Dave Mancuso dot Com

Or thereabouts, anyway.

This store is on Boot Road just a few blocks south of Route 202. I have to visit it sometime–it looks like it has some great cheeses and other items.

Bye-bye, Vickie Phillips.

But you can find a lightbulb that’s been burning for 103 years right here on the Internet (the webcam is a recent addition to the phenomenon).

The Screensavers spent this week on robots, and tonight had a segment on “robots in history.” They each named their top three favorites, but here are mine:

1) Maria from Metropolis:

I’ve never watched all of Metropolis, but the robot (Maria) is etched into my mind (along with the guy who rotated the big clock hands for a living–it looked like a really critical job, right?).

2) Robbie the Robot from Forbidden Planet:

Billed by my Florida college campus theater as the movie with “the girl with the legs,” Forbidden Planet was awesome, with a young Leslie Nielsen as the straight-roled hero. Robbie rocked, and if you see a small resemblance to this guy, you’re right–“Robot” from Lost in Space was patterned after Robbie (yes, his name in Lost In Space was “Robot”–no joke).

3) Gort, from The Day the Earth Stood Still:

“Michael Rennie was ill the Day the Earth Stood Still”–three points if you know that lyric reference. A classic scifi movie from the fifties with a simple moral. Few people know that this movie was made from a science fiction story where the human Klaatu is the servant and robot Gort is the kindly master. Worth a viewing if you can see it, although Forbidden Planet is the most easily watchable of my three pics listed here.

So, what are your three top robots from history? I have a feeling that the guys from work will all pick Twicki from Buck Rogers (heh-heh).

Yep–that’s its offical name, apparently (not Daylight Savings Time–who knew?). Daylight-saving time begins this weekend.

Maybe.

Depending on where you live.

See this story for more details that you ever wanted to know.

I remember in 1973 we turned to daylight-saving time on Christmas Day by order of President Nixon because of the Energy Crisis. No lie.

See? Google is an an amazing thing. I’m not kidding–look halfway down the page.

I ran across a pic of David Mancuso on the Loft site on Sunday.

Definitely not me.

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See? With or without goatee, I’m my own guy.

I am thinking about growing my hair that long, though. Like Sister Catherine Immaculee in first grade said, “Always keep your hair long, David–that way I have something to pull when you’re not behaving.”

Anyone who thinks that children don’t pick up on things sometimes hasn’t seen their five year old spontaneously act out Bringing Down the House (complete with homeboy choreography) four months after it was shown at Uncle Keith’s house, with no advance notice.

Or at least a viewing? Check them out here.

Actually, I’ve seen a number of these, and they’re quite good.

Here are all the details (if you’re willing to spend $20 for the guide on how to prep your songs digitally and get the contract done).

If I recall correctly though, Brad told me that cdbaby.com can publish your songs on iTunes as well for a 9% cut.

The PowerPage seems to be pretty certain about this.

One more power bump with the same form factor before G5 PowerBooks hit sometime in the future with new form factor (the picture with the PowerPage article is an artist’s concept of a dream form factor, not what a real one will look like).

Hm. I wonder how long it will really take for a G5 PowerBook?