August 16, 2007
ZOMG!!! DINOSAURS WITH GUNS!!!!
Dude! Jurassic Park IV to feature ARMED DINOSAURS! Desert Eagle on a Velociraptor? This could be the best thing to happen to action movies since snakes started purchasing coach seats!
Thanks to Dinosaur Comics for the link, and just in general.
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August 10, 2007
What iPods Reveal About Your Taste
Inspired by this DCeiver post I just read, I felt the need to list my iPod's top most listened to songs.
1. Sons and Daughters - The Decemberists
Wow...the scary part is this count of 140+ listens does not include all the times I've played this song in my car. What is even more frightening is the fact that this album is less than a year old.
2. This Is Our Emergency - Pretty Girls Make Graves
No real surprise that PGMG would be in the top of this list. And this song just...well...rocks!
3. Anytime - My Morning Jacket
This is a bit of a surprise - I'm not heavily into MMJ, and yet I find this one song awesome.
4. Chemical, Chemical - PGMG
They make two appearances! I'm still so sad they broke up!
5. Skylark - Arrah and the Ferns
Poppy, catchy, fun. And short. The kind of song that lends itself to frequent play.
6. Too Little Too Late - Metric
Checkout my indie cred. That said, I'm surprised my most listened to Metric song is not Dead Disco.
7. The Pot - Tool
Once again - logical Tool would be on the list (a holdover of my metal days), weird that it's one of the new songs.
8. Hotel - Broken Social Scene
Strangely, I haven't listened to this song in a while. But I listened to it all the time at my last job.
9. You File - Denali
I'm SO Indie Rock...
I'm going to stop here lest you discover just how much I listen to Pretty Girls Make Graves... I will say that Palomar and Menomena also crack the top 20.
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August 9, 2007
Building a New Machine
I simply refuse to shell out the $39 for the damn Belkin "laplink" cable - what a rip off! Cables are substantially overpriced to begin with, but $39 for a double end USB with a chip in the middle? Meh! That's right! Meh!
So I've doing file transfers the semi old-fashioned way - over the network. Though I neglected to bring home ethernet cables yesterday so I did some file transfers over the wifi. Very, very, very slow... I was going to use my external hard drive that I've had for a while. But it...um...died, it would seem. Hard drives aren't supposed to click, right? Fortunately it was just a backup device so no real harm done there - just an annoyance. Since it's an enclosure anyways, perhaps I'll just go buy a new HDD a stick it in there - would be somewhat logical for the stuff I need to backup.
My latest dilemma is stickering - as those of you who know me know, I have put stickers on my laptop for personalization AND to make sure no jerk runs off with my laptop when I'm going through airport security. But this computer is so...pretty. It's really really pretty. I'm torn!
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August 8, 2007
Nomenclature
In merely hours, I will have my new computer. Something just occurred to me - it needs a name! This laptop has served me well under the moniker "yossarian". Before that, my Toshiba was "hebrewhammer". So what will the new one be?
The nominees so far:
t-rex - gotta love Dinosaur Comics!
bender or morbo - Futurama
adama - BSG
arthurdent - Hitchhiker's Guide
koufax - The Pitcher
gromit - though Gromit would be lonely without Wallace (not to mention we had a Wallace and Gromit at NGP when I was there)
strindberg - It always seems to come back to August Strindberg, doesn't it?
Right now I'm leaning Koufax, but I'm open to suggestion. There is some time before it's arrival, and even more time before I install the OS and commit to a name.
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August 5, 2007
Uh Oh, Ronald D. Moore is Getting Ideas...
I was flipping through some BSG stuff (as we have already established, I am a n3rd), and I decided to check out Ronald D. Moore's blog. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Ronald D. Moore is the executive producer of Battlestar Galactica and was formerly the best writer on Star Trek TNG. The first entry in his blog is about the Soprano's ending - and I was very happy to see that he LITERALLY had the same exact reaction I had. Then I read this line: "It's poetic. It's exciting. It's perfect. And most of all, I wish I'd thought of it first."
He's not going to give us any closure, is he?
Dammit.
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