Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup -- Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup
Her: (singing) Suits of armor don't get the mange.
Me: Whaaaa?
Her: It's like Wild Women Don't Get the Blues, only... different.
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01:30:28 AM,Sunday 1 July 2007
It's not fair. After exhaustive searching, I found an electronic dishwashing simulator, but not a hand dishwashing simulator. What am I supposed to do when I run out of dishes to wash, hm? These people don't respect the needs of the hands-on, down-and-dirty gamer. It's all just pushing buttons to them.
Yesterday I spent from 9:00 pm to 3:00 am prepping a script (thank fnu for Vim, is all I can say), then went to bed, got up at 8:00 am, and finally finished it around 1:00pm. An hour later I get word that the show's canceled on account of rain, and has been rescheduled for tomorrow. Oh well. At least the girl and I had a lovely dinner (capellini with sauteed vegetables and goat cheese, salad, and raspberries with 99% cacao chocolate), watched Irish stand-up, and read The Annotated Hunting of the Snark to each other. Now to bed.
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10:25:48 PM,Thursday 28 June 2007
PLAIN BRICK WALL EYESORE came out PLAIN BRICK WALLEYE SORE.
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11:15:57 PM,Monday 25 June 2007
CART job: secured! I've got a gig starting this fall for two students (one three and a half hour class for an undergrad, an as yet unspecified number of classes for a grad student) at the Pratt Institute, alma mater of Harvey Fierstein and Daniel Clowes. I'm also doing pick-up work with a transcription company and a theater captioning group until I quit my steady job at the end of August, and then get to dive headfirst into the thorny world of freelancing. Terrifying, but I can't wait.
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11:15:33 PM,Monday 25 June 2007
I just had to dispose of a dead mouse. Poor mouse. I sang it a requiem.
People have found my blog recently by searching for:
lion on a cheese grater position
dik-dik tattoo
"mary barnard" awesome
I approve.
Last night we went to a play in the park. It was loads of fun. We had sable and olives and taleggio (verdict: overrated) and baba ganoush and potato salad and beer.
Memorable lines:
"Dwell I but in the suburbs of your good pleasure?"
"Put a tongue in every wound of Caesar"
"Liberty! Freedom! Cuba!"
Okay, that last was an interpolation by a beery groundling, who also shouted "Hail Spartacus!" and "I'm the Warrior!" at random intervals. That, my friends, is theater.
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06:48:34 PM,Saturday 23 June 2007
I just got spam from a "Maureenbicepscommon@oplin.org", subject line: "quirinal syrup rotogravure", quoting two unrelated lines from Stephen King's Misery (I googled) juxtaposed as follows:
"Then Annie collapsed on top of him, a mountain of slack flesh, and he couldnt breathe at all. You tell them youd like two reams - a ream is a package of five hundred sheets - "I know that."
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10:26:03 PM,Friday 15 June 2007
(Okay, "know" is a gross exaggeration. But it's still all very exciting.)
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10:09:37 PM,Thursday 14 June 2007
Ah, New York, where the legumes are stylish, the rodents are celiac, and the dogs, at least, are still dogs.
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09:19:53 AM,Tuesday 12 June 2007
The tortoise beetle. And in its larval form, the sushi beetle.
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09:08:51 PM,Monday 11 June 2007
Good news and bad-- I've decided to return OpenWrite. It does what it said it would, but I've been offered a couple different lines of work that require the specific protocol-juggling capabilities of Eclipse, and I don't think there's any getting around it. It's $3,330 versus $1,330, but it's got a sophisticated translation engine, and appears to do everything OpenWrite does plus lots more besides. I'll have to lease-to-own it, which is a bit irksome, especially with student loans coming due next month, but it's certainly the geekiest and most flexible of the CAT systems out there, and I'm looking forward to digging in its guts. It'll probably make me a better writer, as soon as I decide how much of its fancy AI can be trusted. So all in all it's not such a bad thing. Also, I'm not sure whether I should talk about it before the fact, but apparently four summers in the pit of a Musical Repertory Theater might actually be parlayed into lucrative work. That I wouldn't have expected, but hey. Should be exciting. Happily, that work requires even more Vim fiddling than the Stim project, so none of my swotting over the last couple of weeks will have been wasted. Some time in the future I'd still like to develop a free and open-source steno translator, but I guess I'll just go with the best of the black-box versions while I'm getting started.
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07:00:39 PM,Sunday 10 June 2007
So the local grocery store decided to store up several of my debit card purchases going back to February and make 13 of them come due all at once on Friday. This was not expected. Good thing we had something in the kitty to stuff into the big zero in my account before things got overdrafty, but grargh! How can they be allowed to do that? And why on earth would they want to?
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03:32:17 PM,Sunday 10 June 2007
All the Great Operas in 10 Minutes. Freaking hilarious. Thanks, Onion A.V. Club!
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01:38:05 PM,Friday 1 June 2007
The Early Music Show! I just found out about this by chance. Damn exciting. Wish it was downloadable.
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06:33:55 PM,Thursday 31 May 2007
Grargh. I know this is something really elementary, and yet I still don't have enough information to do it. I'm about halfway through the Vim book, and everything in there is simple enough in itself; it's synthesizing the elements into useful wholes that's the problem. I've not been keeping up with my Bozzy schedule, and I realized that if I just had a selection of words I had to enter per day, which I could define and then mark as done, I'd probably be much better at keeping up with it than this whole "do as many as there's time for", which usually turns out to be "none at all", due to general inertia. I have 99 days until the start of the fall NYU semester (to pick a not quite arbitrary date) and about 17,435 words to go. That works out to about 176 words a day, which is peanuts, really. Less than half an hour's work, if I keep my pace up. But there's got to be some ridiculously simple way to divide the wordlist file into 99 equal parts and shunt them each into their own sequentially numbered files for easy uploading. Right? I'm just ignorant as to how, and it makes me petulant. I'll never be a haxx0r at this rate.
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11:25:43 PM,Tuesday 29 May 2007
Open Write update: Eeeh! It's working better than I ever dreamed. I'm slowly kludging it to work with Vim (also reading a big fat book on same, so I can glean all its secrets). It's so much less buggy and hand-holdy than DigitalCAT (no offense to Stenovations. They're good people and they've gotten me through this far, but I need different things from my CAT software than they're able to give me.) I can do so much more with it. I'm thinking this could be a very good thing.
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10:35:26 PM,Tuesday 22 May 2007
More boundary errors, yay:
OVATION came out OWE SERRATION
BIGGEST PUMPKIN PIE ON RECORD came out BIGGEST PUMPKIN PAEAN RECORD
D'oh!
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05:01:54 PM,Tuesday 22 May 2007
Link relevant to the last entry, since it's a bit too awkward to try to steno it:
If I send my machine in to get the protocol chip switched from PR (incompatible with Open Write) to TX (compatible with Open Write, but slightly at the expense of performance, apparently), I may or may not upgrade to a Revolution at the same time. All depends on cash; the fancy-pants new computer is sexy but redundant, the memory card and battery would be nice, though I can do without them, but the quieter lever action might be pretty important for when I start CARTing. No one cares about clacky keyboards at a captioning company, but I don't want to distract anyone or draw undue attention to myself in a college classroom. Just to get the chip switched would be around $60. No word yet on how much the actual upgrade would be. I hope I can afford it, though. The clacking makes me awfully self-conscious.
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11:44:43 PM,Friday 18 May 2007
