Fred Allen. “What’s on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?”

[Quotes of the Day]

1. What is your favorite time of year? Spring, definitely spring, followed very closely by autumn.

2. What is it about your favorite season that, well, makes it your favorite season? It’s just how everything is coming alive again after being so bleak all winter. I get serious spring fever every year.

3. What is your least favorite season? Hmm, something between summer and winter. I hate the extremes. Too hot or too cold just doesn’t agree with me.

4. Do you do anything to celebrate or recognize the changing of seasons? Indeed! I go out into the woods by myself and celebrate by racing with wild elk. (Okay, I don’t do that, but I thought it sounded more cool then saying ‘Nope. I don’t do anything.)

5. What’s your favorite thing to do outside? I love going for walks in the spring and fall. They are the best times to just watch the world around you. Everything is in such a state of flux.

The Friday Five can be found at http://fridayfive.org

I haven’t done a lot of record shopping lately.  I’ve just been too busy.  So today I stopped by my favorite online record store: Planet X.  I promptly ordered about $100 worth of records before stopping myself from really going into a buying frenzy.  Mmmmm… new vinyl.

We currently are up against a big deadline at work.  Every day our graphics guy has been putting up a picture with a countdown for how many days left till the deadline.  The pictures are usually from various pictures from TV shows or of celebrities with various employee’s faces photoshopped in.  I’d gone for about 20 days without being put into one of the pictures. Yesterday all that changed:

(I guess I deserved it, since I suggested he find a picture for CHiPs.)

Dawn writes that Amazon now has Amelie up for pre-order.  The release date is July 16th.  Yay! I’m quite psyched for this and have aleady preordered.

Dear Scorpio, I found a prayer floating around the Web that should be particularly helpful for you in the coming days. It has been slightly altered from its original version as a 12-Step affirmation. Here goes. “O God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to pull off hilarious pranks on everyone who pisses me off. Help me to be careful of the toes I step on today, as they may be connected to an ass that I have to kiss tomorrow.”

<– Courtesy of Free Will Astrology –>

The New York Times talks about “Finding Pay Dirt in Scannable Driver’s Licenses. In most states, driver’s licenses now feature bar codes containing remarkable amounts of personal information. While this may help prevent identity fraud, it can also land a driver’s name on databases in unexpected places.”

Things like this make me really nervous.  I agree that it’s nice to be able to do things like checking age for clubs.  But I don’t think that just because I walk into a club that they should be able to send me junk mail.  Maybe I don’t want them to have my address.  Is there any way to prevent them from getting this information?  With this system, someone could go to a lot of work to keep information like that private, and then give it out without ever realizing it.  On the other hand, it was nice to read that some states are already limiting what information can be stored.  I guess I’ll have to look into what MA law says. I’m almost tempted to go to The Rack to see what would happen if I asked them to not save my personal information.

Tom Stoppard. “The days of the digital watch are numbered.”

[Quotes of the Day]

Apple just released a 10GB iPod and of course a part of me wants to upgrade. I wonder what the going price for a used 5GB iPod is. Apple also released a software update. I’m going to have to look into that now too.

I really really really want to find a copy of A Comedy of Errors staring The Fly Karamozov Brothers. It was aired on Live from Lincoln Center years and years ago. I used to have a copy of it on tape, but I lost it in my various moves. So now I’m feeling inspired and want to find a copy of it again. If anyone can help me track down a copy of this I’d worship them forever.