iTunes has this fun feature called the Genius Playlist. Select a song you like and ask the program to create a playlist based off that song from your entire library. Obviously, the larger and more diverse your collection, the better this feature works. But with a little tweaking, you get some good mix tapes, as we elderly folk call them.

Listening to my favorites folder, and Harvey Danger's Flagpole Sitta came on. I thought I'd see what I'd get with the Genius picking the mix. Pretty good set list:

1. Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger


2. The Way - Fastball


3. It's All Been Done - Barenaked Ladies


4. Cannonball - The Breeders


5. Hook - Blues Traveler


6. Then The Morning Comes - Smash Mouth


7. Changes - David Bowie


8. Party Hard - Andrew W.K.


9. Love Rollercoaster - Red Hot Chili Peppers


10. Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes


11. Wake Up- Rage Against The Machine


12. The Promise - When In Rome


13. Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies


14. Pump It Up - Elvis Costello


15. Devil's Haircut - Beck


16. Sleeping In - Postal Service


17. What's The Frequency, Kenneth? - R.E.M.


18. Our Lips Are Sealed - The Go-Go's


19. Burning Down the House - Talking Heads


20. Pinch Me - Barenaked Ladies


21. Can't Get Enough Of You Baby - Smash Mouth


22. Rebel, Rebel - David Bowie


23. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil


24. All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople


25. And She Was - Talking Heads

One of those was a song I'd never heard before, Sleeping In by the Postal Service. The joys of kshandra and me sharing the iTunes account. Not complaining at all.

After running a couple of errands this morning, I decided to see if I could get a good deal on Civilization V. I simply can't find my CivIV disks, and am jonesing for conquest.

Woo-hoo! Steam has it for $15! Log in, create an account, make the order and... nothing. I download the downloader, and it installs, but then I'm prompted to log in. And the fucking system tells me there's no such account!

I loathe goddamn downloader software. Give me a fucking link to the zip file. I can right-click with the best of them. You have my money, give me my game without having to install something else on my computer. Because that always fucks up.

Go to Steam's customer service area.. and find I need to create a new account there! Do so, and no see that there is no way to actually speak to someone. Just an email form that someone may or may not read. In the mean time, they have my money, I have nothing. Steam sucks.

We get it. Y'all are so much more evolved than us Neanderthals who enjoy sports and like the spectacle of the SuperBowl. And they way you so cleverly mangle the game's name and feign ignorance of the event? Hysterical! Just like last year. And the year before that. Oh, and just about every year since I first got on the internet 20+ years ago.

Why people cannot just ignore the event and not try to show off their disdain is beyond me.

what model calculator do you own? Do you still use it on a regular basis?

I own a TI-30XA. I figure that since the one thing I really need to brush up on if I'm going back to school is math, I'd find an algebra book and start force-teaching myself. Having a good calculator to help seem,s to be a good idea.