And so I picked up my guitar…

…and I taught myself this song: Trippy.

Sudden unexpected busy-ness!

Sorry folks — made a trip to and back from the Rat this weekend for Yom Kippur, and am now in frantic house-cleaning mode. I don’t expect it to take long, but while you’re all waiting, entertain yourself with the following little ditty:

This place is like a mansion, look at all this stuff!

Couldn’t help myself. I’ve been in a music-y mood* lately, and you’re all the beneficiaries.

And then I kept listening to the very same playlist…

…and I thought, “Fuck it. I’m just gonna drop the full nostalgia bomb on ‘em.” Yes, I’m aware that sharing songs that have some kind of significance to me doesn’t transmit emotions through the intertubes into your heads. No, I don’t give a crap.

A musical flash back to first year…

You know how there are those songs that you just love? The ones that invariably wind up on your most listened to playlist for a good many months before they fade off into the distance, waiting to be rediscovered at some undisclosed point in the future? The ones that feel like someone is mainlining nostalgia [...]

A musical superstar, an author and a YouTube sensation walk into a room…

…and by the time they leave, they’ve recorded this song: Pure. Win.

Assignment weekend!

I’ve got a busy weekend ahead of me, with two assignments that need to get done and written up — as such, I’ll not have much time to blog, and by the end of the weekend I’ll likely have a sore head. That’s why, in the spirit of teaching empathy, I’m making all of you [...]

New goal in life: Famous science fiction writer.

Because…well, just watch the following. Below the fold, as it’s definitely NSFW:

Well, that certainly steps things up a notch…

Brilliant video. But very NSFW lyrics.

I can’t really talk about Mandelbrot with including Jonathan Coulton.

Such an awesome, awesome song… Oh, and some extra bonus fun: