Older blogs are also well-worth reading

I feel that my older posts not displayed on my home page at zinndawgg.blogspot.com are still very relevant and down-right awesome to read. Please click on any link that you can find that will take you to the previous posts I have written on blogspot.com. SUMMER IS HERE (and it is HOT)!

"Like a really good dive-bar, I keep coming back" - A Diatribe.

This is supposed to be a review. It is more a speech, than anything. Read it anyway. Then decide whether you want to read it. Back when Weezer came out with the BLUE album, I was intrigued. I found out about them through a very unknown record store in a back alley of Tokyo. I liked how in the video for Buddy Holly, the drummer blew a silent "I Love You" to some betty in the room. This caught my attention, as one of my first experiences with MTV was in a hotel room in Saipan. Music Television? AWESOME! I also liked Zombie, by the Cranberries (not much else by them). But, as I really came to understand the revolutionary genre being created by Weezer, I became addicted. Then, as Weezer caught on back in the States, I realized that to be really 'Alternative' I would have to give away the BLUE album and pretend I didn't like anything popular. IT TOOK ME A FULL 5 years to come to my senses and embrace all forms of music which I liked. Screw up-turned, pretentious snobs that made me turn my back on great music. I don't even have a step-father, but this bottle of Stevens STILL awakens ancient feelings. I am over listening to stuff because it is popular. I am over listening to people tell me not to listen to certain music. I love my music. I write music how I want. I listen to whatever I want. You aren't my mom and you can't tell me what to do! Every song on the "BLUE Album" is great and will grow on you or even take your stereo over for about 2 months. LISTEN TO WEEZER! This is me saying this for myself, to myself! zinndawgg.blogspot.com

Recent and near-future happenings

I really want to buy a new Digital Camera. However, there will be a new 3G Apple iPhone coming out in June 2008, according to MacRumors.com's sources. With this new iteration of the popular iPhone, perhaps an upgraded camera assembly will be included, such as a 3 or 4 MP. The original iPhone camera is a 2.0 MegaPixel and the iPhone does not currently have a built in video recorder program. Should I spend $100 - $150 on a Nikon CoolPix L18 8 MP 3x Optical Zoom? Should I put that $100 - $150 toward the next version of the Apple iPhone? By the way - the Nikon CoolPix L18 can also take video clips of varying length, based on available memory. The Apple iPhone 3G (Also rumored to be named "iPhone BLACK") will have a higher price and more functionality. I will end up getting the Apple iPhone 3G at some point anyway, but should I go ahead and buy the Digital Camera now and not wait for the release of the "iPhone BLACK?" Please choose an option in my poll on the right side of this page called "iPhone + Nikon - Nikon = ???"

I ain't Aussie, but I think its funny!

I am no Australian, but I do feel that everyone should go there, or at least conversate with at least one Australian. Go here, mate! How To Speak Australian, etc...! Funny

World's Most Daring Architecture and Landscaping

I have always been fascinated with what man can achieve utilizing our current state of technology. We have donut-shaped buildings that are soon to be built in Dubai, UAE. We have a 1,776 feet tall Freedom Tower being built in New York City. We have a new "tallest structure of any kind" in North America going up in Chicago, called "The Spire." There is a skyscraper in Shanghai, known as the "Shanghai World Financial Center," that has a rectangular hole cut out of its top. The Burj Dubai in Dubai, UAE recently took over "World's Tallest Freestanding Structure" title claims from the CN Tower in Canada. There are even taller buildings under consideration over the next several years.
In Japan, a whole international airport was built off-shore by building up the ground from the ocean floor. Holland has built levies and dikes to reclaim many square miles of otherwise tidal zones and ocean marshes. The Suez, Panama, and many other canals have been hewn from bedrock, desert, and jungle. Mankind has learned to reshape the very face of Earth.
Nowhere can this extreme engineering be seen more clearly than in one of the Emirates of the UAE. Dubai, which was led by His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum and recently succeeded by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is in the process of completely redefining the traditionally accepted meaning of land reclamation. With the vision of the previous Sheikh, and the conviction of his successor, the grand master plan of developing the Dubai coastline is on track.
Due to dwindling oil reserves, predicted to disappear by 2014, in the mostly desert state of Dubai, drastic steps have been taken to transform a small Emirate into the world's premier tourist destination. Islands in the shape of Earth's land masses have been created and dubbed "The World." There are three different palm-shaped island/peninsula protrusions also. There will be a crescent shaped "Waterfront" and associated islands and connecting bridges.
The reason that I am writing about these things is that most people that I am acquainted with have no idea what is going on around them beyond their own little world. I want to be a resource for friends and family so they may learn about the truly marvelous things humanity has achieved in the last decade. Please visit the development company Nakheel at www.Nakheel.com for a complete video tour of all its reclamation and development projects. See above for a few pictures of tall buildings and extraordinary land reclamation.