I just wanted to put a note here that I’ve created another website, LolLibrary.com. Before you blindly follow the link I need to explain a few things. Some stuff on the site are probably NOT SAFE FOR WORK. If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you know that I primarily post weird, crazy, or funny stuff from the internet.

With that said I promise the site won’t become a shock site or be built to offend. I collect gifs and jpegs in the gallery and the front page will probably consist of links or youtube videos that I find particularly interesting or hilarious. Sometimes I’ll post something that’s just plain awesome. Anyway have fun, and due to the nature of the site I probably wouldn’t surf it at work. The last thing you need is some crazy guy with asperger’s syndrome spouting racial invective at full volume in your office. 95% of the content on lollibrary.com so far is perfectly safe, but that 5% if played at full volume in an office setting might not be the best career move.

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Yes I know it’s late. I’m pushing a build to production overnight so it can start working in the morning.

While waiting I came across this awesome article about Darth Vader’s Ariel Atom.

http://www.urbanracer.com/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=3741&z=45

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This has been a long time coming but I’d like to post some of my favorite music tracks from last year. The following 5 tracks seemed to get more listening time than any others during my evaluation. These aren’t in any particular order since the genres aren’t really comparable.

Meshuggah – Bleed (Yes that’s a real drummer. And only 1 drummer.)

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Priscilla Ahn – Dream (It’s been featured in quite a few soundtracks so I lose cred for that. But being the father of 2 daughters, the sentimentality captures me.)

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Andrew Bird – Effigy

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Azam Ali & Tyler Bates – The Spill (Tyler Bates does the equivalent of modern synth guitar Top Gun soundtracks for Zack Snyder (director of 300 and Watchmen). Sure it’s cheese, but it’s catchy and I’ve listened to this track way too many times to worry about it.)

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7l & Esoteric + Mr. Lif – Operating Correctly

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That’s it for now. I’ll start highlighting new tracks as they come out. I can’t keep looking back to 2008 only. So things I find, I’ll post. There’s some other stuff I’d like to post but this little audio player starts having issues the more instances of it you post. Sorry Sera Cahoone and Fleet Foxes, you’ve gotten a lot of play time but everyone knows you’re awesome anyway.

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Yes, it’s a toy. Yes, you can buy it for your children so they can learn about the security checkpoint. Yes, there are a ton of hilarious Amazon reviews for this toy.

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Todd, my brother-in-law, has posted a list of his favorite 75 songs released by different artists during 2008. An impressive list to say the least.

I poured over my last.fm rss feed to locate what new material had crept in in 2008. I’ve found 50-60 new releases to evaluate for the best songs. This is going to take a little while.

Here’s the artist breakdown.

Agalloch, Amon Amarth, Amon Tobin, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Autechre, Azam Ali, Behold… The Arctopus, Between the Buried and Me, Blockhead, Buckehead, Candiria, Conor Oberst, Cunninlynguists, Deerhoof, Devildriver, DJ Zinc, Dream Theater (Greatest Hits), Estradasphere, Faun Fables, Final Fantasy, The Flaming Lips, Fleet Foxes, Fleur, Gnarls Barkley, God of Shamisen, Gojira, In Flames, Isis, Kamelot, Kronos Quartet, Laura Marling, Loreena McKennit, Lustmord, Meshuggah, Minus the Bear, Mr. Lif (Collaborations), Nine Inch Nails, Niyaz, Okkervil River, Opeth, Orishas, Ozomatli, Portishead, Psycroptic, Puscifer (Remixes), Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Roots Manuva, Secret Chiefs 3, Sera Cahoone, Sigur Ros, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (2007 ahem), Soilwork, Solefald, Sonata Arctica, Strapping Young Lad (Greatest Hits), Textures, Tin Hat Trio, Toadies, Tom Morello, Venetian Snares.

Right now my iPod is loaded with the new albums from the above artists. I’m listening linearly instead of using shuffle and rating them as I go. Once I’ve got a song from each of the above albums I’ll make a new playlist and rate them based on my favorites. I’ll be truthful to my tastes. Normally I try and limit exposure to my musical tastes, but limiting the list based on how palatable the music is to anyone else wouldn’t create a list that’s mine.

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This is a piece written for the Weekly Standard by PJ O’Rourke. You can read the original here.

I’m posting the entire article here as well. It’s absolutely hilarious, and contains more wordplay than a rap battle.

We Blew It
A look back in remorse on the conservative opportunity that was squandered.
by P.J. O’Rourke
11/17/2008, Volume 014, Issue 09

Let us bend over and kiss our ass goodbye. Our 28-year conservative opportunity to fix the moral and practical boundaries of government is gone–gone with the bear market and the Bear Stearns and the bear that’s headed off to do you-know-what in the woods on our philosophy.

An entire generation has been born, grown up, and had families of its own since Ronald Reagan was elected. And where is the world we promised these children of the Conservative Age? Where is this land of freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment, honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque? It lies in ruins at our feet, as well it might, since we ourselves kicked the shining city upon a hill into dust and rubble. The progeny of the Reagan Revolution will live instead in the universe that revolves around Hyde Park.

Mind you, they won’t live in Hyde Park. Those leafy precincts will be reserved for the micromanagers and macro-apparatchiks of liberalism–for Secretary of the Department of Peace Bill Ayers and Secretary of the Department of Fairness Bernardine Dohrn. The formerly independent citizens of our previously self-governed nation will live, as I said, around Hyde Park. They will make what homes they can in the physical, ethical, and intellectual slums of the South Side of Chicago.

The South Side of Chicago is what everyplace in America will be once the Democratic administration and filibuster-resistant Democratic Congress have tackled global warming, sustainability, green alternatives to coal and oil, subprime mortgage foreclosures, consumer protection, business oversight, financial regulation, health care reform, taxes on the “rich,” and urban sprawl. The Democrats will have plenty of time to do all this because conservatism, if it is ever reborn, will not come again in the lifetime of anyone old enough to be rounded up by ACORN and shipped to the polling booths.

None of this is the fault of the left. After the events of the 20th century–national socialism, international socialism, inter-species socialism from Earth First–anyone who is still on the left is obviously insane and not responsible for his or her actions. No, we on the right did it. The financial crisis that is hoisting us on our own petard is only the latest (if the last) of the petard hoistings that have issued from the hindquarters of our movement. We’ve had nearly three decades to educate the electorate about freedom, responsibility, and the evils of collectivism, and we responded by creating a big-city-public-school-system of a learning environment.

Liberalism had been running wild in the nation since the Great Depression. At the end of the Carter administration we had it cornered in one of its dreadful low-income housing projects or smelly public parks or some such place, and we held the Taser gun in our hand, pointed it at the beast’s swollen gut, and didn’t pull the trigger. Liberalism wasn’t zapped and rolled away on a gurney and confined somewhere until it expired from natural causes such as natural law or natural rights.

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So against my better judgement I picked up another MMO. Warhammer Online. A fantasy MMO centered around faction based PVP combat.

Most of the server from the Dark Age of Camelot days actually banded back together to play. The game is really fun and far less time consuming and difficult to just jump in and play as DAoC or even WoW. You can level exclusively through PVP, and it actually works and is probably the fastest way to level.

Anyway, due to the fact that I can have a better experience playing for 15 minutes in Warhammer than playing for 2 hours in DAoC, I went ahead and picked up the game, on the pretense that I would temper my obsession to a reasonable degree.

If you want to try it out, I’m on the Iron Rock Server – Destruction side. My character’s name is Yoritomo.

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Have you ever googled your name? Thankfully, almost the entire first page of googling BJ Atchley actually refers to me.

Dig a little deeper and I find BJ Atchley of Connecticut who plays the Alto Saxophone. Too bad I haven’t picked mine up in 5 years or so.

So my apologies go out to BJ Atchley of CT from whom I will likely steal the first page of google for some time to come.

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