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The One Song

January 12, 2009

This is the one song that I've listened to more than any other:

It is entirely possible that I've listened to it more than Happy Birthday, actually. Honest. I've been listening to it since either late '94 or early '95. I love it. I loved it then, and I love it now. And I've loved it every moment in between. Sure, there are other bands that I've been listening to since back then, but none as solidly as Lush. I'll fade in and out of love with certain bands, but not Lush (Oh, Miki!). At least not this one song. EVERY SINGLE TIME I put it on, I have to tear myself away from it eventually. I think I've been listening to it for at least a half an hour now, and I'm so tired. I WANT to sleep, I really do. But I need to listen to this song again.

And again.

(If the download link goes dead, sorry. Let me know and I'll send you it or something. Maybe I'll invite you over and play it for you. Who knows.)

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I liked the one with the penguins

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Nothing New Regarding Division By Zero

I just found myself sitting here contemplating the concept of division by zero. I am nothowever, thinking about infinity, or nothingness. What intrigues me right now is how such complicated concept is there, easily come across, even in grade school arithmetic. Granted, grade school teachers (and many high school and college teachers) will simply say "you can't do that" if it ever comes up.

That's all I was thinking.

And I noticed that while I was thinking about this, Ladytron's True Mathematics randomly came on my shuffled playlist.

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A new regret.

January 06, 2009

I regret that isn't me playing that guitar:

Shamelessly lifted from PCL Linkdump. Again.

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A Challenge for the English Majors or the PROgrammers

January 03, 2009

I've been reading about Ruby a lot. Ah, what fun. Often, I see people saying things like DRY and REST and (worst of all) RESTful, and no matter how many times I look up those terms, I always forget what they mean or why I should care. Due to this, I'm fairly certain they're basically buzzwords that mean nothing. Or at least they mean nothing for which there isn't already a word.

So... I hate those terms.

I was just reading a thread where someone used the acronym LOC for lines of code. I realized that this acronym doesn't piss me off, even though it took me a few seconds to figure out what LOC meant. But if the author of that post had written LOCal (meaning: pertaining to the lines of code), I might have vomited.

Herein lies today's challenge:

Who can come up with the most vomit-worthy compound use of an acronym?

Rules and things:

Chatting/texting acronyms (LOL, WTF, BRB...) don't count, unless you manage to come up with something amazing.
Bonus points for using vomit-worthy acronyms.
Mega-bonus points for writing a program to help you find as many as possible.
Super-mega-bonus points for writing a program that finds as many as possible and automatically makes an 'educated guess' at their meanings.
INSTANT WIN for actually making me vomit (without the aid of disgusting pictures or fingers down my throat or syrup of ipecac, mind you).

My humble first (lame) entry to get the ball rolling: POSitive

I can't figure out what it would mean, though. A good piece of shit, perhaps? Like "Plan 9 From Outer Space is totally POSitive!"

Come on. SOMEONE can do better than that....

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I talked and ate chicken wings

January 01, 2009

It's been a while since I actually linked to some music, eh? To make up for my delinquency, I've got quite a treat for you...

kracfive vs after-school kids
(There's no easy link just to the album that I can tell, so that link takes you to the kracfive website, and the album should be right there free for download on the front page.)

Now, what is this music? It's a group of real short songs made by kracfive after some k5 members recorded some little kids rapping at an afterschool program. We didn't stop there, though... Beats and music were added, the rapping was digitally touched up and all that great magic that producers do. And the results are awesome. Hilarious, fun, and sort of bad-ass.

Disclaimer: My involvement was unfortunately limited. Most of the hard work was done by Chris Colongib. Big ups.

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Five minutes later, it's still the season.

December 21, 2008

I never thought I'd do a Christmas-themed post. And here I go with two in the same hour.
(UNRELATED: my roommate is laughing hysterically while sitting on the toilet.)