Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup -- Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup
A sand tail rat ray.
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07:49:26 PM,Wednesday 25 October 2006
Picnic in Fort Tryon, just at sunset, with the wind blowing. Concord grapes, string cheese, Moby-Dick. Back home, hot chocolate with little marshmallows and whipped cream and even more Futurama. Happy.
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08:01:24 PM,Saturday 21 October 2006
Blue Diamond wasabi and soy sauce almonds are CRACK.
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12:34:42 PM,Thursday 19 October 2006
He is my light
And my salvation
He's always right
He's a crustacean
WARNING: Do not apply Magnetic Fields within twelve hours of using Futurama.
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09:29:23 PM,Tuesday 17 October 2006
Dhalgren is just like Rebel Without a Cause, only better.
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07:00:28 PM,Monday 16 October 2006
Passed my 160 Q&A and my 160 Jury Charge! Boo the (#*&$ Yah! Now just 180 Q&A and 180 Jury Charge and I get to move into the last class for... well, more 180s. But it would be an exciting development anyhow. I think next trimester I'm gonna contact that CART lady I emailed a long time back. She said to get in touch with her for an internship once I reach my 180s. I imagine that means once I've passed my 180s, but I don't know if she means realtime ready or not. It seems likely. My time's all taken up with legal terminology this trimester anyway, but come January I hope to be ready to start sitting in on some real-life jobs. That would be kickass.
In sadder news, K. and I are both way too busy to go see the Red Elvises tonight. We'll catch 'em next time they come around. But I did get to go see Pomerium sing plainchant and polyphonic treatments of the Seven Sorrows at Corpus Christi Cathedral yesterday with a composer friend from my old steno class (We get a fair number of musicians here. Not too surprising, I suppose.), and the weekend before K. and I got to go to the Medieval Faire at Fort Tryon. So we've been keeping ourselves contented, I think, all told.
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06:52:32 PM,Monday 16 October 2006
I installed RockBox on my H10 and it's just bloody wonderful. More later.
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11:00:14 AM,Wednesday 11 October 2006
Oh yeah, it's National Coming Out Day. Hey. Queer. Woo.
Oh, I know-- go to Queer Music Heritage. I've been working on compiling a best-of mix, 'cause while I love the shows, there's probably a 90% throwaway ratio on there, but until I get around to it, go listen. It's wonderful.
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10:53:24 AM,Wednesday 11 October 2006
A fabulously flowery brochure for a New York stenography school circa 1906-- not mine, but one in Gloversville (wherever that is), and not machine stenography, but pen shorthand. I think it's charming all the same.
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02:49:23 PM,Tuesday 10 October 2006
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11:06:16 AM,Tuesday 10 October 2006
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02:03:58 PM,Sunday 8 October 2006
Three-legged pig on a gourd:
Photo credit: Ka*
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02:01:50 PM,Sunday 8 October 2006
I can't say much that's of any worth on the subject, but this needs to be read, if only for sanity's sake. Furkin' inspired.
via Berube.
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10:42:01 PM,Wednesday 4 October 2006
Passed my 160 Lit, woo!
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07:44:33 PM,Wednesday 4 October 2006
Glurgh. Up late again freelancing. Going to bed very soon. Just gotta blog three things:
1. Hubris is making your quintet sight-read a minuet in five flats for its second encore. Other than that, the concert went passably well. No recording, but that's probably for the best. I finally feel like I live in this city, though, now that I've actually played music in public here.
2. I came home the other day to find this thing reading Herodotus to my girlfriend. Still not quite sure how I feel about that.
3. Slick steno-friendly program from An App a Day: systray word count analyzer, with graph. Works very nicely with DigitalCAT + CATnip. I intend to use it to alternately keep my spirits up and whup my arse in practice both at home and at work.
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03:06:12 AM,Monday 2 October 2006
Better hosenrollen than Hohenzollern-- that's my motto.
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12:34:22 AM,Tuesday 26 September 2006
Passed my 140 on the last day of summer semester! Yeehaw. Also-- I knew this day was coming-- I've decided to retire Orfeo, my beloved Nomad Jukebox 3. Followers of this blog will recall my slavish devotion to it ever since its purchase in February 2003. It's been humming along on a broken power button (turned it on and off with batteries or remote), two broken headphone jacks (used the two line-ins with portable amplifier) and two non-catastrophic hard drive wipes (loaded my music back in and carried on as usual), but the attenuator my dad built me in January suddenly went intermittent on me, and I figured it was as good a time as any to put it out to pasture. I'll still use it for live recording; nothing finer for the purpose has been built since, and 40 gigs can store a lot of pirate opera-- now all I need is a decent microphone and, um... opera tickets. But for my daily travels, I picked up a refurbished 20 gig iriver H10 for $129-- $171 off standard retail-- and so far it seems good as new. I'm thinking to install RockBox on it when I get a spare moment, but meanwhile even the preloaded firmware is proving fun to fiddle with. I think it's a dashing little number. Nothing could ever match the gutloaded studliness of my good old NJB3, but this looks to be a fine light-artillery subway companion. I'm pleased.
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12:33:43 AM,Tuesday 26 September 2006
View off the balcony at the party we went to last night.
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07:18:14 PM,Sunday 17 September 2006
As you can see by my newly updated stenologometer (sorry for not replying to your comments, lads; I didn't want to jinx things), I just passed my final 130 W.P.M. test (of three-- Literary, Q.&A., and Jury Charge) and have boogied up to the 140-180 class just before my one year mark. It feels pretty exciting, I have to say, because it's technically the penultimate class-- only 180-225 after this one, and then I can get certified-- though they say it's also the stretch that takes the longest to complete. But I like my new teacher vastly better than the last one, and I'll be able to start stenoing full time at work soon, as soon as our main client switches from tape to digital and I get just a leetle bit faster at quasi-realtime. Things are coming together. I've got Legal Terminology next semester, which could be fun or lame, depending. But the steno is where I'm at, and the better I get, the more obsessively I dig it. It's hard and fun and useful. Yeehaw.
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11:41:06 PM,Monday 11 September 2006
A couple of homeboys are hanging out about a block from my building. They're talking together, and as I pass, I catch a sentence: "Oxycontin? Huh? I've heard of oxymoron."
Drug Abuse: 0
Rhetorical Tropes: 1
I love my neighborhood.
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02:34:07 PM,Friday 8 September 2006
