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[Aug. 28th, 2008|08:26 am] |
M: I tend to be confused by double negatives unless they're in Russian?
Professor: but Russian double-negatives make perfect sense to you
M: Russian grammar demands them
Professor: hehe
M: truly
Professor: that sounds like a line from a Kruschev speech
M: It probably is
Professor: "Russian grammar demands double negatives! Output will be increased five-fold by next year!"
M: HA
Professor: "We will not leave you unburied!"
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Professor: also: what didn't you like about The Mote in God's Eye?
L: um, i read it five years ago, I thought the aliens were stupid and the plot just read like someone writing an after-the-fact choose-your-own adventure book
Professor: ha
Professor: I thought the aliens were the most interesting part of the book by leaps and bounds - far more so than the characters
L: well, I will agree with that
Professor: (who would've been okay in 50s sci-fi, passable in 60s, no excuse in 70s)
L: but yeah
L: asimov's characters are more developed
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J: this is you:
J: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/08/18/107-self-aware-hip-hop-references/
Professor: scooped (kinda)
Professor: http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/white-people-do-the-humpty-hump-just-watch-me-do-the-humpty-hump/
J: but see
J: I know all those songs
Professor: and you're white!
Professor: QED
J: but I never know the ones you're quoting
Professor: 60% of the songs I listed are about, or heavily reference, gang violence
Professor: I am a white person who knows no one in a gang
Professor: (so, I imagine, are you)
Professor: so you know songs that could only be sung ironically by white people
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[Aug. 28th, 2008|05:08 am] |
like joe biden a lot as a vice. he's really handsome and weird and smart. like dick cheney in all the ways that obama is like george w. i think he's going to help the candidacy considerably.
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| Request #6 |
[Aug. 28th, 2008|12:44 am] |
Petulant: "Tell me about the walk you took today, even if you did not take a walk."
Today I did take a walk. I took a walk because my beloved bike Ready is in New York and I am not. I took a walk because after six hours of sitting around for work I need to move my legs.
I took a walk yesterday too. I intended to walk to a bar and read. I really, really wanted to get out of my house but I really, really wanted to just sit in peace and adore Box Office Poison. Going to a bar, because they are actually open past 10pm, was my best option.
So I walked down my street, which is a semi-main road to Snelling, which is a main road. And I looked at the new art gallery/framing shop from the window and noted that I should return. And I looked at the Getten Credit store, which has to be a front for something, because I have never once seen anyone go in or out, but their lights are always on, even at 11pm.
Mostly, though, I listened to podcasts, which I love more than a human should.
On the way to the bar, which is not that good, there are a few coffeeshops. Most of them were closed, except for one that I had never been in, because it always seems weird and not so good. But it was open until midnight, so I went in now.
It was full of nerds and people reading and I thought "perfect". And then, just as soon as I placed my tea order I thought "Balls, my wallet is at home." So I left this establishment. I don't know if I will returned. I don't know if I'll have the chance.
So, from that point on, I just walked. Down streets with lights, down streets without many lights. I listened to The Moth, which made me tear up, and the news, which did not. I thought the sort of things you are supposed to think on walks, about your life and others life and the future and the past and what it all might mean.
I took pleasure in the weather, which has been near perfect lately, hoovering around 70 and 80. It is crisp enough for a hoody at night, but warm enough for a tank top in the day and that is exactly how I like my weather. I took pleasure in the rhythm on my steps, in my thoughts, in the radio, in the night. I enjoyed it and, when it was over, and hour later, I thought about how I should walk more.
Today, however, I just walked to the grocery store. I gorged on cheese samples. I bought a small bit of cheese. Then I walked home. |
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| Fact #1 |
[Aug. 27th, 2008|09:11 pm] |
All best recent photos are of him. Or donuts. |
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[Aug. 27th, 2008|03:51 pm] |
lack of coding abilities has been making me feel increasingly useless as i pan out into all this interactive web stuff. i still love video but interactivity is everything and i simply must bone up.
or you could help me. |
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| Weekend Photo Dump: Beach Days, McCarren Pool Parties, etc. |
[Aug. 27th, 2008|11:38 am] |
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| Comic Journal: The Incredibly True Adventures of Lee Christmas |
[Aug. 27th, 2008|11:35 am] |
The Incredibly True Adventures of Lee Christmas More Lee Christmas... COLOR VERSION COMING TOMORROW!  ( The last part here... ) |
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| and so you'd better do what you are told; you better listen to the radio |
[Aug. 27th, 2008|08:42 am] |
Hey, friends: recommend me some of the following:
- Podcasts. Anything entertaining or informative.
- Books. Scope out my progress on my 50 books in a year for an idea of where my tastes lie. But I'll try a pretty wide range of genres.
- Television series available on DVD. I don't need cable now that I have Netflix. On the few nights that I eat dinner at home, a single TV episode on a DVD covers just enough time to entertain me without totally jeopardizing my evening. Past favorites include Deadwood (S1), The Shield (S1-4), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (S1-2), Arrested Development (S1-3), Venture Bros (S1-2), Hustle (S1), House of Cards (S1-3), the greatest show which the medium of television has yet to produce, Veronica Mars (S1) and 30 Rock (S1-2).
- Musics. I used to go through new artists pretty heavily by burning them to CD and listening while I drove in. Now I take the train and read, more's the pity. So recommend me some groups to discover. Recent additions that I liked a lot include the Psychedelic Furs, Nas, N.E.R.D., the Allman Brothers, Arcade Fire and Tiesto. Find a common thread in that; Pandora hasn't.
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| 1st day. |
[Aug. 26th, 2008|09:04 am] |
As predicted, I hate running.
I went down to the track at the high school below my hill. There was a football team working out in the middle of it and using the track. So that's out.
I came back and mapped out my course in my complex. Walk down to these parked cars, run to this stop sign, etc.
I didn't manage to run my full 1/8ths. I got to about 10 cars away from my first one and my heart/lungs were screaming "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING??" I hope that turns into a mere shout by the end of the week. Even though my run distances kept getting shorter and shorter, I'd run every time I could and stopped when I had to.
Now I'm TOTALLY sweaty. After one stinkin' mile and about 70% of that was walking, instead of the 50% it was supposed to be.
I know what has to kick in...that competitiveness with myself. "You can make it to that stop sign." I was using that a bit today just to get myself to run farther than I wanted to. I'll kick that up a notch every day and hopefully within a couple more I'll be able to do what I'm supposed to be doing 4-6 days this week.
Going from literal couch to 10k (my situation) is probably a lot harder than going from merely sedentary to 10k.
But I'm still going to do it. I just can't imagine how I'll get there, but I know it will get exponentially easier at some point. My body just has to start agreeing with me - we're going to do this. |
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[Aug. 26th, 2008|09:04 am] |
Back home in New York. Details once I've caught up on sleep/laundry/work and kicked this cold (a bunch of people got sick at the end of the trip). If I missed something of significance, link/holla.
Photos here and here (neither very good). None from Europe (camera issues). |
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| all I care about is love |
[Aug. 26th, 2008|08:31 am] |
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I could move to Chicago very easily.
Apparently, Internet Inc. will move experienced people out there with very little argument. I could spend what I pay now for housing and get a spot in a nicer neighborhood. Chicago's subway looks more extensive than Boston's; I could get rid of the car. Two of my best friends in the world - Mariateresa and Hawver - already live in the city. I think I'd do all right there.
I'm not bored with Boston yet, though. Not quite. But I can feel it at the edges. Hawver once said that only thirty real people live in Boston; the rest are smoke and mirrors. I think I've met twenty-six of them and I keep seeing them at the same bars. It might be time to broaden my horizons.
Nobody panic; I'm not moving yet. Check in with me in nine months, though. Because something's got to change - either me or the city or the world I live in - or I don't know what I'll do.
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| Uhhhhmazing. |
[Aug. 25th, 2008|10:40 pm] |
More here. |
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| Error. |
[Aug. 25th, 2008|10:11 pm] |
I just installed Firefox 3 and can't figure out where the back/forward buttons went. |
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| Adulthood |
[Aug. 25th, 2008|10:30 pm] |
I will be living in Bushwick by the 6th of September. It is the farthest away I will have ever lived from my family. It is the longest distance I will have ever put between myself and my core group of friends, the set of people I have known and maintained contact and loved for for seven or more years. It is the closest I will have ever lived to subways and salty water and England since leaving Connecticut.
I'm not really scared or sad about this, but I know that I really will be, really soon. |
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| 600660 monday is goodday for comix and joyce mckinney |
[Aug. 25th, 2008|01:19 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | comix, sex | ] |
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| | FROGS "Raped" | ] |
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| Weekend Photo Dump: Chioke and Troy Go Biking |
[Aug. 25th, 2008|12:01 pm] |
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| just how deep do you believe? |
[Aug. 25th, 2008|09:29 am] |
Oh, man. This weekend:
- Had probably the best Sister Mary Ignatius / Actor's Nightmare show of the run on Friday. RJ, Rachel V. and Jason came to see it. We repaired to Casa de Pedro afterward, which despite unforgivably slow service cooked up a quality meal. Jason talked smack about the Dresden Dolls.
- Chorizo quesadilla still marching down my gullet, I hit up Jake Ivory's for Laura D's birthday. Though Jarret & Co. apparently played none of our songs, we still danced and had a good time. I have started to realize that Boston girls can handle themselves in bars. Just because a guy with spiked tips, a popped collar and the stench of AXE keeps pitching his mediocre line at them, I don't need to offer to punch him in the throat.
"No, it's cool."
"You sure? Because I totally will."
- After some logistical planning that never would have worked in the age before cell phones and dashboard GPS, a few of us ended up at Jamie C's house afterward. George G. brought over a bottle of terrible yellow wine which I wisely declined. Then I drove home. Landing time: 4:00 AM.
- Saturday afternoon, I met Sarah H. at the Wine Gallery in Brookline for a free beer tasting. We sampled a variety of microbrews. One local brewery made a creme brulee stout that tasted sweet but went down a little hard. I definitely could not drink a 22 oz bottle in one sitting, anymore than you could eat 22 ounces of creme brulee in one sitting. However, I would definitely serve it at a party. Bring out a tray full of creme brulee shots for people to nurse while they talked of urbane things.
- Sarah H. gave me some guff when we ended our walking tour of Brookline with a trip to 7-11 so I could buy another niacin megadose. But that shit works! After the final Sister Mary Ignatius / Actor's Nightmare show, I slammed a bottle of that and felt fast and loose all night. I hit up coworker Fred's going away party at Rattlesnake first. In a rare fit of extroversion I bought a round of kamikazes for my manager's team, which Fred had been on, and we did a shot for our client.
- At 11:00 or so I sped to Davis Square to catch the latter half of Jason H's going away party. I spent most of the night playing Rock Band, rotating between vocals, guitar and drums. I not only managed "The Hand That Feeds" on mic for the first time ever, but sang my way through "Gimme Shelter" on Hard, too. The secret: a lot of beer. Jason kicked us out at about 2:00, but not before loading me up with excess beer from his fridge. So: party at my place. Landing Time: 2:30 AM.
- Sunday I had my first Gorefest rehearsal. Already I can tell this cast will be a joy to work with: everyone has energy and a great sense of humor, the script packs plenty of surprises, and Bobby's a tremendously creative director. Once we brainstorm some of the technical hurdles (e.g., "should the diarrhea cannon hit both of them, or just Liz?"), this show will fall all the way off the hook.
- After reading at home and napping, I hit up the Nerds On Sports Pizza Party - for which read "Will, RJ and I" - at Newtowne Grille in Porter. We waited 35 minutes for our pizza, which gave us plenty of time to talk about work. "Google owns me," I mentioned at one point. "Between GMail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google as a search engine and, of course, Google as part of my job."
"Technically, Google's paying for this pizza," Will pointed out.
- Once Marie C. arrived back in Davis from Logan Airport and got settled, I bought her a beer and caught up with her trip home. I also returned two books I'd borrowed from her and lent her Japrisot's A Very Long Engagement in return. Without the aid of a niacin megadose, I passed out around 11:30 PM.
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| I got my shoes. |
[Aug. 24th, 2008|04:09 pm] |
I want to know why so many of the women's shoes (in stock at the store) have pink, pastel blue or obscene amounts of flashy silver. I want my shoes to be understated and I can't be the only one. I like most of the men's shoes and there's a BIG difference. I would've preferred to select from ones like the one on the right. Here's the same shoe:
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This was the least flashy/pink woman's shoe I could find in my size. There was one other that I liked that was black with some simple grey stitching, but I could feel the ridge of the inner arch even in a few steps - that would've rubbed me raw. |
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| Couch to 10k |
[Aug. 24th, 2008|11:36 am] |
It's a 10 week program...and look at that...the race is exactly 10 weeks from yesterday. Turns out the race is pretty hard according to Shauna (who runs several times a week, and runs 8 miles at least once a week). She says the Camp Pendleton 1/2 marathon is harder than running a whole marathon (and she's run several) because of the hills and the heat.
 The Buffalo Alley 10k Run will honor the fallen and wounded.
COURSE: The Buffalo Alley 10K Run (formerly the "Horno Ridge Run") offers the ultimate in Hard Corps Competition in a cross-country 10K. The course begins at Camp Horno, Home of 1st Marines, and winds up, up, up, into the hills of Camp Pendleton. To start your challenge early, the first mile is uphill, over 500 feet of climbing, to the top of the ridge, then you will follow the ridge on a loop out-and-back course that takes you past scenic vistas along gently rolling terrain. Please note: there is a 2 hour time limit on the completion of the course.
With that time limit, I should be okay even if I walk most of it, which I don't intend to.
I didn't think about the fact that I'm not running a 10k once (doable) - I'm running several of them to prepare for it. What the hell have I gotten myself into? I signed up already, so that's that.
I had to decide to enter in the 45-49 age category or the "Athena" category (female 160 lbs. +). That seems like a low cutoff for a weight "hinderance." I would be thin at that weight.
( My training program )
I used gmap-pedometer.com to plot out routes for 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5 and 6 miles, all starting from home and all different enough to keep it interesting. All with hills...and some with elevations that are close to the 500 foot climb at the beginning of the 10k. There's no doubt I'm going to be whining in my journal for the next 10 weeks, so scroll as you see fit.
Now to get some decent shoes. |
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| Friends Only |
[Aug. 24th, 2008|11:17 am] |
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