Tegan & Sara rocked! Rarely do I have the cojones to overrule my shyness and talk to performers after a show, but this time I did. It was hard not to, since they were behind the merchandise table on the way out. Aww, they're so cute!
Then I came home and watched The Terminator. Martin Amis in his memoir Experience describes his father watching that...
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What do you do when people you care about disappear without warning?
It's been nearly a year since T. moved away. She doesn't answer my e-mails, and I don't know her new phone number or address, nor those of anyone else who knows her or lives near her.
I'm worried. And I thought we were getting to be really good friends. It's not often that...
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It's been nearly a year since T. moved away. She doesn't answer my e-mails, and I don't know her new phone number or address, nor those of anyone else who knows her or lives near her.
I'm worried. And I thought we were getting to be really good friends. It's not often that...
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fancier:
Oh, that McDonalds has been torn down! Weird. That's like tearing down a Starbucks.
I'm moving to 43rd and Stone... maybe my ugly condos are the ones that've replaced your house!
I'm moving to 43rd and Stone... maybe my ugly condos are the ones that've replaced your house!
fancier:
Oh, and quit trying to have gay sex with my hot future husband!!!!!!!!!!
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acetracer:
People just accept it; they think that's just the way it is and therefore never question alternatives.
Why are remotes so horribly ill-designed? Because they are designed by engineers, usually as an afterthought. The same is true for interfaces. I think most developers spend the majority of their time working on the hard part, making it work at all, and therefore don't concentrate much or at all on the user interface, simply because it's a patch job at the end that doesn't need much attention.
This by the way is also the fundamental flaw with open source applications as well. So much attention is paid to making things work, that every X11 app I've ever used is an interface nightmare. As much as I love open source software, its interfaces are organizational cluster fucks. Which is why I love the marriage of Apple and open source, and why I think claims that Apple is just putting "a pretty face" on tried and tested technology is a good thing.
Why are remotes so horribly ill-designed? Because they are designed by engineers, usually as an afterthought. The same is true for interfaces. I think most developers spend the majority of their time working on the hard part, making it work at all, and therefore don't concentrate much or at all on the user interface, simply because it's a patch job at the end that doesn't need much attention.
This by the way is also the fundamental flaw with open source applications as well. So much attention is paid to making things work, that every X11 app I've ever used is an interface nightmare. As much as I love open source software, its interfaces are organizational cluster fucks. Which is why I love the marriage of Apple and open source, and why I think claims that Apple is just putting "a pretty face" on tried and tested technology is a good thing.
acetracer:
Andy and Bill were my favs too 
I used to talk to Bruce Horn, who co-wrote the Finder, he stumbled upon my site one day. All cool guys.
I used to talk to Bruce Horn, who co-wrote the Finder, he stumbled upon my site one day. All cool guys.
School started this week. What have I gotten myself into?
The upside: so many cute girls my head spins. I need a camera phone so I can take surreptitious pictures for, um, my records.
The upside: so many cute girls my head spins. I need a camera phone so I can take surreptitious pictures for, um, my records.
james88:
Seems were both pretty fickle, mr camera phone 
In fact this seems like a reasonable excuse to pursue my Masters. I still remember returning to college at the end of the summer and constantly drooling
In fact this seems like a reasonable excuse to pursue my Masters. I still remember returning to college at the end of the summer and constantly drooling
twasbrillig:
Dude....thats creepy...
Today you get a movie review. I finally got hold on eBay of a tape of Darker than Amber. Being an unabashed fan od John MacDonald's trashy thrillers I was really looking forward to seeing this adaptation. Unfortunately it was thoroughly disappointing. If you were writing a book about movies adapted from books, this would be worth a chapter all to itself on How...
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adelayde:
thanks for joining the VS group.
_sarah_:
Fixed. Thanks.
The Sunday paper full of back-to-school ads makes me nauseous and sweaty with fear. I don't want to go back to school. But I don't have much choice. What else can I do? I'm running out of patience - and, more importantly, money.
I just calculated that I've spent 60% of my time since I graduated from high school in college. That's a pathetic record....
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I just calculated that I've spent 60% of my time since I graduated from high school in college. That's a pathetic record....
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twasbrillig:
Yeah, it's ambition that's the complicated part. I know so many really bright people that just don't have that tunnel vision towards one goal. Unfortunatly, I think that's either a quality you have or you don't. I always have anxiety attacks thinking about being 30 or 40 and still working in retail.
fancier:
People who know what they want to do from age 10 should be shot.
That was fucking awesome.
And alright, let's play pulltabs. Come pick me up.
That was fucking awesome.
And alright, let's play pulltabs. Come pick me up.
I'm feeling accomplished. I washed the car to the accompaniment of apples falling off my neighbor's tree---thump ka-thump thump---like stockbrokers jumping out of windows in October 1929. I would pick them up, but they're so wormy and diseased there's no point---they wouldn't even make good applesauce.
However, now it's about to rain. I don't know why I even bothered to dry the car, except that...
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fancier:
Oh yes, Beths Cafe. It was also the cool bad-kid hang out when I was younger. I went there once in highschool... I felt like I left with an STD. Dirty. The health dept likes to shut it down from time to time... that can't be good.
twasbrillig:
I'm with you on the Matrix. I wasn't a huge fan when I saw it either. It was very formulaic and there was lots of unneccesary gun action...I'm not opposed to gun action....but it really served no purpose other than loud noises and sparks. It was basically a typical mindless action movie with philosophy 101 thrown in to make it seem smarter than it was. I got into many an argument over that movie.
Back from California safe 'n' sound against all odds. ("Take a look at me now...") My A/C broke and I would never have made it up I-5 through the crematorium-like weather of the Central Valley, so I drove almost blind on much of Highway 101 along the coast just south of the state line, headlights bouncing uselessly off the fog, hoping not to hit a...
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"Now that I can / decrease my tension / let me make clear / my true intensions / boys ask can I / define decision / girls ask can I / describe its function"
Another road trip begins. Cross your fingers that I don't fall asleep on I-5 through southern Oregon---the most boring stretch of road imaginable---and die screaming in a giant fireball.
Another road trip begins. Cross your fingers that I don't fall asleep on I-5 through southern Oregon---the most boring stretch of road imaginable---and die screaming in a giant fireball.
It's impossible to be depressed while listening to The Velvet Underground and Nico. That album is indisputably one of the greatest achievements of human civilization. It almost makes up for the existence of leafblowers...
alhim:
sweet, thanks. My friend just mentioned him last night, Ill definitely check him out.
_gone_:
yeah .. lol .. they were out there picking something .. drove by a bunch of them but i didnt stop to see .. we had some pretty heavy rainfall the past month that could account for the early crop .. dunno
Hello? Complaints department? Why is it that every time I go out for a nice walk these days, there are dozens of people with buckets and jugs picking blackberries a month too early? Duh! Don't they realize they taste a zillion times better when they're ripe? Unripe blackberries don't even make good jam or pie. How can anyone not know the difference?
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twasbrillig:
Re: re: X-Mas shopping: Oh my good lord that is obsessive. But also a really good idea. Thanks! 
alhim:
Dude, I almost jizzed my pants, that story is so good. Thank you for that link, seriously.
Lessons learned working on the car this weekend:
1. Cheap drill bits are for wood. If you're going to make holes in metal, buy good drill bits. Otherwise, when the bit breaks, what's left might jump off what you're trying to make a hole in and make a hole in your tender belly flesh instead.
2. When you have a rivet gun, everything looks like...
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1. Cheap drill bits are for wood. If you're going to make holes in metal, buy good drill bits. Otherwise, when the bit breaks, what's left might jump off what you're trying to make a hole in and make a hole in your tender belly flesh instead.
2. When you have a rivet gun, everything looks like...
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hooliganyouth:
cheers to the Outland pic brother...just rewatched that last month.
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lostarchitect:
well, i may be selling it to my friend. but if not, i am asking $200 (plus shipping, i suppose). it has the dock, cable, power adapter, headphones and remote, and is in very good condition with only very minor scratching. if you're interested, i will know by friday if my friend wants it
i can also leave all my my music on it, if you wanted.. with a program like ipod access (which is imho the best one) you can easily get songs off any ipod and into your itunes..
[Edited on Jul 20, 2004 5:19PM]
i can also leave all my my music on it, if you wanted.. with a program like ipod access (which is imho the best one) you can easily get songs off any ipod and into your itunes..
[Edited on Jul 20, 2004 5:19PM]
must be all the WEED!