Here in Katie’s Head

So, having had pirates on the brain as of late, the train of thought naturally led to the fact that it is time for me to do my periodic request for music suggestions.

Yes, naturally.

So, what hot new (or old but still good) music is the subject of your enthusiasm these days? What should I be listening to that I may not already know about? Clue me in, please.

Personally, I would like to deliver a belated plug for Rooney. They opened for OKGO and The Donnas when I saw them in Lawrence this past February and were delightful. Their happy sort of pop rock that always hits the spot, much like OKGO but perhaps a bit more shallow. Perhaps. So I’m seeing them on MTV2 and elsewhere, and I would just like to officially claim that I knew them before they got fabulously famous.

So there, that’s my suggestion. Can you return the favor?

And if anyone says Barenaked Ladies again, I’ll shot you all. Obvious answers are no help.

Posted: 9:46 pm · Category: Music · Comments: 18

So this past weekend, Dad and I got hooked on Fishy. He saw me playing it and had to try it himself. And yesterday early in the afternoon, we both beat it.

Take that, you stupid blue bastard fish!

Um. Yeah.

Posted: 1:55 pm · Category: Geek · Comments: None

I finally remembered to submit a recent mirror shot to the Mirror Project.

Posted: 8:42 pm · Category: Photography · Comments: None

I’ve been reworking my code a bit from things I’ve found here and here. No major changes, mostly just little technical stuff.

Oh, and a girl in Finland says I’m hot. Neat.

Oh, and also, I think Cute Boy and I are going to see a movie tomorrow. Totally 100% platonic, of course. Well, mostly. To think, I did not notice until yesterday what amazing eyes he has!

Posted: 2:44 pm · Category: Geek · Comments: 8

My layout is now 100% table-free (had a table to separate the columns in my links).

It feels good.

Posted: 6:26 pm · Category: Geek · Comments: 7

I said, “I’ve got this weird insect bite here,” and pointed to my side.

Cute Boy said, “oh, that was me.”

I almost blushed.

Posted: 1:09 pm · Category: Boys · Comments: 5

Okay, as promised:

Cool shit I downloaded that may or may not interest you:

First off, WindowBlinds is a program that lets you skin Windows, if you’re into that. I suspect I will tire of it soon, but right now I’m having fun pretending to be a Mac user by using an OSX skin (complete with the little shrink-the-window-so-just-the-title-bar-shows thingy, which is really nice to have).

For my pirate buddies (arr!), check out ShareMonkey. It works with Kazaa (Lite, K++, Grokster and all other Kazaa relatives) to speed up downloads by constantly checking for more sources for the files you want. This is nice if you want to, say, download seasons four through six of Oz. Not that I, uh…am…doing…that. But if I were, let me tell you, ShareMonkey would make it go a lot faster.

This is the coolest thing I have seen in a while: StumbleUpon. It’s a toolbar (and I am soooo not a toolbar person) that works in IE, Netscape, Mozilla, AND Firebird (yay!) and when you press the “Stumble!” button, it takes you to a random site. But not just ANY random site. A site that some other stumbler rated as “great.” Let me tell you, there are some real dumbasses out there giving “great” ratings to shit websites. But, every once and a while, I stumble upon a really freakin’ awesome website.

It learns your preferences through filling out some forms and watching how you rate the sites you visit, and it’s rapidly getting better at finding me stuff I’d like. In fact, yesterday, as I clicked the button, I thought, “I should got to Diesel Sweeties and rate that as great so it’ll find me more comic strips,” and lo and behold, it loaded up the Diesel Sweeties, as if it had ESP. This really freaked me out.

Anyway, this is my user page, currently showing a portion of my bookmarks as the most recent “great” sites I ranked from when I was training it. So…yeah. StumbleUpon rocks my world.

Okay, that’s it for this episode of Cool Shit I Downloaded. Perhaps I’ll have another batch sometime soon.

Posted: 1:46 am · Category: Geek · Comments: None