I recently erm, obtained the complete studio works of Pink Floyd, and have been listening to a lot of their early albums - songs that I had never heard. Part of the inspiration for this was the just-okay VH1 series, "The Seven Ages Of Rock," which taught me more about Syd Barrett - the original founder of Pink Floyd - than I'd previously known ( Read more... )

So I'm on the train down to San Diego today, which is abnormal. I usually work Fridays from home, but I've got two testing sessions that I need to be present for, and I have a ton of work to catch up on. See, we're mandated to conduct 3 4-hour sessions a week with the client where we run our test scripts on the application and they freak out and ( Read more... )

"You should be getting stoned with a prom dress girl
You should still believe in an endless world
You should blast Young Jeezy with your friends in a parking lot..."
--Mike Doughty, "Fort Hood"

I woke up early on Thursday morning to take the train to work. After a late night drive home while perilously in the grips of everyone's friend, post-beer dehydration (don't call it a hangover! I never hung!), I was in no mood to turn around six hours later and make that drive again ( Read more... )

So I've been Sqrrling this song, "Thrash Unreal" by Against Me! Yes, the exclamation point is part of the band name, which is a little pretentious, but the song is amazing, and I can't get it out of my head ( Read more... )

For the first time, a blog post will go with the my default icon ( Read more... )

I'm probably going to annoy the living shit out of all my friends for the next couple weeks while I'm on Cloverfield overload, so I might as well get it out of my system now: Cloverfield, Cloverfield, Cloverfield, Cloverfield, Cloverfield, Cloverfield, Cloverfield, Cloverfield, Cloverfield, Cloverfield, Cloverfield, Cloverfield, Cloverfield, ( Read more... )

I'm saddened to learn tonight that Seoul's Namdaemun gate burned last night. Here's the picture I took of it when we were there in 2006:

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Let me be the first to congratulate the New York Giants for pulling off maybe the greatest upset in the history of the NFL. And also to George R. R. Martin (grrm), for whom this will hopefully be motivation to complete A Dance With Dragons even quicker than he already is.

This meme (nicked from pewtey) is so good, I actually took 15 minutes of precious lunch hour to make it in Visio. Simpler is better, I say.

To figure out your fictional rock band's album cover, do the following:

1. Take your band name from the first hit on Wikipedia's random entry page.
2. Take your album name from the end of the last quote on ( Read more... )