Luke ‘n’ Bill

It may be the “punk rock” design put on the site or possibly my overly candid and risky conversation regarding RC Airplanes…or most likely my reference to a religious poop in the title of post talking about the Georgian UAV being shot down.

Whatever it was I have officially been blocked from the Skywest corporate headquarters by that handy internet filtering software.

Now lets see who else’s companies I can get red flagged from… guns, sex, drugs, communism, koala bears, terrorism.

There we go…that should about do it.  (by the way, thanks to Reid, my good friend that works at Skywest, for letting me know that I’m just too hardcore now…now quit browsing these dirty sites REID!)

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.

I just got a hard drive for my Xbox 360 this weekend so I’ve been going through the list of games you can download  to try them all out.  At the end of the list I found myself taking a trip down memory lane with Virtua Fighter!

Virtua Fighter was one of the first great 3D fighting games I had on a console growing up.  I was one of the 7 people who bought a Sega Saturn and I had both Virtua Fighter and Virtua Fighter II on it.  The great thing about Virtua Fighter is that they keep the same characters and just add a few here and there giving you tons of punch-kick-throw combinations along with a fist full of nostalgia.

I’m almost tempted to buy the game to do a little Drunken Kung Fu with Shun Di or some of those back breaking spears with Wolf Hawkfield!

The only thing better than the characters are the unbeatably cheesy taunts that the characters use throughout the game.

Now lets see if I can find a 360 version of Panzer Dragoon or perhaps Daytona USA…..”Daaa tone aaaaAAAaaaa” [in an oddly high pitched voice]

Well, I finally got around to it. I got everything set up for my own site, instead of just getting everyone else’s site online. (for work of course).

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