Since Uncle, Tam, and Alan did it, it must be a good thing to do.

So, here you go, the top 20 songs played on my music player:

1. Learning To Fly – Pink Floyd
2. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – The Beatles
3. Your Wildest Dreams – The Moody Blues
4. Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles
5. Revolution – The Beatles
6. Call Me When You’re Sober – Evanescence
7. Yellow Submarine – The Beatles
8. Get Back – The Beatles
9. Deadbeat Club – B-52’s
10. Woodstock – Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
11. I Am The Walrus – The Beatles
12. The Invisible Man – Queen
13. I Know You’re Out There Somewhere – The Moody Blues
14. In My Life – The Beatles
15. Drive My Car – The Beatles
16. Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
17. Eight Easy Steps – Allanis Morissette
18. Harry’s Game – Celtic Woman
19. Friday, I’m In Love – The Cure
20. Headlong – Queen

I normally listen to podcasts and such when I’m at work, so my music usually only gets played when I’m driving Boo to school and then during the drive to work.  I have a “kid friendly” playlist that I shuffle through for that, so I guess that explains the family friendly list.  It also explains why Boo has been singing Beatles songs at school.  Although the time we were told he was hushed for singing “It’s Fwiday, I’m in wove!” during naptime did cause a chuckle.

Irish Woman is looking at the website of her favorite paint vendor (yes, she has one of those), and is going through the colors she wants to paint the house.  She’s looking at the “International Flair” collection, and here are a few ideas I had for the company:

• Mogadishu Mauve – 40 years of decayed society mixed in with a little dust and smoke
• Sarajevo Sage – A distressed green, with hints of how beautiful it once was and how beautiful it may well be again
• Helsinki Heather – A soft gray, kind of like the sunlight in Finland in December
• Mexico Mocha – A rich chocolate that seems ready to erupt in a violent fountain of color
• Kabul Khaki – This color will make your home look like it’s been bombed back to the Stone Age at least twice
• Pakistan Pine – A vivid green that seems to work well with the darker elements of Kabul Khaki
• Rhodesia Rose – A rather pinkish color which is hard to find on a map nowadays
• Zimbabwe Zucchini – A dark green that does not go at all well with Rhodesia Rose
• Libya Lilac – A soft purple that occasionally interacts very violently with neighboring hues
• Wallaroo Wine – A deep red that reminds you of the outback and good Australian vintages
• Iridescent Italian Ice – The dazzling white you would get from frozen chunks of Hell if Italian drivers ever stopped trying to take each other’s lives
• Thai Titian – The auburn hair of the girl you picked up at the bar in Bangkok.  At least, you hope she was female.

Scientists recently named a newly found marine crustacean for singer Bob Marley.  Gnathus marleyi is found in the Caribbean, so the choice of Marley seems appropriate.  Naming a species after someone could be a way to honor them, or it can be a way to describe the organism using the reputation of the person.  For example, President Obama’s name has been used to name a species of lichen.

Here are some ideas I have for naming animals or plants after people I’ve met on-line:

• Panthera Renaissancei – A species of South African lion with wide ranging interests and skills.
• Alopex Wingwhimia – An arctic fox known for migrating south in small yellow conveyances.
• Crocuta Ragei – A strong animal which laughs a lot, but has a wicked temper if provoked.
• Anas Weerdii – A duck native to the northeastern United States.  A loyal companion who is known to be wicked smart.
• Rattus Laboratoria – A native of the American Southwest, this rodent is known for doing impeccable research, creating extremely interesting articles on a wide range of topics, and making grown men cry when she demonstrates their ignorance.
• Erethizon Auntii – A woodland creature that normally keeps to herself, but becomes quite pointy and pugnacious if her young are threatened.
• Falco Brigidii – A sub-species of red-tailed hawk, this species writes wonderful missives about life, cooking, and dogs.
• Saguninus Slickii – A species known to flay the souls of the unwise with the aid of the contents of its snark bladder.  This species occasionally migrates, but it travels light.  In fact, it has been remarked that it hauls nothing but ass.
• Cebus Robertax – A highly intelligent primate, known for a fascination with old pieces of technology.
• Diomedia Anciens – This aquatic species is known to range around the world before returning to its home exhausted.
• Canus Patruus – This species, native to the American Southeast, is known for gathering together nuggets of information for  the use of others, but really, he ain’t nothing but a hound dog.
• Macropus Julii – A species of Australian wildlife that enjoys cooking with her young, sleeping out in the bush, and introducing others to her pastimes.

As for myself, I’d like to be memorialized with Ursus Daddyi, a bear who loses quite a bit of its fur as it ages, raises a good number of cubs, and is known to migrate from time to time in search of new food.

Feel free to come up with your own candidates in comments.

Thanks to New Jovian Thunderbolt, we have a good visualization of my meanderings over the past few decades:

White means I haven’t spent much time at all there, pink means I’ve gone there a time or two, orange means I’ve been there often enough to have a preferred restaurant, blue means I have enough time there to have people recognize me when I got to my favorite bar, and green means I’ve lived there or might as well have.

Yeah, my family had a bit of the hippie gypsy in it, and Uncle Sugar had me going hither, thither, and yon for a while.  You can make your own here.