halibut

Lots of good ones posted so far.  Got a couple to add:
Jethro Tull - Aqualung 
Muse - Plug In Baby 
Opeth - Deliverance (Unfortunately, the vid doesn't contain the full 13 and a half minutes of awesome)
 
Kind of an eclectic mix, I know.
 

I'm going to tell you right now that I am not qualified according to the posting.  I do have a lot of experience with the wrong technology stack (J2EE), but not a lot on the less web-facing stuff. I started out working on a large website for about a month, and then got pulled away to help start up a dozen or so small-to-medium-sized internal web-apps for one of my company's clients.  Been working on those in sequence (actually about 4-5 at a time in parallel) for about 2 and a half years now.
 

• I've got a little experience with Python.  I wrote a plugin for Trac, as well as an exporter for Blender for use in a game engine of mine.  But that's about the extent of my knowledge.  I'm a Java guy who is trying to branch out into the FP world. 
• I've got some experience with MySQL,Oracle, and MSSQL. I can do simple things like write a query, and look for columns to index, but I wouldn't be able to tune things like effective_cache_size based on usage patterns.
  
• Worked with Linux a little, but most of the stuff in the J2EE world is pretty environment-agnostic, so I don't have a lot of experience.  I have set up Apache to serve SVN and Trac a couple of times, and I hacked together a pre-configured version of Knoppix (based on Buildix).  But that knowledge is not second-nature.  I'd need to look it up to do it again.
• My editor (Eclipse) is vastly superior to yours mainly because of the language.  You can't do a lot of refactoring on a dynamically typed language.  Also, I can write my code in a nice concise way in Scala and still have access to the billions of open-source Java libraries out there.  But on top of just language differences, it's got excellent plugins for SVN, automatic web-app deployment, jsp/html/js/css/you-name-it editors, database query browser, etc...
  
• As far as embracing new technologies, I've started devoting all of my personal programming time to Scala which is a hybrid Object Oriented and Functional Programming language that runs on the JVM.  It's statically typed, but it has type inferencing, so most of the time you don't need to specify a type at all (unless you're writing a library).  I haven't played around with it yet, but it has a web-framework called Lift that focuses on Comet (server-push) for delivering content to large amounts of concurrent users.

I feel like the second one really captures the spirit of the game.  Just some random dude eating a donut.  And then a cat comes and checks things out for a while.

This is exactly what my experience has been like with the game.

This is probably my favorite ps1 game.  It is freaking hard when you don't know how the weapon/enemy system works though.  It took me 5 years of on-again off-again playing to finally beat it, but man was it worth it.