The T3sk3y Defenestrator

I think a few people in Portugal don’t like Nickleback either.

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After a 6-month hiatus from home improvement due to uh.. ‘family improvement’, I got motivated to tackle another room yesterday. This time it was the downstairs bathroom that was the focus of my attention.

I decided to do a Venetian Plaster faux finish – it’s a really thick ‘goopy’ paint that is smeared on with a trowel – and sort of looks like, uh, well, a plastered wall… in Venice. It’s kind of putzy to do – you smear a little on, then smear it randomly around in short strokes, then repeat for hours. It’s more like frosting a cake than painting a room. After ten hours of fun, I got the first coat on the entire room.

I had one really strong observation during the course of this project..

Nickleback REALLY sucks

Wow, what a lame band. When you listen to 93X for ten hours, you hear a lot of repeats – so this gave me the chance to really gather my thoughts. As if things weren’t bad enough, the album that they played from start to finish at 10:30 was.. NICKLEBACK!

These guys are the Wonder Bread of pop metal. Every song was utterly forgettable – 3:30 of interchangeable fluff. Lyrically they are no better – I’m quite positive they open up the rhyming dictionary and start writing. I can see it now..

What word should we start with? How about.. uh.. TRANCE. Yeah, that’s great. Lemme see here..

A few months ago, somebody else observed how interchangeable their songs are – and went through the effort of overlaying two of those. Amazingly, they were the SAME SONG. No digital trickery was done here other than placing one song in the left channel and one song in the right channel:

Nickleback Sucks

Actually, I should be mad at people for buying this crap rather than the band itself. They might really be geniuses – they make lots of money with no effort.

Hmm.. I can do this.. lemme see..

Sign me up!

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Love ‘em or hate ‘em – Microsoft does put out some darn useful things. Sometimes they even make them free. The following site catalogs all of the free Microsoft software available – many of which I didn’t know existed. Most are useful, some are awesome. My favorites are:

• RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer – a must if you use a Canon or Nikon DSLR and shoot RAW format
• GroupShot – Honestly, I haven’t used this yet but it looks awesome. It groups multiple pictures taken at the same time and makes a ‘best of’
• … and too many more to list.

Check it out at: Ultimate List of Microsoft Free Software

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