Two Brothers and alot of beer

So, on Saturday, I went out with one of my roommates and his brother. It seemed like it'd be a low key evening. His brother is slightly older, married, and more responsible. We had a nice dinner and were going to wait for a few friends and have a few drinks.
Simple, right?
Well, the drinks kept coming and so did the people. Finally, it was unfortunately decided that no trip to Madison would be complete without going to a german brewhouse. And that's where the trouble escalated. Things were pretty tame at first, but then the boots of beer started their wavering journey around the table. Polkas were danced. Married women were ogled and possibly groped [not by me]. It was alot of fun. I was remarkably quiet the entire time just absorbing the scene. My roommates brother, visiting from NC, started to develop a thick southern accent as the alcohol content increased. They were hilarious. One brother dancing the polka with anyone who'd let him dance with him; the other brother sitting at the table talking major trash. By the end of the night, I was getting him to say the funniest shit like "don't hate tha playa" and "that's how I roll". Sadly, I decided to cut them off as the vomitometer started to peak....the ride home was rough. I tried to stop my roommate from drunk dialing and he nearly crushed me.....fine pal, do what you want. He even passed out clutching his phone. It was so cute.

Podcastle

Placeshifting TV with slingbox and Tivo to go; time shifting with Tivo. Now placeshifting and timeshifting radio with podcasts. Everything is soon going to be "on demand"; where I want it, when I want it. I don't think that's so bad really but that means that we carry all this extra shite with us wherever we go. There will be no more isolation or escape. Though, I guess you can leave all that shit behind....but you know we won't.

Favorite podcasts
1) KEXP Indie hour-awesome radio show from my favorite radio statio
2) TWIT with Leo Laporte - I miss sitting in front of tech tv and learning about all sorts of geeky stuff, this lets me do that once again
3) Ebert and Roeper Reviews-might as well hear about good movies while on the go, this was a great idea
4) MAKE magazine audiofeed-awesome DIY mag with several how to shows for various techno feats
5) OSS with violet blue-naughty but interesting feed by violet; i think it's just my cleaner alternative to porn.

Yente the matchmaker

Ugh....Love is in the air here.....um....correction.....desperation is actually in the air.
One friend is amorous for a boy with a girlfriend. I don't know how I feel about that. Especially because the girl is out of town and the boy doesn't know many other people. And boy, is she being aggressive [read: crazy]. She apparently emails him three times a day. Whoa. Talk about full court press. All I know is if that boy has flags, they should all be raised right now. And he may be smarter than I think, since he hasn't called her in a few days. Of course, it was the day that he met me first....but I swear I had nothing to do with it. Of course, she blames me for this heartbreak....which was all in her head anyway....so.....i guess i don't really give a shit. And stay off my damn porch swing, you're swinging way too fast, that shit taint made for that.

The Other Friend, has decided that she is out of the dating scene and now is going to play matchmaker. Irregardless of the fact that she hasn't dated herself in a looong time and I'm pretty sure the last few relationships were in her head. But now she is hellbound and determined to fix up THREE friends of hers. A valiant effort but maybe a tad bit misplaced energy. Especially since one of the guys was one of her recent crushes....and whom she is mad at now for being so charming. Ugh. It makes me weary.

Narcissus

So, over perogies tonight my roomate and I were [separately] reading Savage Love. This week there was an 18 year old asshole that apparently things he's the greatest thing since non-petroleum based lube. And my roommate asked me if I wrote the letter....I KNOW, he is SUCH a jerk. I mean, is it narcissism still if everyone really DOES admire me?
ugh, i make myself sick.
And to top it off I was "That Guy" again today in my car, I was that guy that moves into the right lane and while turning off his blinker accidentally hits it in the other direction....I can almost still feel the rage from the surrounding cars. is it bedtime yet?

Weekend Redux

Alright, as promised I will give a brief rundown of the weekend; though I think everyone's interest has waned. What is interesting to me right now is whether I just ate a Boca Burger or a Real Meat Hamburger from the cafeteria. Sorry to burst your bubble vegetarians, but it's not that the Boca burger is that realistic, it's just that the cafeteria is really bad. I think it was a boca burger [as intended] since there was an extra pungent grilled smoky flavor to it. I'm gonna be sick.

Anyway, for anyone that still cares, we decided to have a "gathering" at our place on Friday night. It was supposed to be for some colleagues that just finished up a big exam....but only one of those people showed up.....Problem #1: My friends blow. Then it started to rain, and thus there was no hope to use the lake front and people may have gotten wet walking from their car....Problem #2: My friends are wusses. It was actually a pretty good time, though and there was a good turnout for a while....but then eleven thirty hit and people had to get home...you know...before the lights changed to flashing reds, cuz it's crazy dangerous that way....Problem #3: my friends blow and are wusses. Do I take responsibility for the lameness of the "gathering"...FUCK NO....have you met my friends? You'd totally agree with me if you knew them. Actually, it was a fairly good time, and it's really really hard to get us middle aged folk all riled up (usually that's the case, except for the next night). We're old and need frequent naps....not even a Turk drinking straight from the bottle of Jameson's could rile us up. Not even that.
Where's my geritol?

Po' Looting

So, I was watching the news this morning and was watching the looters grab TVs and vacuums etc. It's so sad to see that after a disaster, but I know it happens. But what I want to know is that if your house is blown down or under ten feet of water....where you gonna put that junk, yo?

Make a wish...

So...i was just talking with a guy about the internet and whatnot. We talked about blogs....i denied that I had one (let alone five to seven)....since i obviously have been working on NOT getting an audience. And I asked him if he had a blog. He looked at me with a starry eyed look and said "Man! I wish!" The dreams of kids today fucking blow.

Weekend

Well, it was an interesting weekend [see pics below], sorry for not posting. But I was in a [non-alcohol induced] daze all weekend and couldn't get my shit together for some reason, I just wasn't on my game. I think I was the quietest this weekend than i've been for a long time. Regardless, a good time was had by all around, as you can prolly tell below. I must have been busy making blood cells all weekend. Actually, it was a very good weekend for movies...i think i watched two billion of them. yep. Man, I need to get to bed, but there are a bunch of things to blog about, below is a brief list of what i'll blog about if i have time:
1) Friday semi-lame gathering (no, I NEVER said party, alright?)
2) Some friends need to get off the crack...and off my porch swing
3) Fetishest
4) The lumberjack kneeling to the Chicken Ra
5) Hotline Mix-up
6) Movies this weekend
7) Bender Brothers
8) Podcast-ration (man, i love it how every word now contains either "pod" or "blog")
9) Trouble Afoot
10) flora and fauna [with Pics!]

Huh, i dunno if that was a list to remind me or to pique interest.....because if it was the latter, it didn't really work since none of them sound too great anyway. Well, maybe I'll just publish a really long post tomorrow if i have a chance. [that's a threat]. Goodnight.

Tried to fire it up for us....we were too lame.

End of a Hard Night. Awww.

anoxic

whoa! What the hell??!?!? Who the hell lets me blog when i gots no blood? Don't let me do that again. Sorry.

sinfully good

Related to my previous post...i have just consumed the most delicious thing on this planet. I have just decided, after the sugar went straight to my brain to power this process, that Snickers Bars are the greatest things on the planet. You don't agree, you say? Philistine! Get thee to shrink, posthaste! For you, good sir or madam, are surely certifiably Insane. But wait! Before you make your useless argument, I would like to warn you that these were no mere ordinary Snickers Bars! The greatest thing on this planet is a Snickers Bar that has spent 20 to 35 minutes (depending on ambient temperatures) of snuggle time in my pant's front pocket....this produces the most delectable Confection this world has ever seen. What?!?! You don't believe me? Well, this must be scientifically proven! Please sign up for days that you can visit this area so that we can carry out this experiment. Yes, I probably could place the candy bar in my pants and mail it to you, I assure you there is no delivery service fast enough to deliver before my "groin-tastic love heat" has dissipated, I have already tried this. And no, it will not do for You to place this snickers bar in Your pocket, you are not calibrated for this kind of activity, please leave it to professionals; i do not take responsibility for any injuries attained whilst attempting this.

Pin Cushion

A brave iron-man? Dedicated teacher? Moron? Yes, that's it, I believe it's moron.
I am freshly back from teaching a class at the nearby school. What class, do you ask? Well, it just happened to be "Blood Drawing Day"....great. So, for the past four hours, I have been a guinnea pig. Poked and prodded; my warm blood rudely stolen from me. Now I look like a junkie, track marks up and down my arms. And strangely enough, the woman running the course did not appreciate me taking my belt off to use as a tourniquette....it was a joke, geez. And I never was able to convince those girls that my best veins are in my "crotchular region". Wait, does that cross the line? Sorry, cut me some slack, I'm a little over seven large phlebotomy tubes short of blood.
And it's a wicked high. Good night.

Suits

Alright, I spent a few hours today at a coffee shop and it looked like the folks next to me were having a power meeting. Man, I am SO glad that I don't work in that type of environment. Mostly because of the morons that I'd work with. Case in Point: in the middle of hearing the word "paradigm" several times, I swear one of the guys said he wanted to brainstorm and make a "Zen Diagram". Just kill me.

Prolix

So, I've been accused of being chatty before. Yes, I know, it's completely ridiculous since everything I say or write is remarkably witty. However, I just bought Sufjan Stevens' "Come on feel the Illinoise". It's a great album but even his song titles are crazy long. The longest on this one is: The Black Hawk War, Or, How To Demolish An Entire Civilization And Still Feel Good About Yourself In The Morning, Or, We Apologize For The Inconvenience But You're Going To Have To Leave Now, Or...
So get off my back for being verbose.

Indiapendence

So, a couple of weeks ago was the anniversary of India's independance. Yesterday, my mom sends me this forward of the 8th degree about india's independence (note: strangely, it was forwarded to my mom from one of her most non-indian racist friends). But it's a tally of all the accomplishments that Indians have done; it's actually pretty interesting. [italics are my additions]

There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,

38% of doctors in USA are Indians. Of those, 36% became doctors because their mom made them.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians. They are also the ones blamed for the columbia disaster, jerks.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians. all of whom wish they worked for google now. Their mothers are surely disappointed
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.


Did you know the following facts about India.

1. Hero Honda with 1.7M motorcycles a year is now the largestmotorcycle manufacturer in the world.

2. India has the largest movie industry inthe world, producing over 800 movies a year. Most of them are Pauly Shore vehicles.

3. Bharat Forge has the world's largest single-location forging
facility, its clients include Honda, Toyota and Volvo amongst others. It is run and staffed by eight year olds.

4. India is the 2nd largest tractor manufacturer in the world. Yet a surprisingly small amount of the population of hipsters wear mesh backed John Deere hats.

5. India is the 5th largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in the world. And by vehicle, they mean rickshaw.

6. Ford has just presented its Gold World Excellence Award to India's Cooper Tyres. These were also the tires responsible for the Ford Explorer debacle. Way to go.

7. 80 of the Worlds 117 SEI CMM Level-5 companies are based in India. They made this up, there is no such thing as SEI CMM Level 5 companies, it just sounds cool.

8. Five Indian companies recently received the globally acclaimedDeming prize. This prize is given to an organization for rigorous total quality management (TQM) practices. The prize includes free car washes for a year and a giant box of cascade dishwashing detergent

9. Fifteen of the world's major Automobile makers are obtaining components from Indian companies. And by "components", they mean
"slave labor"

10. World-renowned TQM expert Yasutoshi Washio predicts that Indian manufacturing quality will overtake that of Japan in 2013. Or it already has but they asked a guy named Yasutoshi, what'd they expect?

11. McKinsey believes India's revenues from the IT industry will reach $87 Billion by 2008. That's in Rupees, which is the equivalent of three dryer sheets.

12. India is one of the world's largest diamond cutting and polishing centres, its exports were worth $6 Billion in 1999. About 9 out of 10 diamond stones sold anywhere in the world, pass through India. They exit India in the rectums of our finest exported programmers.

13. India's INSAT is among the world's largest domestic satellite communication systems. Soon the robots will rule us all.

14. India is among six countries that launch satellites and do so even for
Germany, Belgium, South Korea,Singapore and EU countries. I got nothin

15. India is among the 3 countries in the World that have built Supercomputers on their own. The other two countries being USA and Japan. The computer is still working on figuring out the exact delay period of India Standard Time.

16. India is providing aid to 11 countries, writing-off their debt and loaning the IMF $300M. Again, these are in Rupees, and Bhutan needs to do their laundry

17. It is estimated that there are 150,000 IT professionals in Bangalore as against 120,000 in Silicon Valley. And at Halo, the Indian dudes could totally destroy the Silicon Valley guys.

18. There are about 200 call centers in India with a turnover of $2 billion and a workforce of 150,000. And everyone's name there is Peter.

19. 100 of the Fortune 500 companies are now present in India compared to 33 in China. Awesome, theres WAY more expoloitation in India than China.

20. Indias telecom infrastructure between Chennai, Mumbai and Singapore, provides the largest bandwidth capacity in the world, with well over 8.5 Terabits (8.5Tbs) per second. How many of these are there? I'm tired
of thinking of stupid clever things to say after these. I should have thought this through more.

21. With more than 250 universities, 1,500 research institutions and 10,428 higher-education institutes, India produces 200,000 engineering graduates and another 300,000 technically trained graduates every year. Besides, another 2 million other graduates qualify out in India annually. Their mothers are proud and actively looking for husbands/wives for all of them.

22. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is among the top three universities from which McKinsey & Company, the world's biggest consulting firm, hires most. The other two schools must be DeVry and Photon School of Welding.

23. 35% of Silicon Valley start-ups are by Indians. So wait, does the Silicon Valley count from above count these guys? Why must we have brother on brother crime?

24. Indian students are the largest in number among foreign students in USA. All of them apparently go to Northwestern.

25. Ramayana,the first Indian epic consisting of 24,000 verses divided into 7 books, is regarded as the first poetical work in the world. It is thought that Shakespeare and Tupac both stole from these works.

26. Mahabharatha with 100,000 two-line stanzas, is regarded as the Longest Epic in world literature. Henny Youngman later turned much of these into hilarious one liners; pure comedy gold.

27. The Indian pharmaceutical industry at $6.5 billion and growing at 8-10% annually, is the 4th largest pharmaceutical industry in the world, and is expected to be worth $12 billion by 2008. Hashish-itol is their biggest seller.

28. Mobile phones are growing by about 1.5Million a month. Long distance rates are down by two-thirds in five years and by 80% for data transmission. Which means that millions of Indians can now be "That Guy" that talks loudly in restaraunts or in their Autorickshaws.


Pshew, that was longer than I remember. Remind me never to try to be annoyingly clever again. I mean no disrespect to my heritage or the Indian people by my comments.

Morning Blend

Have you ever woken up really early and decided you wanted tea instead of coffee? And then from force of habit, you end up pouring yourself some coffee instead of hot water? But just before the first sip hits your lips, you realize you left the tea bag in the damn cup? Yeah, me neither, what kind of moron does that?

The Great Escape

[or Why I Hate this BS]

So, I wrote this post earlier today, but just realized i didn't publish it....for reasons you'll see...but I didn't write anything else today, so here it is.

Today has been nearly unendurable. I cannot stand it any longer. The constant pulling in different directions. They ride me hard all morning. They choke me tight, nearly lifeless. They suffocate me. I try to pull and push them away, but they just seem to cling to me stronger. They don't give me the freedom they promised, instead they pin me in and don't give me the support I need. Sure, I'm in with the majority, but where does that leave me? Uncomfortable and hurt. I cannot stand BS any longer.

I repeat, I cannot stand Boxer Shorts any longer.

They never have fit me right....i think it must be my "ghetto booty" or something, but they always bunch up and hang all wrong. They are just killing me today. And the front "hole" just causes me more problems than it's worth [is it really all that hard to actually partially pull down your shorts...or does it need to be clandestine, like it's sneaking out?]. All morning, my "naughty bits" have been vying for position to jettison themselves. One guy escapes and tries to pull all the other guys out with him (wait, how many guys are we supposed to have?really?!)(oh, I get it; no, the twins aren't the same as their older brother; i'm not that much of a freakshow...stop....don't respond) Anyway, one guy jumps out and pulls the other guys out as I walk, and it HURTS with this damn, non-giving fabric (we're supposed to use sheet metal, right?). So, as I was going down the stairs, they decided to abandon ship again...Youch! Frustrated, I reach in directly [no pocket readjustment for me, no sir] to readjust...of course, just then, someone comes in the stairwell door. Great. There is no dignified way to recover from that. Why does this always happen to me? Yeah, I know...the freakshow part....i get it. Anyway, if I had just worn my thong, I wouldn't have had these problems.

awakened the beast

I had to go into work late today. I snuck in to do my work quickly so I could make a clean escape. Recently, I decided to put a pair of old portable speakers in my office so I could listen to my ipod when no one else is around (though, since my 3G ipod's battery only hold about two hours of charge, i need to get another ac unit....dang you apple and your class action lawsuit that will let me change my battery on apple's bill...that it is, if i still had my receipt from three years ago...jerks). Anyway, things were going great...i even left the lights off so my window wouldn't be lit up like christmas. But then it happened...Immigrant Song popped up on the random shuffle. Damn you, Led Zeppelin. I did not have the power, nor the will, to resist. Up, up, up went the volume....a shrieking catterwhaul shattering the solitude of my dark office. Rapture.
Cause and effect. In the middle of this minor nirvana....a rapping at my chamber door. The Chatty Beast was awakened. And lo, upon the dark land a mighty sweeping acrid wind descended. The Beast would not be quelled. And unto me the layers of exhortation freely flowed. And nigh onto forty five minutes did this Creature gnaw upon my tympanum.
Help me hence, prithee.

soul man

look....i'm important, not impotent.

Spy vs Spy

Yeah, nothing new to report except for this cool little INDOOR spy plane that can avoid walls and transmit data.  All I need is one of these and a roomba and I am all set for my robotic war on my roommates.

 

Tour de France Tech

 

New bulb in Japan will text you when it burns out using RFID.  Great, getting spam from my lightbulb.  And couldn't you tell it was out because it doesn't work anymore....who am i to judge?  Actually, I think it's a pretty cool application...like my idea for OLEDs on produce packaging to alert you to expiration dates....can you imagine the text messages you'd get?  "your tomatoes have just rotted" "way to go champ, you've successfully created maggots, bravo fuck up"  "who can't finish a small cup of yogurt in a week?  I guess you can't, asshat." "Look, don't pretend, you eat like a five year old, don't buy broccoli anymore; enjoy those Lucky Charms"

Funnels and Sieves

Pshew...our Tornado warning is finally over, I can get out of the basement bathtub now, right?  Anyway, I was right about today earlier, I am still at work at this completely blows....though I'm gonna be here all night anyway, so it doesn't much matter to me.  I'm listening to Petra Haden's "the Who Sell Out" which is an acappella version of a Who album.  Her voice is great but I can't really hear the Who in it, it just sounds like bubble gum pop.  Anyway, I still have a boatload of work to finish from today. 

 

If my roommate reads this, can you feed the fish?  And tell them I'll get them a new powerfilter on the way home, I know how they hate those nitrates.

 

Very cool site that maps cell phone towers to your location

 

Also very cool Airport monitor for selected airports (takes awhile to load fully) and a NASA map projection of air traffic....should we have this information?

 

Images made from falling water droplets like an inkjet printer

 

stop disparaging me about my blog.  y'know, radiohead has a blog...yeah, thom, we know; you're weird dawg. 

 

You'll never escape the Ministry of Reshelving.

 

 

Opposite

So, I just spent the last fifteen minutes talking to a guy that kept saying "impedance" instead of "impetus"....it was driving me crazy since he used in every other sentence....however, the result was pretty funny since they essentially mean the opposite of eachother.  Gonna be a long day.

sledgehammer

Alright.  Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel is on right now.  Great, I like that song.  I like Peter Gabriel.  I know this video was "groundbreaking" at the time.  Should be perfect, right?

Nope.  What is really annoying me right now, is the fella right next to me singing the song in a waaaay off key falsetto voice, then between each of the lines explaining what was going on in the video.  Thanks asshat.  If you don't shut up right now, we're gonna play my new favorite game called "stabby". 

Don't know when to stop

hee hee.  So, I was just kidding about that previous post...well, no, I really will miss Kiki; I don't know why she died, I fear that her partner Toya is next.  But, I also had a close friend leave town yesterday as well (yeah, i had a rough day).  And I was talking to her on the phone last night and actually did garner up the courage to say that I will miss her a great deal and that the past year has been great....etc....etc...blah blah blah.  I get it all out and wait for a response.  "Maybe she found my speech so touching that she's speechless" I thought to myself;...wait a minute...."hello?"...."are you there?".....aww fuck that, she totally hung up on me!  Forget all that previous shit.  I'm done forever.

Last Words

So....have you ever had a great friend leave?  Do you never know what to say?  Yeah, me too, it's always a struggle.  

Yesterday, I had a very very dear friend leave but I didn't have the words to express how much they meant to me or how much I'll miss them.  I mean, sure, I know you need to move on and things change, and eventually you'll get along without them.  But, in the final moments, you just want to say something so special that they'll remember forever. Unfortunately, I couldn't come up with anything, but I hope they know that my thoughts are with them and that I hope the best for them.

I'll miss you, Kiki; I should have cleaned the tank water sooner, sorry.

Inventron

So, I have been thinking about my surge strip.  Yeah, I have alot of time on my hands.  But I always have wondered why they needed to make as they currently do, especially with the huge converters on everything.  So, I thought it would be a great idea if they made a surge strip with independant plugs coming from a central cord.  I was going to call it the Squid, because it would look kinda like a squid.  It woulda made me millions. 

Apparently, someone else thought it was a great idea and did just that.  And it looks like they thought it looked like a squid, too. 

Dang.  I guess I gotta get back to work now.

 

links:

For the nerd in your life: Make magazine for dorky but rad DIY goodness.

 

We had a similar idea back in college but not to this beautiful extent: Prisoner's last meal trays.

(v)iceland

I'm too old for this. No, really. It's gonna be the end of me. I need to stop drinking....to excess....as I have been doing often of late. Last night we were in the company of a group of very friendly icelanders. And we drank....alot. I remember a drink called "black death", a towel for the splashes, and saying "skal!" too many times. Ugh. It was quite fun...it seems the lmore we drank, the more pictures were taken. It was a great time, the icelanders were wonderful hosts. I only wish the reflux and the ketones would stop.

To deserve this...

What the hell did I do to deserve this?  To have Amazon send me a special email that says it culminated all of my preferences, previous orders, and choices of products I already own to give me the ultimate recommendation of....."the Princess Diaries 2".  great.  way to go amazon, that's exactly what I lust after. Ass-hats.

Overheard in a Coffee Shop

[the scene set in coffee shop off peak hours, there are a smattering of patrons scattered through the shop, none of them interacting; it's quiet. The curtain rises on our two main characters standing across the counter from eachother; the tattooed and pierced coffee shop attendant and the hand wringing young waif]
TAPCSA: So, do want that for here or to go?
HWYW: For here. Why? Do you want me to leave?
[lights dim, curtain falls]

geez, I thought I was neurotic....

Firefoxed

So, I'm pretty new to CSS and html.....apparently I jacked up my padding or margins or something 'cuz my page shows up correctly only in Firefox and not IE. Sup, Bill, how you like me now? [Dear Mr. Gates, if you are reading this...i'm just joking, you're super great; hey, you should totally hang out with my sis in Seattle; can I have $4.2 milly?] [editor's note: the author is such a whore] [editor's additional note: the author actually put in 2 million dollars but then changed it to 4.2, just in case it worked.....deluded dork.... ahem...correction....deluded greedy dork].

Geyser

Dear Gillette Company,

Hi! How are you? How is making all those things going? Good, good. Well, I just wanted to say hi. Hi. Oh yeah, and thanks for making your razor blades really sharp, they work great....I use them to cut the little hairs growing out of my face. You too? Really? Hey, do you shave in the morning? Me too! Awesome. Hey, do you use Gillette Shaving Gel? Really?!? Well, I just bought some and used it for the first time this morning! What a coincidence, right? It's a really pretty blue color. Oh, and I saw that you have a rust proof bottom! Really cool, I mean sure, it's 2005 and that's probably a technology you could have developed in 1938, but it's great that it's there. One thing, though, when you make the top to the cans...do you think you put some fucking adhesive on it so the whole top doesn't come off when you try to get the cap off spraying blue fucking gel all over the goddamn place. Hey, thanks man. Later.

float on

Another flurry of activity today...I'm on Float right now....nuthin to do for the moment.....

 

So Baroque is in now?  Yep.  Great.  I'll keep my post-modern, thank-you-very-much.

 

crap...it's 0930 in the morning and I'm spent.  gonna be a long day.

 

 

more linczes:

A design critique  of the Alphabet: "The Letter U: I have nothing good to say about this lazy piece of rocking shit. Both of them. Probably designed by whoever did the C."

 

The il-matic: KJI is Krazy [unless he reads this, and then by "krazy" I mean glorious] Here's an article about it.

 

One Cone to rule them all: Ice Cream wars in China Town

 

Stencilry is much cooler than me.  DIY fun, and some kick-ass stencils

 

Getting Things Done

Alright....so....I take after my dad...alot.  I realize this now after years of quietly hoping that "I would never be like him".  No, no, don't get me wrong; my father is a true gentleman, a wonderful person, and a great dad.  But it's the little quirks that I hope I would never pick up.  Like how he is thinking about something and completely spaces out.  How he always seems lost even though he knows where he is.  How he stresses out about things like difficult left turns.  Like his constant nonsensical longwinded stories....oops got that gene, too!  I mean, Aww Lawd, hearing he, my sister, and I talking about anything must be torture....luckily, my mom has the attention span of a hummingbird...though, that may have been an evolutionary trait for her sanity.  [I still remember the time I was watching "Finding Forrester" with my dad; I had to leave before it was done and when I asked my dad later how it ended, he went on a 45 minute tirade about every detail, every furtive glance, every nuance of the set....just to realize he could have said "Sean Connery's character vouched for him in front of the board" nuff said.] 

 

Anyway, my dad has three traits that I just realized I have as well.  We both love books, we like to think we are totally organized, and we never read the books we buy.  All of these have culminated this morning to where I am now.  I'm sitting in front of a brand new copy of "getting things done" by David Allen; I heard about it after I started searching for what is called a "hipster PDA"....essentially notecards clipped together...which I feel that I invented and someone must have seen and spread it all around the net...jerks.  I started to get into these sites that promote this method...I even made a "tickler" file that Allen recommends. 

 

And now this fresh copy of his book, with his smiling, smug face on it that's saying "hey jackass, you just paid for my book, but you'll still be the same slob five years from now....i'm gonna buy a new boat and name it "the Sucker" just for you."  And rather than reading it, gleaning helpful tidbits of information, learning how to gain the "art of stress free productivity".....I'M SITTING HERE BLOGGING ABOUT IT. 

 

Boy, I'll bet there's a chapter in there about how blogs and the 'net are huge time-sucks.....well, i guess I'll never know....i wonder what dooce is up to?

 

lynx:

 

Just stumbled on this yesterday and Metafilter also mentions them yesterday....dunno what it is/who they are, but they talk about a bumch (yes, bumch) of great music: The Confabulators  (bands mentioned: Davendra Banhart, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, and review of Sufjan steven's review from pitchfork, iron and wine) yum.

 

Audrey makes some purty pictures

 

Black and White conversion in Photoshop

 

Really funny McSweeney's list of Lesser known prequels

 

 

I'll Tumble for You

Geez...What is up with people and parking lots.  Yesterday in the parking lot of Target, a really old woman fell and hit her head.  She was more histrionic than actually hurt and was sent speeding away to the local urgent care.....where the staff prolly freaked out and admitted her for observation.  not unreasonable i guess. 

 

But this morning, driving through the parking lot, all of a sudden I see an apple rolling toward my car....i didn't see the fall but this...um....rotund woman, I think had tripped over the curb and had fallen.  She was more embarrassed than hurt, but i helped her up, diagnosed her injury as non-serious [because i have that kind of power in parking lots], and helped her pick up her stuff.  She had a nylon covered copy of the Bible in her hands and two harlequin romances.....God just got beat out 2 to 1.....I'll bet they wished they had more chapters like Song of Solomon, that'd really get 'em lined up out the door.  Smut sells. 

 

[note: why are they called "harlequin" romances?  I thought Harlequin was a clown in some story and has come to mean buffoonery.  I would google it, but i'm afraid that they're tracking me....i already looked up lube [don't ask] this morning.....can't give them too much.]

Skyline of Chicago

Petra

So, I'm listening to the Decemberists again.....and I have had kind of a crush for a long time.....no, not to Colin Meloy (not my type) but with Petra Haden. sigh. I don't know what it is about indie rock grrrls, but they do it. The daughter of jazz bassist (?) Charlie Haden, her voice has always made me melt. Whether it be when she was in that dog or the Rentals, it's always great. Umm....I don't know what the point of this was......

Jet Set

So, I'm off to visit my folks!  Maybe now they'll get off my back for a while.  Unfortunately, i have to bring two sets of dress clothes and a suit for a two day trip!  yeah, they be strange folk, that's fer sure.  I get to try out my new ultra expensive but pretty rad suit bag, though.

 

And I vow to learn some CSS along the way....[that's a threat, by the way]

 

A really interesting article about banksy

 

cool sounding theater but I can get this with just dramatic friends.

 

Kitten Huffing

Grey Lightning

Open letter to the obnoxious woman walking her dog in the middle of the road:

 

You're walking a friggin greyhound, do you think you can pick it up a little, chubs?

Garrulous

Alright....I'm sick of people commenting on my loquaciousness....couldn't we refer to it as "a library of congress of wit and commentary" from now on?

Dearth

So, I'm all for full disclosure, so here it is.  I track the outgoing links and page views....everything is completely anonymous, i have no idea who is coming in and out at all.  That being said....i'm kinda bummed out...because it says NOBODY has viewed this page for the past two weeks.  Which makes sense since you are out of town for work, and you now live with me and want to minimize exposure.  However, what is strange is that, I know I have accessed my site.  Do I not count?  Am I less than human?  Well thanks alot shitty free blog counter, you made me hate myself. [more than usual].

 

And what the hell is my problem today?  I don't think it's possible for me to spill any more of the food i'm eating on myself.  brilliant.

Murderball

I just read an article about the recent release of Murderball. It's a documentary about quardaplegic rugby. The article was stating that the ticket sales have been dismal and markedly worse than expected. When I read about a few months ago, it sounded really interesting. I guess that was only me, though; apparently America doesn't like documentaries. And according to the article, another reason for poor sales is that people aren't ready to treat handicapped individuals as real humans, that have real stories. Kinda harsh, but I think it's true. People often don't treat people with disabilities like everyone else. I'm not saying i'm immune to that and perfect by any means; i'm guilty of the same thing.....but i'm aware of it, and i try to improve. I'll get off my soapbox now, sorry.

Bebe

Alright, so I got some new babies yesterday. And to my...ummm......surprise (?)....they're still alive, yay! So if they die now, I'll be completely crushed and sullen; so they better not. Anyway, here they are...just in case someone's out of town and wanted to know....or is a roommate that hasn't been properly introduced:

Nico's really fast. Zoom!




Eldon in profile...Nico trying to get in the picture, too.



The only picture that nico sorta stood still for



Yeah, I knew the internet would like them. Thanks. They may get a few friends in the future...and hopefully i get better at the pictures and a cleaner tank. yuck. laters