So the UPS person is here -- or at least their truck is -- and I don't see anyone going into or out of the truck (yes, I was watching that fucker like a vulture from my 2nd-story perch) but all of sudden I get an email delivery confirmation that the package is delivered but...no signature required? It's in the mail room ( Read more... )

Whether you celebrate the holiday or not, I wish you much love right now.

My music genres of choice are so punishing that I have rendered two sets of high-end headphones obsolete. Black/death metal: Why I can't have nice things.

Pianist rickrolls O'Hare holiday travelers, then segues into Gangnam Style and, glory of all glories, Nyan Cat.

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I've gotten four people to yell "Headbanging Snowmen!" in the office today.

Thank you, second-favorite metalhead lighting nerd. You make the holidays bearable.

A Metallica medley for this year's holiday light display. Right around 2:50, it takes a turn for the brilliant; I actually LOL'd. And the sequence featuring "One" starting around 4:30 is flat-out killer.

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All things considered, I still like his first (and much less polished) version with Slayer's Raining Blood the best (possibly because I prefer ( Read more... )

smofbabe and Stephen gave me another earworm -- which features Mars Curiosity, Spirit, Daleks, and Morbo's good friend, Richard Nixon.

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FUCK YOU VOIP. I can't call Germany, at all.