I would always read about police auctions in the paper, then forget to actually show up the date they were held, then you have to have the cash on hand, etc, etc. Luckily the internets have changed everything! They just put them online e-bay style.

And if you've ever wanted an old cop car, you are in luck:



Propertyroom.com

In internet terms at least? ever wanted to give your family members a tutorial on how to use google?

then simply say "Let me google that for you"

One of the bands that will be at winter wonder slam on Sunday is Family Force 5. They are INSANE live! Below are a few music videos to get an idea of what they are like:

Here is their new song, Radiator:

Radiator


Here's a song from their first CD, the song is called Love Addict:



Here's a newer song called Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go - Family Force 5


I hope that gives you an awesome taste of an incredible band!

So if you are going to Winter Wonder Slam on Sunday, be ready to rawk!

Love, Liberty, Disco-
Andy

Shaun, my office mate, found some very old issues of CCM, or as it was called then "Contemporary Christian Magazine" , and I want to show pictures from these archives from time to time... because if we do not learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it.

This is from the May 1995 issue:



First Christian Boy Band?

When Brent McCoy is gone, I take over for him on the morning show. Janelle and I have often wondered what Brent does when he takes days off. We used to think he was out fighting crime, but then we found the truth:

here is brent mccoy the clown

...or is he a Project Manager at Knowledge Computing Corp?

..or is Brent McCoy Lamar Advertising's EVP?

I have a hard time plunking down ten bucks for a CD of bands I have not heard of, or even sometimes of bands I LOVE, but not quite sure what their new music sounds like. Here are three places to pretty much listen to any song or CD known to man!

1. Jesus Freak Hideout Listening Party - They usually have a good selection of new christian CD's, so if you're not quite sure what you want to listen to, this is a good place to start
2. FREE Napster - this is an awesome place that has most anything you are looking for, and you can stream music for free, as much as you want! Downsides are a lower audio quality and some songs only have 30 second clips... if you run into those problems, there is one last place to go:
3. Rhapsody - High quality music that always have full songs... but you only get 25 free listens a month!
   

And of course there is a fourth which I highly recommend:

LISTEN TO THE HOUSE FM ALL THE TIME! WOOO!

youso, out.

I don't know why this makes me laugh. I think it is the goofy grin.

Anyway, here is Bart Millard from MercyMe:

Andy will be back on Monday. Thanks for letting me swallow him. He wasn't being very funny today anyways.

It's the guys from Leeland and Rainn Wilson (Dwight from the office) in the Baltimore airport. This is how I imagine this conversation taking place:

Leeland dudes : Hey! Dwight!
(Rainn keeps walking because he has his ipod on and can't hear)
Leeland dudes : Dwight from the office! Hey!
Rainn : Uh, hey guys, what's up?
Leeland dudes : Can we get a picture with you?
Rainn : Sure.
(picture taken)
Leeland dudes : Awesome! Well, see ya later!
Rainn : Ok, bye. (puts headphones in again.)

So I couldn't think of a funny conversation, at least one that I could transcribe. I was thinking about some bit about the Leeland guys asking Rainn if he had ever heard of their band, but I couldn't make it funny.

Interesting thought below:
Maybe Rainn was listening to Leeland at that moment? Would that make the Baltimore airport turn into a black hole, one which may begin to get larger and soon consume okla

Google is monitoring our searches for flu-related terms, thinking that they can predict where outbreaks will occur. So far, so good for us:



go HERE to check out personalized information for your state.

I am planning on trying to mess with their results by making up diseases. Some ideas:

• Muffin hands (pretty self explanatory)
• Benjamin Button syndrome (where people age in reverse)
• Attention Surplus Disorder (opposite of ADD, you pay too much attention)
• Carformerphobia (the fear of getting into your car because it may crush you when it transforms into its alter-ego)
• Brent McCoyitis (when you can't stop saying "Brent Mccoy here with you on your Monday (or whatever day it is))
  

This is from Jonathan Steingard, the lead guitarist of Hawk Nelson.

A few songs from the future release, Under The Canopy.

Free is good!

Gimme the free stuff!

...and since I just saved you the equivalent of $2.97, care to pitch that in the "Andy's ultimate Christmas gift" fund?

Students at Berkeley in the "student innovation group" found a cheap solution on how to keep headphone cords untangled.



Looks like I now have an excuse to work on my Homies collection:

It is time for another entry in this series as I found myself going down a trail of odd websites... let's figure out how I started looking for the film style of "independence day", to this:

STEP 1:

I was searching for the film style of independence day, after talking to my wife wanting to do a photo series of a post-apocalyptic Ponca City. I got this inspiration after riding my bike yesterday past the old flour mill and thinking "this is what the post-apocalyptic scenes would look like"

So I talked to my wife and she said that the film style like "I am Legend" and "independence day" which brought me to google.

STEP 2:

I googled "post apocalyptic filter"

that brought me to this website, about how to make your videos look more like film:

Shoot Video to Look Like Film

good thing to keep in mind for my project, but I had to go a little farther down the google hole to find this:

Post-apocalyptic playground

The comment on that picture led me to google for "infrared filter" which brought me to :

How to shoot IR

where I found out that some cameras can see IR transmissions, like this example:



That helped, but the pictures there still didn't look post-apocalyptic. They looked more like black and white.

Then I found this site which talks about false-color infrared:

False Color Infrared Photography

Step 3:

By this point I just gave up and went to this blog search of "post apocalypse"

and found that picture above, along with some tips on how to survive post apocalypse, including:

1. Get a Dog
2. Stay Solo (not sure if I agree with this one)
3. Learn to make a fire
4. Stay away from dating websites like "zombie harmony"
5. Get a Gun
6. Learn to make biodiesel

Wow, what a waste of time, right? unless.... I need to know what to have in a post-apocalyptic emergency! Then I'll be the envy of all my... wait I won't have friends, I will the the only person alive. Other than my dog and my gun of course

Here is what kinds of things to buy for your OCC box. Here is a link on how to pack a shoebox, and check out the video below to see our shopping spree for OCC at the dollar store:

The beard off has officially begun here at the house fm!

so here's my entry - I call it the "You-man-chu"

BEFORE:


AFTER:

This is legitimate, I have done this for a year or so. It's called Secret Shopping, and you can get paid to eat, or just shop sometimes. You do have to fill out an evaluation, and it does take some attention to detail. But here is a website to find out more about being a "secret shopper"


http://volition.com/mystery.html

The one big thing to remember is you should never pay to join a mystery shopping company! That is the sign of a scam!

Not just a category on wheel of fortune, now a blog post topic!

Here is what my lunch looked like on the box:



And lunch after being microwaved:



It was good, though. Very spicy!

instead of having ant overlords?

If you want to feel like you have cut a huge pipe, and maybe somewhat interested in how messed up my backyard is, then this is the video for you!

I can post all the ads we did once and for all... Enjoy them!

Who says Kindergartners get to have all the fun? Last night was show and tell night on the House Party. Here's my entry:

I found this leaf in my front yard. It is pretty close to being the size of my big head. The leaf smells funny.

Here is Jentern's Show and Tell:



It is her with ZoeGirl, the original christian girl band. At least the first one I remember.

Jessica found me at the Festival of Light at Enid on Friday - and here is the only proof I tried to dress up as Rick Astley :


So I just look poorly dressed. I have another year to figure out something better I guess.