All posts by Rodney

Postal Conumdrum

You know, I am trying to understand what are the differences between the US Postal Service and the Postal Service of Sweden. Let me give you an example. A friend of mine sent me a package by express postal mail. It got a tracking number and all of that good stuff. Look at the level of detail here, behind a LJ cut for your convenience, dear reader….

WTF…

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrasing it is.

How many songs: 6273

Sort by song title:
First Song: ’03 Bonnie and Clyde (Radio Edit) feat. Beyonce Knolwes
Last Song: Πr-squared – Film Dialogue from the movie “Pi”

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: Cokane – Warp Brothers
Longest Song: I Love New York (Continuous CD) – DJ Jorgen Andreasson

Sort by album:
First Song: ’03 Bonnie and Clyde (Radio Edit) feat. Beyonce Knolwes
Last Song: Third from the Sun – Psilonaut

Sort By Artist:
First Song: Get Ready for This – 2 Unlimited
Last Song: Who the Funk feat Jessica Eve – Shiny Disco Balls

Top Five Most Played Songs:
Sweet Love – Anita Baker (36 times)
Sorry – Madonna (28 times)
I Love New York – Madonna (27 times)
Gift from Virgo – Beyonce Knowles (26 times)
Don’t Cha feat Busta Rhymes – Pussycat Dolls

First song that comes up on Shuffle:
100% Pure Love – Crystal Waters

Search …
“sex”, how many songs come up? 29
“love”, how many songs comeup? 513
“death”, how many songs come up? 0
“you”, how many songs come up? 683
“chewbacca”, how many songs come up? 0

Microwave working again :(

The good news is that the microwave is working again so now I can defrost food quicker and havea wider meal selection.

The bad news is that the microwave is working again so now there are more bad food choices available.

Not that I hadn’t managed to eat my share of frozen mozzarella pizzas, but the expanded variety of crap now available is daunting.

My saving grace? I am not sure about the electricity here. I don’t think I can have the microwave and the entrance light on at the same time *lol*

International Color the Year: Orange

Yes, that’s right. It’s time to select the color of the year. That color is orange.

Wanna elect the first femal german chancellor from the former communist part of the country? They should wear orange.

Want a good source of vitamin C? Orange (both a color and a thing)

Want to wear something which says “I want freedom. And democracy. And coverage on CNN”? Wear orange.

Feel like the cashier at McDonalds gave you a smaller portion of fries than you paid for? Wear It. Orange.

Sigh. It’s the color of the year. And the most misused symbol of the year too. This is akin to the ribbon movement (what isn’t there a ribbon for). Or Hallmark’s attempt to make every holiday have a card (have you ordered you card forAll Saints Day yet? I can just see it now, a card says something like “On this day that christ flew to heaven, i’m thinking of you. happy all saints day.” And with a signature that says “eternally yours (soon), Satan”)

I am in a bad mood I think, but I don’t know why. I have “Hung Up” remixes by Madonna. And they rock.

Well it has been a crazy week. My formal assignment in Sweden will go until 30 June 2006. My company is working on a local contract offer, but I don’t know that it will offer enough enticements for me to stay, but it is still early in the process. My friend’s boyfriend won the election for his region of sweden. My ex got beat up by a group of arab guys who assumed he was a nazi because he was speaking german with a friend, my other friend visting from london might have ionjured his leg and is at the hospital, and i had a yummy mini-kebab pizza and slept the day away and walked around the city for some exercise.

oh yeah, and the best part was having to visit the embassy to get something notarised only to be old my passport looks like it’s been mishandled by terrorists and being basically forced to get a new passport. Not too much of a problem except my work permit is in that passport as well as my non-expiring Ausralian visa (which was valid as long as the passport was valid) and my visa to Brazil (2 years left on it). Sigh. Cancel those plans to Sydney and Rio. And that US$12 security enhancement fee I had to pay still pisses me off. they charge ever person this amount who does anything more than come to the embassy and says hi. I asked what the fee does. The Swedish lady at the embassy said “stops terrorist attacks.” Who knew that America’s efforts to combat terrorism only required $12 per visitor to a US Embassy.

Blah I say. Or O’rly. Or damn it all to hell. I need drink.