The game was alot of fun last night, and even better, Boston won, so there weren’t any riots or anything… :) I am good at getting the team spirit when I am actually AT a game, so I was cheering on Boston like the rest of the crowd… Often I didn’t know what I was cheering or booing at, but that doesn’t matter… :)
I took some pictures, mostly to show how awesome our seats were.
Tonight is “Masters of Italian Horror” night over at the Brattle Theater, so screw any notion of cooking up some meatloaf tonight… That will have to wait for tomorrow. Tonight is Black Sabbath and Opera time…
I missed the miniature horse thing last night…. At least you don’t have to be jealous now… :)
Getting up this morning wasn’t as difficult as I had expected, I guess my sleep schedule didn’t get too wacked out in Rochester. I had a great time seeing all the CSHers again, and graduation was fun as well. My family came up for the festivities, and they seemed to enjoy getting to finally see me walk across the stage. Many thanks to all the family, house members, and friends who cheered me on as I walked across the stage. The Dean commented on the size of my cheering section as I shook his hand. :)
So that phase is now unarguably complete now; no longer can people argue that “well, you haven’t really graduated yet”… It was nice seeing everyone, but living like a nomad is always a little uncomfortable for me. I am glad to be back in my own place again. :)
Supposedly we are going to hear some “really good” news later on today, which makes me curious.. I hope it is good enough to keep me from worrying about looking at Monster for a year or so. :)
There is a new feature in the Mozilla nightly builds, the “-turbo” command line flag (Win32 only). If you pass this switch, it will start mozilla in a windowless mode, running in the background. The next time you start mozilla, it will pop up almost instantly, since it is already residing in memory. This will be a nice retort to the people that believe that Internet Explorer is so much faster because M$ pulls the browser into memory on startup (since it is “part of the OS”…)
Some motherless bastard broke into my apartment while was at work today. The stupid fuck took 42/88 of my DVDs, and nothing else. And to make matters worse, they were selective about which discs they took. Now I am pissed.
When mom was here this weekend I got a rack for my CDs and DVDs. I originally left off one shelf because I thought there wasn’t enough room, but I figured out a configuration that gave me room for 5 CD-height shelves and 3 DVD-height shelves. So now I have almost one empty shelf for CDs and half an empty DVD shelf. I need to borrow someone’s digital camera to take some pictures of my apartment.
I had a ton of fun this weekend exploring Boston with James, as it is the first chance I have had to really explore what is available to me. Friday night we wandered around Government Center, went to some stores and just enjoyed some of the beautiful (and not-so beautiful) architecture around. We got back really late, as we kinda got a wee bit lost and had trouble locating a T stop. :)
Saturday, we met up with Jon Whitney, who runs Brainwashed, which hosts the Coil and Meat Beat Manifesto official pages. He was a really good guy, and he showed us around Harvard Square, which is a wonderful area. It turns out that one of my favorite NYC record shops, Other Music opened their second store in Harvard Square recently, which is awesome in my book.. :) I also browsed around some other record shops in the area, and discovered that CDs are simply way cheaper in this town for some reason. I picked up a few CDs used:
Sunday, James and I headed back into Harvard Square and ran head first into a street festival… We had some good Barbecue on the street, and heard some street musicians and looked at the vendor’s boothes (but I really couldn’t spend much money, although I could use a pair of sunglasses sometime in the near future). We then headed back and watched Galaxy Quest and the Sopranos.. :)
Tonight is the Matmos/Autechre concert, which should be lots of fun. I will report on it tomorrow… :)
Just checked with Verizon, and I can’t get DSL yet, but my area is scheduled to be upgraded sometime in June or July, so I will be able to get it soon. :) I guess I will have to get a dialup ISP for the time being. I am going to see if the cable guy knows anything about Cable Modems in my area when he comes by to install my cable today.
I have to leave work early today, since the cable guy is coming, and afterwards James will be arriving later today, he is going to be here for the weekend, and on Monday we are going to the Middle East to see Autechre play (with Matmos opening)… Should be fun!