I admit that I am easily pissed off, but here are a few words you can put down in written form that send me through the roof:

• boi
• grrrl
• blog, mo’blog, blogosphere, etc.
• huzzah
• FUD
• security clearance

There are more, but there’s a head start.

I applied for a job today at a robotics company.. It was an entry level job, but they wanted people with robotic sensor/motor control experience… So I used Drink as an example, which while limited I believe is apropos, no?

I sent my resume and cover letter to a company today, and I got two responses: One was an auto-reply saying that my resume was received. The other was a bounce notification saying that the employee’s mailbox was temporarily full. I mailed Postmaster, as the bounce indicated, to ask whether I should resend, which bounced because Postmaster didn’t exist. So my question to you is:

Me Want. I have regretted not buying one of these the THREE chances I had during Mr. Bungle’s last tour…

Possibly one of the funniest band names ever: Joanie Loves Trotsky.

I have been in PC land for a few days while I played Tron 2.0. It’s strange how I am pretty equally comfortable in Windows or OSX these days, moving between the two with relative ease. The only hangups I have are differences in meta keys between the OSes, and the fact that I don’t have any kind of Pager in Windows. I can’t tell you the number of times I have pressed “Windows-F1” on instinct and gotten the stupid WinXP Help Screen as opposed to another desktop. To be honest, I am more comfortable in OSX these days (much to my “former Apple abuser” amazement)… Of course, I don’t really *use" OSX very much: It is just another conduit to a bunch of terminal windows, a web browser, a few copies of Vim, and an mp3 player. :)

I have been using NetNewsWire to keep track of the non-LJ journals of my friends and Red vs. Blue, and it is always a shock to come back from Windows land to the Mac and see I have 100+ things to read…

I just finished a 3 day binge of playing Tron 2.0 pretty much straightthrough. The game is beautiful, fun, and pretty faithful to the Tron universe (dropping some of the old corny aspects and adding a few new corny aspects). I reccommend it to any Tron fan just for it’s sheer beauty. It’s awesome to feel like you are actually walking around the film, and the light cycle action is rad.

1. Are you going to school this year? No. Every once in awhile I think about going back, but there are many factors weighing against it.
2. If yes, where are you going (high school, college, etc.)? If no, when did you graduate? Februray 2001
3. What are/were your favorite school subjects? CS, History, Astronomy, English, Discrete, Lunch, Study Hall
4. What are/were your least favorite school subjects? Calculus, Gym (when we weren’t playing dodge ball),
5. Have you ever had a favorite teacher? Why was he/she a favorite? Yes. I’ve had a few great teachers: Tymann, Vallino, Ken & Margaret Reek, Prof. Daddas, Ed Osolinec… Generally their enthusiasm for the subject is what held my attention and kept me interested. A bored teacher is a shitty teacher.

Rory pointed me at this awesome web game called NationStates. It is a nation simulation supporting a new book entitled “Jennifer Government”. It seems like it will be lots of fun, in the vein of the turn based doors of yore.

Went to see the dälek (pronounced dialect) show at T.T.’s with Jon last night, we got there early to interview dälek before the show for the Brainwashed Eye. Guys in the band were cool, and they were as good as always. Their DJ, “still”, is just mindblowing. I even got to chat with the frontman (who’s name “is” dälek) about NJ and Bertrand’s Island and Weird NJ (the band is from Newark). During the interview he mentioned that the bands name has nothing to do with Dr. Who, but added that they welcomed Dr. Who fans and didn’t have anything bad to say about the show. I’m glad that question was answered without being asked, because there is nothing lamer than bringing up Dr. Who in conversation. :P

After interviewing dälek, we went out to the floor for the opening band, Mu zok, which was OK, but nothing too interesting (poor-man’s Boards of Canada). After Mu Zok was finished, we talked with Octopus from dälek, who was super cool… We talked about both cool and geeky stuff (as the band had just switched to Macintoshes 3 days prior to the show). It’s really amazing how prevalent powerbooks are becoming on stage at a modern rock show. The unfortunate extreme of this, however, when a band consists of a couple of guys standing around on stage in front of powerbooks, but it is still an interesting phenonema.

Destructo Swarmbots, a guitar noise group (one guy) who was interesting, but would have probably been not-so-interesting if his set was longer than 15 minutes. dälek was up next, and blew the fucking doors off the place. It was an impressive crowd for a tuesday night, not quite full, but still pretty packed.