Would it make sense to be able to do trackbacks from comments? I just had a case where I was responding to a comment, but also referencing another post and was thinking it might be kind of neat to be able to do that.

Here’s a nice one to think about first thing in the morning.

Man arrested for ‘peace’ T-shirt
NEW YORK (Reuters) — A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall.

I’m not a lawyer but I thought that malls counted as public spaces. And is text on a tshirt covered by the first amendment? Let’s hear it for insanity.

I saw this on some other blog via my new aggregator, and ment to post on it but it slipped my mind. So thankfully now I get a second chance. Antipixel posts about an book published last year that suggests there is a secret city hidden underneith Japan. It sounds like there’s a conspiracy about the whole thing also.

Sitting on the Ginza subway from Suehirocho to Kanda, he says, you can see many mysterious tunnels leading off from the main track. “No such routes are shown on maps.” Traveling from Kasumigaseki to Kokkai-gijidomae, there is a line off to the left that is not shown on any map. Nor is it indicated in subway construction records.

At Tameike-sanno on the Ginza Line, the first basement level is closed off, for official use only. “Go to the toilet on B2 and there is a door to B1, but locked.”

It really does sound like something out of a conspiracy thriller. Hmm, maybe there’s some kind of secret city under Boston. That’s why the Big Dig has taken so long.

Well, Wednesday is right around the corner, which means another installment of The Analog Lounge. After two weeks of being sick I’m more than ready to sneak out for a bit. I probably won’t make it all night, but I do hope to be opening. This week we’ve got Qi as our guest. I remember when I first met him, he was doing a weekly at this bar called The Times (I think that’s what it was called). It was this cool little pub and the night went on for a while, but as with most good things came to an end too early.

Also, I know a certain someone is spinning over at the Phoenix Landing. This is one part of having a wed night gig that sucks. I haven’t seen Doc spin in ages and would kill to see him. But having been away from the night for two weeks I really need to be there. For those folks who are in the mood for something a little more quiet I definitely recommend coming on down. If you ask nicely maybe I’ll treat you to a martini.

Changmian and Dubcoast present

*~The Analog Lounge~*
The relaxed side of things. Join us every Wednesday for a mix of
styles, with lots of mellow mixed in. This week we welcome someone
who hasn’t been seen out much lately:

Qi (Mad Lifted – Rockport, MA)
One of the most upbeat and busy people you’ll ever run
into, Will (aka Qi) is an outstanding psy-trance DJ
and producer. He’s blown up dance-floors all over the
East Coast and is currently spending time in the
studio working on new live material. Tonight, be
prepared for a rare downtempo/ambient set from one of
Boston’s first psy-trance DJ’s.

with resident dj’s
music styles in the lounge at Vertigo.
Gregory Blake (Changmian) Boston
Special Pete (dubcoast music) CA
Peter Ellis (ttb) Boston
Pete Yagmin (Changmian) Boston

Wednesdays
@ Vertigo (upstairs)
126 State St. Boston, MA
617-723-7277
10pm – 2am
21+ with ID
$5 cover (gets you into both the Lounge and Anitya)
No dress code
www.changmian.com
www.dubcoast.com
www.vertigoboston.com
www.mapquest.com (directions)

Upcoming Guests:
03/12 – DJ Dres – proton radio/dubcoast/DEKLAB – MA
03/19 – MDR – Changmian – MA
03/26 – Residents Night

To view our calendar online (with support for you iCal and Mozilla
calendar folk):
http://ical.mac.com/gblake99/The32Analog32Lounge

This week downstairs at Anitya: Dave Henshaw (Changmian).

As I’ve posted here before, I tend to pop my own popcorn on the stove. None of the microwave stuff for me. So, while reading up on things to make in my new cast iron dutch oven I came across some recipes for making popcorn in it. The all seem to consist of a stick of margarine, and then enough popcorn to cover the bottom of the pot. My first try was a disaster. One thing that seemed to take forever was for the margarine to heat up. I’m not sure if I should have it hotter to start with or what. I can just imagine if the margarine was burnt it not tasting that great. So has anyone else made popcorn in a dutch oven before? How hot should it be? Any other recommendations? I’m sure a level of it is practice. I know that in the usual pot I use to make popcorn I have it down to a science, it comes out perfect almost every time.

I remember back in college there was a program for the Mac that was floating around called Talking Moose. If you left your computer idle for a while he’d pop up and say something random. It was pretty silly and would drive people insane after a bit. I know of someone who used to use it to help keep them awake during allnighters. Mostly though, Talking Moose was one of the most useless programs out there, but it was funny to play with now and then. Alas, I thought the moose long gone.

Then, this afternoon I suddenly decided to type ‘Talking Moose‘ into google (after reading about Jarod over on Perversion Tracker. Not only did I discover that the Talking Moose still exists, but there is a version of OS X. My laptop will never be the same.

From over on jennet.radio something childish and fun (requires flash). I sometimes think I need more childish and fun in my life.

Over the past week or so my sleep schedule has gotten completely out of wack. I normally wake up around 7ish in the morning. Doesn’t matter what day of the week it is these days, they all kind of blur together. I grab a cup of coffee and skim through the morning news and blogs, catch up on email, and then look at my todo list for the day. Then, I lately have been crawling back into bed and sleeping till noon. At noon I wake up, take care of things I need to, and then have lately been up till about 2 or 3 in the morning.

The weird thing is that from about 4pm till 8pm I’m dead tired. Half the time falling asleep on my couch for 30 min to an hour. But when 11pm hits I seem to get a second wind. Last night I looked up at the clock and it was suddenly 3:30am. I’d been tweaking some web stuff, reading, and playing Dark Cloud 2. I’m sure the video game had at least something to do with it, but I wasn’t even that tired till about almost 4. I napped for a bit, then started in on my regular schedule.

This is one of the big reasons I want a job soon. I need that structure in my days.

I dig my Sony-Ericsson T68i a lot. The fact that I can sync it with my computer so easily has made it one of the most useful cell phones I’ve ever had. Of course, Sony-Ericsson had to go and release something even better than it. The T610 is one of their newest models. It appears to support everything their current one does but has much bigger screen, and a camera built in. The camera is kind of cool, though it isn’t something I was necessarily craving in a phone. The screen is what really caught my attention. The one gripe I have about the T68i is that it’s screen is small. It’s very readable, but still quite small and I keep wishing there was just a bit more space on it. If Sony/AT&T offers any kinds of deals for upgrading when this phone goes out I will seriously consider it. [via Paolo [via Slashdot]]

Central Park Media has a few recent announcements of things coming out in the near future. The ones that jumped out at me specificly were:

• Alien 9 will be all on one DVD
• Animation Runner Kuromi looks to be one episode per disc, with just the first one listed (runtime 40 minutes)
• Iczer 3 is planned for a winter 2003 release as a part of the Authentic Anime line, which means no dub

Woo, I so can’t wait for Alien 9 to come out on DVD. And sometime around May I think the manga is due. Woo!