Tuesday, December 14, 2004

When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Turn Pro
It's mix cd time once again. I've created a new mix for a cd exchange that's coming up in January. Mine is already done. It was weird. I just started pulling songs that I wanted to put on it, listened to the one I figured I'd like to start with and just put the next song I felt like hearing next. It's never been that easy, but I'm pretty happy with the way this thing came out. Now I've got a month to make a cover. hahaha. I'll put it up here so it can be downloaded once the exchange is over.

Rain is for suckers. I wish it would stop raining already. It's been like 2 weeks of RAIN RAIN RAIN. Wah, bitch, whine, moan.

I bought what is basically a server last night. It's not a TRUE server it's a server REPLACEMENT. It rules. It's more or less just a router with a 200GB external harddrive included. This solved so many of my stupid problems. 1) Now I don't have to pay Comcast for 2 IP addresses accessing my cable internet. I can just assign the router an IP and as far as Comcast knows, both computers are the same computer. 2) I can now share files super easily between the Mac on my desk and the laptop on my desk. This has been a serious pain in my ass for a long time. 3) I can now actually back up all of my mp3s that keep getting erased from my iPod. (iTunes sucks!) 4) Once I become super ambitious, I can set up the harddrive to allow outside users to access the files on it using FTP. Again, awesome.

Obviously, to acquire awesomeness, one must swear a lot. This thing required a large quantity of swearing to convince it to work. I think I got to "Piece of shit, fucking fuckshit, bitch" before it worked. Pretty good considering the last piece of technology I tried to swear into working ended up smashed on the floor. Tolerance for technology is reserved for guys who throw around terms like 'sql' and 'API' and 'module diagnostics'. Screw them.

Abraham Lincoln Killing Machine is going to be putting out something on Excursion before I leave ... I hope. I've already decided that our record is going to be called "Scream, Broccoli, Scream" and it's going to completely rip off this album cover:

... Only instead of a scorpion, there'll be a picture of broccoli. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks this is hilarious.

I watched trading spouses again last night. It wasn't as good as that one with the crazy vegan lady who went all nuts and tried to turn the entire southern half of the United States into a commune. Man, that lady was such an epic bitch. This time it was just some cool black lady and a bunch of crazy Taoists who didn't own furniture or wear shoes. It was entertaining, but the first episode was too classic for anything to follow.

That show, The Swan? It sucks. That is seriously one of the most depressing shows ever put on television. The plastic surgeons approach everything in such an arrogant and superficial way. Plastic surgeons, superficial? NEVER! ha! Maybe I'm alone on this one, but I think it's pretty crappy that there's actually a show on television where some narcissistic prick rattles off a list of a hundred different, and unnecessary, procedures he's going to perform to "improve" some woman's looks and all she does at the end of it is say, "I can't wait to start." Ugh. We deserve to have George Bush as a president. He perfectly represents all the thoughtless, arrogant and stupid things this country is. And American Idol starts back up again soon. Wonderful. I miss watching Junkyard Wars.