Written on Wednesday, the 10th of January, 2007 at 3:19 pm and was filed under:
Diversions
Every day I shop at the Gopher Express convenience store in the basement of Coffman (where I work). Since Minnesota has a dearth of fountains, and in the winter they tend to be empty, I came up with a new superstitious activity: I make a wish every time I throw a penny in the “Need a Penny Take a Penny Have a Penny Leave a Penny” dish. Some days I throw three or four in and make a different wish each time.
It’s an effective barometer and predicts my emotional weather. I won’t tell you what I actually wish for, because then it won’t come true (just because I don’t believe in the supernatural doesn’t mean that I’m not superstitious), but you should totally tell me what you wish for, because I am nosy, and if you tell me, I might just grant your wish.
Written on Monday, the 8th of January, 2007 at 12:04 pm and was filed under:
Music,
Nerdity
Last week Zach stumbled upon 8 bit peoples. On that site they have collected the best bleepingmusic ever. Ever ever. You want your SID chips, Coleco sounds, Nintendo breakbeats? You got ‘em.
I am nerd, hear me bleep.
Over the weekend, Zach downloaded 1.4 gigabytes of bleeping. Cue worktime freakout dance moves.
Written on Monday, the 8th of January, 2007 at 2:01 am and was filed under:
Nerdity
I think that my desktop computer is having hard drive issues. If you’re keeping track, this has happened about a million billion times over the last year.
Maybe I will be lucky, and it will just be memory or processor issues.
Written on Wednesday, the 3rd of January, 2007 at 11:05 pm and was filed under:
school
Hey! It’s about time for new school books! Considering that for the fall semester I spent $500 on books and $711 on camera stuff (not including the flash that I bought for the wedding), this semester’s bill of about $120 to $150 ain’t so bad. I suppose that I didn’t need that 50mm lens for the photo class, but — no, I did. I sleep with it like a teddy bear. I do still have most of a box of paper left. Hmm.
Written on Wednesday, the 3rd of January, 2007 at 5:06 pm and was filed under:
school
Spring 2007 Classes:
ARTH 3940 Topics in Art History (topic: Alfred Hitchcock is awesome) CSCI 1121 Introduction to teh Internets 1 (with Carl Sturtivant)
CSCI 4061 Intro Oper Sys
CSCI 5161 Intro Compilers
Yes. I did it. I signed up to bask in the radiant glory of Carl Sturtivant one more time. We’re gonna get the shirts made. This I swear.
Written on Monday, the 1st of January, 2007 at 3:10 pm and was filed under:
Diversions,
Music
Remember the Walt Mink concert at the Triple Rock last year? Still arguably one of the best concerts I’ve ever attended — and what a stroke of synchronicity:I randomly went to the Walt Mink site to look up some lyrics and saw that the tickets were on sale. Only a day or two later the tickets were all gone.
In any case, the first rough cut of any concert footage has been posted to Youtube by Chris Butler. If you’re curious, I’m in it, standing near the stage. Walt Mink: Stood Up
Written on Sunday, the 31st of December, 2006 at 3:29 am and was filed under:
Diversions
Sarah might find a way to call me from Gatwick in a moment. I’m still awake, perhaps waiting patiently for the chance that she would call. I’ve been reading about magic wielding pirates until my eyes burned. I saw a friend’s band play. Home again, I drank free beer and inhaled the sweet air of television — but there has been no real escape from that twisting in my chest. All day it seemed like she wasn’t really leaving. All week I just went to work and spent my off hours with her like we had months before she would wing away.
It just didn’t sink in until I was almost to my car — or maybe when I was watching her in line with her passport and boarding pass in hand. Just ten feet, but thousands of miles.