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    What are the weirdest song titles in your playlist or music collection?

    Submitted by Charline.

About half my music collection seems to consist of weird titles.  Here's just a few.

    1. Clams Have Feelings Too (Actually They Don't) – NOFX (Pump Up the Valuum)
    2. A Lot of Nothing:I through A Lot of Nothing:XI – Coheed and Cambria (that's right, 11 tracks of nothing)
    3. Flat Foot Floogie – Just 4 Kicks (Just 4 Kicks)
    4. Hermaphroditos – Frank Black and the Catholics (Dog in the Sand)
    5. Inward Singing – Tenacious D (Tenacious D)
    6. Kiwi Maddog 20/20 – Elliot Smith (Roman Candle)
    7. No Name #1 through No Name #5 – Elliot Smith (Roman Candle and Either/Or)
    8. Pink Fluffy Dinosaurs – Hooverphonic (The Magnificent Tree)
    9. Psycho Joe (Goes to the Electric Chair) – Blues Traveler – Straight on Till Morning
    10. Your Kung Fu Is Old…And Now You Must Die! – Adrenalin O.D. (Short Music for Short People)
    11. Zoo York – Paul Oakenfold (Bunkka)

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Check out this hilarious piece by Simon Rich over at the New Yorker.  Go there, there's more…this is just a small part copied here in case that link ever goes dead…

I. A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table

MOM: Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy.

DAD: O.K.

GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.

DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.

UNCLE: I’m having sex right now.

DAD: We all are.

MOM: Let’s talk about which kid I like the best.

DAD: (laughing) You know, but you won’t tell.

MOM: If they ask me again, I might tell.

FRIEND FROM WORK: Hey, guess what! My voice is pretty loud!

DAD: (laughing) There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.

MOM: I’m angry! I’m angry all of a sudden!

DAD: I’m angry, too! We’re angry at each other!

MOM: Now everything is fine.

DAD: We just saw the PG-13 movie. It was so good.

MOM: There was a big sex.

FRIEND FROM WORK: I am the loudest! I am the loudest!

(Everybody laughs.)

MOM: I had a lot of wine, and now I’m crazy!

GRANDFATHER: Hey, do you guys know what God looks like?

ALL: Yes.

GRANDFATHER: Don’t tell the kids.

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I've seen this making the rounds on email/blogs/websites and don't know who the original person to attribute it to is.  Userfriendly links to the image on jwz.org (here) so Jamie Zawinski might be the illustrator/author.  Regardless, this still cracks me up every time I read it…

Hamfight

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    "When do you file your taxes?  Do you do it yourself or get outside help?"

Seeing as my mother is a CPA and has been since before I can remember, I can honestly say that I've never had to do my taxes all by myself.  That's not to say I haven't done other people's taxes – before I got married, I did my girlfriend's tax return via TurboTax and it seemed a reasonably easy process.  I know the software my mother uses for my taxes is a little bit more complicated, but it also gets you a bit better return by breaking down your deductions and staying current with all the little tax laws for your state, etc.

Having a mother who consistently works 50-60 hours (or more) during tax season, however, I'm ALWAYS trying to get my tax info to her as soon as possible, so it doesn't interfere with her work schedule.  She says during tax season, that she works 6 days a week paid, and 1 day a week unpaid (doing the family's taxes).  If I can help it, I try to get my tax info in to her by end of February, so she can fit it in on some Sunday when she wants, rather than cramming it in at the last minute with all the other procrastinators in the family.  Plus, it's nice to have your tax return filed and the refund (if any) direct-deposited in your account earlier rather than later…since the government has been using my money to keep down the national debt all year long, it's about time that I get my money back and can start keeping down my own debt. :-)

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So yesterday I was all excited about my new "explore here" shortcut tweak.  I came in to work this morning and booted up my computer, found out Microsoft had issued it's regular 2nd-Tuesday-of-the-month updates, and I downloaded/installed/rebooted my computer.  Only to find that while I may be secure from the latest vulnerabilities in Windows, my explorer tweak no longer works!  The shortcuts still open fine, but they only open as a regular window, rather than an explorer window.  I've tried creating new ones, changing the properties, trying /e and e, lowercase and caps, calling out the explorer.exe by relative and absolute path, all to no avail.  It seems Microsoft thinks I'm more secure if I can't hack my computer.  While they may be right sometimes, this is one of those cases where mother DEFINITELY doesn't know best.

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I love having shortcuts on my computer.  I've got folders in all kinds of weird and obscure hierarchies, to match how I think things should be filed.  Hence, you'll find a directory with code snippets related to websites under C:Documents and SettingsrossgMy DocumentsPersonalstuffcodewebsitestuff , while I might keep my work's time sheet backup in C:Documents and SettingsrossgMy DocumentsWorkIn_ProgressTIMESHEET .

This is all well and good, and works great for me for when I want to find something, but it takes A LOT of clicking to navigate there sometimes.  So usually, I set up a shortcut to a often-used folder and just use that link off my quick-launch bar or desktop.  The only problem with that is the shortcut goes only to the folder without the default explorer file tree in the left-hand pane, which is VITAL if I need to move up or down a couple of directories quickly without doing a whole lot more clicking.

Well, I finally decided to use my google skills to search for a way to make it so my shortcuts have the file tree, and found it in this article by Tony Bradley.  It's actually so simple I'm kicking myself for not doing this earlier.  All you do is put an e after the path to the folder name in the field within the shortcut properties, and Voila! You have an explorer-like window, directed to just the folder you were looking for.

This won't save me a whole lot of time or energy, but it's little efficiency improvements like this that bring a smile to my face and brighten my day, if only a little.  So give a cheer for customization with me, and now I'll go home and enjoy the extra daylight that is going to let me play with my daughter outside, and bring an even BIGGER smile to my face.

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