My favorite geek band, They Might be Giants, is releasing their second kids collection tomorrow. Hat tip to Daddytypes blog for the heads-up. With Baby Trotz on the way, I’m dreading the insipid, tenative and timid junk which passes for most ‘Children’s Music’ — but TMBG’s Here Come the ABC’s (CD and DVD) should be a welcome respite from most of that. My friends John and Jana played a lot of TMBG for their twins when they were younger – and yeah, they did have some trouble explaining why the boys liked to sing S-E-X-X-Y in preschool. These songs should be a bit more age appropriate. Amazon has an interview with the band, and the TMBG site has some DVD video samples.
Monthly Archives: February 2005
Halo2 and RSS
As Joystiq puts this, ‘Stats Ahoy!’ A previously under reported feature of Halo2 is the ability to access gamertag and clan statistics as XML on Bungie.net. I haven’t fooled around with this, but it sounds quite intriguing. If I had more time to play the damn game, I might dig into this and add my (lame) stats to Trotz.com, but that will have to wait. Still interesting concept I’d like to see in more games. Bungie.net’s explanation of how this works and a page here with a collection of Halo2 stats tools.
New Postal Service EP
The weekly email from the iTunes music store featured a gem this morning – The Postal Service EP We Will Become Silhouettes. It features several versions of songs from their disc Give Up from 2003, and a new song called Be Still My Heart. Worth a listen for $3.96 from the iTMS.
Dynasty
So we didn’t have Massachusetts’ native son win the highest office in the land. As a consolation prize, the Red Sox and now the Patriots claimed the highest honors in their respective sports. I don’t expect the Celtics to join the club this year, and of course, the Bruins are playing golf instead of hockey this year. But kudos to the Patriots for their third Super Bowl championship in four years.