They spinnin, they spinnin'!

Due to the nature of Blogger's image upload function, you'll have to click on the above image to see the animation. But when you do, take note of which direction she is spinning. It's supposed to tell you if you're looking with your creative (right) brain (if she spins clockwise), or your logical (left) brain (if she spins counter-clockwise).

Where's the magic?

If You Come Back to Me
Bowling for Soup

You were right
All along
You know I hate that--admitting I was wrong
So I don't answer the phone
When it's you
It's funny when I see
The caller ID that shows the phone line's still in your dad's name

So hey
I'm doing okay
And I'll get back to you if you come back to me
Your voice is so
Marilyn Monroe
It's funny how that
Makes me wanna smash the phone
I wonder if JFK ever felt this way

All alone
Like summer when it snows
So out of place
So out of those fake smiles
I used to do so well

And here's the part of the song where I start
To break down like my broken heart
But it's not gonna matter
The lines are all down
From a hurricane they should've named after you
Maybe I should get a Scorpions ringtone
To remind me of you

And hey
I'm doing okay
And I'll get back to you if you come back to me
And oh
Here we go
Just like a broken record skipping apart
That we both oughtta know by heart

We were right there, and now it seems so tragic
No happy ending, now this whole thing seems so drastic
You ask me twenty times where we could find our magic
Ask David Copperfield or even Ric Ocasek

David Blaine (Where's the magic?)
Lance Burton (Where's the magic?)
Harry Potter (Where's the magic?)
I used to think pop rocks were magic
Siegfried and Roy (Where's the magic?)
Shaquille O'Neal (Why'd you leave the Magic?)

You asked me twenty times, or was it twenty-eight?
And then your greatest trick ever was your great escape

So hey
I'm doing okay
And I'll get back to you if you come back to me
And oh
Here we go
Just like a broken record skipping apart
That we both oughtta know by heart
And I still can hear you singing along

Computer virus

My ex-girlfriend's work computer has been infected. I only know this because this virus is trying to propagate itself through her MSN Messenger contact list, and it tried to "contact" me.

We haven't really "talked" much after our breakup, so naturally I was suspicious when I received a send file (photo.zip) request from her Messenger, along with the following message in IM:

Hey just finished new myspace album! :) theres a few kinky ones in there!

Given that I'm her ex-boyfriend, there were only two possible explanations for such a message:

1. She meant to send the message and file to someone else, but accidentally sent them to me, instead.
2. It's a virus.

Not that I would mind if she did want to send me "kinky" pictures, but obviously a virus is the much more likely scenario. So I accepted the file, then had Symantec AntiVirus scan it when the transfer was complete. It didn't find anything.

Opened up the zip file, and sure enough, it had the tell-tale sign of being a virus: A command file (.com) thinly disguised as a JPEG.


So I IM'd her about the virus. But apparently she does not have administrative access to her computer at work, so her virus removal options are quite limited. I also remember her telling me while we were going out that she was not supposed to install any IM software, so that's probably preventing her from getting their office tech to fix it for her, since I still got a random message from her Messenger earlier today, although it didn't try to send me any files.

Al sandwich

I've read transcripts of the Weird Al/Avril Lavigne "interview," but have only recently got to watch it on YouTube. He usually has these on his Al TV stuff, when he has a new album out.

The interview below is pretty good, too. He basically made Eminem eat his own words.

Popstar

'Cause we all just wanna be...

Missing

When You're Gone
Avril Lavigne

I always needed time on my own
I never thought I'd need you there when I cry
And the days feel like years when I'm alone
And the bed where you lie
Is made up on your side

When you walk away
I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?

When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone
The face I came to know is missing, too
When you're gone
The words I need to hear to always get me through the day
And make it okay
I miss you

I've never felt this way before
Everything that I do
Reminds me of you
And the clothes you left
They lie on the floor
And they smell just like you
I love the things that you do

When you walk away
I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?

When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
And when you're gone
The face I came to know is missing, too
And when you're gone
The words I need to hear to always get me through the day
And make it okay
I miss you

We were made for each other
Out here forever
I know we were
Yeah yeah
And all I ever wanted was for you to know
Everything I do, I give my heart and soul
I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me, yeah

When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
And when you're gone
The face I came to know is missing, too
And when you're gone
The words I need to hear will always get me through the day
And make it okay
I miss you

Time Warp

Enjoy the music from The Rocky Horror Picture Show with footage from the various Star Trek shows. It doesn't have much to do with this post, but I thought its subject matter was appropriate.

Anyway, I just watched the pilot episode of NBC's new series, Journeyman. It's about a guy who, inexplicably, travels through time. His former fiancée, who died when the plane she was on for a business trip crashed, is portrayed by Moon Bloodgood, who I recognized from the TV show Day Break, another show that dealt with tripping time.

I just thought it was interesting that she's on anther show that deals with a similar subject. At least this time it seems there will be more of an explanation about the whole time warp thing.

Jumbotron Proposals

Spam on YouTube

If you have your own YouTube account, and have uploaded your own videos, then chances are you've received spam in the comments sections of some of your videos.

I've gotten quite a few of them in my videos, and initially I thought just clicking on the "spam" link for the comment would be enough.

It isn't. For some of the comments you mark as spam, YouTube might "hide" the comment, while for others, it won't. The majority of the ones I clicked on did not become hidden.

I also thought that clicking on that link would make them more active in checking them. It doesn't. So I tried to contact them in a more direct way, through the "contact" link at the bottom of each YouTube page. I expected to see a form to send my comments, but I was not persistent enough to get to the correct form six links in.

So anyway, here's how you can report those users. Not that it'll help that much, though, since they already have multiple accounts from which they send out their spam, and I assume they'll just sign up for even more, once YouTube deactivates their accounts. YouTube really needs to set up a better system in dealing with spam.

Maybe she was reading Mad Libs

So, as part of the Miss Teen USA 2007 competition, Miss Teen South Carolina was asked about many Americans' inability to location their own country on a world map. Confronted with such a difficult question, she begins rambling about... WTF?

Dead battery

Woke up to find my car's battery dead this morning, as I had suspected it would be (though I didn't know when it would die, just that it would probably die soon).

Since I couldn't find my previous battery's receipt and warranty info, I got a new battery from AAA, instead. Checking my blog, it looks like I last replaced the battery in January, 2005. So it's been about 2 1/2 years.

This new battery has free replacement for three years. I'll have to remember that.

Biggest Liars: Men or Women?

I thought this clip was available on YouTube, but I couldn't find it.

Hey There [...]

You've probably heard this song playing on the radio. Well, not this exact song, because this is a parody of what's playing on the radio.

And this is another.

In case you haven't heard the original, or just want to hear it again for the heck of it, here it is:

I am so proud of you mother****ing ****suckers

I pretty much haven't watched any commercials, since getting a DVR. So I don't know if this has been playing on TV, and if so, for how long. The oldest one I found on YouTube is two months old, though.

I will wait for you

From Futurama, on New Year's Eve, 1999, pizza delivery boy Fry was accidentally cryogenically frozen, and was not revived until 1000 years later. Before he left for his last delivery, he told his dog, Seymour, to wait for him outside the pizza shop. By accident, Fry finds Seymour's fossilized remains, and tries to clone him, as well as transfer the dog's memories to the clone.

The story of someone awaiting the return of a loved one is very common. Jesus told of the parable of the prodigal son. In Takahashi's Mermaid Saga, there's a story of a girl (Nae Kogure) who thought she was going to meet with Yuta, but he never showed up.

And in the music video of Days Go By by Dirty Vegas...