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Incredibad is one of the best albums I’ve heard in a while.  The album was made by the guys that do the songs on the Saturday Night Live Digital Shorts, which they should just make into a whole hour and replace SNL itself.  Featuring classics like Natalie Raps and Dick In A Box, the songs are well written, performed and produced, but most of all they are still funny as hell.  Even without the videos the songs totally stand on their own.

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Facebook is winning and my MySpace page is dead.  Thats why its been a while since I posted anything here.

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Is it me or do the self check out lines at Home Depot and Ikea seem to take longer?   Half the machine are busted or showing the BSOD.   Not to mention that people move so slow and have a hard time figuring out the scanner and credit card swiper.   So I’m standing in line today complaining in my head wondering if everyone in front of me is an idiot, and of course when its my turn I couldn’t get the darn box to scan.   Finally, the self check out helper had to come over and scan everything for me.  Now whose the idiot holding up the line?

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What started out as a simple trip to Ikea to pick up some parts for a TV console I am planning to build turned into a tour around the Bay Area.

• San Jose to Mountain View – I have got to move closer to In ‘N Out.  What was once a weekly habit when I lived in Southern California is now a special once in a while treat.
• Mountain View to East Palo Alto – When I get to Ikea, there is a security guard standing outside the parking garage making a slashing motion across his neck.  A little weird, was there a crime scene at Ikea or something?  I assumed the garage was full and went to the Best Buy to wait a little bit.  Still can’t figure out how Best Buy stays in business.  This was the second time I went into Best Buy to look at a TV I’m interested in buying and there were no sales people around.  Finally called Ikea and found out the store was closed due to a break in their water main.
• East Palo Alto to San Carlos - I decided to stop by Woodcraft which is a cool store full of woodworking products you can’t find at the local Home Depot.  Finally got the metric ruler I had been looking for.  Can’t believe how hard it is to find a metric ruler.
• San Carlos to Emeryville via San Mateo Bridge – Still needed my Ikea fix, love the Lingonberry drink, and had nothing better to do.  So I decided to head to the other Bay Area Ikea.  Don’t think I’ll be headed to Emeryville again anytime soon.  This place is a traffic nightmare.  I should have headed into Berkeley for some Top Dog or Bongo Burger, but just wanted to get home after walking through Ikea.  This time around I actually followed the shopping path instead of swimming upstream by going through the checkout lines first like I usually do.  But at least I got the cabinet door hinges and Lingonberry drink concentrate I wanted.
• Emeryville to San Jose via San Francisco – I actually wanted to get back home as quickly as possible which would have been to go down the 880.  I figured I knew my way around Emeryville, but a combination of poor planning and poor sign placement caused me to head towards the Bay Bridge.  I figured what the heck, I hadn’t seen San Francisco in a while, but 4 bucks later and a couple of stalled cars on the bridge made me regret this decision.  But at least I got to do 90 down the 280.  Still annoyed that slow cars kept drifting into the left lane.  That’s the passing lane damn it, its called the passing lane for a reason!  At least I got home without getting a ticket.

At the end of the day, it was all worth it for the Lingonberries, did I mention that I like the Lingonberries?

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