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I got these lights a while ago, but finally decided to put them up someplace.

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I haven’t posted anything to the digiblog in a while, so here are some new images.

As one can tell from my posts over the weekend, the weather here was amazing. It is finally SPRING! I got to enjoy the sun. It was sooo nice. Being spring I also started to get into a spring cleaning kinda mood. I’ve been cleaning my apartment little by little and it is finally starting to look a bit better. The one thing I need to do is rewire everything so that the wiring looks more clean. But that’s a pain in the ass, so I’ll put it off till I get a new entertainment unit.

I was fairly anti-social this weekend too. I was possibly going to hang out with Susan if our schedules happened to sync up, but they didn’t seem to. Which was just fine. I liked that I was able to spend the time slowly making my apartment an acceptable place to have people visit.

Worked through a bunch of anime this weekend. I finished up Mahoromatic (enh, I thought it was a decent series, but it didn’t blow me away), watched of Read or Die (I will have this when it comes out on video), the first episode of Kodomo no Omocha (uh… i have no idea what to say about this), and a Earth Girl Arjuna (wow!). Finally am catching up to all the stuff I’ve downloaded.

I have today off. It’s not a vacation day, it’s a state holiday: Patriots Day. What is Patriots Day? Actually, I wasn’t sure until just a few minutes ago when I looked it up online. According to this (old) article “Massachusetts and Maine celebrate Patriots Day in honor of the battles and skirmishes that began our fight for independence.”

Looking around I also found an article over CNN about Patriots day and other smaller holidays. And here’s another article discussing various small state holidays.

This day has also become well known because it is when the Boston Marathon is run.

Text Arc provides a whole new way of looking at texts. According to their site it “is a tool to aid in the discovery of patterns and concepts in arbitrary texts by leveraging a power and underutilized resource — human visual processing.” When you choose a text, it writes out the whole story in a spiral, then shows words from the text in the center of the spiral. It then forms all kinds of connections between words based on how often it is used and where in the text it is. It’s pretty keen.

Things like this make me wish I was back in school. I could have so much fun with something like this.

Will Rogers. “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

[Quotes of the Day]

I can sit out on my doorstep with my laptop (like I am now). And be on the net and enjoying the sunlight. It could be a tad warmer, but it isn’t that bad at all.

Here’s the songs the Audiotron was spitting out this morning as I was getting ready to head out:

• Something’s Burning – Stone Roses

• Warsaw – joy Division

• Happy Meal – The Cardigans

• Opportunities ( Let’s make lots of money) – Pet Shop Boys

• Corsican Corrider – Noir Soundtrack 1

• Captivate – Nitzer Ebb

• Butterfly – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door soundtrack

• Murder – Yoko Kanno (Vision of Escaflowne soundtrack)

• All you need is Love – JAMS

• Enough Said – Devo

So there’s yet another glipse into my audio life 🙂 (sorry, no links to tunes this time)

Wow, two mornings of waking up fairly early. And two mornings of it looking quite beautiful out. Rosebud doesn’t open for another 30 minutes, but I think I’m going to head out early with my camera and try and get some pictures. The forcast says mostly cloudly, but it certainly doesn’t look like that right now. It’s quite light out. We’ll see what it is like when I get outside.