:: Dillondesk -- the blog of LCD ::

:: Saturday, February 25, 2006 ::

:: Calvin 7:32 PM [+] ::

Tiling, tiling, tiling!

Mr. Jerry and Calvin laid tile on the porch today. Scooter and Riley got a tour of the neighborhood when Calvin left the door to the garage open -- they had quite a fun time!

Mr. Jerry had a minor cut and had to replenish his fluids with an appropriately brewed beverage, and the ladies went to Tarpon Springs and bought swimsuits. All in all, it was a great day to be a dog!


 
 
 
  

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:: Monday, February 20, 2006 ::

:: Calvin 8:58 PM [+] ::

Google apologizing for search results?

Google: An explanation of our search results

I guess I am a little out of the loop -- I hadn't heard about this one. Google has a whole page devoted to apologizing because the word "Jew" returns an anti-Semitic site as the first hit. Because the site is not trying to "maliciously manipulate their results," Google is not going to remove it from the results.

Dillondesk, however, is not the first page that comes up when you search for my name, because I unwisely stacked the deck in the meta tags, and now I am unsure how to fix it.

Maybe I should make the page a diatribe against myself, and then I could make the argument that they left that other one up there...

Anyway...one week to FCAT -- the kids are a little nervous, and tomorrow I am opening my classroom as a demonstration room for reading instruction -- that should be interesting.

Bon Jovi Rocks...but we couldn't hear everything

For Christmas, my lovely wife gave us tickets for Jon, Richie, and the boys at the Ice Pal... I mean, St. Pete Times Forum.

We got there basically on time, and then parked at a meter (I conscientiously encouraged her to feed it, and we did until I noticed they stopped ticketing at 8:00pm. I was glad we did feed it, though, because a car parked in front of us had a ticket when we got out of the show.)

There was an opening band playing when we got there, which was kind of neat, because they won a contest to open the show -- they were just some local guys who got lucky.

On the giant screen before the show, Sprint was sponsoring a scrolling message board that people posted to by texting (I can't believe I just used that as a verb) to a dedicated number.

When Jon came out, he was on a raised platform at the rear of the stadium behind the soundboard (I had fun watching these chickas in cowboy hats flirt with the sound guys to get in the board area, and then get thrown out --they ended up back in it later). He played acoustic in some kind of Navy jacket or something, and then was lead through the crowd to the front of the stage. The band was great, but the sound was terrible -- muddy and LOTS of echo. I talked to someone else who was there, who didn't get that effect, I guess it may have been our seats a little, but mostly that I am a discriminating concertgoer now.

They played a lot from the new album, and he was joined by Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, with whom he sang "Who Says You Can't Go Home." He introduced her as his sister, but she isn't.

Then he left the stage and let Richie sing "I'll Be there For You" by himself, after saying that there had been a lot of press that week, and he was going to let Richie's chords and voice tell the truth about things. It was nice.

The set closed with a pretty awful rendition of "Wanted, Dead or Alive" (it was rushed, and Jon let the audience sing too much of it) and then they played a GREAT cover of "Treat Her Right" by Roy Head.

The evening was nice -- Jon's energy was through the roof, and he did this cute "Time Machine" thing -- waving his arms and counting backward through the years -- to 1982(!) before they played "Runaway." All in all, it was a solid show. Billy Joel, Depeche Mode, and NIN were MUCH better, but such is life.

Here's the setlist:

Bon Jovi, 2-18-06, St. Pete Times Forum

LAST MAN STANDING (Jon at the back on the platform)
YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME (yeah -- second song!)
BORN TO BE MY BABY
STORY OF MY LIFE
I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD
RUNAWAY
THE RADIO SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT
JUST OLDER
I WANT TO BE LOVED (My fave off the new disc)
I WON'T BACK DOWN (Tom Petty cover as intro to...)
HAVE A NICE DAY
WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T GO HOME (with Jennifer Nettles joining the band onstage to perform the song as a duet -- song with the never ending chorus "It's Alright!")
IT'S MY LIFE
I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU (Richie on lead vox - electric version)
BLAZE OF GLORY (acoustic Jon in the middle of the crowd)
ALWAYS (acoustic)
BAD MEDICINE
RAISE YOUR HANDS (Tremendous audience participation -- raising hands)
LIVIN' ON A PRAYER
encores:
EVERYDAY
WELCOME TO WHEREVER YOU ARE
LAST CIGARETTE
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
TREAT HER RIGHT (good closer -- better than "Wanted")

A guy next to us must have left to smoke 10 times, and this weird bald fellow vehemently flipped off the band when they started playing "Have a Nice Day" -- I guess he thought he was at a Ben Folds show.


Thanks for a WONDERFUL evening, lovely wife.

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Oh -- I take it back -- I am the SECOND link now for "Calvin DIllon" in Google and the FIRST link again for "Dillondesk."

I guess Sergey and Larry have forgiven for trying to work the system.

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