Out of The PIT

Leonard Nimoy passed away today.

Well, I expected something like this to happen eventually. One of my side mirrors cracked from the extreme cold we've been having this month. Cracked passenger side mirror. I had a lot of trouble starting the car as well this morning, but was able to get the engine to turn after half a dozen tries. I don't think I had the car start on the first try at all any morning this month. The rear struts that keep the hatch up don't work in this cold weather. I've had to use one arm (or my head) to keep my trunk open when loading and unloading stuff. This was especially annoying when putting in some heavy groceries into an already full trunk. My window has problems with opening and closing in cold weather and I'm hoping that the motor doesn't go out on me. I've already had part of my tinting stripped off this month due to the friction. If this cold keeps up, I don't think my poor car can take much more! (I was way too pampered with our underground parking at

So Google finally pulled the plug on the Google Talk app. We've been using it at work for nearly a decade, but Google had been telling people for years now that Google Talk was replaced by Google Hangouts and that Talk would be discontinued. Well, that day has come. My Google Talk app didn't log in and I got an e-mail from Google telling me that someone tried using Google Talk using my ID. Ah well, time to use something else. Perhaps I should use more sneaker messaging instead.

So I've been trying to find out who the original narrator of the usage of the F-word sound clip was. So far there are some people who say it's Jack Wagner, but I'll keep digging.

With the long cold snap we have been having and with MJNL out of town, I have spent a lot of my free time indoors. Most of it working on a long term project that I had been meaning to do for years: Cleaning up my music files. I have collected a lot of music over the years from various sources, and a large chunk of it came from a time before iTunes or any music tagging was easily available. As such, the information is stored on the file name itself, and every so often the information is wrong. Things like House of Pain's "Jump Around" being named Kris Kross's "Jump" instead. Or worse, having file names of 04.mp3. WTF! The process is to listen to the song, make sure the song isn't broken or corrupted, determine what the name of the song and artist are (usually by lyrics if I don't recognize the song), and then figure out which version of the song I've got. Some songs have multiple versions, and some have remixes on top. Figuring out which is whic