It's kind of annoying, but I can't listen to the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony #6 without thinking of the 'going home' scene from the movie Soylent Green.  Instead of the  intended peaceful and happy mood it's supposed to reflect, it evokes something a little more sad. 

Last night I was talking to a couple friends online about the people who live in 'tv commercial land.'  These are the fictitious people you see in commercials who seem to have an insane amount of trouble doing normal, everyday tasks such as cooking pancakes, eating during a blackout, cleaning their ears, or pouring milk over cereal.  I pointed out ( Read more... )

It's no secret that I'm a fan of a lot of silly, older movies.  For years, I've been looking for an mp3 version of a phone that was used in Our man Flint and its sequel, In Like Flint.  A slightly different version of it was used as an homage in the Austin Powers films.  I never found one and would always procrastinate when it came to figuring out ( Read more... )

Right now, my company has the entire 5th floor of the building we're in.  Since there are a lot fewer people than there used to be, the plan is to move all of us in the north half down into the south half, thus saving a chunk of money.  It almost seems backwards that this means moving a bunch of people from the south to the north for a while, but ( Read more... )

Trying to get some gov-related stuff straightened out at work today.  Gotta do X to get access to Y, but can't do X unless Y is already approved, but Y can't be approved without X....

So yeah, I find myself identifying with Darwin in this clip:

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An admin assistant at work was cleaning out one of the unused offices today.  Nobody had been using the office for a number of years and it had kind of become a dumping ground for furniture and stuff that people didn't want in their offices any more.  It's not too uncommon to come across some unusual items when cleaning such rooms out ( Read more... )

It's not like I want a blizzard or anything, but could we at least have a bit of proper winter weather?  Unseasonably warm and rainy just aint cutting it.

While waiting for a definitions file to download, I went poking around on LJ and ran across a video by what is apparently a Scottish pirate metal band.  I just had to see what other music they'd done.

Turns out they even did a cover of the Lazy Town "You are a Pirate" song:

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Thanks to Sandy and some roof leakage, my office and all the other ones on the west side of this wing of the building have some water issues.  I was fortunate in that my office only ended up with damp carpeting.  Right now, I'm sharing my office with a commercial blower and big ol dehumidifier.  Dang it's noisy in here ( Read more... )

From some Turkish film, a fight scene that makes most Asian martial arts movies look like fine cinema:

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I love the sound in that clip.  It sounds like the foley artist was reading a magazine and just randomly hitting keys on a soundboard, or maybe his cat was walking across it.  The music at the start of the clip sounds an awful lot like part of the ( Read more... )