By now you’ve all seen this advertisement of people happily whacking away at a giant piñata as an advertisement for Carnival Cruise Lines.

A cursory search of Youtube, however, will get you to video of how the actual event was broken up by the police before the piñata could be smashed open by a crowd of people.

Apparently the brilliant people who organized this event never calculated the legal implications of taking a wrecking ball to a giant piñata and having it dump 800 pounds of candy onto random people off the street.

It appears the entire event needed to be staged for the commercial using paid actors pretending to have fun so that they could make sure that people would stay away from areas of imminent harm during the breaking of the piñata.

YouTube Barenaked Ladies - Pinch Me

Ed and Steven (Barenaked Ladies) did a whole series of webcam recordings and put them up on You Tube and called them the “Bathroom Sessions”.   Awesome stuff

A) Give you up
B) Let you down
C) Run around
D) Desert you
E) All of the above

HELL YES!

Got hooked up with box tickets for the game tonight to watch the Wild pull out a 3-2 win in overtime!    The energy at the Xcel was absolutely awesome tonight — click on the picture for a quick movie clip from after the final goal.

… was awesome right up until they lost in overtime. :-/

The pre-game show was a pretty nifty setup worth sharing though.

Watch this:

Turn into this: (click on the picture for the pre-game video)

Pictures from my trip to Vegas are posted.

and you know you have a million things you should be doing, what to you actually do? You play the piano. At least that’s what I did this morning. The good news is this brings about 2 new tasks to add to my list:

1) Tune the piano
2) Play more (fingers are starting to lose muscle memory)

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Sample clip #1

Sample clip #2

I woke up to see this out in the field this morning — kinda neat.

Cable access has once again returned to normal

–21:45:42– http://cluster/100mb.bin
Connecting to cluster:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.bin.1′

7% [==> ] 8,107,040 1.09M/s eta 90s

I ended up upgrading my DSL access to 5mbps anyway. One can never have too much bandwidth at home, afterall.