Crap
So I think I lost my pager last night. I need to talk to Bree and see if it fell out in her car last night on the way back from the party last night. If it's not there I need to call the club to see if they found it. I know for sure I had it there. One thing I hate about pagers is they have this annoying knack of popping off.
September 2001 Archives
Ouch...But a good ouch
Ow. I hurt a little this morning. I was up way too late last night. I drank a bit more then I should have. So now I'm feeling a bit slow and think I need some coffee to pull myself back to reality. Last night was really fun though. My friend Bree was throwing a party for her sister's birthday. I got to see some people I hadn't in ages. Jeeell, Benny, Susan, Ida, and Marilyn were there (and Bree of course). It kind of made me realize how much of a hermit I've been lately. I need to strike some kind of balance between taking it easy and still having fun. Today, a nice leisurely day of hanging in Harvard Sq doing some shopping and then seeing who's around to hang out.
From Jumpy to Grumpy
So I'm finally a bit rested after not sleeping well last night. Now I have to go back into work and pester Dell to help me fix the raid array we couldn't get working last night. They had me get some log files from the raid card we have and send them to us and I haven't heard anything since. Also, the other machine that is up keeps falling over for some reason. I need a vacation, badly.
Feeling jumpy
So last night, at around 3am or so my cell phone rang. It was from an unavailable number. My first thought was, "oh shit. This is it." I ran for the phone and by the time I got to it whoever was calling had hung up. I was a bit grumpy and grabbed my phone and transplant pager and crawled back into bed waiting for a page or something. But nothing ever came. So I guess it wasn't that.
Free at last
So I finally got out of work. The computer I was trying to fix is still screwed up. We've been on the phone with tech support forever it seems. We seem to have a pretty messed up raid array or something. It looks like I'll probably have to go back in tomorrow.
Life in a cold place
So I'm stuck in our cage at Exodus right now. I hate it when I have to be go there. It's cold. Really cold. And if you are there for more then an hour or two you just start feeling sick. In my case that means I cough even more then usual. The one good thing is I have my laptop with me. I'm just wishing I'd brought along some movies to watch.
I'm just a dancing fool
Strictly Ballroom is one of the best films ever made.
(I hope it comes out on DVD soon).
In a Buffy mood
Since I'm such a trend follower Here are my answers to the Buffy character test.
# 1 Willow
# 2 Xander
# 3 Dawn
# 4 Oz
# 5 Buffy
# 6 Tara
# 7 Giles
# 8 Angel
# 9 Spike
# 10 Angelus
# 11 Cordelia
# 12 Faith
# 13 Anya
# 14 Dru
A chill in the air
MMMM. Last night it got nice and chilly here in Boston. It was a good chilly. That kind of chilly that is just perfect to sleep in (as long as you've got a nice comforter or blankie). I didn't want to crawl out of bed at all this morning. Ahhh, I love fall. I think it is one of my favorite seasons. It gets cool, but usually not TOO cold. The leaves get all nice colors. It is just about as close to perfect as you can get.
Not too bad
So I have to admit that I wasn't really expecting much from the new Star Trek show. After watching the first episode I was pleasantly suprised. It'll be in my TiVo for at least a few weeks.
To boldly go...
So I'm watching the new Star Trek show. I'm not sure what I think of it. It's still moving kind of slow since they are just now getting into space. More later.
Okay, so I'm a geek
So I'm now running Mac OS X 10.1. So far I like it. It does feel a bit snappier. I haven't tried playing a DVD with it yet, but I will be trying it out tonight! I could sit in bed and watch movies!
Time Travel
So I bought a few CDs last weekend and have been listening to the Big Audio Dynamite one the most. Their first two discs came out while I was in college and I remember hearing their stuff on the radio all the time. I think I even had a bumpersticker on my door from the local radio station that would play it (WXXP, the station that DARES to be different. (long gone)). So now I'm on this kick to get some of the 80s/90s stuff that I loved. I think I partially blame Bree for that since the other day she was telling me about all these great old records she bought.
Random Blogs
So I have a couple of random blogs that I look at every other day or so. They aren't really people I know, for the most part they are blogs that had layouts that really caught my eye, or ones that I got bounced over to while reading another blog. I just added one more up to my list on the left for alexa. (Hmm, I hope she doesn't mind. Do people mind if you just link to their blogs randomly?)
Overwhelmed?
The last few weeks have been a bit stressful for me. First, there's the whole lung thing. My immediate stress level isn't quite as high as it was when I got reactivated on the list. At this point it has slowed down to just a nice level of stress that is always sitting in the back of my head (or maybe the pit of my stomach).
Then there are things like the WTC. Which still freaks me out a bit. I guess I keep waiting for what happens next. The thought of us going into combat kind of freaks me out.
Last but not least, is work stuff. Nimda has been hellish for me. It hit work pretty hard and we're still recovering from it. Part of the problem is some of our servers have hundreds of thousands of files, so they take forever to scan. I think within the last day or so things are looking up. We got Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, which blows McAfee away. I'm not usually really impressed with Windows software, but this is quite good.
So anyways. It just feels like it is all piling up. I really need to take some time off next week. Possibly the end of the week. Stress is just not a good thing for me these days.
Nimda fallout starting?
So, at work we're still feeling the bite of Nimda. Finding machines that were sitting in corners just working away that nobody knew of that are now horrendously infected. I see a lot of changes coming as far as how we run things where I work. Already though, news articles are popping up with places like the Gartner Group suggesting people look at other products (like Apache).
Yet another mail virus out there. Please people, remember not to just open up attachments that people send you.
Shamefully stolen from Nari: The fleixble keyboard.
I want one of these. I think it would be great to be able to have one of these I could just shove into my laptop bag for emergencies.
So I know some of the people who stop by here have fairly popular blogs. So I have a question for those folks out there. Do you often get really weird random IMs or emails from people. I had this guy IM me yesterday and tell me to do a search for this weird string that just happened to have the word 'ezoons' in it. It looked like it had something to do with hacked sites or something like that. I was like "uh, so?" and he'd logged off already.
Oh, on a related note, and a few people have asked me where ezoons comes from. Well. I've had the nickname snooze for ages. Since end of high school at least. Part of me likes to think I was the first person going by 'snooze' on the net back in '86. It's early enough in the days of the net that it is possible, but sometimes it is so hard to tell. I know that for the longest time I could always get snooze as a login to things. Now it is much harder to do that. Which brings me to ezoons. When I finally got around to getting a personal domain name I had the hardest time figuring out what to do. I really wanted 'snooze.com' but it was taken (I think it was by some bedding company). So, in the end I just decided to turn it around to ezoons and it was available. So that's it! I keep wanting to make www.ezoons.com into some kind of joke company page, but I haven't quite figured out what to do with it yet. I need to come up with just what an ezoon is. Or maybe it is E-Zoons and I need to figure out what a 'zoon' is.
Interesting opinion piece over on Infoworld about MicroSoft.
So I watch DVDs all the time through Netflix. Most of the time I watch stuff and move on, but every once in a while there's a movie that really catches my eye. The first one that did that was The Manchurian Candidate. I went out the very next day and bought a copy of it. The next one to do it for me looks like it will be The Spanish Prisoner. I just got done watching it and loved it. It's quite an interesting film. It was written and directed by David Mamet, who I think is amazing. So, I think tomorrow I'm going to see if I can hunt down a copy of it. Wow.
I was reminded of one my favorite stores tonight when talking online. The Construction Site has tons of cool building toys. Things like Legos, Lincoln Logs, and then all kinds of funky ones from other countries. Every time I go in there I want to spend lots of money.
It seems like Saturdays have become CD buying days for me. When I wake up, I wander down to Au Bon Pain to have coffee and a coissant while watching people in Harvard Square. Then after sitting there and reading for a bit I head over to Newbury Comics where I almost always end up buying at least one CD. Today I picked up a nice variety. I got Big Audio Dynamite - Planet BAD Greatest Hits, Richie Hawton - DE9: Closer to the Edit, and Curve - Gift. I'm psyched about the Curve one because they're a favorite of mine. I was HOPING to find other stuff by Big Audio Dynamite, but that is all they had.
Yay! I finally have The Food Network!
Very interesting article over on CNN about what to do if you are on a plane that is hijacked.
So, after two days of being up around 130-135, my pulserate has finally come back down to the low 90s. I can feel the difference, it's amazing. I think the thing that finally did it was going to lunch with a friend of mine from work. I was just able to get away from things and breath for a bit. It's nice not being as jumpy. It was exhausting.
inside you can FEEL the difference
So, according to Flywheel.org's title and name generator my new title is Superintendent Emeritus of King Prawns and Smurf-like Things, Gregory Joseph Blake.
Cool, prawns and smurfs!
Aquaman scares me.
So tonight I had dinner with my cousins Jessica and Jennifer. Up until recently I hadn't seem them in ages. There is just something really cool about having relatives who are close in age to me to hang out with. We went to the Phoenix Landing, which is one of my favorite places to just hang out and have a drink. Jess got there a bit late, but did finally make it.
It felt good to unwind some. I'm still majorly stressed out, but at least I feel happy.
Today feels like it is going to be hellish. On the plus side, I'm doing dinner with my cousins. I'm really just getting to know them again, so it's cool to be able to hang out with them. I think by the end of the day I will need to be able to unwind. I can feel that already my heart is racing. This really isn't good, I need to find some way to burn off this stress.
Last night I had my first massage in about 3 or 4 months. It felt so good, but it made me realize how much I missed getting one. It was basicly a time that I could hit pause on life and try and relax. Here's to relaxation.
So I had a regular appointment today with my Pulmonologist. One thing that was freaky is that my pulse rate was up around 133-135. So, I'm officially off of caffine for a little while, and I need to make sure I have some blood tests on my way home tonight. Of course the stress of everything at work probably isn't helping my pulserate either. Hopefully I'll be able to relax a bit later.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Well, that bit of stuff in my log was once again a sign of a nasty little IIS Worm. This one was called nimda. It made an appearance at work and I spent most of the day dealing with it. We'll see how tomorrow goes next.
So once again, there seems to be some kind program trying to hack into my system. And once again, the twits doing it don't seem to realize that I am not running IIS. The thing is, I'm getting hits for this from a ton of machines. Anyone know of a new worm making the rounds? The hits look like this:
209.67.61.53 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:03:56 -0400] "GET /_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 320 "-" "-"
209.67.61.53 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:03:56 -0400] "GET /_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 320 "-" "-"
209.67.61.53 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:03:56 -0400] "GET /msadc/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c/..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 336 "-" "-"
209.67.61.53 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:03:56 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 302 "-" "-"
So tonight is anime night over at Gabe's place. I'm hoping we can make it into a fairly regular thing so that I can show people full shows. One of my goals is to try and give people exposure to different types of shows. Most of the people who are going tonight tend to watch one kind of show. Primarily the more serious stuff which tends to be fairly violent. While I like this stuff, I've been having a growing admiration for other types of shows. I'll admit it, I like Cardcaptor Sakura!
So it should be interesting tonight. I don't plan on subjecting people to anything *too* cute.
I have such a headache today.
I want to go home.
So Saturday I was in a local computer store and I saw this kid of around 13 or 14 run up to his dad with some software box and was like, "Dad dad! I want to get this!".
Dad says, "What is it?"
"It's Linux." answers the kid.
Dad says, "Linux? What is that? A game?"
The kid responds, "No Dad! It's Linux. It's *COOL*."
At that point I kept on my way, but thought it was indeed cool.
So in reading the news there are more and more reports of how the entertainment industry is dealing with the WTC tragedy. Episodes of shows are being pulled for references to terrorist acts. The WTC is being edited out of movies that are in production. Some shows even have an uncertain future at all. I have really mixed feelings about this. I can understand holding off on episodes out of respect. But there's a greater part of me that feels defiant. A part of me that feels that every time we let the actions of terrorists affect other parts of our lives we give them more power.
Anyone else have thoughts on this?
Well, word is that Cartoon Network has pulled Cowboy Bebop for at least the next three weeks. No reason has been given yet, though speculation is that it is because of the WTC.
Time for a bit of silliness.
I used to love going to the Japanese supermarket when I lived in San Diego. One of the great things to do while shopping was to read some of the labels on products because they'd use english in quite odd ways. In honor of those days, I give you Engrish.com
My parents have always kept their house a bit on the cool side in the winter. The rule has always been: "If you're cold, put on a sweater". Well, currently it is WAY too cold in here. I'm sitting on the computer being all bundled up and I just felt my hands and they are FREEZING.
I've been down at my parents a bit this weekend (and am on from there now actually) helping them get online with their new PowerMac G4. It's a pretty slick machine, faster then any of the Macs that I have.
My mom has a dialup account through Wesleyan University, and I have to say that I've found their dialin setup to be pretty annoying. First off, you have to be able to script all the connection stuff, since it doesn't seem to allow you to use other forms of authentication. This has proven to be a bit of a pain, since OS X doesn't seem to have support for scripting a login connection. (Has anyone run into anything for this? I was thinking I might be able to do something with Applescript, but I really don't know enough about it).
The other annoying thing I've noticed about wesleyan is that their modems only seem to be 33.6. As a result, when I'm doing things I dial right into AT&T/Mediaone and access things that way, since they have 56K modems. My big goal now is to convince my parents to let me get them cable modem service for 6 months to a year to see how they like it. It would definitely make coming down to visit them a bit more bearable :).
I've been wanting to do SOMETHING since Tuesday. Given all the meds I'm on, I can't give blood. So I made a donation via Paypal. As of the time I did it, they had 22,381 members donate $798,098.
This has been such a surreal week. I have friends who have been glued to the television or radio since Tuesday. I just can't do it. I can listen or watch for a bit, but then I need to turn it off and breath.
Zannah had a link to a beautiful set of pictures over at arstechnica. I found them to be quite powerful.
More proof that people on the net have too much time on their hands. 404 Research Lab catalogs interesting, cool, and funny 404 messages. (And even has instructions on how to get IE to show them, since MS seems to think you like their error page instead).
DivX ;-) and Mac OS X
According to curry.com there is going to be a library released that will let you watch DivX movies under quicktime. I want! I want! Adam, if you're reading, is there a link to a web site for this? Yet one more step away from my PC I can take.
The last few weeks I've been i a rut. I have not been able to spin records at all. I would start practicing and after two records just get frustrated and stop. It was like I'd lost whatever creative spark everything seems to come from when I'm spinning. There's this kind of magical moment where the right record just comes to you as you need it and everything flows. I got that back tonight. I'm not quite sure where it came from. If it was just exhaustion letting me finally relax or what. It is nice to know I can get to that space without needed any extra help.
Could there be a new mix after the weekend? I'd like to think there is a good chance of it.
Whew, after not getting to sleep at a reasonable hour last night I was hurting all day. Work was somewhat hellish because of it, and just because of having to deal with people in general. On the plus side I'm once again sitting out on my doorstep while typing this. I needed to get out of my apartment because I live in this building that just seems to be an oven. If it is hot out during the day, the building seems to hold in that heat till late at night. It's tempting to run the a/c for a bit to cool it off.
The best part of sitting out on my doorstep is watching people walk by. Or of meeting people in my apartment that I haven't met yet. Since I've only meet a small portion of people in the building. It's also a nice way to pass the time while waiting for the pizza guy to deliver my pizza.
All my friends over on livejournal are taking this political compass test. It's kind of interesting. I came up with:
Economic Left/Right: -4.50
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.44
I think this is where I might have placed myself.
Stolen from Nari's site because it freaked the shit out of me is this picture. I too thought it looked doctored at first, but if you go to cnn.com and looked at the second crash footage and you can very clearly see it.
Ugs. I just couldn't fall asleep last night. I think I finally did around 2. Which ment that the morning seemed to come awfully fast. It's a beautiful day outside. I wish I could just find a nice park to go to, lay out in the sun away from everything and take a nice nap.
It's been a fairly quiet day for updates. Things here are pretty quiet. I got to have dinner with one of my best friends, Emily, tonight. It was so good to just hang out and talk. We had sushi for dinner, which always helps my mood (ooops, I'll have to post that to my livejournal).
So I had my regular appointment at the Lung Transplant Clinic today. Nothing much new. They're glad that I'm exercising more. When I went in my oxygen sat level was at 81%. Yow. I hadn't seen it that low in a bit, but it just shows how even with a 2 liter flow from my oxygen tank it may not be quite enough. I need to talk to my doctor about that. When they checked it again at the end of the appointment it was up at around 97%, which is much more normal. I definitely need to look into getting one of those little devices so that I can check it myself. There's a neat little one that is small enough to put in your pocket that I may try and get.
I'm heading off to bed after what has been a very surreal day. I just saw footage of the second plane hitting the tower that I hadn't seen before. It was taken by a cameraman down on the ground looking up. You see the plane just completely disappear in the building, and then a massage explosion. It almost doesn't look real. I just rewound and watched it a few times. It is all insane. I first heard about this when listening to Howard Stern on my way into work. I was in shock and called my Dad, telling him to put on the TV. I knew he wouldn't even have the news on. I realized just how 'connected' I am today. Between the radio and the internet I almost didn't need to have the news on. I had a continually streaming report of the news coming in.
I never thought I'd see something like this in my lifetime. It was probably a hopefull view, but I think we are just so isolated from the world. At this point I need to turn the tv off and crawl into bed and hope to get some sleep. And I'm fairly sure it will not be a good sleep.
After a nap I'm catching up on news. I read this interesting article on Salon about the collapse of the WTC.
Ugs. This makes me feel so ill.
So at this point, most people probably know that the World Trade Center has been hit by planes. And from the sounds of it planes have hit the Pentagon too. I have to admit, I'm more then a bit freaked out, a bit scared. Someone just said nbc is reporting a car bomb exploding outside the state department (though this one is iffy). I don't like this one bit. On the other side of it, the internet has been interesting in these last few hours. The news sites are basicly crippled by the amount of traffic coming in. On the other hand. I'm hanging out on DinoMUSH and have a continuous feed of the news coming into there.
Ugs.
Well, before I get to the serious stuff. I finally went to work out at the pulmonary rehab center at my hospital. I'd been putting it off for months because it required getting up at like 6am. But I really need to get back into shape. Trying to walk around the block with my oxygen tank just wasn't enough. It was a great feeling to get some real exercise again.
So that is a fun scare. My transplant pager just started beeping crazily. When I picked it up, it said low battery on it. AUGH.
(ya know the joke will be on me at 3am this morning when it goes off for real)
So thanks to Friezlog, I found this cool thing over at milov.nl. It'll be interesting to watch and see how it grows.
Yet more fun stuff on the SSSCA from The Register.
I don't think I'll ever be able to think of Windows XP in the same way after reading this.
Blonde joke of the moment. Thanks to sirhc for this one.
A blonde calls her boyfriend and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have this killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get it started."
Her boyfriend asks, "What is it supposed to look like when it's finished?"
The blonde says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a tiger."
Her boyfriend decides to go over and help with the puzzle. She lets him in and shows him to where she has the puzzle pieces spread out all over the table. He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says, "First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a tiger."
"Second, I'd advise you to relax. Let's have a cup of coffee, then let's put all these Frosted Flakes back in the box."
Here's a nifty site I found the other day: ASAP. ASAP stands for 'A Stand Against Pop-under Ads'. I'm probably going to put a button for them at the bottom of my page, because I hate pop-under ads.
Okay. I think my mood was definitely affected by a lack of sleep, not enough good food, and the general level of stress in my life.
On another note. I just saw a commercial for Tang. I didn't think they made that anymore. I remember the big thing was that astronauts drank Tang. I always would pester my mom to get it when we were in the store because i wanted to be one.
I'm sometimes amazed at how much even just a bit of sleep can affect my mood. You know how little kids get all cranky when they need a nap. I think it's the same kind of thing. Which says to me I definitely need more sleep. So tonight will probably be an early night for me. I can watch adult swim tomorrow night thanks to TiVo.
Yow. I'm not sure what happened to me this weekend, but I've had some major mood swings in the last day or so. Most of today I've just been in an absolutely horrible mood. I'm not sure what has brought it on. I keep thinking it is maybe because i'm a bit overtired. Or maybe just all the stress is getting is getting to me. I'm finding it most annoying. I am also hoping that a good nap will help.
So I was looking up my name on this site and got the following results:
Gregory (Greek)
meaning: watchful
motivation: Is motivated to overcome challenges.
character: known for their maturity
feelings: You do not hide your feelings
intelligence: One who is capable and adept
spiritual: has the ability to find their way.
nature: A person who loves life
inherent: Has a "never say die" attitude
Kinda interesting, somewhat accurate.
So my parents came up today and we went to the Apple store in up here. We were going to go up to New Hampshire so that they could get it with no tax, but the store up there didn't have what we wanted in stock. In the end I think going to the Apple store was the best thing to do. It ment that my mom got to actually watch a demonstration of some video editing using iMovie. This was the big thing she's been wanting to do for ages. The sales people were pretty good, didn't try and oversell us on anything. They got the lower-end PowerMac G4, which I think will be more then enough for them, though I think we should upgrade the computer with a bit more memory then what it is in it.
I also (finally) got myself a printer and picked up a low end scanner that I can't wait to start playing with.
Growing up, one of my favorite toys were Legos. I've wanted to pick up mindstorms forever, and now here's something cool that was done with them. Damn I want to get the new set when it comes out.
I made a small tweak to my template for this blog this morning. I added in the nickname of the person who makes the post (usually me). The reason for this is that I've added my friend Emily as an author for this blog. When I go into the hospital she's going to handle posting updates on my health to here. That way I can keep people updated as to what is going on (since I won't be able to do it myself right away).
So I ran into my pet peeve again this morning. School is back so that means that the crossing guards are back. There is one in particular on my way into work who annoys me to no end. She waits until the light turns green, and THEN walks out in front of traffic to stop it and let people across. It's so annoying because she backs up traffic doing it. What makes it even more insane is that there's a walk/don't walk light there too! I can see her being there to make sure kids cross the roads safely, but what kind of example are you setting by having them cross when it says don't walk? BAH.
So I was browsing through blogs this afternoon and ran into someone talking about why people blog. So I started thinking of why I blog. I started it a while ago on and off. First just updating my page by hand. I first did it just to kind of keep track of updates on my site, then I found myself wanting to write more. In the end though, a few things really pushed me towards posting regularly.
The first was my health and keeping people up to date with what was going on with it. It seemed an easy way to be able to post things someplace where anyone who wanted to could get up to date information. It also became a way for me to vent about some of my feelings about the whole thing. If people wanted to read, they could. It wasn't anything I wouldn't tell anyone face to face.
The second thing that inspired me to post more was finding Blogger. I had been updating my site on and off by hand, but it was a pain in the ass. I'd have to play around with HTML all the time and would end up spending more time getting that right then thinking about what to write. Using Blogger just made it all so easy.
And finally, I ran into some really cool blog sites out there. Zannah's were some of the first ones that made me think about posting things more often. It also became an easy way to share things like links to interesting sites with friends. In the past I'd just fire off a ton of IMs to people with a URL. Now I can just post it and they'll see it. The ultimate lazy person's tool.
So that's it. Some of the reasons why I blog. (Oh yeah, it's the 'cool' thing to do too! :))
I just got done playing with this little flash game. I'll never look at cricket the same way. Ever.
(Requires flash)
So since I've been watching a lot of anime lately I've been thinking I might want to learn Japanese. But, after reading this I may have to rethink that. ;)
There's a cool article on WiFi Peering over on curry.com.
I still think WiFi is one of the worst names ever thought up. What does it stand for? I can guess Wi is Wireless. But what is Fi? Fidelity? Fido? Fiction? Don't you just love it when people make up silly names for things.
Just a reminder for folks that Adult Swim is on tonight. The shows I recommend the most out of it are The Brack Show, Harvy Birdman, Sealab, and Cowboy Bebop. Space Ghost Coast to Coast rules too. I wasn't really that thrilled with Home Movies (though the Kafka rock opera was pretty funny). Anyways, it's on at 10, set your TiVo/VCR.
Ahh, sometimes my code skills aren't that great.
I just tried to test giving my last post a cookie and it got caught in a nice endless loop giving it a TON of cookies. It's fixed now. (sometimes I can be so absent minded!)
The other day friends of mine were talking about The Institute of Official Cheer. My favorite section is the 'Interior Desecrators' section, which includes 'Ugly Rooms for Beautiful People'. There is just too much good fun here. The Institute is part of Lileks, which is also full of much goodness.
I mentioned Utena yesterday. I got done watching the second DVD and now I'm quite annoyed. There are only two DVDs of it out so far and I'm not sure when a third might be expected. It's really frustrating me because the last episode on the second disk was one of those ones that makes you want to see MORE.
At least the Utena movie is due out in November.
Keen new feature time. I'd noticed sites out there have 'karma' buttons for posts, so I decided to let people rank my posts too by giving them cookies (though I can change the name at a moment's notice). So now you can change the ranking on a post by clicking on ++ or --.
(php is fun!)
Utena is so very bizzare. I've been watching the second DVD collection and it is just weird (but I like it).
Something about rainy days just completely saps all energy from me. I had a nice lunch today and got back to the office was cruising along and suddenly crashed hard. I feel like I could crawl under my bed and just take a good nap for a few hours. It's also having the added effect of making me very unmotivated at work. I keep just staring at this policy I'm working on and my eyes just kind of lose focus.
So I just killed my Link of The Day links. I wasn't updating it regularly. I'll still post links as I find interesting ones, but I'm not gonna bother to do anything fancy with them.
Long weekends rule.
I feel quite nice and relaxed after this one. I got to do some fun things, and watch a bunch of DVDs. I'm finally a bit caught up on netflix DVDs, though I probably won't have new ones till beginning of next week at this point. I've also been working through all the anime DVDs I have at the moment. Thankfully there isn't much coming out in the near future, so I have a chance to catch up.
Of the ones I saw, the one I liked the most was El-Hazard. It was quite fun!
I just got back from the Apple Store that opened up near me. It's quite nice inside and they have tons of toys to play with. Definitely a temptation to spend money. I did pick up something I'd wanted for a while though. It's this USB audio input device called the iMic from Griffin Technology. One of the big downsides of my TiBook is that it doesn't have an audio input, and this should handle that perfectly. Time for a remote broadcast!
Hmm.
It looks like another DJ may have risen into the ranks of my favorites. Lee Burridge just released under the nubreed series from Boxed. I've only gotten through the first half of the first CD, but I've been bouncing around the inside of my car to the whole thing. This CD has an amazing groove to it. It has the potential to be quite influential to me.
LOTD: Ant City
I haven't updated this in ages and ages. This one is pretty cool. I found it the other day and had a bunch of happy time burning things up with my giant magnifying glass.
Adult Swim started tonight (er, sunday night) on Cartoon Network. What is adult swim? It's a block of cartoons that are targetted more at older kids and adults. The shows are great. Toon network did a good job with them. My favorite is of course Cowboy Bebop. I'm amazed that Cartoon Network didn't seem to cut it that badly at all, they even kept the cigarettes adn alcohol.
The other shows were quite good too, though some were very twisted (like the birdman attorney one). The block is on every sunday night at 10, followed by an encore of it on Thursday nights. Check it out.
So I just added a new section to my links page for DJs. I'm a bit nervous about it because I'm afraid I may forget someone I shouldn't. So please, if you're a friend of mine who doesn't have a link there, don't be offended. I will get around to it.
So I picked up a couple of games today that I want to try out sometime soon. The first is a cardgame called Fluxx. It sounds like the kind of game I'll really like, one where the rules are always changing. I also picked up two games from Cheapass Games. The first one is 'Give Me The Brain' and the other is 'Bitin' Off Hedz', they seem pretty fun (and silly).
Well, I'm finally coming down off the rush of being on the transplant list again. I'm still a little too tense. (I wish my massage therapist would get back home from her travels. :)). I'm getting in the habit of making sure I have my pager and phone with me. I'm still working on not dwelling too much on it, because I know if I do that I will go insane.
So right now I'm working on distracting myself wherever I can.
