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[kelliem]

Computers. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

Just spent the better part of 2 days trying to get my new wireless network card working. Still have not succeeded-- finally gave up and am using a hard connection for now. For the past 9 months I've been using a borrowed card and the lendee wanted it back so I went out and got a new one, and we cannot get the damned thing working for anything. *sigh* I know someone at work who is a bit of a guru, so I will ask him if he has any suggestions tomorrow.

On to other things.

Watched SGA: Trinity. Loved it. Everyone was good this ep, ALL of my woobies. And I am seriously developing an OT3 in this fandom. Sheppard/McKay/Zelenka. Mmmm. Must make icon. (ETA: Icon made, thanks to help from khamryn)

The first time I saw the below meme, it was for the year you were born not the year you graduated. And I was sad because I couldn't play, because there is no Top 100 for the year I was born. I am Too Old. But I can play this version! Yay!

Go to musicoutfitters.com, and do a search on the most popular 100 songs from the year you graduated high school. (You can do this by searching on the year you graduated). Bold the ones you actually like. (Understand that the word "like" in this case means, in the very least, "wouldn't immediately change the radio station from.") Pick a favorite. Underline that favorite. And strike through the ones you loathe.

1. Silly Love Songs, Paul McCartney and Wings
2. Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Elton John and Kiki Dee
3. Disco Lady, Johnnie Taylor 4. December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night), Four Seasons
5. Play That Funky Music, Wild Cherry
6. Kiss And Say Goodbye, Manhattans
7. Love Machine (Part 1), The Miracles
8. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, Paul Simon
9. Love Is Alive, Gary Wright
10. A Fifth Of Beethoven, Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band
11. Sara Smile, Daryl Hall and John Oates
12. Afternoon Delight, Starland Vocal Band
13. I Write The Songs, Barry Manilow
14. Fly, Robin, Fly, Silver Convention
15. Love Hangover, Diana Ross
16. Get Close, Seals and Crofts
17. More, More, More, Andrea True Connection
18. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
19. Misty Blue, Dorothy Moore
20. Boogie Fever, Sylvers
21. I'd Really Love To See You Tonight, England Dan and John Ford Coley
22. You Sexy Thing, Hot Chocolate
23. Love Hurts, Nazareth
24. Get Up And Boogie, Silver Convention
25. Take It To The Limit, Eagles
26. (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty, K.C. and The Sunshine Band
27. Sweet Love, Commodores
28. Right Back Where We Started From, Maxine Nightingale
29. Theme From "S.W.A.T", Rhythm Heritage
30. Love Rollercoaster, Ohio Players
31. You Should Be Dancing, Bee Gees
32. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine, Lou Rawls
33. Golden Years, David Bowie
34. Moonlight Feels Right, Starbuck
35. Only Sixteen, Dr. Hook
36. Let Your Love Flow, Bellamy Brothers
37. Dreamweaver, Gary Wright
38. Turn The Beat Around, Vicki Sue Robinson
39. Lonely Night (Angel Face), The Captain and Tennille
40. All By Myself, Eric Carmen
41. Love To Love You Baby, Donna Summer
42. Deep Purple, Donny and Marie Osmond
43. Theme From "Mahogany", Diana Ross
44. Sweet Thing, Rufus
45. That's The Way I Like It, K.C. and The Sunshine Band
46. A Little Bit More, Dr. Hook
47. Shannon, Henry Gross
48. If You Leave Me Now, Chicago
49. Lowdown, Boz Scaggs
50. Show Me The Way, Peter Frampton
51. Dream On, Aerosmith
52. I Love Music (Pt. 1), O'Jays
53. Say You Love Me, Fleetwood Mac
54. Times Of Your Life, Paul Anka
55. Devil Woman, Cliff Richard
56. Fooled Around And Fell In Love, Elvin Bishop
57. Convoy, C.W. McCall
58. Welcome Back, John Sebastian
59. Sing A Song, Earth, Wind and Fire
60. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel, Tavares
61. I'll Be Good To You, Brothers Johnson
63. Shop Around, The Captain and Tennille
64. Saturday Night, Bay City Rollers
65. Island Girl, Elton John
66. Let's Do It Again, Staple Singers
67. Let 'Em In, Paul McCartney and Wings
68. Baby Face, Wing and A Prayer Fife and Drum Corps
69. This Masquerade, George Benson
70. Evil Woman, Electric Light Orchestra
71. Wham Bam, Silver
72. I'm Easy, Keith Carradine
73. Wake Up Everybody (Pt. 1), Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes
74. Summer, War
75. Let Her In, John Travolta
76. Fox On The Run, Sweet
77. Rhiannon, Fleetwood Mac
78. Got To Get You Into My Life, Beatles
79. Fanny (Be Tender With My Love), Bee Gees
80. Getaway, Earth, Wind and Fire
81. She's Gone, Daryl Hall and John Oates
82. Rock And Roll Music, Beach Boys
82. Still The One, Orleans
83. You're My Best Friend, Queen
84. With Your Love, Jefferson Starship
85. Slow Ride, Foghat
86. Who'd She Coo, Ohio Players
88. Walk Away From Love, David Ruffin
89. Baby, I Love Your Way, Peter Frampton
90. Young Hearts Sun Free, Candi Staton
91. Breaking Up's Hard To Do, Neil Sedaka
92. Money Honey, Bay City Rollers
93. Tear The Roof Off The Sucker, Parliament
94. Junk Food Junkie, Larry Groce
95. Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again, Barry Manilow
96. Rock And Roll All Nite, Kiss
97. Disco Duck, Rick Dees
97. The Boys Are Back In Town, Thin Lizzy
98. Take The Money And Run, Steve Miller Band
99. Squeeze Box, The Who
100. Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In L.A.), Glen Campbell



What's odd is that I can't actually remember a lot of these songs. I dunno if that's a function of my age (aka losing it!), how forgettable the songs were, or of the radio station I tended to listen to at the time.

Comments

[silme.livejournal.com]

Hey, you have a decent year. I loathe most of the songs for my year; my favourite doesn't arrive until number 78. :)

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I would have thought you'd like #33, too. :) I'm kind of surprised that the Beatles are on the list. I really don't remember them being contiguous with my HS experience. In my memory, they were earlier than that. :)

[silme.livejournal.com]

78 in '79. Al Stewart. 33 in my year was the Bee Gees and "Love You Inside Out", which I don't even remember! (I'm with you; I didn't listen to radio stations that played top 40.) Number one that year was "My Sharona". Oh my!

But then I never was into Top 40/Chart music. Heck, I saw Renaissance live in '79 and not for the first time.

The Beatles in your year? Must have been a re-release. You're not that old. :)

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

78 in '79.

Oops! Duh. Of course. My Sharona? You poor thing. :)

And thank you. I didn't think I was that old either. :)

[silme.livejournal.com]

I figure it's a re-release or something old that was never released previously -- definitely not a new song. Perhaps it's kind of like that Elton John song, "Are You Ready for Love" from the '70s, that was re-leased two years ago.

Yes, my year had The Knack. Sad, ain't it? Of course, we also had "YMCA" and "In the Navy" in the Top 100, so I guess there are some amusing saving graces. ;)

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

figure it's a re-release or something old that was never released previously

Or maybe since it's The Beatles it never actually LEFT the top 100 after it premiered? :-)

YMCA and In the Navy are definitely on my guilty pleasures list.:)

I don't remember The Knack. I take it that is a good thing?

[bluster.livejournal.com]

You and I graduated the same year. I may have to do this one just to see how we differ. Not a lot from what I can see, but some.

[aukestrel.livejournal.com]

Are you running XP? I can't remember.

What brand of card is it?

WHY DIDN"T YOU JUST CALL ME?

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am.

Linksys

Because you're the MAC guru and you loathe Windows. :)

[aukestrel.livejournal.com]

HelLO, in the loathing do I not occasionally find information of use? Like the aforementioned "known issue" with the USB ports?

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do! I just didn't want to inflict Windowsness on you. Plus I thought the housemate could fix it, but... not so much.

This isn't a USB card though, so it can't be that. I even thought of that, I remembered you mentioning it. What I have is a Linksys Wireless G model WPC54G ver. 3 And it seems to be able to 'see' the neighbor's wireless, but not ours (the router for which is sitting on the desk not 12 inches away from it!) And even though it can see the neighbor's if we try to access it, it says it can't. We thought at first we had the MAC address in wrong but it's not, we reentered it several times to be sure. Then we disabled MAC filtering and it still wouldn't work. We tried deleting and reinstalling. We tried rebooting. We tried setting up the wireless connection manually. Nothing seems to work. Gah.

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

I have these problems with my wireless connection.

I gave up and use a cable to the modem. My networking skills are nil, so I just shrugged.

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

I can't remember 70% of my year's songs, and the ones I remember, I mostly dislike:
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1984.htm

Sad, except not. I was really out of step with my peers in terms of musical tastes, so I never listened to the Top 40 unless I had a friend over.