I am... Batman!

Or so I am told by one of my morning meeting cohorts. Apparently when I whisked myself down a flight of stairs in front of her my trench coat billowed out behind me and it looked cool enough that she had to comment. Which is funny since normally people view my trench as creepy or at least offputting. So, for today anyway... I'm BATMAN!

the inevitable

Since everything known to man was blocked by those ... people I now work for this blog has seen littie love. However, all dumb things can be overcome with the appropriate application of high explosives. In this case it was more the application of my new phone, the DROID. This phone rules. You can keep your iPhones, the DROID is heavy, sleek black, the equivalent of several old mainframe computers, and not an Apple product. Also, it's finally a return to a phone that does absolutely everything I want and several things I actually like as bonuses. There's also stuff I probably won't use, like the Facebook app, but better to have everything and more than to find it lacking. The Internet is once again my friend. I may even post here again from time to time...

Well, they did it.

The fuckers at work blocked everything. They blocked all social networking sites I know of, they blocked or destroyed the use of every single online radio service, they made blogs of any kind (including cuteoverload for fuck's sake), and they even blocked the fucking weather channel. Mother fuckers. The weather channel? Seriously? Who the fuck is spending so much time on the freaking weather channel that it needed to be blocked?

So since I no longer have any access to basically anything, I probably will be posting even less than normal! Isn't that lovely. I'm slowly starting to hate my job again. This whole bought by a new company thing is just getting worse and worse.

My new fact for the day.

As I just found out from Wikipedia, a hoodie, or hooded sweatshirt, is called a bunnyhug in Saskatchewan. I LOL'd.

Now I really want to play this game

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/10/sonys-uncharted-2-ad-funny-true-video.ars

Short story submission

Just submitted a short story to an online magazine that caters to this sort of thing. Aside from the fact that they pay pro rate, submitting to them is a web interface that you send them an RTF file with. They believe in technology! That's a plus.

Fingers crossed people. :)

An example of me plus Imogen!

Me buying CDs today was exactly the kind of thing that gets me weird looks from people who work at the places that I buy things. In one hand the new Imogen Heap CD, the other RA, a hard metal band. The girl, and she was definitely that young, gave me a really weird look after the double take on Imogen's CD. I love that sort of look, so I smiled, explained nothing, and left. I'm entertained by little things.

New Imogen Heap! Ellipse is very good. As I suspected this album is a lot like her previous album, but still a good step forward for her style. There's still no one out there quite like her, and that gap is getting larger with each album. One thing that I was happy about was that this album actually reached back to her first album, i Megaphone, and pulled from some of the darker tones and angst from that album and made them work with her new style.

Individually the songs are great, and I'm not going to review each song, but I like them all. I've listened to the entire album, and I think it's going to take center stage in my car CD player for a while.

I will take a moment to say that at the second to last track I was happy with the entire album, but there was a little niggling voice complaining that while all her songs were great, none of them really blew me away the same way Hide and Seek had. And then I listened to the last track. Musically it's not so different from the rest of her album, but the song punched me in the gut and left me breathless. Half Life is incredible. It almost hurts me to listen to it.

So, yeah, I'm a girl, but it's a great album.