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Just a little rant… let’s pretend my opinions are relevant.

I agree with some other people’s thoughts that this song is a bit poppy for Pearl Jam. I didn’t know what to make of it.

“Definitely catchy, but what does it mean?”

I tried reading too much into it and thought maybe, maybe it was about the new U.S. administration. Go back to 2002 GWB was just beginning to destroy the world, and PJ’s newer songs included “Bu$hleaguer” and “Green Disease”. If you want to read more into it, those tracks were from an album called “Riot Act”, reflecting the post-9/11 political climate at the time. Compare this to the name of the upcoming album, “Backspacer”, which expresses a desire to go back, FIX and undo GWB’s mistakes.

But then again, this is all probably wrong, and I think the real reason “The Fixer” exists is that… THIS SONG IS GOING TO SOUND SOOOO KICK ASS LIVE. Imagine this anthem being played in huge arenas, with everyone singing along, and I mean EVERYONE. I mean c’mon — it’s not too hard to remember “yeah yeah yeah”.

This song is for the flannel and Doc wearing fans that have been around since the early days. We’ve grown up with the band, experienced hardships along the way, with PJ being around as a constant that we could rely on when the waves got choppy. We’ve all graduated, ditched the flannel for more professional attire, but this song is a reminder that we’re all still here, and that it’s okay to have a little fun. Things will get better.

I, for one, welcome our new pop overlords and can’t wait to see them in LA and SD.

I always thought the Leopard Dock had its flaws. Mainly that the 3D surface was bright, the S-wave background got in the way, and the glowing “active app” dot was way too hard to see.

I downloaded a few themes from leoparddocks.com:

• Revamped: Darker dock background, no annoying wave
• Liger Indicators: Takes Tiger’s black triangle indicators and adds Leopard’s glow
• New Separator: Dock separator with a correct perspective

Found this face yesterday when I was replacing my side mirrors D:

This is a test post from the wordpress iPhone app with a test picture. Yay!

another year goes by, and with a few exceptions (New York and Colorado trips, getting a new job) was mostly a non-event. oh wait 1 more to add to the list — the mass Microsoft Zune suicides that have been happening today.

Geek MS-bashing and Zune jokes aside (see digg), I looked up slashdot to find some possible explanations and it looks like it’s due to this being a leap year — today was the beginning of day 366, and something in the Zune exploded. lol..

Happy new year!