Looking closer at Under Pressure?

Perhaps I'm just over-analyzing, but Zales is running a spot on TV featuring David Bowie and Queen's Under Pressure.

They repeat the bass line and the words "under pressure"; but it's the next verse that they don't say which causes me to raise my eyebrowse everytime I watch this ad:

Under pressure that brings a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets

That's certainly not the image they should want to convey to someone proposing marriage!

The song concludes with:

'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the (People on streets) edge of the night
And loves (People on streets) dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure

Great stuff. It's just not what I'd choose to use for an ad for diamonds and love for one person...It just misses the whole point of the lyrics.

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Things to watch this summer

Two new shows worth watching this summer:

• Mind of Mencia - (Comedy Central) Carlos had me forgetting that Dave ran away to South Africa or wherever he went within 5 minutes.
• 30 Days - (FX) Morgan Spurlock (from Super Size Me) follows some people over 30 days where they do things they, wouldn't, um normally do. Even though I sort of know what's going to happen, it's interesting because the protagonists often don't realize it - and that's what riveting.

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If you told me this was a real conversation, I'd believe it.

Tech Support Call (Flash).

Worth the laugh.

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Items bought on iTunes Music Store

• "Dream On" by Aerosmith (song stuck in my head.)
• "Vivaldi's Cello" by Yo-Yo Ma & Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
• "To Is a Preposition; Come Is a Verb" by Lenny Bruce
• "The World of Nat King Cole" (Box Set) by Nat King Cole

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Migration issues when you get a new Apple computer...

This is now the second time that I've run into this set of problems, so here goes for the record and for Google and the world to take note!

When you get a new Apple (like I did this weekend when I picked up a new PowerBook G4 laptop - yay), it offers you the option of migrating all of your existing data via FireWire when you first bring up the new machine.

It works, mostly.

I've found three caveats:

• X11 is not installed on the new computers. So, you have to manually fetch X11 from Apple's site. Since I'm an X addict, this is really annoying until it is fixed, the X11 app on my dock just bounces and emits an error in the console.

• XCode (aka gcc) is not installed either. So, you need to install gcc.

• The printers aren't carried over properly. So, all of your printers are seemingly lost when you migrate. Sucky. However, the fix is rather simple: copy the //etc/cups/printers.conf and /etc/cups/ppd/ directory from your old machine to their respective locations on your new machine, and restart cupsd.

Enjoy! (I am.)

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