As a guitarist, I have the sheet music, chords, tabs (notation indicating how to play which strings in a song), and/or lyrics to many songs that strike my fancy. For the past four years they've occupied a folder in a binder. But there's so many of them now that I finally decided to do something about it. I bought some alphabetical dividers (which also include "Mc" as if Irish/Scottish people deserve to have their own separate letter) and spent some time this weekend (about an hour and a half) hole-punching them all to fit in another binder.

I'm truly ashamed of my musical tastes. Even though I'm something of a musician, music is a topic I often avoid even with my friends (except for the friends in my band). Sure, other people like groups like the Beatles, but things like that are almost always secondary to whatever current genre into which they pigeonhole themselves. To me there's virtually no now, it's all then. A rare look into the personal song files of Jordon Kalilich will show you what I mean.

These 63 songs were found in the pocket of said binder (actually, two of them I added since I started the transition to a new binder yesterday). Some are sheet music from my days of learning to play the guitar (though I never had to get up and pluck the notes from reading the sheet; they were just for reference). Some are songs that people wanted my band to play for this or that reason (though we never did things that way). Some were figured out by me and typed out or scribbled down. But the vast majority are tabs, chords, and/or lyrics to favorite songs, printed directly from those fantastic Internets. Behold the list.

"Act Naturally" (The Beatles)
"Ain't She Sweet" (The Beatles)
"American Pie" (Don McLean)
"Any Time at All" (The Beatles)
"Ask Me Why" (The Beatles)
"Baby's in Black" (The Beatles)
"The Ballad of John and Yoko" (The Beatles)
"Black Is Black" (Los Bravos)
"Blueberry Hill" (Fats Domino)
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen)
"Buddy Holly" (Weezer)
"Calling All Angels" (Train)
"Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons)
"Crimson and Clover" (Tommy James and the Shondells)
"Do You Want to Know a Secret" (The Beatles)
"Don't Be Cruel" (Elvis Presley)
"Free As a Bird" (The Beatles)
"Glad All Over" (Dave Clark Five)
"Good Morning Good Morning" (The Beatles)
"Happy Together" (The Turtles)
"A Hard Day's Night" (The Beatles)
"House of the Rising Sun" (traditional)
"I Feel Fine" (The Beatles)
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" (The Beatles)
"If I Needed Someone" (The Beatles)
"In the Garage" (Weezer)
"In the Midnight Hour" (Wilson Pickett)
"It's Not Unusual" (Tom Jones)
"Legitimate Business" (Tripleside)
"Let It Be" (The Beatles)
"Light My Fire" (The Doors)
"Love Me Tender" (Elvis Presley)
"MacArthur Park" (Richard Harris)
"Mack the Knife" (Bobby Darin)
"Margaritaville" (Jimmy Buffett)
"Mrs. Robinson" (Simon and Garfunkel)
"Mull of Kintyre" (Wings)
"My Special Angel" (The Vogues)
"No Time" (The Guess Who)
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (The Beatles)
"O Little Town of Bethlehem" (traditional)
"Poor Side of Town" (Johnny Rivers)
"Put Your Hand in the Hand" (Ocean)
"Satisfaction" (The Rolling Stones)
"School Day" (Chuck Berry)
"She'd Rather Be with Me" (The Turtles)
"Sleepwalk" (Santo and Johnny)
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (The Platters)
"Someday We'll Be Together" (Diana Ross and the Supremes)
"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" (Elton John)
"Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin)
"Sunshine Superman" (Donovan)
"There! I've Said It Again" (Bobby Vinton)
"These Eyes" (The Guess Who)
"Unchained Melody" (The Righteous Brothers)
"What a Wonderful World" (Louis Armstrong)
"Woman" (John Lennon)
"Woman" (Peter and Gordon)
"Wonderful Tonight" (Eric Clapton)
"A World Without Love" (Peter and Gordon)
"Yer Blues" (The Beatles)
"You'll Never Walk Alone" (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
"Young Girl" (Gary Puckett and the Union Gap)

Hmm, I've been neglecting Ask Jordon.

joe: How do you feel about the current US foreign policy regarding Latin America and South America in the globalized markets of today?

Rephrase your question without buzzwords and maybe I'll try to understand it.

Robert Howe: When was it possible to go back to the original keyboard layout?

After I learned the Dvorak keyboard, I completely forgot the other standard QWERTY layout. Because I had to use it at school, I had to relearn it almost immediately after gaining proficiency in Dvorak (during summer vacation). The time I spent relearning QWERTY was spent solely at school, so it took a while... maybe a few months, but I don't really know.

Weather coolness! First, use Weather Bonk to find local temperatures in your area (thanks in part to Google Maps). It's interesting to note how different the temperatures in a single area can be. Maybe they're not all fixed according to observation standards.

Second, the (U.S.) National Weather Service provides "experimental" RSS and XML feeds of weather observations. Here's the list of feeds for Florida; you can select your own state in the drop-down menu on the page. Seeing as the Weather Service ceased accepting comments on this service before I began working on this site, I can only guess that the "experiment" has been a success.