Friday

I'm getting frustrated with Amazon, stuff I ordered in late December and on January 2nd hasn't even shipped yet, grrr.

In other news, I made it through another week. ^_^ Played EQ, goofed off, etc.

I've been downloading music from my friend's sekrit server. He has nearly as much music as I do, and it's all available for a select few friends to browse through. Mostly hard rock, metal, progressive rock, lots of old school 70's and 80's stuff. So I told him that he didn't have enough King's X, and he said that he'd only recently discovered them, and was still tracking down their stuff... but he DOES have four or five bootleg concert discs that I need to download. Anyway he stated listing off what he had that was EQ-related, including Ty Tabor side projects like his solo albumns, Platypus, Jelly Jam, and Jughead.

Um... Jughead?

Turns out Ty did an album with members of a band called Mustard Seed, and it came out this year, and they called themselves Jughead. Not to be confused with the speed/grass country thrash group by the same name, although allmusicguide has them confused. Anyway, Jughead is different for Ty, it's alternative pop rock, and very very good. Been listening to it since I downloaded it yesterday. ^_^

Now... off to download some Spock's Beard and see what they're about.

Barf

Blogging

I found out today from listening to NPR's Rewind show that the term blog comes from "web log". Makes sense.

Not that I've ever used the term. You may think I'm blogging right now, but in my mind all I'm doing is updating my live journal, you know?

I mean, it's kind of an ugly word to my mind. Inelegant. A word that you shouldn't use in polite society.

In my mind I hear Beavis and Butthead laughing. "Hehehe, you said 'blogging', hehehehe...".

It makes me think of barfing, and of blotting, as in ink spilling on paper. So I guess in some ways the term blogging conjures up images of people spilling ink and spilling their guts all over the desktop, which in some sense is what a lot of people do with these online journal things.

Blogging was one of the hot terms most used this last year. The one that actually won -- no surprise here -- was "weapons of mass destruction".

They also talked about newly coined words and phrases. Walking pinata. That was a term applied to Trent Lott this year. Embetterment was a new word that the President used several times, as in "the embetterment of the people of the world". It's a lot like betterment, only mangled in a uniquely Bushian way.

Their best new word of the year was Iraqnaphobia. But I also liked the term Apatheist for someone who believed that god/the gods exist but are irrelevant.

Anyway, it's Friday night, work's pretty much done. I should clock out and go home.