LO2

Had a big weekend with my S.O. in Austin, then couldn't get online (damn Intel). Had fun, stayed at the Austin Motel (freaky cool), and learned that the only thing worse than a holier-than-thou conservative is a holier-than-thou liberal.

More after the eBay.

I love the tiny hopping bush birds! They're awesome!

No, I don't know what kind of bird they are. They're tiny, they hop, and they live in a bush. That's all I need.

I forgot just how good Spider-Man 2 was. Awesome.

Atmosphere's You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having is a great great new CD if you're all up on the whole Hip-Hop thing.

Nellie Mckay's new album's been delayed. Grr. As long as her record company doesn't pull an Extrordinary Machine (also awesome), I'll be OK.

Danger Doom's The Mouse and the Mask might not be as great as I had hoped it would be. I need to give it another listen.

Numbers, Lost, Joey, Arrested Development, Family Guy, etc. New TV Season! Whee!

My S.O. wants me to wait to watch Angel Seasons 3-5 with her. Guess I need to watch Star Trek TOS to kill the time in between, and finish my "watch every Star Trek at least once" quest.

Oh, by the way, Serenity was cool, but it was solid proof that Joss needs to get back to making TV shows. The man needs twelve hours to run a plotline. Two won't do.

That's it for now.

Xuqa is basically Facebook for getting laid. Hence, I will refer to it from now on as Fuckbook.

Letter to the Editor from the October 13th Lariat.

Living wage impractical

In light of the Lariat's editorial piece "University should keep staff above poverty line," as an economics major I feel compelled to provide an alternative perspective. Keep in mind that economics is regarded as a social science. Economists care for the welfare of the whole as much as anyone in Students for Social Justice.

To raise the "living wage" from $5.65 to $10.29 would be economically egregious to students and faculty.

Such a policy would require that money be reallocated from one area of Baylor's budget to another.

Money does not just come out of the sky.

The only internal funding sources I can think of would be to cut faculty salaries and institute a hiring freeze. If internal wealth is not redistributed, then it has to come from external sources. These external sources include tuition, fees, grants, endowments and debt.

Implementing a "living wage" is, in reality, just redistributing wealth. A redistribution in wealth means that your targeted party may win but others lose.

Is that what we want? One party wins, but another loses. Is that Christ-like?

Michael Khaleq
Finance and economics 2006

My reply:

Eat me Michael. Eat me big time. "Is that Christ-like?" You horrifying, horrifying moron.

He kept ranting about how they suck, and I didn't listen, until now. I think the thing with the Peas is that they have "trigger songs," in other words, tracks that make you hate them. Everyone has a different trigger. His was Where is the Love. Mine is My Humps. Here are some sample lyrics, if you haven't heard it before:

"What you gon’ do wit all that breast?
All that breast inside that shirt?
I’ma make, make, make, make you work
Make you work, work, make you work."

"What you gon’ do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump."

"I mix your milk wit my cocoa puff,
Milky, milky cocoa,
Mix your milk with my cocoa puff, milky, milky riiiiiiight."

And the real winner:

"My hump,
my hump,
my hump,
my hump,
my hump,
My hump,
my hump,
my hump,
my hump,
my hump,
my hump,
my lovely little lumps."

I love Hip-Hop. Love it with a big dank stinky passion. This song is shit, and is about as far from hip-hop as you can get. Right now, I can't think of a more poorly produced song to ever get radio play (including the Macarena).

I blame Dre.

In the Tradition of Dynamite Hack's Boyz in the Hood and The Gourds' (NOT PHISH) Gin and Juice, Jonathan Coulton's awesome cover of Baby Got Back.

Found via Boing Boing (I said that I wouldn't do any more "via Boing Boing's" anymore, since everybody seems to read it anyway, but there were many many hoops to get through to get the damn mp3, so...)

I like Advantage, use 'em all the time. But this ad was been on there webpage for over a year, and it drives me nuts. It's like when a hotel has "Free Wyreless" on their Marquee (or my all time fave, "Now Hiiring" at Taco Cabana for six years. Six. Years.). I hate it when corporations disseminate stupid.

Addendum: Thanks to Gre for pointing out that I used "there" instead of "their." I'm an idiotmoron.

I've never really gotten the knack of talking to artists. You can't talk to them about how much it pays or about what you think you like. If I think a painting is ugly, somebody just tells me that I don't understand. If I think a painting is good, they tell me the same thing. It's like artists see a different place, a higher place, whereas I'm on the level of some stray dog who only knows how to hunt for pussy or food in a world that's black and white.
Walter Mosley, The Man in My Basement

So you like pizza? Not like this guy likes pizza.

Do you own an iPod and like pizza? Not like this guy owns an iPod and likes pizza.

I do a lot of work in my local coffee house, and at night, they feature a whole lot of easily forgettable, generic musicians. It takes a lot to get my attention. Aaron Winters did a pretty good job. It's like Jeff Buckley's Live at Sin-e in here, without the high notes.

There are a few MP3s on his page. Dig it.