Man on the moon

Sorry to hear about the T60p taking a tumble, a crying shame :-(

This phenomemon is not that uncommon though, we get something new and shiny and then we go and damage it in some way at the height of our excitement over it.

I recall the father of my first wife (God rest his soul) saying that he was never happy with a new car until he had at least got a little scratch on it somewhere, until that point he was always waiting for the scratch and so was nervous. He could only relax once it was no longer pristine.

I have a friend I've known since I was 11. So that's 32 years now. In our twenties Max and I came up with the idea of "The programmers". This was a good ten years before The Matrix was released. We had noted this phenomenon of good things going bad and decided that the reason was to entertain a bunch of coke swilling pizza eating programmers who controlled all of our lives. We were annoyed that our hopes seemed to be dashed whilst others hopes seemed to be fulfilled, rather than blame ourselves we thought that there was enough evidence to support an outside influence. Could it be a lesson? Why some people would "need" to drop their T60p and others "need" to see their mulitbillion dollar company like Google succeed financially is beyond me though. We were never sure if the programmers were trying to teach us anything, but just to have a good laugh, often at our expense.

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"Man on the Moon" by REM is a song about Andy Kaufman, Latka from Taxi was his most famous character. Andy sadly died of lung cancer aged 35, Jim Carey played his life story in the movie "Man on the Moon".

I think the song is very melodic and has some great words, and I love the voice of Michael Stipe.

Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Andy Kaufman in a wrestling match. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Monopoly, twenty one, checkers, and chess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
See you in Heaven if you make the list. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Now Andy did you hear about this one? Tell me are you locked in the punch?
Andy are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believe they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve, then nothing is cool

Moses went walking with the staff of wood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Newton got beaned by the apple good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Charles Darwin had the gall to ask. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Now Andy did you hear about this one? Tell me are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are you having fun?
If you believe they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve, then nothing is cool

Here's a little agit for the never-believer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Here's a little ghost for the offering. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling (wrestling bears). Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Now Andy did you hear about this one? Tell me are you locked in the punch?
Andy are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool

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Do you know the band "Mott the Hoople"? They had a hit with an all-time classic song "All the Young Dudes", written by David Bowie.