Addendum (11/26/07): Posting this article, by virtue of its having unseated something else from the recent list, has demoted me to College Graduate (Undergrad). L-M-E.
Suck it, RIAA
For Leah:
When you’ve got a favorite song,
You must rip it
Before Blu-Ray comes along
You must rip it
The RIAA is wrong,
You can rip it
Now rip it
Off that tape
Pick a high
Bit rate
Save to disk
As MP3
You already bought it
Don’t pay a fee
To rip it
Rip it good
Your tapes are wearing out
You must rip it
A new hit song just came out
You must rip it
Your iPod will not play
Until you rip it
I say rip it
Rip it good
I say rip it
Rip it good
Start that rip
Give DRM the slip
Rip another track
Pariser’s smoking crack
When a CD comes along
You must rip it
Or a new movie from Hong Kong
You must rip it
AACS won’t last that long
If you rip it
Now rip it
To DVD
Watch it on
HDTV
Take it with you
On SD
In your car
On MP3
Just rip it
Stay up late
Making your own
Mix tape
Go store it
All for free
On a hard drive
Or USB
Just rip it
Rip it good
ITCI: In Soviet Russia, Pictures Mock YOU
Don’t cry Condi: There’s still North Korea.
Also, Pining for the cold war? Pining for the cold war? What kind of talk is that?
IT: C
As is typical, the fact that we’ve hit a BIG ROUND NUMBER merits some sort of celebration. I’m thinking about it.
Mars, on the other hand, is full of nougat.
Oh, and your IT Centennial present is that I didn’t make a “Uranus” joke.
IT99: Untouched By Human Hands
Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Sharko the Lord.
IT98: And I’ll form the head
You think this is just a random image tossed up by the googlebot, but it’s actually a prediction of the future. If MSN, Time Warner, or Google acquire livejournal, they’ll be able to form Voltron.
IT97: Why? Because we like you.
The first and only time anyone will ever be comfortable describing anything Hamas related as “a real Mickey Mouse Affair”
IT96: The Search for IT95
So, I looked at it95 just now (here) and realized that it wasn’t especially funny. So let’s just skip it and move on with our lives, shall we?
HAVING CONSULTED WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND BASED ON THE INFORMATION GATHERED FROM THE NIGERIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER THE SUM OF 4 FOREIGN OIL WORKERS (FOUR FOREIGN OIL WORKERS ONLY) INTO YOUR ACCOUNTS. THE ABOVE SUM RESULTED FROM AN OVER-INVOICED CONTRACT, EXECUTED COMMISSIONED AND PAID FOR ABOUT FIVE YEARS (5) AGO BY A FOREIGN CONTRACTOR. THIS ACTION WAS HOWEVER INTENTIONAL AND SINCE THEN THE FUND HAS BEEN IN A SUSPENSE ACCOUNT AT THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA APEX BANK.
Freedom is the Right of All Sentient Beings
One of the best things about being an adult is that you can buy all the toys you want and no one can stop you.
With that observation, I will now reveal that I’ve been a Transformers fan since I was a little kid. And now that I actually have a disposable income of sorts, I’ve decided to take up collecting Optimus Primes. I think I’ve got the majority of them now, or at the least, a representative sampling. There’s a few holes in my collection (RiD Optimus is stupid-looking enough that I haven’t been willing to shell out the amount that they tend to cost), but I think I’ve got a pretty fair spread. In my usual geekish way, I’m going to post a series of in-depth commentaries about the relative merits of each one.
But to start us off, here’s the top of my TV cart:
106 Books
So, Sargent over at Live Granades was compelled by his wife to follow suit on this meme whereby you look at this list of the 106 books most often left unread on library shelves, and mark the ones you’ve read.
So what the hell, I’ll do the same. Read in bold, partly read in italics, seen the movie in underline
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote (It’s not underlined because Man of La Mancha doesn’t count)
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (But I didn’t really pay attention)
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New world
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park (And so did Leah; it was our first date.)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved (But I regretted every word of it)
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers