a free iPhone app (Ringtone Designer) [requires iOS 4.3 or later] and a few settings in iTunes you can turn any piece of a song into a ringtone or text tone.  If you want to make your own recording, the $0.99 version of the app add this feature.

How to get the newly made ringtones into the Preferences window on your iPhone:

Sync your iPhone.

Click on the Apps option.

Scroll down to the File Sharing section and select Ringtones.

Choose a ringtone from the list and select Save to.  Save the ringtones to a folder on your computer.

Drag the ringtone files you put on the computer back into iTunes (music section).

Click on your iPhone in iTunes.

Click on the Tones option.

Make sure that "Sync Tones" is checked.  Click on Apply in the lower-right corner to put the ringtones on your iPhone.

After the iPhones finishes syncing, navigate to the following on the iPhone.

Utilities > Settings > Sounds > Ringtone

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Text Tone ideas for geeks, nerds, and people who grew up in the 90's.

Star Wars theme
Lord of the Rings theme
Banjo Kazooie sound effects
Banjo Kazooie themes
Zelda theme (cover on Guitar), like this cover by Sungha Jung
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Kokiri Forest guitar cover [Youtube]
Mario Kart
-- award ceremony music
Worms Armageddon sounds/theme music
-- (rough piano & guitar cover) or better sound quality, piano-only
Hi-Ya!
"Rocky Loves Emily" - 3 Ninjas
Guitar Strum (Greensleeves on Flamenco Guitar)
"I'm a Believer" - The Monkees (intro)
"I'm Yours" - Jason Mraz (cover by Sungha Jung)
"The Blood of Cu Chulainn" - intro

Full Tilt Pinball with Dragon's Keep table

Sometime between 1999 and 2002 I remember going to a friends house and really enjoying a "Dragon" pinball game on his PC.

Turns out this game was the Dragon's Keep table in the Full Tilt Pinball game included with the Windows 95 companion pack.

The 14.8 MB game can be downloaded here:
Full Tilt! Pinball download (Arcade action game)

Comedies with a heart

Mrs. Doubtfire
Groundhog Day
Big
The Terminal
Superbad
Knocked Up
Elf
Roxanne
What About Bob?

I pulled Groundhog Day from here: Amazon.com: Comedies With Heart

Sidekicks Quotes

You must realize that the greatest weapon you ever possess is self-control.

No anger. You are here to confront bricks. Not that stupid boy.

Gym Teacher: Cellini! I don't remember asking for your opinion.

Dad: What is that smell?
Barry: I don't know.
Dad: It must be a sewage backup around here.

When you learn to control them, you will have fewer dreams, but they will be richer ones.

Karate Event Announcer: Hey check this out. Here's a guy, gonna break bricks wearing an apron.

Chalini: He started it.
Gym teacher: If that's true kid, you have less brains than a woodpecker on an aluminum telephone pole.

Future Tanks

Future Tank for the Amiga (info and a screenshot).
Lemon Amiga - Games, Download, Emulator, Cheats & Forum

E-UAE
Amiga emulator for Mac.
Commodore - Amiga Emulators - Zophar's Domain

Based on what I found, the WinUAE for Windows does a much better job.
The Emulator Zone - WinUAE

The game itself could be downloaded here Commodore Amiga ROMS, letter F - page 10 of 10.

High School Comp CD: Vandals and Everclear

Comp CD from Freshman year of High School

Everclear - Songs from an American Movie

• Song from An American Movie
• Here we go again
• AM Radio
• Unemployed Boyfriend
• Wonderful
• When it all goes wrong again
• Baby Talk
• Misery Whip
• All Fucked Up

The Vandals - Live Fast Diarrhea

• Let the bad times roll
• Take it back
• And now we dance
• I have a date
• Power mustache
• Happy birthday to me
• Get in Line

Smells like teen spirit
In Bloom
Something in the way
Strung Out - In Harm's Way
Tilt - Weave and Unravel
Rancid - Just a feeling
NOFX - Kill all the white men

Favorite State Quarters

Delaware (1999) #01
Virginia (2000) #10
Rhode Island (2001) #13
Mississippi (2002) #20
Maine (2003) #23
California (2005) #31
Nevada (2006) #36
Nebraska (2006) #37
Colorado (2006) #38
North Dakota (2006) #39
Utah (2007) #45
Arizona (2008) #48
Hawaii (2008) #50

Things That Defined my Childhood

Movies
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Back to the Future
Dances with Wolves
Aladdin
Rescuers Down Under
Peter Pan
Toy Story

TV
Reading Rainbow
Captain Planet
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Mister Rogers
SeaQuest DSV
The Magic School Bus

Books
Chronicles of Narnia
Hatchet
Number the Stars


Other
Legos
Guiness Book of World Records
Eyewitness Books (Volcanoes)

Heads up 7-Up
Kickball
Line Tag

Monopoly
Sorry
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