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Check out the brand new, just launched today, "Blogger Template Designer" It allows you to create "effectively infinite number of designs templates" instead of being restricted to a limited number of rigid designs by making it easy to customize your blogs design, layout, background and much more...
Is @Google finally going after @Wordpress?
New from Google Labs, "Google Public Data Explorer" makes large datasets easy to explore,
visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time,
the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have
to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own
comparisons, and share your findings.
Unemployment in the U.S.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Retail Sales in the U.S.
U.S. Census Bureau
Students, journalists, policy makers and everyone else can play with
the tool to create visualizations of public data, link to them, or
embed them in their own webpages. Embedded charts and links can update
automatically so you’re always sharing the latest available data
Would you rather have $100,000 today or would you rather have a penny that doubles everyday for a month? - Robert Scoble
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@RKlau walks you thru using the Blogger FTP Migration Tool that should be rolled out this evening. Blogger FTP will be closing May 1st.
Batman is forced to challenge the Joker in a head-to-head surfing competition.
The right to shred Sunova Beach hangs in the balance.
Will Batman save the day?
Or will the Joker's dynamite-fed shark spell 'Le Fin' for the caped crusader?
Some people need to be seen to be believed, Bad Papa, not to be confused with Papa Gordon...
As we continue our walk up Del Mar, we stop at one of our fav foodie establishments,
The Cellar
thecellarsite.com
156 Avenida Del Mar
San Clemente, CA 92672
(949) 492-3663
Where do you get a steady cam holder for a Flip anyway?
and then we continue on...
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| From San Clemente Farmers Market Every Sunday |
Our weekly Sunday walk up Del Mar in San Clemente, checking out the Farmers Market and window shopping.
San Clemente Farmers Market
Sundays 9 a.m. 1 p.m.
S Calle Seville at Avenida Del Mar, San Clemente, CA 92672
949 492-6000
What do you like to do with your Sundays?
May you live in a place with summer rental signs, The San Clemente Pier Bowl Area is one of Southern California's Hidden Jewels, Come for a day, Stay for a lifetime...
Enjoy this Photosynth From the top of the Pier Bowl, Our Little Mayberry by The Sea...
when we communicate with one another
and we feel that we have connected
and we think we are understood
I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion
and that feeling might be transient ... but I think it's what we live for.
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| From Public Forums, Twitter Streams and Representation |
At 3 pm Monday afternoon Darin and I met with Ted Nguyen and Ryan Maloney of the OCTA to discuss the projected Tweet stream, sources for Twitter questions and the source of the YouTube video questions shared at the public forum.
Projected Twitter Stream
My first concern was why were my Tweets not displayed on the projected Twitter screen in the forum. Nguyen and Maloney concluded that I was not in the Twitter search database. A search for my name, which is my Twitter ID, @LisaMcClure did not show up. Maloney showed how ParaTweet was used to project the Tweets. The Twitter API apparently could not pull my name up because I was not in the Twitter Search DataBase. The same was true of @Surfrider and Nguyen had discovered another individual involved in the forum with the same issue.
Origin of Twitter Questions
While we were not provided with the actual urls of the Twitter questions Maloney and Nguyen explained the process. Interns monitored the Twitter Stream, but not the Twitter stream projected on the wall in the forum. There was a time lag between the question being posted and the question being posed. There is also the possibility that the Tweet may not have made it to the projected Twitter stream in the forum.
Origin of YouTube Questions
The YouTube videos were actually shot by a Chapman University student. The call for YouTube questions went out and when there was no response students were asked to do some video interviews. These interviews are posted at the OCTA YouTube channel found at http://www.youtube.com/goOCTA
Here are the videos.
http://www.youtube.com/goOCTA#p/a/u/1/olf0pyejoso
http://www.youtube.com/goOCTA#p/a/u/2/Jqg0MggAZkQ
A Start on Some Suggested Guidelines
As tools of conversational media become more and more prominent features in public dialog we must all be aware of transparency issues and potential manipulation. This is my list of how I think a public form can take steps to ensure a democratic and representative process. I would like to invite more people to build on this list as we all have different experiences with the issues and technologies involved.
1. ParaTweet and other Projecting Software must be thoroughly tested.
2. If you have invited guests or representatives I suggest running their names through your software to insure their participation. If they do not appear you will know beforehand and either try to correct the issue or represent yourself under another account for the event. (a discovery!)
3. If there is going to be monitoring of a stream for a public forum make a clear list of qualifications for a Tweet to be excluded. This list should be publicly posted and possibly tweeted within the stream as a reminder from the moderator. I think this is really import for public forums intended to share voices, ask questions and hold public officials accountable as well as to allow for conversation.
4. The moderator of the stream should be announced along with the list of what could get you excluded and to provide a point of accountability. This is free speech and nothing to trifle with.
4. Asking for YouTube participation is great. But if your call gets no response I think it is better to say no one responded or be very clear about citing your source for clarity sake.
5. When calls for responses from video or prepared media from the public go out we want to somehow insure that those calls go out widely and in time for many different people to respond. And when those videos are used we want to see the links, the urls should be displayed.
Our Gratitute To Ted Nguyen and Ryan Maloney for sincerely taking time to discuss our concerns of Friday the Monday immediately following the event, as well as their pioneering work in the realm of conversational media. Changing how things are done isn't easy.
Using Twitter as a Forum for a hearing on transportation issues is a great solution. A larger amount of people can participate without traffic concerns, parking or other limitations. Not everyone can participate in a weekday event from 8 am to 7 pm, but we can certainly check our Twitter streams.
We want to ensure that engagement is democratic. We must be sure to include everyones voice and to invite more and more to join in the conversation.
Forum from Merriam-Webster's Online DictionaryFor Transit Forum Update Click Here
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forum
3.
a. used to mean a public meeting, a lecture involving audience discussion
b. a program (as on radio or television) involving discussion of a problem usually by several authorities
The Southern California Transit Forum was held Friday, February 5, 2010 an all day affair live streamed from Chapman University in Orange. The topic "Seeking Solutions To Address The State Transit Crisis."
For Transit Forum Update Click Here
We were invited to participate in the forum, to Tweet out to our followers information on the event and invite them to join in the conversation.
I was invited to a forum.
I was invited to be part of an audience and was asked use a #hashtag.
I was asked to have my followers join the conversation by using the same #hashtag.
But I wasn't represented.
My Tweets didn't show up in the Forum.
To me this was not a Transparent Forum
What is Transparent?
If you are going to use a #Hashtag ... then don't filter it at the forum, especially don't filter invited representatives from Social Media.
#Hashtags are an online convention that everyone might not be familiar with. At conferences and events when Twitter Streams are projected onto the screen by hashtags it is the audience being allowed to participate and share in the event without interrupting the event.
Hashtags can be abused and it is not unusual for Tweets to be monitored. Threats, foul language and inappropriate items are often siphoned off. But when it goes any farther in this it starts to look like censorship at worse and manipulation at best. Neither would be described as "Transparent."
From my observations the Twitter stream shown in the Forum and the one online differed tremendously and profoundly. New posts were streaming into Twitter while the stream within the Forum repeated and looped the same Tweets.
Audience Participation
If you are going to take questions from YouTube.com I want to see where they are posted? Where are these questions you are drawing from? I want the urls. I want to see it FROM YOUTUBE.COM.
Twitter, same thing, if you are taking questions from the Twitter stream I want to see where they are coming from. What are the questions from your constituents? I want the urls. I want to see it FROM TWITTER.COM.
SHOW ME YOUR TRANSPARENCY
Show me your Transparency. Show me it's not a plant. Show me I am being represented in this media and not just getting "Transparency-Washed" like "Green-Washing" when public places set out recycling receptacles just to dump it all in the same bin behind closed doors.
All that is required:
1. url of the YouTube Video
2. url of the Twitter question
Why?
Because its important. This is OUR Forum. Our chance to be heard. This is my chance to tell Sacramento I don't like how they spend my money.
In the afternoon I heard the moderator shut down the questions from participants.
Think I am whining now?
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| From What I Want the Transit Forum to Hear |
I have used public transportation in both the Los Angeles Metro area and the Orange County Metro area. As a young adult I had health issues, they thought I had epilepsy and so I did not qualify for a drivers license. I have experienced the limitations of not having a car in Southern California. To make a trip from North Hollywood to Glendale to get an immunization took all day on public transportation. It actually would have been quicker for me to go to San Fransisco that day.
I argue that the need for local, immediate transportation is what will serve the constituents of California. I say that cutting the local bus services is a huge disservice. No, cutting local bus services is blatantly ignoring the needs of the public good and the demands of the future.
Gas prices are soaring with the promise to soar more. Job cuts, unemployment levels ... probably the car is going to go as well for a lot of these people. And then what is the biggest obstacle for their job hunt, their economic recovery? You think looking at wants ads in the newspaper is discouraging ... try cross checking with an available metro route, a metro route you can depend on to meet your work schedule.
Demographically speaking we have a huge generation of aging Baby Boomers. When adults are faced with the onset of legal blindness transportation issues loom even greater than literacy! How will I get around? How do I maintain my independence? How do I take care of myself?
The local transit system is the life and blood for many people to get basic needs cared for, to find work, to go to school, to get their children to the doctors.
Why are we cutting back on local buses and neighborhood solutions?
I don't need to get from Anaheim to LA in 20 Minutes. I need to get to work, to school, to the grocery store, to the doctors office. These are the transportation issues that need to be addressed. This is the infrastructure that people need. This is the solution we want.
We are headed to the biggest traffic jam ever seen by man... but there is a solution, and Walt started it in 1959, Now is the time to go back, So we can all move forward.
And as ever we will be right in the middle of it.
Join us Today for the Southern California Transit Forum.
Happy Birthday Rosa Parks, and to everyone else who is not content with sitting in the back of the bus...
Are you ready for change?
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And, I knew if I had my chance that I could make those people dance, and...
Maybe they'd be happy for a while
But, February made me shiver with every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep - I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride
Something touched me deep inside the day the music died
So, bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing...
This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Did you write the Book of Love and do you have faith in God, above?
If the Bible tells you so
Now, do you believe in Rock and Roll? Can music save your mortal soul? And...
Can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Well, I know that you're in love with him, 'cause I saw you dancing in the gym
You both kicked off your shoes - man, I dig those rhythm and blues
I was a lonely, teenage broncin' buck with a pink carnation and a pickup truck, but...
I knew I was out of luck the day the music died
I started singing, bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing...
This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Now, for ten years we've been on our own and moss grows fat on a Rolling Stone, but...
That's not how it used to be
When the Jester sang for the king and queen in a coat he borrowed from James Dean
In a voice that came from you and me
Oh, and while the King was looking down the Jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned - no verdict was returned
And, while Lennon read a book on Marx the quartet practiced in the park, and...
We sang dirges in the dark the day the music died
We were singing, bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing...
This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Healter Skealter in the summer swelter - the Birds flew off with a fallout shelter
Eight Miles High and falling fast
It landed foul on the grass
The players tried for a forward pass with the Jester on the sidelines in a cast
Now, the halftime air was sweet perfume while the Sergeants played a marching tune
We all got up to dance, oh, but we never got the chance
'cause the players tried to take the field - the marching band refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?
We started singing, bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing...
This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
And, there we were, all in one place - a generation Lost in Space
With no time left to start again
So, come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick - Jack Flash sat on a Candlestick, 'cause...
Fire is the Devil's only friend
And, as I watched him on the stage my hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in Hell could break that satan's spell
And, as the flames climbed high into the night to light the sacrificial rite, I saw...
Satan laughing with delight the day the music died
He was singing, bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing...
This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
I met a girl who sang the Blues, and I asked her for some happy news
She just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store where I'd heard the music years before, but...
The man there said the music wouldn't play
And, in the streets the children screamed, the lover's cried, and the poets dreamed, but...
Not a word was spoken - the church bells all were broken
And, the three men I admire most: the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, they...
Caught the last train for the coast the day the music died
And, they were singing, bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing...
This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
They were singing, bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing...
This'll be the day that I die
Punxsutawney Phil prognosticator of prognosticators is only right 40% of the time.
Are you ready for the thaw?
If Punxsutawney Phil exits his Gobbler's Knob burrow on Feb 2 & fails to see his shadow, He will leave it & winter will soon end. If he sees his shadow, Phill will retreat into his burrow, and winter will continue for six more weeks...
Winter is hell here in San Clemente...
In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff.
Don't Ignore this Purple Cow...
Seth Godin visits Orange County for one night only to share: How to be Indispensable
The Spirit of the Times,
& what G and M both paid big bux for to add to their SERPs,
It's the Sign Of Our Time, and it's happening all around us,
Conversational Media, The Zeitgeist of Our time... Two Way.
There is no reason why the average individual should not be fully empowered.
Be Powerful, Beutiful and Extraordinary.
Together, We are changing world.
The Joy Of XML, the type of file you feed Google reader.
Think of Reader as the Tivo for your favorite internet Content & Searches.
(Pst Searches was the most important part of that last sentence)
XML (Extensible Markup Language)
Got XML? It's a tool, not a buzzword.
And if you listen now
You might hear
A new sound coming in
As an old one disappears
See the world in just one grain of sand
You better take a closer look
Don't let it slip right thru your hand
Won't you please hear the call
The world says
Put the message in the box
Put the box into the car
Drive the car around the world
Until you get heard
Now is the moment
Please understand
The road is wide open
To the heart of every man
A few simple words
So a mule could understand
He don't want tomorrow
If it's just crumbling into sand
Won't please hear the call
She says
Put the message in the box
Put the box into the car
Drive the car around the world
Until you get heard
Until you get heard
The World says
Give a little bit
Give a little bit of your love to me
Cos I'm waiting right here with my open arms
Give a little bit
Give a little bit of your soul to me
Cos I'm waiting to behold your many charms
Is that love in the air?
She says
Put the message in the box
Put the box into the car
Drive the car around the world
Until you get heard
Until you get heard
Until you get heard
Until you get heard
Until you get heard
World Party
Artist & Visionary Alex Grey, talks about an ayahuasca experience he had in Brazil.
And the interconnectedness of us all.
Do you follow your Visions?
How To Use Twitter To Affect Social Change
Because if you are not using a tool, how can you understand it?
Pos:
3
That's the magic number
Yes it is
It's the magic number
Somewhere in this hip-hop soul community
Was born 3 mase, dove and me
And that's the magic number
(what does it all mean? )
Difficult preaching is posdnuos' pleasure
Pleasure and preaching starts in the heart
Something that stimulates the music in my measure
Measure in my music, raised in three parts
Casually see but don't do like the soul
'cause seein' and doin' are actions for monkeys
Doin' hip hop hustle, no rock and roll
Unless your name's brewster, 'cause brewster's a punky
Parents let go 'cause there's magic in the air
Criticising rap shows you're out of order
Stop look and listen to the phrasin' fred astaires
And don't get offended while mase do-se-do's your daughter
A tri-camera rolls since our music's now set
Fly rhymes are stored on a d.a.i.s.y. production
It stands for "da inner sound y'all" and y'all can bet
That the action's not a trick, but showing the function
Everybody wants to be a deejay
Everybody wants to be an emcee
But being speakers are the best
And you don't have to guess
De la soul posse consists of three
And that's the magic number
Dove:
This here piece of the pie
Is not dessert but the course that we dine
And three out of every darn time
The effect is "mmmm" when a daisy grows in your mind
Showing true position, this here piece is
Kissin' the part of the pie that's missin'
When that negative number fills up the casualty
Maybe you can subtract it
You can call it your lucky partner
Maybe you can call it your adjective
But odd as it may be
Without my 1 and 2 where would there be
My 3
Mase pos and me
And that's the magic number
Focus is formed by flaunts to the soul
Souls who flaunt styles gain praises by pounds
Common are speakers who are never scrolls
Scrolls written daily creates a new sound
Listeners listen 'cause this here is wisdom
Wisdom of a speaker, a dove and a plug
Set aside a legal substance to feed 'em
For now get 'em high off this dialect drug
Time is a factor so it's time to count
Count not the negative actions of one
Speakers of soul say it's time to shout
Three forms the soul to a positive sum
Dance to this fix and flex every muscle
Space can be filled if you rise like my lumber
Advance to the tune but don't do the hustle
Shake, rattle, roll to my magic number
Now you may try to subtract it
But it just won't go away
Three times one?
(what is it? )
(one, two, three!)
And that's the magic number
(yo, what's up? )
(1, 2, 3)
(I say, children, what does it all mean? )
(woah-woah-wo, 1, 2, 3)
(I wouldn't lie to you)
(no more no less, that's the magic number)
(no more no less)
(what it is? )
(no more no less)
(is this the future? )
(no more no less)
(do the shang-a-lang)
(no more no less)
(no one on the subway ever chats to me)
(no more no less)
(anybody in the audience ever get hit by a car? )
(no more no less)
(how high's the water, mama? )
(no more no less)
(how high's the water, mama? )
(no more no less)
(three feet high and rising)
(no more no less)
(three)
(that's the magic number)
I wake up in the morning and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. Now sometimes, because my mind is examining all the things that I need to get done, it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point of where I'm actually intentionally creating my day. But here's the thing: When I create my day and out of nowhere little things happen that are so unexplainable, I know that they are the process or the result of my creation. And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain that I accept that that's possible. This gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day.
So if we're consciously designing our destiny, and if we're consciously from a spiritual standpoint throwing in with the idea that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life -- because reality equals life -- then I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. I say, 'I'm taking this time to create my day and I'm infecting the quantum field. Now if (it) is in fact the observer's watching me the whole time that I'm doing this and there is a spiritual aspect to myself, then show me a sign today that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created, and bring them in a way that I won't expect, so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things. And make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you,' and so I live my life, in a sense, all day long thinking about being a genius or thinking about being the glory and the power of God or thinking about being unconditional love.
I'll use living as a genius, for example. And as I do that during parts of the day, I'll have thoughts that are so amazing, that cause a chill in my physical body, that have come from nowhere. But then I remember that that thought has an associated energy that's produced an effect in my physical body. Now that's a subjective experience, but the truth is is that I don't think that unless I was creating my day to have unlimited thought, that that thought would come. -Dr. Joe Dispenza
I Create My Day, Go Create Yours.
One-a these days,
Our school will get the money it needs for smaller classes,
And the Navy will hold a bake sale to build a battleship.
And Johnny will get the money he needs for that operation,
And the Air Force will hold a raffle to buy a bomber.
And every vote will be counted in every election,
And the winners will always keep all of their promises.
And around the world we'll learn each other's languages
And the very first thing we'll learn is how to listen.
"Who knows the word for 'hello' in some other language?"
God only knows what the future will be
But God gave us brains He meant us to use 'em
Think Peace
Today is MLKjr day, yesterday is but a memory, and tomorrow is outside of our reach.
The only place a thinking person can place their fulcrum is in the Now.
Now is the time to make the change you seek.
Do not wait for someone else to make that change for you.
Be The Now.
Most of all, they are looking to you for love.
My religion is very simple.
My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama.
The moment when something that was once great has reached a point where it will now decline.
Look to these times to innovate, not stagnate.
Got Innovation?
So it goes to show you that one voice can change the world.
Have you found your voice?
Let's Go Change The World!
There are many people in your life that show you the way, who are they, how do they help you? how can you help them?
Who Are Your Heros?
Google is a Marketing Company, Not a Search Engine.
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it's a DUCK!!!
Here let me Google that for you...
FPS - First Person Shooters raise your visual acuity in real world situations a whooping 58% according to the journal of Nature Neuroscience.
So next time you look at your kid playing Battlefield 1943, realize that she is getting 58% more information from that scene as you are, and that still holds true when she is AFK (away from the keyboard)
Got BFG?
Enthusiasm is the Great Hill-Climber - Elbert Hubbard
If you are not "Into" it, you will never be "Enthused" about it.
Got Enthusiasm?
For 50 odd years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt?
This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life...
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Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Singularity, a point where an otherwise continuous mathematical progression becomes infinite.
The approaching Technological singularity is the idea that technological progress will reach such an infinite or extremely high value at a point in our near future. - Ray Kurzweil
I have a little dreidel. I made it out of clay.
When it's dry and ready, then dreidel I shall play.
Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay.
Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, then dreidel I shall play.
It has a lovely body, with legs so short and thin.
When it gets all tired, it drops and then I win!
Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, with leg so short and thin.
Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, it drops and then I win!
My dreidel's always playful. It loves to dance and spin.
A happy game of dreidel, come play now let's begin.
Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, it loves to dance and spin.
Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel. Come play now let's begin.
I have a little dreidel. I made it out of clay.
When it's dry and ready, dreidel I shall play.
Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made you out of clay.
Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, then dreidel I shall play.
Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say
On a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day
That's the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees sway
Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright
The sun to shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way
To say "Merry Christmas to you."
Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say
On a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day
That's the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees sway
Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright
The sun to shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way
To say "Merry Christmas to you."
Peace On Earth
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Well, way up North where the air gets cold
There's a tale about Christmas that you've all been told
And a real famous cat all dressed up in red
And he spends the whole year workin' out on his sled.
It's the little Saint Nick
little Saint Nick
It's the little Saint Nick
little Saint Nick
Just a little bobsled, we call it ol' Saint Nick
But she'll walk a tobogan with a four speed stick
She's ol' candy apple red with a ski for a wheel
And when Santa hits the gas, man, just watch her peel.
It's the little Saint Nick little Saint Nick
It's the little Saint Nick little Saint Nick
run run reindeer
run run reindeer ahhhhhhhh
run run reindeer
run run reindeer we don't miss no one
He's hauling through the snow at a frightenin' speed,
With a half a dozen deer with a-Rudy to lead,
He's gotta wear his goggles 'cause the snow really flies
And he's cruisin' every pad with a little surprise.
It's the little Saint Nick
little Saint Nick
It's the little Saint Nick
little Saint Nick
ahh Ooooooo
Merry Christmas santa
Christmas comes this time each year
ahhOoooooo
Merry Christmas santa
christmas comes this time each year!
UPDATE
The surfing Santa
I was just curious to know whether you got it from Dan King who was awarded the coveted surfing santa at a Guidopalooza years ago under the stipulation he would return with it or return it to me the following year. We lost track of Dan and the Santa after that and have never gotten a satisfactory reason why he never returned it. The one in the pic looks suspiciously like the original (attached pic) If it is the one and same I was wondering if you'd be agreeable to sending him home. Thanks NeoN.
-Foon
Great to hear from you Foondoggie!
Not the same Surfing Santa, But I would be willing to donate to the cause in the spirit of Ohana handed down to me by the great Tubesteak.
Lisa McClure wants to know who the sucker is we get to send it to????
PLEASE SEND ADDRESS ASAP!!!
NN
