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I watched Hellraiser II last night and got fairly drunk. I talked a lot of shit about that movie, I feel as though the movie deserved it. Of course, I talked far more shit about the commercials that seemed to crop up every 2 minutes or so. AMC must not charge much for their advertising, and therefore make up for it in quantity of ads.
Might go catch Saw III this evening. I haven’t managed to watch Saw II yet, but the first one was alright.
Straightened up the house a little and I suddenly feel better about life. Shocking what a little order will do for your chi sometimes, ne?

We had “greek day” here at the office. Several people brought in greek dishes. DEEEEEE-lish. Ian makes fan-freaking-tastic moussaka.
So I read this article here: http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=324
And I was inspired to read up on the “Lonelygirl15″ phenomena. I’d heard of it, but figured it was just some marketing tripe and ignored it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15
They reference the Temple of Hathor in Denderah as part of the plot of this vBlog story series.
So I looked into that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dendera_light_001.jpg
There’s speculation that this relief in the temple implies that they had electricity.
Then I thought, well that is a snake in there, what if they had electric eel jars? Are electric eels capable of producing visible electric shocks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel
Well then I noticed that those are native to South American and I realized that without accepting the theory of world travel in early history that my speculation wouldn’t fly.
But in Africa they have electric catfish! Ah-ha!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_catfish
There’s also the battery jars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
And of course, my favorite part about exploring the Baghdad Battery… the related Mythbusters episode!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%28season_2%29#Baghdad_Battery
I’d provide a YouTube reference but it’s blocked here at work.

Speaking of work, time to get back to work!

At least I think this is volume 2…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Duboeuf
Proper noun: name of the French wine producer who makes my favorite red wine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaujolais
Proper noun: area in which that wine is produced

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_(drink)
Proper noun: an area of NYC under normal circumstances, but in this instance it’s the name of one of my new favorite drinks. (On the rocks with Crown or VO, two cherries, and don’t spare the bitters, please.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitters
Noun: a handy item to have if you’re making cocktails, or if you run out of Rolaids.

I have been doing things besides drinking. Honest. But I decided to take a cue from and post some of my favorite booze terms to date. :P<p

http://www.songbirdnest.com/ I want you all to keep an eye on this site.
Any software endeavor that competes with the accepted status quo is great.

However, I don’t recommend anybody download it just yet. Songbird, while it shows a lot of promise, is a CPU PIG.

My system can handle a lot of things open at once, and this app plus a few other windows nearly locked the system down tight. As it was, Songbird itself locked up and nearly had to be forcily killed to get the program closed again. I am going to keep working with it, and keep going back to the nest to check for updates, but as of right now? I’ll stick with my winamp and my itunes for their respective purposes.

I won’t even go so far as to rate songbird on a 1-10 scale or anything like that, because I refuse to believe that such poor performance will continue. It is cautioned that the current release is sort of a beta of a beta, so I can’t say I’m surprised.

If anybody catches good info on what’s to come with this before I get around to (hopefully) singing the praises of an actualized SongBird, let me know what’s up!

Plus: Check out their logo. It’s a little pooting blackbird. My theory? They’re farting in the general direction of the competition. :P