Walt Disney: “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” [Quotes of the Day]

Halley talks about taking a day away from online:

I had this conversation with Joi Ito about S-L-O-W-I-N-G D-O-W-N. I threw out a challenge — spend 24 hours not talking, not emailing, not IM’ing, not IRC’ing, not communicating in anyway. Just a silent sunday — this coming sunday actually — for 24 hours.

You do get to use one hand-held device. A rock. Just keep it in the palm of your hand. Get the urge to IM someone — just tell the rock. Get the need to email someone else — just think the message through your rock. Get the temptation to talk — no talking — just look at your rock.

So far the toughest thing is explaining to people that you will will be incommunicato — really not available, really out of reach, really out of pocket — at least in the traditional ways of communicating.

[Keep your eyes peeled for a picture of my rock — I’ll post it soon.] [Halley’s Comment]

I really like the sound of this and have been thinking about doing something like that sometime soon. Disconnecting myself for a day. I think it would be a nice break. Mad William Flint also commented on this post with some interesting stuff. I’ll have to think of this. I wonder if I have to talk to a rock. I want to talk to my stuffed cat.

Colubra over on LiveJournal posted this priceless quote. Every time I read it I just go buh. So I decided to relay it here for all you non-LJ folks (people on LJ can ignore this if they’ve read it).

It’s a proven fact that a single anal sex experience causes one to be homosexual. The hormones released by a sexual situation involving the anus being broached, are the same hormones found in large quantities in effeminate homosexual males. For example, when I was much younger I knew a young man who was for all intents and purposes, heterosexual. He was mugged, and involved in a rape situation involving a tent peg. This one event was enough to have him start on a road that eventually led to him becoming effeminate and gay. –Anne McCaffrey, author

Elthar pointed me at Boys Be a few weeks ago saying that he thought I might like it. I downloaded the first few and finally got around to watching it recently. Today I got through watching episode 8 and I have to say I really like this show. It’s primarily about these three guys and their relationships, though primarily focuses on Kanzaki Kyoichi (or at least seems to at this point). I think what I found the most interesting from this is that they seemed to really get a lot of the whole high school guy experience, the good and the bad. The characters are far from perfect, they screw up left and right. The whole show just feels very real. This is one of those shows that I’d love to see licensed, but I’m really not sure if it would be (which means someone will announce it soon). I definitely recommend giving it a look.

So I haven’t been sleeping well the last few nights and around noon today it all caught up with me. Nothing like sleeping for four hours in the afternoon. But now I’m all rested up for that whole Wednesday night thing. Sorry it’s a bit late, but here’s the info.

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 proudly present our special guest: Ali Ajami. Ali is resident DJ at both Squareone Thursdays at Axis and Friday nights at Avalon, on Friday nights playing a fresh blend of progressive house, self-described as “Dirty House”. Ali’s introduction to the Boston Scene came when he started at Chrome in December of 1999. Now he’s quickly becoming one of Boston’s favorite locals playing alongside such respected national acts as John Digweed, Sasha, Danny Howells, Chris Fortier, and Steve Porter. Come on down, it should be a great time.

Special Guest:
July 25th – Ali Ajami [Chug Records, Avalon, SquareOne/Axis], Boston

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)
Free before 11
No dress code
www.changmian.com
www.dubcoast.com
www.vertigoboston.com
www.mapquest.com (directions)

Upcoming Guests:

July 30th – Dave Wagz, Boston

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

This week at Anitya: TALAMASCA (3D Vision/Spiral Trax) France

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.

Bertrand Russell: “The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.” [Quotes of the Day]

Wow, sometime around 4;30am I was woken up by some of the loudest thunder I’ve ever heard. The initial clap woke me up and then it just kept rumbling for a good 10 to 15 seconds. And then nothing else except for a few distant sounding rumblings. I really hope this rain kills off some of the humidity.

A site that offers disposable email addresses that point to your primary email address. You can choose how long it is good for, after which it disappears. Pretty funky. [via jenett.radio [via thebooge.ca]]

TOKYO – An American in Tokyo recently entered a restroom in an office building and pressed a button, expecting to hear a recording of rushing water, designed to mask the sounds of nature’s call.

Instead, a loud siren blared and women rushed to her aid.

The visitor had confused two of the many high-tech features of the Japanese lavatory. [Mercury News]

And to make things even better. One Japanese company is looking to bring the Japanese restroom experience to america. Again from the Mercury news:

The company, which logged more than $117 million in 2002 sales in the United States, says now may be prime time to introduce Americans to a cleaner, more intense toilet experience. It’s banking on raised sanitation awareness in the aftermath of health scares like SARS — and the popularity of anything “anti-bacterial” to win over consumers to the combination bidet/toilets that are common in Japan.

More intense? Do I need my toilet experience to be more intense? I’m not sure I want to know.

Okay, I gave it a chance. I’ve tried to run Safari as my primary browser for a while and while it actually works well, I’ve been having a few show stopper type issues with it. The biggest is hanging. It happens all the time. It starts to load a page and I get the spinning rainbow disk and I have to force quit it. or it just stops making network connections and I need to quit and restart. The frustrating thing is that others don’t seem to have any of these problems. I haven’t done anything strange that I am aware of. What a pain in the ass.