Light Speed, Music and New Toys

Work is, was, and will always be hell if you work with the guy that I do, but I've been getting free lunches from my sluggish co-worker so I guess his laziness gives me something in return. He's been coming to work late and calms everyone down by saying, "You know the routine, I come in late, so to make it up to everyone we'll all eat a good lunch.". Okay, but after eating free grease and making up for his slow ass, I get tired at the end of the day. This guy really needs to pick up the pace. There's a force field between his monitor and eyes that slows down the speed of light. Whatever he reads off his computer takes 10 seconds to reach his eyeballs, and another 10 seconds for the information to travel to his brain, and an extra 20 seconds for his brain to send a command to his index finger controlling the left click on his mouse.

I've got a little project going on. I found some of my old cassette tapes (what are cassettes? oh yeah...) and after months of searching online for the actual CDs to replace them, I decided to import them into my computer and burn them on discs. The majority are Filipino artists that I listened to during college but after months of searching and e-mailing customer service departments of Philippine online stores to have someone find what I'm looking for, I gave up. They all give me the same typical Filipino reply when something is out of print or no longer made. "Phased out sir.".

This project has made me dig back into the Philippine music CDs that I do own. I miss the acoustic sound that is a great diversion from hearing the annoying "Yaaaay...!" coming out of Lil' Jon's mouth every 10 minutes on the radio. I even tried downloading more and did find a few songs that I forgot about. (Yes guys at the RIAA, I do download music like everyone else that owns a computer and internet. Now get the guys that sell bootlegs on the sidewalk!). Some of this stuff is actually really good. One of my favorite albums is from this band called Sugar Hiccup. They weren't that popular but they released one cool CD. They have the shoegazer / dreampop sound backed by a vocalist that sounds like the girl from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Cool shiznit! Right now I'm listening to this song "One and Only You" from Parokya ni Edgar. I heard these guys before so out of curiousity I downloaded and listened to it for the first time last night and now I can't stop playing it. I remember these guys playing funky Tagalog songs when I was in college but this song I found is frickin' awesome. The thing that I love about Filipino music is the lyrics. They always say how life really is even if it sounds absurd, funny or cheesy. Anyway...

Ahem....ahem.... Being the hardworker that I am, I won the Apple Airport Express kit from a company contest. It's pretty cool, let's me wirelessly connect my iTunes library to the home stereo. I also found a program that let's me control iTunes from my cell phone. Pretty cool stuff if you want to play DJ while you chill with a beer in your backyard and are too lazy to stand up to change the track. The guy that I work with needs this for everything in his life.