Darth Drabek

Today's gonna be great, because it's Friday! That's reason enough right there. My rec league softball team got reamed last night, something like 15-2, but all that running around did wonders for my cold. Of course, the stuffy nose and sinus headache came roaring back once I'd cooled down, but then it was generic NyQuil and a good night's sleep. I've been forcing myself to get the recommended amount of sleep to fight off this sickness, and it really makes a difference. I feel great and all I did was sleep an extra few hours! I should "go for 8" on a regular basis. Imagine how I could feel if I wasn't sick and I got that much sleep! (w00t) I could stop drinking coffee all morning! ... Well maybe I shouldn't get carried away...

Here's some interesting commentary about the passage itself: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/stephe...9/post_390.html

Cake - Frank Sinatra

Ohhhhh.... Right now my top three are Innuendo Eyebrows, Burnsauce and Kitty. Although I'm sure we would see a lot of Beating a Dead Horse around here as well.

What exactly is going on in LadyCrimson's number 2 smiley? It looks like someone is on a particularly bumpy sled ride. That said, this would be a tough vote right now ... plus I'm sure even more clever emoticons will be entering the race.

Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation I was sayin let me out of here before I was even born--it's such a gamble when you get a face It's fascinatin to observe what the mirror does but when I dine it's for the wall that I set a place I belong to the blank generation and I can take it or leave it each time I belong to the ______ generation but I can take it or leave it each time

It really was! I mean, who would have thought most of those actors had surprisingly decent voices? We knew Anthony Stewart Head could sing from his previous coffeeshop outings, but the others did well too. The songs were catchy and the writing was clever; they filmed it in the style of a musical. All in all, you could tell they spent a lot of time on it. to Joss Whedon and the cast for that one!

Fight Club was an excellent movie. I watched it a lot my freshman year of college. Never saw 12 Monkeys though. I have read a few other Palahnuik books and enjoyed them, most notably "Survivor." I've been working my way through season six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I just watched the musical episode, and you can color me impressed!

How bout a job in walking distance, Feng? And hooray for Mus finding camaraderie at college. Now I'm getting all nostalgic...

You're gonna watch what you say for a long time... Toots & the Maytals - Pressure Drop

I saw that on Google News a bit ago... school shootings, here we go again. Anyway, the cold's getting worse, but I'm putting a dent in my workload, so I guess my day is improving..

Hey, Kirottu's enough to turn even Clooney, right guys? Umm, I've got a cold, I'm light-years behind at work, and it looks like rain for tomorrow's softball game. That's about all I have to complain about.

Supersuckers - Bloody Mary Morning (with Willie Nelson) That cocaine song has some sweet soul, Baley, but cocaine is baaaaad for you!

Yesssss. "Little Milton" FTW! Faces - I'm Losing You Not bad for a Temptations cover, although I'm not so certain Rod Stewart's vocals are genuine...

Crowded House - Distant Sun

Queens of the Stone Age - Auto Pilot Hands down my favorite Queens song.

The wire should have been at the top, you're right about that. I really liked the n64 controller too - it was innovative, but not too crazy like this Weeeeeee business. It's pretty impressive how much more ergonomic controllers have gotten since the NES days.

Wow, tough crowd. Who died and made you Jay Mohr, buddy?

People like it because it's a very good game with great dialogue, well thought-out characters and some really fun quests. Other people like it because of the bleak goth-friendly setting, but you can take that or leave it. You might have to take some precautions to get it to run right (it's a RAM hog), but it's worth it. My system is strictly middle-of-the-road, and after I patched and disabled several graphic tweaks it ran fine with no bugs.

Take care (of yourself and her).

Awkwardly designed? It was basically the PlayStation/Xbox design that everybody uses, minus the right analog stick, right? I don't remember ever having a problem with control on the DC. Sure it was kind of big, but at least the ABXY buttons were straight north, south east and west instead off-kilter like the original Xbox.

Kim Thayil sighting! Wilco - The Late Greats (live)

Yessssssss. Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman

I was kinda bummed I missed Rancid this week, but it was a Wednesday night and I had a lot of stuff to do at work Thursday. So a hangover and five hours of sleep probably would not have been for the best. The Posies - Earlier Than Expected Yessssss. This is good.

Well, aren't we Mr. Glass-is-half-empty today! On-topic: the video was impressive. That's the sort of thing smart astronomy teachers will show in class.