This list from io9 (which is actually a good read) claims of Lady Gaga that "You hate her or you love her, but either way she's unavoidable." And yet, I have managed to avoid pretty much 90% of her. How, you may ask?

Because I spend my time listening to music from the 70s and 80s that people are still trying to forget. Things like Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, The Doobie Brothers, Journey, and Toto. That's how I get down. Yacht Rock style. Power ballad style.

Yacht Rock is the viscount of rock genres. You can quote me on that.

Just gonna put this out there

n+1 is a lit mag for pricks.

Dear Bravo: keep taking up a whole quarter of the screen advertising your shows after ad breaks that are already filled with ads for those shows, and I'll keep up not watching those shows.

Ripoff artists

I wish this guy all the luck in the world. We got boned by those fucking "Smart"Meters for the last payment before we moved. Sorry, PG&E, but September wasn't THAT hot, and I sincerely doubt we used almost as much energy as we did when I was constantly running my space heater last December.

Goddamn ripoff artists. Glad to be rid of them for our utilities now.

Amazonfail

"As someone who has purchased or rated Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce or other books in the Joyce, James > Paperback category, you might like to know that Ulysses will be released on November 13, 2009."

Yes, Amazon. Except that I bought Ulysses at the same time. Same shipment even.

This, my friends, is why automated recommendation systems are made of all kinds of fail.

Trending Topics

I don't use twitter's web interface much, although given that my computer is too sad to properly run even a relatively lightweight third-party client like DestroyTwitter, and the recent release of lists, I might just use it more at home. And if you're anything like me (clearly you must be, because the world in which you exist is contained entirely within my own mind) you loathe the Trending Topics. I don't need to click any of them to know I hate them. I need only see them. And, sadly, Twitter has their little slot in the sidebar expanded by default.

Seeing things like, oh, #thingsdarkiessay, makes me weep not only for myself, but for humanity as a whole, that enough people would make that trend.

Solution: shut it out! If you run Firefox (and WTF are you doing with your life that you don't run Firefox, I mean COME ON), insert this handy little bit of code into the userContent.css file in your FF profile:

@-moz-document domain("twitter.com") {
  #trends { display: none ! important; }
}

That tells the div called trends to not display at all. Because really, I'm never going to expand the thing. I would never want to unless I was looking for some reason to off myself.

Note, however, that Twitter seemingly is always tweaking the page layout. Usually things that aren't consequential, but it remains that this may someday break.

New site coming

It took me until today to finally sit down and figure out what I wanted to do with a new website, and I'm not totally positive I've got it all figured out. Especially in terms of integrating the blog here.

My reasons for various solutions are more than I want to get into here right now, but suffice to say, I've got a few things to work out:

• Should I just forward to URL to the new domain with all content intact?
• Should I start a new blog specifically for the new site, and import the posts that I think are most important or applicable? (For instance, things like comic posts will have their own dedicated pages on the site, so having them there and on the blog is redundant.)
• Do I just point to the LJ and leave this blog completely out of the picture altogether? Not change a single thing?

Suffice to say, I'm looking for some actual feedback here. You people who read this know me and probably know well enough about why I'd be reticent to give a link to my blog to someone like, say, my mom or dad. With the new site, that's essentially what I'd be doing, so really, which solution would you as the readers prefer to see implemented?

Also note that while this stuff is being worked out, links to the old Geocities hosting are pretty much dead as of today, so comics and stories and other images I hosted there are broken here.