q's page: June 2008

Monday, June 30, 2008

:)

The Spider
Weezer
There's a spider in the drain and he's feeling pain
and he doesn't want to die any more than you or I
He's struggling to live, but he doesn't have much time
Any more than you or I
You or I
We've got to die, we've got to live
We've got to take what we can get
We sell ourselves for petty change
And when we die we rearrange
It's time to take it back again
It's time to take it back again
I want you to love me like I love you

There's nothing more for me to say
I spoke my piece, I go on my way
And fare thee well, where you go
You might need help, but I won't know
'Cause I'm up here in my own cell
It could be heaven, it could be hell
We'll never know just who we are
'Cause when we die we become a star
And stars can't talk
Because they have no mouth to speak about their past
They simply shine up in the sky
And give their light to you and I

And where would we be without their light
We call out names and then start a fight
But then again that's what we do
I hate me and hate you too
'Cause I'm in pain, just like the spider in the drain
I am a fighter, but I can't win, I've got to lose
Give me strength to see me through
And ease the pain that I must feel
As my bones break and I taste the steel
As i go down the drain

I'm insane

really did LOL

tried to eat kermit the frog once tag – Music at Last.fm

look at the artist pictures :)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

great page on firefox

I broke down and installed firefox 3 today. I usually (last few years) wait until a few point releases come out, but I liked some of the new functionality (awesome bar is awesome!!!!) and the memory usage seemed to be a lot less. I asked a friend who just switched (after having her ubuntu computer lock up a ton before firefox did somthing about that huge bug) if it was working ok, then took the plunge. Good stuff :) Didn't really make my day off, but wow what a great update :)

Was posdef worth it. Not only do pages load faster, but yes memory usage is way down. Everything is more responsive, even within the scope of like scrolling down and refreshing. I have to say Firefox 3 is full of freaking win.

That being said Opera 9.5 is pretty damn awesome and if Opera and Mozilla Firefox weren't so awesome I'd love to use Konqueror as my browser.

Anyways, I found this article on some easy ways to change your firefox, and it contains like 3-4 changes I implemented and already like a lot. I have had that stylish extention installed for awhile, so this page full of no brainers, and some things that I feel aren't neccessary. The comments are full of good stuff too. (bottom of post)

My switch to firefox 3 was pretty smooth. I had backed up my entire .mozilla dir beforehand, but it was just a matter of firing up firefox 3, letting it sort out extention incompatabilities (like 25) and trying to fix some (like 4) (but the other 21 are stuff that aren't a big deal). Then it loaded up, and I had to check the help/about box to make sure I was running firefox 3...looked exactly the same. Pretty damn solid. I'll delete my backup in a couple of days, I'm pretty sure. The utter improvements in interface speed are going to make it hard to go back to firefox 2, not to mention the sheer speed increases in page loading...and memory usage seems to be way down.

Firefox: Functional Firefox User Styles

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

holy moly!!!!!!

A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog

Saturday, June 14, 2008

satelite used for astronomy :)

Cosmic Grim Reaper Seen For First Time

So many galaxies visable, and from those millions you gotta hope you get a chance to watch an event like this during our short lifetimes :) I guess the jist is a red giant that has swelled to many many times the size of our star finally ran out of nuclear fuel, and they caught all the data as it went to supernova. :)

:)

My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
Flaming Lips
They tell us autumn's a-comin'
Soon everything around us will die
Only a fool believes that he is
Different from the birds in the sky

All those birds go chasin'
Some better, sunny days
You can't hear them singing
Cause they've all gone away

But this one bird didn't leave you
It stayed through the wintertime
You can't hear it sing
But you can hear it as it flies

So don't you believe them
They'll destroy you with their lies
They only see the obvious
They see the sun go down but they don't see it rise

This one bird didn't leave you
You can hear it as it flies
It's not very loud
But you can hear it if you try

So don't you believe them
Yes, it's true, someday everything dies
We won't let that defeat us
We can't hear him sing but we can hear it as it flies

Monday, June 09, 2008

April Fools

Love this song by Rufus Wainwright, always grows on me!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y5InMvddwyk

I'll try to recollect my memories of The Flaming Lips enough to make a worthy recollection of their show last Friday evening :) W.A.N.D. was pretty much one of the best songs I've ever seen!!!