Hey guys! You've heard of this little band called U2, right? They've done pretty well for themselves? yes? So guess who's playing a surprise concert tomorrow night, right here in my little town? ONE guess. Yep. The Greater Boston Area is all in a tizzy. Apparently it's some kind of radio-station pro...

In a pathetic attempt to distract you from the fact that I never post here any more, I'm copy-pasting this meme from my Facebook. ;) I've been tagged a whole bunch of times so I guess I gotta do it! Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits...

Things have been pretty stressful around here the past few months, not coincidentally coinciding with my dramatic decrease in LJ posts. To recap: * In October I got laid off and my grandmother died.* In November a family friend, a woman my mom's age with kids almost my age, died of breast cancer. An...

BaR2D2 is a mobile robot bartender complete with everything you need to get crunknasty and puke on yourself and everyone around you. BaR2D2 is a radio-controlled, mobile bar that features a motorized beer elevator, motorized ice/mixer drawer, six-bottle shot dispenser, and sound activated neon light...

Hi all! I've been way absent from LJ lately. I've been having a pretty "grinchy" few weeks here. Maybe you've seen some of my rantings in my Twitter posts. (does anyone read those things?) Anyway, I'm trying really hard not to be all bah-humbuggy today, so Merry Christmas, and Happy Hanukah, Festivu...

Thanks whuffle for pointing out this interesting experiment or test or meme or whatever it is. You listen to 26 little musical clips and try to identify which are played correctly and which incorrectly. Very neat. I got all 26 right, of course. Hey, that degree in music theory has to come in handy a...

First of all, these videos are NSFW because they're all of of some chick pleasuring a microphone. Jesus, I feel dirty just posting them. Apparently they're part of some performance piece by artist Wojciech Kosma that has something to do with, um, acoustics, and, uh, bl0wjobs. Actually, I have no ide...

I have a job interview today - I'm leaving in about 5 minutes in fact. ;) It's only a 3-month contract, and it sounds like there's very little possibility of it turning into a permanent job, and there are a few other things about it that don't thrill me...but it's an interview, so I'm going to give ...

You know, I know it isn't entirely fair to call out the pundits on CNN for whatever they might have said at like 11:55pm on Tuesday, when they had been at it nonstop for the entire day, and the results were in, and we were all just waiting with bated breath for PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA (frisson!) to co...

Mr. Asahi was made by Japanese based Asahi Breweries and serves beer before stealing your girlfriend and making out with her in the walk-in cooler. It took over 200 man-hours to build Mr. Robobeer and he's pretty much limited to opening bottles and pouring draft beer. Did I mention he talks? He talk...