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When the music’s over turn out the light.
Turn out the light.
Turn out the light.

For those of you who missed one or more episodes of The Sopranos, including maybe the one last night, I would like to save you the expense of all those DVDs and say that the ultimate message is of the entire series is:

Every day is a gift

And that’s your bottom line - the Sopranos in a nutshell.

Phrased like that, without the foul language, nudity, senseless violence, and cold-blooded murder, it sounds almost religious, doesn’t it? After getting shot, what should Tony do?

And after repeated and continuing fuckage attempts by multiple telcos, what should DancinFool do?

The answer to that question is left as an exercise for the reader.

Which is to say: yeah, maybe your Monday sucks, but get over it, no matter how bad it gets, a Monday every week sure as hell beats the alternative.

‘Cause the music is your only friend, until the end.
Until the end.
Until the end.
Un - til the … end….

Or … not….

Took a little digging, but here’s a working link to PSXlinux.
Now will someone more 1337 and with more time than me please make this into a gentoo LiveCD for my ancient Playstations sitting in a drawer gathering dust…

So I was at one of those Civic Center things last summer and they had a booth where you could ask a lawyer stuff and for reasons I won’t go into now I need to learn about Intellectual Property laws and so I asked the guy and he gave me this web site findlaw.com and I finally got a chance to check it out recently and it rocks!! Check it out!!!

Seriously, it’s extremely well-written and thorough. The ads are relevant and unobtrusive, and the site’s grammar and spelling are nearly flawless. It’s quite difficult to find a typoe, and I really respect that in a site. FYI the IP stuff is in the Small Business section. Know Your Rights!

And here are the obligatory propz to the The Clash and a link to the lyrics to the tune that should be going through your head right about now. RIP Joe!

Yes, this is linked off of slashdot, and I know we were just Vista-bashing last week, but you must read this, for it is utterly horrifying. Having just loaded Mythdora 3.1 the other night on a spare collection of junk parts I slapped together (and man, is MythTV kool BTW) I feel sorry for the regular joe consumer out there that’ll know no better than to buy into the monstrosity that M$ is trying to create, and a little sickened by the prison-bitch ease with which Microshaft has bent over for the content industry.
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I don’t feel fine.

Just.   Say.   NO.

This is where I’d normally put a “Merry Christmas” because the political correctness of “Happy Holidays” rubs me the wrong way, however, the rudepundit has convinced me otherwise. Since the rednecks have laid exclusive claim to “Merry Christmas,” I’m afraid I’m going to have to go with “Ecstatic Yuletide to the planetary constituency, and to that self same assemblage, my sincerest wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period between sunset and dawn.”

If you live along the Front Range and like Linux and/or Libertarianism and have never heard of Denver Post columnist Ed Quillen, then I am here to set things right. As a fan of more than just those two L-words, I’m thinking the whole flat earth needs to know that Ed has sublimely enlightened us yet again.

I’m talking about his column for 11/24/06, We’re in the MyDecade, and here’s a quote to get you to read it:

I know, the modern computer interface has you pointing at icons, rather than typing commands. This is not progress.

Historians say the alphabet was a great improvement on hieroglyphics as a way to communicate, and here we are going backwards.

What I want to know about Vista is, will one of Redmond’s products finally know when a directory is empty when you try to delete it? Why would I not want to move the directory “and all of its contents” to the recycle bin, when I know it’s empty? Are you saying it’s not empty? But I just deleted everything, it should be good to go…?!?! Bad OS, playing dumb about something as important as directory contents, bad bad bad!!

I’ll admit that like most gen-Xers I affected a smarmy, cynical air of detached irony back in the days of my youth. As I mentioned in a previous post, this had a lot to do with how my young psyche reacted to the defeat of the rebels in The Empire Strikes Back. So I blame Hollywood in general and George Lucas in particular. (Just kidding, George. At least you still have American Graffiti, the best movie about baby-boomers ever made, before they got all self-important and started talking about how they “changed the world, man!” No one will ever take that one away from you, no matter how many crappy Star Wars movies you make).

But those days are behind me now. And they should be behind you too. What does cynicism buy you but a chance to say “I told you so” all the time. Booooring. That’s a pretty crappy payback in exchange for never getting psyched about anything.

Anyway, I’ve been telling people for years that 80s supergroup Journey (the lineup with Steve Perry — I am told that they had a lesser frontman in a previous incarnation) never deserved the kitsch label that was foisted on them.

Well it looks like people are finally coming around. Quoth Hooper X at POEtv.com:

This song has passed being kitsch and gone all the way back around to being awesome again.

He’s right about the awesome part. I dare you to listen to “Don’t Stop Believing” and not get fired up, especially in light of the recent election — or my favorite “Separate Ways.”

Yes, I’m aware of the irony of posting this under the 1337ness category.