Review started at 9am. Just finished. 25 documents reviewed. 30 minute break for lunch, and two other short breaks. I spent most of the review on my feet, presenting.

Ow.

Metric is a Canadian band, with Emily Haines (of Broken Social Scene fame) on keyboard and vocals.

Their latest album is Fantasies, and the last song on the album is "Stadium Love", which is quite a fun song.

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Yesterday, as I was listening to the album in the car on my way to work, as I was listening to the following lyrics: Spider versus bat ( Read more... )

Life has become too much like a Dilbert comic when one of the highlights of the afternoon is replacing an old, broken mouse with a new, improved model.

The new mouse has the forward and backward buttons, and the scroll wheel tilts left and right.

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I first heard this song in college, but yesterday I finally saw Chungking Express, and now the song has significance.

The first half of that movie is a meandering mess of wasted potential (what a waste of Takeshi Kaneshiro), but the second half more than makes up for it.

(Still need to see In the Mood For Love and 2046.)

Amusing trivia:

Naval crews have ship mottos. The unofficial motto of the USS Asheville is "Evil is our middle name" (Asheville). Apparently, they even had lanyards made that said "TEAM EVIL", until the Navy command slapped that down, finding the motto and the lanyards to be unacceptable.

Hell's bells. kusoyaro had mentioned enjoying the memes of the list variety, (re)started by _way_'s movie meme, and searching for more lists. I had found the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (for values of "all time" equal to before December 2004).

I had set the rules, bold if you immediately knew the song, well enough to sing or hum it, and italic ( Read more... )

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Force of habit ( Read more... )

There's something great about getting so engrossed in a book that you just totally lose track of time and finish the book in a single sitting.

Slightly less so if completion time ends up being 7am. On a weeknightday. Oops.

darthparadox had gotten me intrigued in Charles Stross's "Laundry" series, so I checked out The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue ( Read more... )

I got a phishing email this morning at work... aimed at USAA members. USAA is an insurance and financial services company aimed at serving current and former members of the US military and their families. And it makes sense to spam my company, since there's a lot of former military who work here. I just can't help but think that targeting that ( Read more... )