The Return of Something Awesome

Dinosaur Jr. via last.fm

And no, I don't mean me. Yes, I know I don't post much here recently, but sometimes I run out of things to say, so bah. But today, I heard the new single from Dinosaur Jr and I must say....it rocks. This is one of THE greatest bands of all time and any indie-minded early 90's music fan worth his or her salt would do well to just accept it.

Not only does Dinosaur Jr have a new single called "Over It" but it's by the original line up of the band, including Lou Barlowe. So, to all those of us out there begging for something awesome to come this way, I give you ......Dinosaur Jr.

The President Causes All of My 1st Grade Teachers' Heads To Spontaneously Explode At the Same Time

In a related story, the Teachers Union sent up proclamations that Barack Obama would certainly break his neck and that he should stand in the corner and think about safety.

Can I Get An Amen?

This article from ABC.com says that more and more younger people are becoming less and less religious.  Brothers and sisters, can I get a hallelujah?!  Say amen!!

New research shows young Americans are dramatically less likely to go to church -- or to participate in any form of organized religion -- than their parents and grandparents.

"It's a huge change," says Harvard University professor Robert Putnam, who conducted the research.

Historically, the percentage of Americans who said they had no religious affiliation(pollsters refer to this group as the "nones") has been very small -- hovering between 5 percent and 10 percent. However, Putnam says the percentage of "nones" has now skyrocketed to between 30 percent and 40 percent among younger Americans.

Amen, brother.  Amen! 

Greedy Humdrum Place That I Live

Maps of the the 7 deadly sins by area of the United States.  I live in a pretty greedy yet humdrum area.  Who knew.   I looked at how they collected this data and found it to be HIGHLY bogus, but still interesting.

Premiering a New Feature On Mind of Yang: Deep Thoughts

Every now and then, I have throw away thoughts that I think would still be interesting if someone (other than me, cause I ain't got no damn time) would investigate and write an essay on or that just really make you wonder. They're not always Buddhist deep, but they can be Earth shaking sometimes.

I'll be opening up a category section on the right panel to house all the deep thoughts.

Today's deep thought: Did Tone Loc really do the wild thing all that much more with that many different people than the average person, or was it all a show to get rich? If it was just for show, how does that make him feel about himself? Hmmmm.

A Pet Peeve

Maybe it's infantile of me, but I just cringe every time I hear someone haughtily use the word "mature," stressing the "t" sound instead of the "ch" sound, like "mutoor" instead of "muchoor."  If you're not British, you have no business speaking like this. Worse, I find that people that talk like this invariably only use certain words in this haughty way, which means they're doing it to sound wise and "mutoor" themselves, but really meaning they're just assholes.

The Re-emergence of My Music Library

Today, I had a technical issue with a download into itunes.  I needed to get it fixed and finally had to call tech support.  Now, calling tech support is a big deal for me, because I like to consider myself as one with my machine, but sometimes, you gotta go to the mayshta of all that is Mac, the mac geniuses.

Before I go any further, I should tell you a little bit about the clusterfuck that became my music library.  On my old computer, I had literally thousands of songs from my library built up over time.  All nicely backed up by a 1tb external hd.  It was, in a word, badass.

It was badass right up until the day that both the computer and the external decided to take a trip to fuckedville to appeal to its mayor to make me pay taxes to its municipality.  And lost data turned out to be the mayor of fuckedville.  So there I was; no computer, no data, no nothing.  For someone that works closely with computers in many different capacities, it's much like getting kicked in the balls over and over and over and over again, and then realizing the foot is the lightest thing in a series of items that will soon be lodged at your crotch.

But luckily, I got my workplace to buy me a shiny new computer.  And when I tried to do a migration from the external hd, I realized the external was toast.  So, as I was trying to salvage the data off the external, I built up another itunes library based off of cd's I'd collected of backed up material for years.  I went from thousand of songs to almost 1000 overnight.  But then, I actually got the external hd fixed WOOT!  So, I migrated that itunes library over, replacing the main library, then importing new additions from the the first library on the new computer (gone crosseyed yet?).

So, the library was in full swing and the party was back on.  Except for one minor glitch.  In this uberfucked version of a migration to an already established computer, the itunes library was permissioned to the other computer and not my current one.  Not really so bad, because it's pretty easy to fix, or so I thought. I tried over and over the basic fixes of permission swapping, but to no avail.  What I ended up with was the headache of having to go to each song of each artist on each album, permissioning every single item individually (and yes, I know there's a way to do it universally, but that didn't work.  You think I wouldn't have tried that, you ass?).  That meant that a lot of songs weren't goint to play on my new system until I had authorized them.  Over around 4 months, I've been able to individually permission my songs one by one, still getting nowhere near over half of them, basically meaning huge swathes of my music were lost in the okie fanokie.

But the huge cocked genius at Apple that helped me, changed all of that in an instance with his root madness schemes (stuff he told me isn't listed on discussion boards and wouldn't even be thought of as a fix by those not in the developer know- go figure).  Now it's ALL fixed.

It's no so fucking awn that Donkey Kong can suck my dick!  It's only been a couple of hours, and I"m hearing music I haven't heard in forever coming up on my itunes.  This is the real shit, baby.  That's what I'm talkin bout, Willis!  I shall be dropping more rock in the future.  You'd better prepare yourself like one of my wenches when she knows I've been taken by the flames of desire.

I thank you, Mr.  Mac support staff guy that has officially and quite literally rocked my world.  Aw yeah.

"Swine Flu Detected A Mile From My House" or "We're All Gonna Fucking Die!"

So, finally, swine flu has come to my town.  I just want to say to the evil children at the elementary school that have finally brought swine flu to the reality that is my life....fuck you!  And laugh all you want, if I get swine flu, I'm going to each and every house of my friends to "share" in the magic with them.  Fuck all of you, I'm taking you all with me.

Study Finds That Many Conservatives Don't Know Stephen Colbert Is Joking

This is just hilarious. Stupid people make life great sometimes.

Once Again, Adler Relegated To the Bitch 2 Cents Role In the Jungian, Freudian, Adlerian triad