Just sitting here 110 miles from the beach, hoping the hurricane turns east so I don’t have to deal with it, because we all know how much fun that was last time. “In Step” – Girl Talk “Any Way You Want It” – Glee cast “Heavy Metal” – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “Crossfire” – [...]

Not the greatest week for me, even if it was a short one. Lots of work-related frustrations, which, to be fair, are totally expected in the early weeks of a project’s testing phase, but are, nonetheless frustrating. Otherwise, the weather was a bit cooler, and it made my bike rides very pleasant. Family camping this [...]

It’s kind of funny how synergy works. Just the other week I was musing about “princesses” and the problems they can present, and now, the always reliable JoCo releases a new song addressing the same general topic. The words of Coulton himself: I wrote a song called “The Princess Who Saved Herself” because my daughter [...]

We’re picking up and getting out of town for a couple of days to run out the last of the summer, so don’t bother looking for us. In the meantime, here’s some music: “Big Bad World One (live)” – Jonathan Coulton “Downtown” – Tegan & Sara “Lover” – Les Paul & Mary Ford “Better” – [...]

There comes a time in every man’s life when he leaves his mobile phone at home when he leaves in the morning. That time is exactly like the seven hundred other times he’s done it. Happy Friday the 13th everyone. Remember, when fleeing from unstoppable machete-weilding murderers, you really only have to outrun the stoner [...]

Not the greatest week in terms of rest. This week’s hotel bed was so firm and unyielding that had I not actually yanked the sheets to check, I would have sworn the mattress was a box spring. Here’s hoping for some improvement next week. “Gardening at Night” – R.E.M “Here Comes the Fool You Wanted” [...]

Not been a good week in terms of working conditions. The air conditioning system in my part of the office has been out of commission all week, and it’s been hotter and more humid inside than out all week. There’s definitely something wrong when going outside into the 100+° with the heat index Virginia summer [...]

…so, I’m not going to. Have a good weekend, everybody! “Never Said” – Liz Phair “My Michelle” – Guns N’ Roses “Voices in the Jungle” – Rock Sugar “Dose of Thunder” – The Replacements “Lovegame” – Lady GaGa “Reservations” – Wilco “Operation Ground and Pound” – Dragonforce “Deadbeat Club” – the B-52s “One of the [...]

Returning to hotel living after a couple of weeks does strange things to a person’s sleep cycle. “Baclava” – Arctic Monkeys “Big Big Ugly” – Innocent Nixon “Broken Family” – Julie Schreiber Band “Move On” – The Rentals “Pollution of the Mind” – Miss Kittin “Begin the Begin” – REM “I Pity the Fool” – [...]

Things are looking an awful lot like that other weekend. “Highly Strung” – Orianthi & Steve Vai “Stuck in a Movie” – The Aquabats “A Certain Romance” – Arctic Monkeys “I’ll Give You My Skin” – Indigo Girls (feat. Michael Stipe) “Kiss Me On The Bus” – The Replacements “You Really Gotta Hold On Me” [...]