Stripped cured and worn in order to protect you

I was listening to Meat Tape by P.O.S. (ok, it's a mixtape arranged by him, lots of stuff), and there's a Cecil Otter song where he has a bridge that goes "something something something, something something something, blood's coming out, time is running out" and he says this twice. Now I'm thinking, where have I heard this before? I'm racking my brains, walking home from work, and I start thinking it's the Plastic Constellations -- it's something they'd write, right? So I decide it's them, when suddenly, two songs later, TPC is playing Best Things. Best Things?! Awesome, I love this song. Whenever I listen to music I haven't listened to in a while, I try to remind my self what the chorus sounds like, and all of a sudden, wham! there's the lines in the prechorus. These guys all listen to the same fucking music. It makes me happy. And feel like less of a loser for listening to so much music.

I just tried installing Open Office 3 on Ubuntu. It ... didn't work. I can never get .jars to run from bash right, and I can't open the jar otherwise with sudo privileges. I tried this complicated process of turning some sort of rpm file into a debian file and then using dpkg, but that didn't work either, so in the end I just ended up reinstalling the Ubuntu 2.4 version. It's too bad, because I really want the new version, with all its new nifty features. I guess I'll just have to wait until Ubuntu compiles it themselves and sticks it in the repository.

On another front, I recently tried to update iTunes on my Windows side, only to find out the QuickTime installation failed. So I go to uninstall and reinstall, and lo and behold, I have no programs in my Add/Remove list. WTF? So I do some searches online, open up the registry via regedit, dick around, don't see anything unusual, and close it. A little while later, all my programs reappeared in the list. That was weird. I take the opportunity to remove Crysis, some compiler I don't use and QuickTime. However, I'm guessing it's some sort of infection, so I have to run a couple of tests over the next few days: checkdisk, Spy Sweeper scan, virus scan. I also need to defrag REALLY BAD. For some reason my hard drive is super slow, even for its rotation speed of 5400, but defragging doesn't even do all that much. W/e. Guinness makes it better.