The first time I knowingly heard a song by Aimee Allen, it was the “Unofficial Ron Paul Revolution Theme Song”. I love that song and it is probably my favorite song inspired by the Ron Paul Revolution. I didn’t look much into Aimee Allen since I first heard that song until recently.
I had tried to add Aimee Allen to my Pandora account but it’s the French Jazz singer that keeps coming up–not what I’m looking for. So, I visited Aimee’s MySpace page a few days ago and listented to some of her other songs–they are awesome. I love her style of music. She had a song on iTunes, “Vacation Song”, so I bought that–I love it. I’d recommend that you check out her music as well and perhaps buy her single on the iTunes Music Store.
Aimee’s “I’d Start a Revolution” was the theme song to Birds of Prey which ran for one season. I saw the pilot episode and that was it for me. I’ll leave you with a taste of Aimee’s music below. Enjoy!
I never knew I would be doing so much programming professionally. I grew up wanting to be an artist. Drawing was my thing; I drew a lot and loved doing it. I loved Disney cartoons and comic book superheroes. I didn’t care about the great European painters. My parents would always say that artists didn’t make any money and that I’d starve to death as an artist. I was way too young to care much about money so that didn’t mean anything to me.
Life progressed and I basically fell into programming. I only learned how to code to make games–I also only drew because I wanted to make comic books and cartoons. I don’t really do much programming outside of work these days and drawing has fell completely off the radar. I’m mostly engaged in politics, economics, money, and business now. But, I have been programming for a good many years professionally and on my own and there are a few incredible parallels to life that I’ve discovered.
A few months ago I stopped buying my coffee from Starbucks and started going to Dunkin Donuts. I don’t know what exactly prompted me to do that. I had been buying Starbucks coffee for years and would specifically look for Starbucks when I wanted coffee. It might have had something to do with the economy going south–do I pay for gas and food or expensive coffee? Starbucks was also going through–and still is–a rough patch. Their stock price was down and the company had plans to close a great number of stores.
Then came their new marketing campaign. I’m not sure about Starbucks stores outside of New York City, but they started putting up little signs on every Starbucks that said something to the effect of having the best neighborhood coffee. Starbucks was trying to go back to their original image of small and local. I find that rather difficult in NYC when there is a Starbucks on every other street corner.
Due to popular demand, I will spill the beans on the cheats for Cul De Sac Smash 2: Wheels of Fury on Cartoon Network. I was the programmer on that game and I’ve noticed a lot of traffic coming to this blog from searches for Wheels of Fury cheats. There are actually not that many cheats in the game, I had already given one away in an earlier post There are basically 3 cheats in the entire game. You can get to them by pressing the ESC key.
First cheat: “JACKPOT”
This cheat gives you free money. You can use it as many times as you like.
Second cheat: “WHEELIE”
This cheat will unlock all the levels in the game.
Third cheat: “ARMOR”
You’ll become invincible with this cheat.
