Tej!

"Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind." The Knack described conservatism pretty damn well for 1979.

I had a coworker go on an insane rant about his hatred of EVs after somebody mentioned Teslas. I wound him up even more by saying I'm fine with EVs just not ones built by Nazis.

My last job was at a company with 25 US employees and about 100 in India. It was understood that our job in the US was to be American faces who showed up at the client every day while the Indian employees did most of the actual code production. The problem was that our Indian employees were generally ghastly coders (a few were as good as anyone) so I had to do most of the real work as well.

We had all-company standup meetings every morning at my last job. 25 US employees and about 100 in India. Never took less than an hour and usually closer to two. They started at 7 am so that the India employees could participate at the end of their day. That was my first exposure to companies that claimed to be "AGILE" while still doing shit the same old way.

The thing I never understood was how long each India employee would talk. Like, don't you motherfuckers want to go home?

No, it wasn't WMMS (unless my memory is even worse than I thought). It was a different station although I don't remember which one. They called themselves "the End" (hence the song), maybe WEND? I dunno. They had that one DJ who had relocated from LA for the gig.

I stopped listening after that one Barenaked Ladies song started getting played once an hour. "It's been" had me changing the channel so fucking fast it even happened when it was used in their promos. Good god do I hate that fucking song.

According to this it was 107.9 WENZ. A comment says they kicked things off in May 1992 which I guess is about right.

My tax preparer randomly started telling me about how he's invested money in a guy that is developing a "reactionless space drive" that works basically like this drawing. I was fighting the eye-roll when he added that the guy solved all the problems he was having with the design by asking ChatGPT. I started to explain how ChatGPT works then thought better of it. Easier to just find a new tax preparer.

obviously the product of too much booze, coke, and resultant self-confidence

And that's exactly how Toto got the gig doing the soundtrack for the 1984 version of Dune.

sare-en-get-EEEEEEEE

A radio station where I grew up (Cleveland) switched formats to alternative/grunge/whatever in 1990 or 1991 and they kicked this off by playing that song over and over for three straight days. It was a surreal experience to hear it on the radio every time I went to drive anywhere. For me, this was the real moment the '90s began (the other contenders being the premiers on MTV of "Groove is in the Heart" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit").

Apparently many stations all over the country switched formats the same way, by playing "End of the World as We Know It" over and over again.

My town had a bowling ball factory and on winter nights when the river was frozen we would steal reject balls and throw them off the bridge downtown. They made a truly incredible noise when they hit the ice.

Fuck, I don't even like changing tires on my bicycles.