I AM The Universe: Random Thoughts

Radiohead – House of Cards

I don’t wanna be your friend
I just wanna be your lover
No matter how it ends
No matter how it starts

Forget about your house of cards
And I’ll do mine
Forget about your house of cards
And I’ll do mine

And fall off the table, get swept under

Denial, denial

The infrastructure will collapse
Voltage spikes
Throw your keys in the bowl
Kiss your husband goodnight

Forget about your house of cards
And I’ll do mine
Forget about your house of cards
And I’ll do mine

Fall off the table, get swept under

Denial, denial
Denial, denial

Your ears should be burning
Denial, denial
Your ears should be burning

The Pretenders – Human

I play a good game,
But not good as you.
I can be a little cold, but you can be so cruel.
I’m not made of brick, I’m not made of stone,
But I had you fooled enough
To take me on
If love was a war, it’s you who has won.
While I was confessing it, you held your tongue
Now the damage is done…

[Chorus:]
Well there’s blood in these veins,
And I cry when in pain,
I’m only human on the inside.
And if looks can deceive,
Make it hard to believe,
I’m only human on the inside.

I thought you’d come through,
I thought you’d come clean.
You were the best thing I should never have seen.
But you go to extremes, you push me too far,
Then you keep going ’til you break my heart.
Yeah, you break my heart.
See I bleed and I bruise, oh, but what’s it to you,
I’m only human on the inside.
And if looks could deceive,
Make it hard to believe
I’m only human on the inside
I crash and I burn, maybe some day you’ll learn
I’m only human on the inside
I stumble and fall, baby, under it all
I’m only human on the inside
And the damage is done…

[Chorus]

I crash and I burn, maybe some day you’ll learn
I stumble and fall, baby, I do it all
I’m only human on the inside

Yes, this is – again – one of those posts where I don’t wanna say anything!

But I’m pretty sure I haven’t

Michael Buble – I Just Haven’t Met You Yet

I’m not surprised,
Not everything lasts,
I’ve broken my heart so many times I stopped keeping track.
Talk myself in,
I talk myself out,
I get all worked up,
Then I let myself down,

I tried so very hard not to loose it;
I came up with a million excuses,
I thought I thought of every possibility,

And I know some day that it’ll all turn out,
You’ll make me work so we can work to work it out,
And I promise you kid that I give so much more than I get,
I just haven’t met you yet.

I might have to wait,
I’ll never give up,
I guess it’s half timin’, and the other half’s luck,
Wherever you are,
Whenever it’s right,
You’ll come outta nowhere and into my life.

And I know that we can be so amazin’,
And baby your love is gonna change me,
And now I can see every possibility,

Somehow I know that it’ll all turn out,
You’ll make me work so we can work to work it out,
And promise you kid, I’ll give so much more than I get,
I just haven’t met you yet.

They say all’s fair
in love and war
But I won’t need to fight it,
we’ll get it right an’,
we’ll be united

and I know that we can be so amazin’,
And bein’ in your life is gonna change me,
And now I can see every single possibility,

And someday I know it’ll all turn out,
And I’ll work to work it out,
Promise you kid I’ll give more than I get
Than I get, than I get, than I get.

Oh, you know it’ll all turn out,
and you’ll make me work so we can work to work it out,
And promise you kid to give so much more than I get, yeah
I just haven’t met you yet.

I just haven’t met you yet,
Oh, promise you kid,
To give so much more than I get.

I said love love love love love love love…..
I just haven’t met you yet
Love love love …..
So doy day ay ay ay, ay ay yeah
I just haven’t met you yet!

So, I was watching this episode of How I Met Your Mother, where Marshall keeps on pointing flaws in Barneys theories, and then says “BAM! You’ve been lawyered!” So, I got to thinking – if people as boring as lawyers can do it, why not engineers! So you come up with a nifty little methodical shortcut for doing things, or optimize someone elses process, and then you go “BAM! You’ve been engineered!” That’s cool, and it can be used as an innuendo when used correctly

Anyway, so people who follow me on Twitter know that I use a service called twt.fm to share music from time to time. But I got tired of using their website, so I decided to write myself a little script. I used Doug’s AppleScript to get the current playing track information from iTunes (credit to him for that), and then wrote an Automator script to get the twt.fm URL from their API and post it via Tweetie.

You can download the script here. You can put it in your Scripts folder so that it appears in the menubar, or you can put it in the Applications folder. Just launch the script when your song is playing in iTunes, and the script will get the twt.fm link and open a new post in Tweetie with the content. You can tweak the way your message appears by opening the script in Automator.

The only configuration required is opening the script in Automator, and entering your Twitter username and password. That’s it. And there you go.. BAM! You’ve been engineered!

In the past, whenever I didn’t feel like blogging, I used to post music. Convenient, right? Right. But lately that domain has been taken over by twt.fm. So I think my blog is being ignored more than usual. So here goes. A beautiful song.

Michael Buble – You Don’t Know Me

You give your hand to me
Then you say hello
I can hardly speak
My heart is beating so
And anyone can tell
You think you know me well
But you don’t know me

No, you don’t know the one
Who dreams of you at night
And longs to kiss your lips
And longs to hold you tight
Oh I’m just a friend
That’s all I’ve ever been
‘Cause you don’t know me

I never knew
The art of making love
Though my heart aches
With love for you
Afraid and shy
I’ve let my chance to go by
The chance that you might
Love me, too

You give your hand to me
And then you say good-bye
I watch you walk away
Beside the lucky guy
You’ll never never know
The one who loves you so
Well, you don’t know me

You give your hand to me, baby
Then you say good-bye
I watch you walk away
Beside the lucky guy
No, no, you’ll never ever know
The one who loves you so
Well, you don’t know me