Who needs the 12 years of piano lessons I had? Who needs to learn to play guitar? With websites like this, anyone is a master musician.

btw, it's worth the load time.

It was Superman that brought me to How It Should Have Ended, but their interpretation of Spider-Man 3 had me rolling on the proverbial floor, laughing my...you know.

Man, after 11 days off, I'm glad I get to start the New Year with a 3 day workweek. Getting back into work mode was rough, but I'm muddling through. One more day!

My New Year's Resolution is to get back to the gym. I need to get into shape!

Robots' Choice

I just got turned onto Dean Ween's blog, Brownie Troop 666. He's got a post up talking about this Rolling Stone.com article.

It reminds me of the battles I used to have with friends over the audible differences between SHNs and MP3s. It used to drive me nuts when people would opt for the easy download rather than take the extra step to ensure they'd hear every cymbal crash and every high-hat shutter independently. But that was years ago, and since MP3s have since propagated so completely, making them the preferred method of storing and playing music, I've been assuming that the technology had somehow improved. It's really disheartening to discover that that's not the case. Once again we've succumbed to lowered expectations.