Big Audio Dynamite

May 17, 2008 - 12am

I picked up a pair of high-end headphones last weekend–at Kmart of all places. I was killing time before I needed to be somewhere, and was browsing the clearance rack in the electronics department. They were priced at $20, dropped down from $60, so I thought I’d give them a try.

They have active sound cancellation, and they sound fantastic. They’re easily the best headphones I’ve ever purchased. Unfortunately, here’s the problem:

I can now hear how many of my mp3s suck. If I’m listening with lousy headphones, everything sounds equally lousy–but now that I can actually hear details some of my favorite songs sound awful.

Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger sounded so muddy that… I’m ashamed to admit this… I paid for a legal copy from iTunes.

Search Phrases

May 14, 2008 - 10pm

I check the stats for my site on a regular basis–not because I get any sort of advertising revenue from this site, but because I’m curious about who visits and why. One of the more interesting sections is “search phrases,” which is what people typed into Google (or whatever) to arrive here. Most of the stuff makes sense after I think about it a bit, but some of it is just insane.

Here are a few of the more bizarre:

  • crushed by a giant foot
  • carfuck
  • no microphone problems in jesus name
  • self mutilation photos [Why would you ever look for that? Fuck you, internet.]
  • absolute bastard [You've come to the right place.]
  • lesbian [I swear this word wasn't on my site anywhere before today.]
  • baron von chickenpants
  • self harm dislocated shoulder
  • ravenous slor
  • ivy league convo in burger joint
  • king louis fucker [What?]
  • how much static electricity body [That sounds like a science project I want nothing to do with.]
  • urinal pennies
  • how to make a slor powered car? [The fuck is a slor? Did you mean "solar," genius?]

There also seem to be an amazing number of people who desperately hate their roommates. It’s strange that I have this many people arriving here when I have one post about hating my roommate–and it’s from 2004.

  • i hate my roommate
  • i hate my roommate apartment
  • i hate my roommates
  • hate roommate
  • my roommate hates me
  • my roommate and i hate each other how do i get out of my lease
  • i fucking hate my roommate
  • i hate roommate blog
  • roommate hates me
  • hate my roommate
  • my roommate is a fucking douche
  • blog i hate my room mate
  • hating roommate
  • roommate hate blog
  • my roommate sucks blog
  • i fucking hate my roommates
  • i hate my roommate blog
  • i hate living with my roommate
  • fucking hate my roommate
  • my room mate is an asshole

I saved the best for last–out of all of the phrases, my favorite is easily “motherfucker stole my sandwich.” I laughed out loud when I saw that.

Done With Downtime

May 13, 2008 - 11pm

You might have noticed my site has been down a bit over the last few weeks–I’d been having problems with my server. After replacing the hard drives a while back, I noticed that the power supply fan had failed–so I had to replace that as well. Fedora (the operating system my server runs on) released a new version a few days after that, so I had to bring the server down for the upgrade.

Long story short: everything has been fixed, the operating system has that new car smell, and my petty ramblings will be 100% available for the foreseeable future.

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