probably not worth it: Archive

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →

Counting Crows (56) The Temptations (45) Ryan Adams (21) Sufjan Stevens (21) French Horn Rebellion (14) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 19th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →

CocoRosie (12) Mike Doughty (7) The Beatles (6) Sebadoh (5) Brian Eno (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 15th

Dec 7th

12 notes

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →

David Bowie (22) Interfearence (10) Arcturus (7) The Beatles (7) Train to Skaville (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 25th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →

Ryan Adams (27) Drive-By Truckers (14) The Mountain Goats (13) Low (13) Reid Willis (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 17th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →

Kate & Anna McGarrigle (42) Dinosaur Jr. (41) Rise Against (36) Ghost Buffalo (17) Laymen Terms (15) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 21st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-4) →

Swingin’ Utters (36) Noah And The Whale (21) The Beatles (11) TV On The Radio (11) Low (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 10th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-24) →

Thrice (4) The Beatles (4) Delerium (4) Whiskeytown (4) Led Zeppelin (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Apr 25th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-17) →

Yo La Tengo (16) Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s (12) Tosca (10) Detektivbyrån (5) The Music Machine (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Apr 21st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-6) →

Johnny Cash (7) Moby (7) They Might Be Giants (7) Ani DiFranco (6) New Order (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Mar 7th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-27) →

Radiohead (6) The Beatles (4) Bob Marley & The Wailers (4) They Might Be Giants (4) Spoon (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Mar 2nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-20) →

Andrew Bird (38) Son Volt (22) I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business (15) Levon Helm (13) Thrice (13) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Feb 25th

Travel commentary

Driving on highways for any distance often makes me think about 2 quotes from ani difranco 1- “We’ll ride off to California with my arms around your chest / I’ll keep my hands warm in your pockets / You can use the engine block”* 2- ” We’ll put up a wall between the houses and the highway so that / You can go your way, and / I can go my way” * this one...

Feb 24th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-6) →

Bon Iver (19) The Band (11) Bob Dylan (10) The Psychedelic Furs (7) Chicago Public Radio (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Feb 8th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →

Harry Nilsson (11) Bob Dylan (8) Neil Young (8) Johnny Cash (7) Ryan Adams (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Feb 1st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-31) →

Frank Black (31) Autechre (18) Einstürzende Neubauten (15) Primus (8) Squarepusher (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 3rd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-24) →

Autechre (74) Sebadoh (45) Hüsker Dü (23) Brian Eno (19) Tim Buckley (16) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 30th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-17) →

Sufjan Stevens (27) Deerhoof (19) Sleigh Bells (16) The Notwist (11) Women (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 18th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-10) →

Radiohead (7) Glen Hansard (7) Jamiroquai (6) They Might Be Giants (6) Madonna (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 14th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-10) →

Radiohead (7) Glen Hansard (7) Jamiroquai (6) They Might Be Giants (6) Madonna (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 13th

6 tags

We approach an equinox

Tomorrow is an autumnal equinox, and there are a handful of things on my mind. It being an equinox, I am reminded as always of daisy’s quote from The Great Gatsby about always waiting for the longest day of the year then missing it. I think that happened again to me this year, but I plan on not missing the equinox. I suppose this post is evidence of that right? That, and the season...

Sep 22nd

10 tags

Ubuntu startup service control with upstart and...

So today i had my 3rd re-introduction to a handful of linux startup matters. ubuntu works quite differently from the linuxes i know (redhat/centos) in the managment of startup processes. what i re-learned this afternoon i wanted to document for myself and others. in linux-land i’ve grown to prefer lighttpd over apache. i don’t quite know why, but that’s what i’ve grown...

Sep 11th

4 tags

Back from vacation

I’m back in ann arbor after a 10day vacation. There’s nothing too significant about that, but I wanted to share some memories for posterity. We stayed in a mini-cabin at michigan’s ludington state park. It’s a very nice park with trails, inland lake with swimming/boating, an expansive lake michigan beach, a lighthouse fun stuff. There are 3 mini-cabins at the park and we...

Aug 30th

Angel Food Cake →

So, angel food cake DOES have flour in it, it’s just half as much as a regular cake. It’s oil/fat that it doesn’t have any of. A small debate that I’ve been having with my self/wife this angelfood cake season.

Aug 30th

“You seem cool for a naked chick in a booth Let’s be pals someday (in...”

– The Presidents of the United States of America (“Stranger”)

Aug 30th

5 tags

internet at work and websense

So, at my place of employ the internet filtering product “websense” is run. This product i know tracks how much “time” any user spends using the network, and it also blocks access to sites with known inappropriate content, for instance i can’t pull up the http://www.randallknives.com/ website, because it is categorized as “Weapons” (i was trying to figure...

Aug 4th

7 tags

wikipedia humor

so i was just listening to Vampire Weekend’s song Oxford Comma. In a conversation once an acquaintance who’d just gone to see them was remarking how it was humorously awesome that they had a song titled that. I know that i’ve hit up wikipedia to figure out what an oxford comma is (sorry, i’m not a writer/a linguist/an english major/ivy league educated and I haven’t...

Aug 3rd

7 tags

Make your own corned beef in Ann Arbor

So this post has been a LONG time in coming. Now that it’s finally vacation, and i don’t have a bunch of responsibilities i figure now’s about time that i share. in March for my birthday/St. Patrick’s day party we decided to try and make our own corned beef. we used a recipe that i think was found in a Martha Steward Living magazine or home or something like that. At...

Jul 6th

11 tags

BMW 325xi lightbulb change

so, if anyone on the internets has a BMW 325 i have 2 tips for changing a blown headlight. Mine’s a 2001, and just has standard halogen bulbs, not the HID lazer cannon type things. What no one seems to mention anywhere is that there is a retainer clip that rotates around the lightbulb holder. So those tabs that stick out are the pieces of the retainer clip that you want to focus on trying...

Jul 6th

mapping the journey

We’re traveling from Ann Arbor, MI to Contoocook, NH this weekend. I was just confirming directions via my til now favorite mapping service maps.google.com When i punched in my origin and destination it chose a meandering route i’ve never considered before. it also seemed to add an extra hour to my expected travel time. To check out whether i was going crazy i pulled up mapquest and...

Jul 1st

1 tag

Stereogum presents Dr.Dog debut of Shadow People →

Feb 13th