Curtis A. Weyant

I'm pretty stoked – I had a list published today at McSweeney's Internet Tendency titled Common Sense Solutions to Alt-Pop Song Problems. I got the idea while listening to Matchbox 20's song "3 AM" at 7 in the evening. I was eating the Chicago Classic at Uno's.

The "yourself" in this post's headline is me. So if you think I'm talking about you, I'm not. Unless it helps you. Then, I am.

Has this happened to you before? You're doing great with some new project, maybe a diet or exercise program or setting a pace to finish the next chapter of that novel you've been working on, and then one day you get distracted and don't continue rocking it? Yeah, happens to me sometimes too.

I was listening to commercial radio earlier today – a rather unusual occurrence, I assure you – and "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica came piping through my tinny, muffled but otherwise adequate car audio system. It brought back memories of sitting in my college dorm room and trying to learn how to fingerpick the opening on an old Ovation guitar that I borrowed from my roommate. Good times.

I slept pretty darn good last night. Perhaps not long enough, but the sleep I got was deep. And, importantly, all at once.

I tend to be a "middle-of-the-night" insomniac (really, that's an actual type, acronymized as MOTN), falling asleep early and then waking up a couple hours later ready to hit the night life. You know, browse the web, catch up on old TV shows, IM with friends in other countries, ponder the value of all the broken gold in my house – that sort of thing.

Today's featured quote in the iGoogle Daily Literary Quote widget is from James Joyce:

"The demand that I make of my reader is the he should devote his whole life to reading my works."

To which I reply: Suck it.

I like Amazon (AMZN). I also like Verizon Wireless (VZW). But I hate how the two are interacting for each other.

I've recently been re-ripping my entire CD collection to FLAC. It's been kind of a pain in the ass, but I will be glad to have everything in a lossless format. It also untethers me from keeping my music collection in iTunes, which is kinda nice. I plan to jailbreak my iTouch and install vlc4iphone – which can read FLAC as well as many other formats – once the conversion is done.

It's a sad day. Another Joss Whedon show is canceled. And while it's not surprising, considering Fox put it in time out during November sweeps, it sure is upsetting.

There are a slough of commenters on various blogs saying things like, "At least they are going to air the whole second season." Yes, there is that, at the very least. Which is to say, at least Fox isn't being a complete and utter bastard, again. Not completely and utterly.

Hulu, the really nifty Flash-based online media site, is considering charging for content starting in 2010. The company hasn't disclosed details yet about when it'll start charging or what type(s) of content it'll charge for, but it's clear that charging of some kind is going to happen.

So, many fellow libertarians probably will be upset with me when they hear that I don't give a rabbit's left toenail about the whole "net neutrality" regulations being considered by the FCC. Even the ever-stunning Shelly Roche hasn't managed to convince me that I should care – and her video updates typically convince me plenty.