It’s an Azumanga Daioh racing game! How cool! It looks like one of the cars is a kitty even!

Well, I’ve now run my Roomba in the kitchen and my living room. I have to say I give it two big thumbs up. After it ran through the kitchen I cleaned out the dustbin in it and it was pretty full. I was quite impressed. It picked up more than I do when sweeping. But the big test was going to be the living room. First I had to stuff the tassels on rug under so that the Roomba wouldn’t choke on them. Once I’d done that and picked up all the clutter at floor level I set it loose. My rug hadn’t been vacuumed in a few weeks so it was in pretty horrible shape. Now it’s pretty damn clean, not perfect, but pretty close. The rest of the floor looks really good two. I actually emptied the dust bin once while it was cleaning because it had sucked up so much. The only time it had problems was moving on and off the rug now and then. I think I’m going to just cut the tassels off because I actually think it looks better without them. Then I’m going to look into taping the rug down so that the edges are a bit smoother.

Overall I’d highly recommend this if you’re someone who hates vacuuming, or who has heath issues which make vacuuming difficult. It’s definitely going to make a big difference.

The Hello Kitty Tarot. Must have. This one is at least fairly inexpensive compared to the other one I want (the Dali deck).

Today was a day of much cleaning goodness. It was also a day of some wonderful acts of kindness. First, Ethan came over to help me rewire everything under my desk. Now, if you haven’t seen my place, imagine a mass of twisty wires all in a mess. Over an hour later and a bunch of wires less (there were more than a few that didn’t plug into anything) my desk looks much cleaner than it has in years. Woohoo! Thanks Ethan!

Then, this afternoon around 3 I was napping and someone started ringing my buzzer. When I finally made it to the door it was the UPS guy and he had this HUGE box for me. I scratched my head as I brought it in, wondering what it was. I hadn’t ordered anything. I tried to think of what my parents my have gotten me. I open up the box and inside I find a Roomba. After going BUH for a moment I grab the shipping label receipt to see who my savior was and found it to be someone I’ve known online for ages. So a big huge THANK YOU goes out to Andrew Molitor (If you’re gonna do cool things like this you’ve got to accept the public praise). I’m getting it set up now and it has to charge before I can use it. I’m so excited! Pictures and a notes will be posted in a day or so.

People rule.

It’s Wednesday, and this week it’s a resident’s night. So come on down and party tonight.

Changmian and Dubcoast present

*~The Analog Lounge~*

The relaxed side of things. Join us every Wednesday for a mix of
music styles in the lounge at Vertigo, with lots of mellow mixed in.
This week we’ve got a special treat, resident’s night. All four of us will be rockin’ the house tonight so be sure to come on by.

The Analog Lounge with resident dj’s
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:
6/4 – Residents Night
6/11 – Paul Dailey [Boston, MA]
6/18 – Qi
6/25 – Brynmore

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

This week at Anitya: DJ JUNYA (t.i.p. records) (phantasm) (eskimo) (UK)

Are you a DJ in the Boston area? Are you interested in playing out some Wednesday night? If so, drop me a line at lounge@ezoons.com.

Ugs, my morning coffee intake has been slowly increasing. I think starting today I need to cut back and only get a medium from Dunkin, and not make a full post for myself when i make it at home. I was all twitchy yesterday and I’m sure the coffee was the reason.

Yesterday I had one of those “The net can be so cool!” moments. I’d posted a link to a commentary on Aliens that was over on McSweeney’s a week ago. Someone posted a comment on it musing about Coulter’s use of vocabulary, but that was it as far as comments on the post. This is fairly comment, I tend not to get a ton of comments. But then Yesterday I opened up my mail to see a notification that there was another comment on the post, answering the first comment. This is the part I found very cool, it was from the person who wrote the commentary: Tom Bissell.

Even though I’ve been online ages, nothing has really opened up communication like this as well as blogging has. First that the Mr. Bissell was able to find my post (though my blog does seem to have a fairly high page ranking), and then that he took the time to comment on it. It is a level of interaction that I just haven’t run into much before online, at least on a personal web site (and I think it shows how comments can be a good thing on a blog). So I’d also like to send a big Thank You out to Mr. Bissell, and anyone else who ever comments on here. You’ve helped make this blog a little more interesting and informative. Now I need to look into having some kind of option that the author of a comment can choose to be notified when someone responds to a comment (kind of like how LiveJournal does things).

Oh yeah, and for people who enjoyed part one, part two of that commentary was posted a few days ago.

George Bernard Shaw: “My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.” [Quotes of the Day]

According to a post on MacNN.com Apple and Amazon are talking about making the iTunes music store available from Amazon. It would be a cool move. What I still want is for them to offer something where you get to download the music right away, and then get the physical CD if you want it.

The other day I picked up some Betty Crocker Dark Chocolate brownie mix. Oh my, this makes such good brownies. It comes with a packet of dark chocolate syrup that you mix in with the batter. Yum! I highly recommend.