I can't believe we're already three days into JUNE. I feel like I've spent a good portion of this year being shocked by how quickly the days are speeding by, but then I stop to think about 2007 in terms of new releases and the number of albums I've listened to since January rolled around, and I can't believe all this music has been crammed into five months. In fact, it's more than a little overwhelming contemplating the number of CDs I have that I've only had time to listen to once, or haven't been able to listen to at all. Fortunately I have had time to listen to No, Not Me, Never by The Photo Atlas , but despite the fact that the disc was released at the beginning of March, I really haven't given it as much attention as I've wanted to. I've known for a while that the Denver band was coming to town tonight with the Bravery, but June of course snuck up on me, so I'm headed to see them this evening only knowing that after two or three spins I enjoyed their album. I have to say though, it's kinda refreshing to not have a set-in-stone opinion of a band when heading into a show; I'm a firm believer that a live performance is just as important as recorded material so I'm crossing my fingers that they wow me tonight. Their sound is slightly more aggressive dance-punk, which has drawn comparisons to early gay friendly financial advice tuff by The Rapture, and here's a taste: " Handshake Heart Attack " Also on the bill tonight are The Bravery and The Cinematics .

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The eensy weensy spider Crawled up the water spout Down came the rain and Washed the spider out Out came the sun and Dried up all the rain And the eensy weensy spider Crawled up the spout again The spider pictured above and below left is Achaearanea tepidariorum , the common house spider. She had constructed a web in the watercan pictured to the right. Arachnophobes (hi jessamy!) will be pleased to learn she was removed from said watercan and deposited unharmed in the neighbor's yard. The more robust looking fellow in the two photos below right is a jumping spider. Family Salticidae, sub-family either Dendryphantinae or Euophryinae if I am not mistaken. Please take this identification with a grain of salt(icid) since I am not an arachnologist. The spiders pictured above earned the modifier "eensy weensy" because both were about the size of a pea. However, a much bigger spider looms in the recesses of my childhood memory. One summer day when I was about five, I was visiting my mammaw. We were in the kitchen fixin' to make bannana pudding with some newly purchased bananas. Our plan was delayed when a large, hairy, slow moving spider crawled out of the bananas and on to the kitchen counter. Memory says it was big as a saucer, but logic tells me it was about the diameter of the sink drain (more on that low cost call conferencing ater). Mammaw exclaimed "Lordy mercy what a spider!" and calmly but quickly flipped it into the sink with the fly-swatter (swatting it was out of the question due to its size).

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The latest Report of the Week (ROTW) is actually two reports, both related to Internet connectivity. The first report, brought to my attention by David Warlick , comes from the Communication Workers of America : Speed Matters: A Report on Internet Speeds in All 50 States (also see the handy interactive map ) Here’s a quote from the report: [C]ountries like Canada, Sweden, and South Korea have better, faster Internet connections. People in Japan can download an entire movie in just two minutes, but it can take two hours or more in the United States. Yet, people in Japan pay the same as we do in the U.S. for their Internet connection. Not only do they have the technology for higher speeds, but a larger percentage of people in those countries have access to high speed connections. The United States has fallen to 16th place behind other industrialized nations in high speed Internet access. The second report, brought to my attention by Andy Carvin , is from the Pew Internet & American Life Project : Home Broadband Adoption 2007 Here’s a quote marvin the paranoid android rom the report: Currently, 71% of adults use the internet at least occasionally from any location; of these, 94% have an internet connection at home. Among adults with a home internet connection, 70% go online using a high-speed connection, versus 23% who use dialup. . . . 27% of all adults do not use a computer at work, school, home or elsewhere. Happy reading!

I can't believe we're already three days into JUNE. I feel like I've spent a good portion of olympus digital cameras his year being shocked by how quickly the days are speeding by, but then I stop to think about 2007 in terms of new releases and the number of albums I've listened to since January rolled around, and I can't believe all this music has been crammed into five months. In fact, it's more than a little overwhelming contemplating the number of CDs I have that I've only had time to listen to once, or haven't been able to listen to at all. Fortunately I have had time to listen to No, Not Me, Never by The Photo Atlas , but despite the fact that the disc was released at the beginning of March, I really haven't given it as much attention as I've wanted to. I've known for a while that the Denver band was coming to town tonight with the Bravery, but June of course snuck up on me, so I'm headed to see them this evening only knowing that after two or three spins I enjoyed their album. I have to say though, it's kinda refreshing to not have a set-in-stone opinion of a band when heading into a show; I'm a firm believer that a live performance is just as important as recorded material so I'm crossing my fingers that they wow me tonight. Their sound is slightly more aggressive dance-punk, which has drawn comparisons to early stuff by The Rapture, and here's a taste: " Handshake Heart Attack " Also on the bill tonight are The Bravery and The Cinematics .