I’m currently in the process of reading Cal Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot and I thought that I will share a very small piece of this book accompanied by a picture of Earth as seen from Mars.

I hope you find this as beautiful as I did

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. – Carl Sagan

“Music, true music, not just rock ’n’ roll, it chooses you. It lives in your car, or alone, listening to your headphones, vast scenic rituals and angelic choirs in your brain. It’s a place apart from the vast benign lap of America.” – Lester Bangs

I think it’s safe to say that music plays a big role in my life and a big part of my life involves work. I am constantly listening to music, if it’s not on the studio media player it’s on my headphones at my workstation. With this in mind I decided to list the 10 albums that had the biggest impact on me in 2008.

Let me start by saying that the 10 CD’s in this list isn’t necessarily from 2008, I mean, the one CD on this list was released in 1967! Just because it was new to me doesn’t mean it was new to anyone else.

So in no particular order, here they are:

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The Beatles’ Hey Jude, performed by a kid that can’t be much older than 3.. I love it!

Not so long ago, I wrote an entry about working on the Red Bull Big Wave Africa 2008 site.

Today, the main team that worked on the site all got these awesome gifts from Red Bull. I will try and explain, but I also attached three pictures at the bottom of this post so that you can see what it looks like.

Its basically a nice wooden box, with the coordinates of Dungeons (the place where the Big Wave Africa takes place) printed on the lid. In the box is a towel with the BWA 2008 logo printed on it! I am so stoked with this.. I’m loving it!

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A big thank you goes out to Red Bull and Stonewall+

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