The following is a very long rant on flying model aircraft…so if you’re not up for it, I’d stop here.
I started writing a little about my hobbies a while back and so I figured I would continue it on with a little about hobbies that I’ve had in the past. I’ve always been someone that gets busy with one thing or another and depending on the activity, it may just catch and turn into a hobby.
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Being the super modern and trendy shop we are, we were listening to some Skynyrd the other day at work… Well actually it was because Joe has it on his iPod and Skynyrd pretty much rocks your face off.
So when Freebird starts up I instinctively yell “Play Freebird!” and it brought up the question of where that started. For some reason I had decided to fill that corner of my mind previously with the answer by looking it up on good ol’ Wikipedia and gave the quick explanation. So here is a great bit o’ knowledge for you to nibble on and really just find a good replacement in your brain for that calculus proof you forgot from college.
It has become a popular culture cliché for the audience of almost any concert to shout “Free Bird” as a request to hear the song, regardless of the performer or style of music. … This can be traced back to Skynyrd’s first live album, 1976’s One More From The Road. Skynyrd did not play the song during the main portion of the concert, or even in the encore performance. Instead they saved it for their second encore. After leaving the stage following the first encore of the concert, the crowd was riled by the apparent omission of Skynyrd’s signature song. The crowd then began chanting “Free Bird, Free Bird …”. No one left the auditorium. The band then returned to the stage for a second encore and upon taking the microphone Van Zant asked the crowd, “What song is it that you wanna hear?”, which was immediately followed by several more shouts of “Free Bird”. This interaction is recorded as an intro to the song on the album, and the band responded with a 14-minute version of the song.
If you’ve got 5 minutes to burn or even if you don’t, you need to check out this link to http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/04/21/fun-from-yesterday/. Some guy took a bunch of Atari 2600 games and did a little photoshopping on them for a good laugh. I definitely got a kick out of it.
I would have to say my personal favorite would have to be “Dude - We shouldn’t have done that acid, my hand feels like Twizzlers… oh, man, Twizzlers”
I was inspired by my most recent RSS subscription to Daily WTF (which by the way I’ll need to updated my links on the right over there). They have there share of WTF error screens on their site, so I figured I would add one that I ran into lately.
Sometimes google just gets confused.