Day: December 23, 2004

It’s like some kind of phenomenon, I just can’t ignore the memes today. Of course it helps that they’re more than the typical quiz. And it helps even more that this typical “random playlist” one has been renamed to ‘gallimaufry‘. I mean, come one. That’s just one cool word. Right up there with ‘loquacious‘.

So anyway, you know the trick. Randomize your mp3 playlist and right down the first ten that appear. I might do this once I get home, because the 20,000 tracks I’ve got there will produce some much more bizarre occurrences.

1. John Lennon – Imagine
2. The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again (Full Length Version)
3. Superdrag – Hellbent
4. Yo La Tengo – Moby Octopad
5. Cream – I Feel Free
6. Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
7. The White Stripes – Fell in Love with a Girl
8. Paul Simon – Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
9. Prewar Yardsale – Would Ed Wood
10. Lou Reed – Wild Child

Okay, that was kinda lame. That’s what you get when three quarters of the mp3s you bothered to copy to work are classic rock…

(thanks to Michael)

Funkmaster Jess is rating movie series. Who am I to deny the Funkmaster? A mindless meme-follower aparently. I left off Harry Potter (because I’ve only seen part of one) and Austin Powers (because they all sucked). In their place I’m adding the Coen Brothers films (minus the latest, which I didn’t see) and Tim Burton’s.
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I messed up my computer at work. Real bad. Something (most likely a stupid Sonic driver) was causing BSOD’s. So I checked Dell’s site for updates. Foolishly I used their new “Automatic Updates” tool. They must have a lot of work left to do there, because it looks like it installed all the wrong drivers on my system. Once you screw up the USB drivers, don’t expect to be able to use your wireless keyboar and mouse combo.

After screwing around for awhile, I finally decided to use the System Restore function of XP (which I’m usually trying to disable). What do you know? It worked! I selected the restore point automatically created before the driver installed, and a few minutes later my system restarted in working condition. I admit that I’m impressed. Rarely did the “Last Known Good Configuration” option actually fix anything for me in NT, but they seemed to have gotten it right with System Restore. I guess I won’t be disabling it anymore.