Grooveshark recommendations...not so great

I love Grooveshark; I don't have to deal with all the stupid ads from Spotify, Pandora, etc.

But as far as recommendations, it looks like Grooveshark has a long ways to go:

Amazing mind reader reveals his 'gift'

Cuando el arte ataque - Luis Alberto Spinetta - Ensayo, 1986

- Pero no volvemos a Mi
- No volves a Mi?
- No
- Ah...ok

Pan de nuez

Hice un pan de nuez basándome en una receta que encontré en la web.

3 tazas de harina
4 cucharaditas de polvos para hornear
1 cucharadita de sal
3/4 taza de azúcar
100 gramos de manteca (mantequilla)
200 gramos de nueces picadas
1 huevo
1 y 1/4 taza de leche

Mezclar todos los ingredientes secos: harina, polvos para hornear, sal, azúcar y las nueces picadas.

Agregar mezclando rápidamente a mano: el huevo, la manteca derretida y la leche.

Enmantecar y enharinar un molde para pan, colocar la preparación y hornear en horno a temperatura moderada (350°F) por unos 45-50 minutos aproximadamente, ó hasta que al introducir un palillo, salga seco.

El Golpe de estado

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Jaime Roos Canario Luna - El grito del canilla

Hace muchos años que no escuchaba esta canción. La combinación audiovisual logró desarmarme completamente en cuestión de segundos. Hay algo ahí que me mueve.

My life is an episode of "The Big Bang Theory"

I've known this for a while now. Since moving to Redmond, my life has officially become an episode of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. This is most probably related to the people I associate with (mostly people from Microsoft), and their very peculiar quirky personalities.

I don't consider myself a nerd or a geek or whatever. My friends from college don't consider me that either (which might explain our own common level of geekness). It seems however that Microsoft is a geek magnet - at least in my experience.

I had the following conversation with a coworker over IM:
Me: <url to something funny about topic X in which both my coworker and I are involved>
Coworker: Hi - whats that?
Me: hi - it's an xkcd strip about <X>
Coworker: ok...and this is regarding?
Me: I thought you would find it amusing
Coworker: Sorry but I am not getting the context
you wanted to chat with me or some one else?

Morale of the story: Comfortable social interactions are a highly treasured and rare commodity in my world.

Growing up, I played a couple of video games from the Final Fantasy franchise, namely FF4 and FF Mystic Quest (which I did enjoy quite a lot, despite the general consensus being that was pretty much the worst game ever). I used to play for hours uncountable. When some of my new friends told me that there was going to be a Final Fantasy concert in town, I just stood there with a blank stare. I did not get it. Final Fantasy is a series of video games. Now, these games might have had some great soundtracks, I frankly don't have any recollection of them whatsoever. In any event, the following ideas just didn't make sense in my mind:

• People care about a video game this much


• People care enough that the production company hires a full symphonic orchestra to play this game's music


• That they expect enough people to fill up Benaroya Hall


• That the Benaroya Hall actually was filled with FF music fans

I don't know if it's how my brain is wired or what. This just doesn't make sense to me. Soundtracks are kind of a watered-down version of "the real thing". They are supposed to help carry a story forward, but somehow are not "worthy" to stand in their own right as independent works of art. Well, it seems these people think they can and do.