The Shit I’ve Listened to This Year

Most Played Artists:
10. The Posies
9. The Pretty Reckless
8. The Black Keys
7. PJ Harvey
6. “Weird Al” Yankovic
5. Robyn
4. Vanessa Carlton
3. The Decemberists
2. TV On The Radio
1. REM

Most Played Albums:

10. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
9. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
8. The Pretty Reckless – Light Me Up
7. TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain
6. Robyn – Robyn
5. Adele – 21
4. The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
3. Snoop Dogg – Doggumentary
2. TV On The Radio – Nine Types of Light
1. Vanessa Carlton – Rabbits on the Run

Most Played Songs

10. Ke$ha – Sleazy
9. The Pretty Reckless – Miss Nothing
8. Robyn – Cobrastyle
7. The Pretty Reckless – Goin’ Down
6. Ke$ha – Blow
5. Adele - Rolling In The Deep
4. The Pretty Reckless – Light Me Up
3. Robyn – Konichiwa Bitches
2. The Pretty Reckless – Make Me Wanna Die
1. Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill


Song of the Year

  Here they are, the Earlie Awards for Song of the Year for 2011: 5. KT Tunstall – (Still A) Weirdo 4. PJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder 3. Lil Wayne f. Drake – She Will 2. Kanye West f. Rihanna – All Of The Lights 1. Vanessa Carlton – I Don’t Wanna


NHL Realignment

The owners have voted to realign the NHL next year in the wake of the Atlanta Thrashers moving to Winnipeg. Based on their statements of having two seven-team and two eight-team conferences and a desire to keep teams in the same time zone together, here is my prediction: Pacific Conference: Anaheim Calgary Edmonton Los Angeles


Deaths

Look no further than how you found out about the death of someone famous to see the change in media and communication. Here is a list of people who have died and how I found out about the deaths: (2011) Osama bin Laden – Facebook (2009) Michael Jackson – Facebook (2003) Johnny Cash – CNN


Animal Values

Is the life of a dog worth less than that of a human? What about the life of a polar bear? Or an ant? This is a difficult question that many people struggle with. Fortunately, I have made this handy chart as a reference for those times when you’re not sure. Values are relative to


Cruise Control, My Good Man

Some people I know don’t like to use their car’s cruise control on the highway. Why? Because it’s too damn complicated. That’s unfortunate, because one of the big advantages of using it is to prevent your speed from gradually creeping up too high without you realizing it. Here’s your typical cruise control: It has four


Cee Lo Scala

And now, a lament from Java to its disappearing programmers: I see you compiling up some Scala on my JVM and I’m like ‘fuck you’! Oo, oo, ooo And I guess my interfaces just weren’t enough, I’m like, fuck you! And fuck that too. I said, if I was slicker, I’d still be witcha (ain’t


Hello? Operator?

How programming languages respond to a simple request for operator overloading. Java: You: “Hi, can I have some operator overloading please?” Java: “No.” You: “Seriously? You have built-in overloading. Why can’t I have it?” Java: “Nothing personal. Java don’t trust you.” You: “That is the very definition of personal.” Java: “Java says fuck off.” C++: You:


Project Fix Floor Under Shitter

Y’all love pictures, right? You’re not gonna read the text, probably, but here’s some pictures from my recent bathroom fixing project. There was some water damage around the toilet and by the edge of the bathtub. Here goes: This is the “before” floor. I ended up replacing the whole floor. And by replacing I mean


Project Dell Inspiron Duo Make Go Faster

I bought a Dell Inspiron Duo a couple of weeks ago, and while an awesome little machine in principle, it’s too damn slow. That, and sometimes it’s hard to touch items on the screen cause my fingers are too fat. I’ll work on that. The little machine is a netbook that converts to a tablet