I finally got off my ass and gave money to WBUR (Boston NPR)

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I just got an automated email from OLD MAN BODIE letting me know that my CIS account will be deactivated… I didn’t even realize it was still active, I mean, it’s only been 4 years… :)

Last night after work I had plans to meet up with Jon Whitney for dinner downtown, but that wasn’t until 6pm. I was planning on killing time at Newbury or something, but the sent an email asking for a ride home from work. She rode her bike to work in the rain and was soaked, and it was still pouring in the evening (actually, it’s still pouring now).. So instead of killing time at Newbury, I picked her up at Harvard and dropped her off at the apartment, still making it downtown right around 6pm. We ended up going to the Parish Cafe, which was fantastic (as always). I got the Steak & Blue sandwich, Jon got some steak dish… I was going to get a Jack & Coke, but I decided yesterday to boycott JD, and I don’t know a suitable replacement yet.

I finished downloading Seasons 1 and 2 of one of my favorite shows growing up: The Secret Life of Machines which was on Discovery for a while when i was in middle or high school… I have missed this show alot, and would buy a DVD set of the series in a heartbeat, but the Divx files I found are fairly high quality, digitized from VHS, and look good on my Divx DVD player. Nobody I’ve talked to in the past week or so seems to remember this show, am I the only one who watched it??? I also ordered Tim Hunkin’s new book, Hunkin’s Experiments, which should be an fun read..

I have been finding it harder and harder to find boxers with the “flat elastic” as opposed to the “bunchy elastic”… It seems that the only time I can find the flat elastic is on stupid-ass print boxers. Last night I tried to find some but gave up, and bought a pack of boxer briefs instead, as an experiment… I still think they look pansy, but whatever, I hate the bunchy elastic so much that if I can’t get boxers the way I want them I might have to change up. Briefs are out of the question, however.

Testing to see if my old hiptop lj post script still works with my
hiptop2… Here is a picture:

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Oh my god, Shaun of the Dead was badass, you should totally go see it!

Just kind of lazing around today…  On thursday Audra came over with the DVD of Ginger Snaps Back, the passable prequel in the Ginger Snaps series of werewolf movies.  The prequel was weak, but I think I liked it better than the second film.  I made a Spinach, Parmesan, and Dill quiche that night that came out real good.  I haven’t had Quiche in ages…

Yesterday, and I watched The Straight Story, which even though it was a Disney film was certainly directed by David Lynch…  I really enjoyed it, even if it was a touch melodramatic at times.  I spent most of today catching up on Poker on the Tivo and playing Mario Kart…  I’ve unlocked a few more things, but I still suck pretty badly…  I need to get better so doesn’t make so much fun of me next time.

Tomorrow is Shaun of the Dead with the SNFC.  I have been looking forward to this movie for a long time, even if half of that time I had confused this movie with another…. :)

Since it didn’t seem like any more of my readers were interested in Gmail accounts, I donated them to the SpreadFirefox.com Gmail Giveaway. They are giving away thousands of free accounts, so if you are looking for an account head over there and get one!

I love Elvis Costello. On the back of his latest CD, right above the FBI warning, he says “This artist does not endorse the following warning.  The F.B.I. doesn’t have his home phone number and he hopes that they don’t have yours.”

I’ve been terrible about keeping my LJ up to date lately…  It seems like every post is some kind of “catch up” post…  Oh well, I can only do so much…

Friday night after work a bunch of us (including Garrett and ) went out to the Outback for food and drinks…  At some point we decided to converge on Garrett’s place and play some video games.  We played 4 player Mario Kart: Double Dash (which is amazingly fun) as well as 4 player Wario Ware, Inc: Mega Party Game$.  I had played both games before, with Matt actually, but I think this was the most fun I have had…  Mario Kart is pure awesomeness, and 4 players (2 on 2) just rocks…  Blue Sparks were had, but I was a pretty shitty driver (although since Friday I have continued to practice, so hopefully I won’t let Matt down so much).  Wario Ware is a cracked out game, and was the source of ‘s famous “jump rope game” slight against me.  Let it be said, that we did do 4 player jump rope at Garrett’s place, and we got to 50.  That is all.

Saturday I pretty much just hung around and loafed…  Corinna was doing homework at the library most of the day, so I just watched TV, played MK:DD, played FarCry (which I borrowed from Gary at work…  Verdict:  Eh…), and did some rad home improvement type stuff…  I put the drawer fronts on in the kitchen, as well as tidied up the “computer corner” and it’s rats nest of cables.  The rats nest is still there, it is just better hidden.  I also fixed up my TiVo.  I had gotten the replacement RAM earlier in the week, and installed it, but once I did the networking stopped working on the TiVo…  I got pissed and put the debugging off until the weekend.  It took a few hours to debug the problem, but I eventually got everything squared away…  And the TiVo/Cachecard makes such a bigger difference with the proper amount of RAM installed, I’ll have you know. :)  I also took the time to upgrade all of the hacks I have installed on the TiVo over the years (specifically Tivowebplus and a bunch of modules).

Sunday we saw THX-1138 with the SNFC..  I liked the movie, but most didn’t…  It was projected digitally, which was interesting…  I think I noticed a bit of artifacting at times (which I didn’t notice when I saw Episode II projected digitally), but I’m not sure if I was just imagining it…  Regardless, it looks beautiful, and I think digital projection will be the standard in a few years..

I bought tickets for the October 30th Dresden Dolls show at Avalon, but I was invited to a Halloween Party in Ithaca that I simply can’t miss..  I paid 41.95 shipped for the two tickets, and will sell them for that price…  I don’t even know if the show is sold out or whatever, but I figured someone here might be interested…  One caveat:  I haven’t actually gotten the physical tickets yet… :)  But if you are interested reply and we can work something out..