Staind - Everything Changes - Cover

Please be merciful with comments. I'm trying my best. Really.

If you just walked away
What could I really say?
Would it matter anyway?
Would it change how you feel?

I am the mess you chose
The closet you cannot close
The devil in you i suppose
'Cause the wounds never heal

But everything changes
If I could
Turn back the years
If you could
Learn to forgive me
Then I could learn to feel

Sometimes the things I say
In moments of disarray
Succumbing to the games we play
To make sure that it's real

But everything changes
If I could
Turn back the years
If you could
Learn to forgive me
Then I could learn to feel

When it's just me and you
Who knows what we could do
If we can just make it through
The toughest part of the day

But everything changes
If I could
Turn back the years
If you could
Learn to forgive me
Then I could
Learn how to feel
Then we could
Stay here together
And we could
Conquer the world
If we could
Say that forever
Is more than just a word

If you just walked away
What could I really say?
And would it matter anyway?
It wouldn't change how you feel

True Faith - Hi! - Cover

The park is empty, my beer's already warm
And the shoppers have all gone home
Drunken and weary, I almost thought I forgot
About that someone who hit that spot

Love was a thing you wanted to know
And so with one wish, I did gave a show
Now that you're back with a half-baked smile
Just skip the bull, let's talk for a while

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

When you want to be free
It's so funny how you should hurt someone
And that someone was me
I'm just a man, not much with plans
But I do believe in what I stand

Love was a thing you wanted to know
And so with one wish, I did gave a show
Now that you're back with a half-baked smile
Just skip the bull, let's talk for a while

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Love will tear us apart again, and again, and again

Hello, don't say good-bye, don't say good-bye
Just say hello, just say hello
Don't say good-bye, don't say good-bye
Just say hello, just say

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Hate Me

Hate Me
Blue October

I have to block out thoughts of you so I don’t lose my head
They crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed
Dropping little reels of tape to remind me that I’m alone
Playing movies in my head that make a porno feel like home
There's a burning in my pride, a nervous bleeding in my brain
An ounce of peace is all I want for you. Will you never call again?
And will you never say that you loved me just to put it in my face?
And will you never try to reach me? It is I that wanted space

Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn’t do for you

Hate me in ways
Yeah ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you

I’m sober now for 3 whole months it’s one accomplishment that you helped me with
The one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing I won’t touch again
In my sick way I want to thank you for holding my head up late at night
While I was busy waging wars on myself, you were trying to stop the fight
You never doubted my warped opinions on things like suicidal hate
You made me compliment myself when it was way too hard to take
So I’ll drive so f*cking far away that I never cross your mind
And do whatever it takes in your heart to leave me behind

Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn’t do for you

Hate me in ways
Yeah ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you

And with a sad heart I say bye to you and wave
Kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that I had made
And like a baby boy I never was a man
Until I saw your blue eyes cry and I held your face in my hand
And then I fell down yelling “Make it go away!”
Just make a smile come back and shine just like it used to be
And then she whispered “How can you do this to me?”

Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn’t do for you

Hate me in ways
Yeah ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you
For you
For you
For you

Introspection 002: Everyone's Doghouse

Instrospection 002

Ninja Assassin Trailer

Ninja Assassin trailer. Awesome.

Career Test Results

I decided to take pigeonhole's test. What she took, anyway. Check it out here.

This is what I got:

You would be very happy in a career that utilised your level-headedness, and allowed you to work mainly on your own. You want a career that allows you to stimulate your senses and your mind, without having to be involved with lots of people. Some careers that would be perfect for you are:

• Novelist
  
• Photographer
  
• Vet
  
• Medical Technician
  
• Paralegal
  
• Geologist
  
• Marine Biologist
  
• Graphic Designer
  
• Online Content Developer
  
• Webmaster
  
• Computer Security
  
• Producer
  
• Computer Programmer
  
• Technical Writer
  
• Systems Analyst
  
• Meteorologist
  
• Artist

You like working and being alone. You like to avoid attention at all costs. You tend to keep to yourself, and not interact much with the people around you. You enjoy spending time with a few a close friends. You like to listen to others, but don't like sharing much about yourself. You are very quiet and private.

You are very practical, and only act after thinking things through. You don't like being forced to answer quickly. You have to evaluate the situation completely. You make decisions based on what you can verify with your senses.

You like to be involved deeply in one or two special projects. You like to be behind the scenes. You are very logical and fair. You feel you should be honest with others at all costs.

You trust what is certain. You only like new ideas if they can be practically applied to the situation. You value what is real. You use your common sense. You like to utilise the skills you have instead of learning new ones. You are very specific and detailed when writing or talking to others. You follow directions well. You like things to be laid out for you to do instead of working them out for yourself. You like decisions to be made. You don't like things to be left in limbo. You like to know what you are getting into before you commit to something.

You like to focus on the here and now. You enjoy completing projects. It is important for you to achieve and succeed. Therefore, you believe in working hard and playing later. You like to set goals and work towards them.

I'm sad that there is no mention there of a career that involved making a lot of money with the least amount of effort. That would be my career choice.

If you ever want a machine to do the decisions for you (think magic 8-ball + personality test). Hunch is for you.

Tmax Is New Project David

A Korean company called TmaxCore just announced a project called Tmax Window 9. It's supposed to be an entirely new OS written from scratch. For now, it runs MS Office applications and the replay mode Starcraft. Starcraft was probably the first milestone test, this being Korea. Some dude who understands Korean has translated and compiled information about TMax Window 9.

A new OS in 4 years with 100% windows ABI compatibility. Really now. I've heard this song before from somewhere.

Remember a few years back when a little known company in the Philippines called SpecOpsLabs unveiled with much splash their baby called Project David? If you have no recollection of what it was, it's supposed to be a layer on top of Linux that will enable Linux to run Windows applications. It was met with a huge amount of criticism particularly because the Project David screen shots all indicated that it was running Wine (since it exhibited all of wine's GUI bugs). All of that and they failed to acknowledge that it was running wine. Not that it has to. But these kinds of disclosure is important if you are trying to sell your company to MS.

And now this new OS comes along. I won't be surprised that this is running on top of ReactOS or Linux + Wine. For those not in the know, ReactOS is basically a non-unix based operating system built entirely around wine. Tmax Window 9 has been met with a lot of enthusiasm from the Korean media as much as Project David has been met with a lot of enthusiasm from the Philippine media. It's not a bad thing. I have nothing against Korean programmers and a new OS is not a bad thing. But prior experience tells me that this is a lot of hot air. The wine project has been around for 16 YEARS. Really.

North Carolina Sewer Monster

I'll be sure to have nightmares about this one. More evidence of the impending apocalypse!

DO NOT WATCH if you have a heart condition or slightly squeamish.

You have been warned.

From the bowels of io9:

[The] city of Raleigh, North Carolina, is responding as the viral video of a seething blob in the city sewers made its way across the internet yesterday. Marti Gibson is the Environmental/EMS Coordinator for Public Utilities in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, and she has been as confused as the rest of us. When she first looked at the video, she emailed our anonymous source to say it was a slime mold that was in the phase of its lifecycle where it looks like a throbbing, breathing animal (see io9's report on slime molds from a few weeks ago where we talked about this exact thing).

She assured our tipster that any water passing by this slime would pass through a treatment plant and be thoroughly cleansed. But then, a few hours later, Gibson retracted her statement in an email...