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This is now a year old, sorry to say. He's brought out an expanded version with video for this year's anniversary, but I think the original is more effective.

Once you've depressed yourself listening to this, you can go find his IKEA song and cheer yourself up.

I am sure someone does.  I know I do. Friend of mine who was head of UNIX security for Wells Fargo is looking for a job...  Some bright light decided to give her job to contractors.  Apparently they now regret it.  Read her resume.
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Feel like your life is a dead end? Have a look at the LA Times Interactive Homicide Map. It's an endless litany of the stories (and sometimes faces) of poor people cut down young. Chilling.

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Coming home across the Bay Bridge on a motorcycle at 1:30 on a Sunday morning is strangely peaceful. The road is nearly empty, and the DNA Lounge had deafened me to the point that the tires made no sound on the pavement and the engine was a distant, buzzing purr. It was mostly a pleasant day, chatting with murphy_slaw, playing games with some of his friends ( Read more... )

Wii boxing on prescription painkillers is the silver lining to the preceding crappy day ( Read more... )

When I was a toddler, my mother would push me around the Haight/Ashbury in my stroller. I would point and cry out, "Ew, mommy -- hippies!" The Berkeley hippies I ran into in college were self-righteous, ignorant hypocrites with dubious hygiene. When I went down to San Luis Obispo to start my life over again, the hippies found me and taught me, by ( Read more... )

So I call a cab company to take me to BART, as I have a migraine and should not be driving. murphy_slaw will pick me up at Fremont BART to take me to Sunday Night Dinner. Thirty minutes into waiting, I call another cab company. I wait ( Read more... )

I was about to scoff at a friend's love for music I don't much care for when murphy_slaw indicated, by reminding me of a song from a Flemish children's TV show I have forced him to listen to, that people who live in shoddily constructed glass shacks shouldn't throw anything. It's about a stuffed bunny rabbit ( Read more... )

... when murphy_slaw starts making fun of it. My seventy-one-year-old barber totally blew it this time. The result:

murphy_slaw: Oh, man. I really shouldn't say this...

Me: Go right ahead. It's nothing I don't know.

murphy_slaw: Well, heh, it's like, heh heh, he got to the bangs and gave up the will to live.

Me: Uh-huh.

murphy_slaw: Heh, heh, heh... And... Heh, heh... I don't really ( Read more... )