Trying out different apple laptops. Thinking about getting a MacBook. Trying to decide if the keyboard is good. I think I like it.
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04:42:34 PM,
Monday 18 February 2008
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A state full of foreboding mist
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03:15:29 PM,
Monday 18 February 2008
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New Hampshire!
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03:13:55 PM,
Monday 18 February 2008
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Dainty cat arms
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10:22:08 AM,
Sunday 17 February 2008
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Catface!
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11:47:27 AM,
Saturday 16 February 2008
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Mucha print
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01:19:07 PM,
Friday 15 February 2008
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Photograph by Tim
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01:17:04 PM,
Friday 15 February 2008
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Moss's side with a guest appearance by the most beautiful cat in the world
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01:14:55 PM,
Friday 15 February 2008
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Dressor the Malevolent and Storm lamp face the bed to menace us as we sleep
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01:13:01 PM,
Friday 15 February 2008
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My bedside table and pretty!lamp
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01:10:58 PM,
Friday 15 February 2008
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Progress in the purple room
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01:09:29 PM,
Friday 15 February 2008
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My croquet dress has arrived, and it fits! I don't even need to have it hemmed as originally thought. Yay!
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11:17:17 AM,
Friday 15 February 2008
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Behold Dressor the Malevolent
At long last the battle has come to an end. Now I just need to get rid of all the cardboard...
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04:39:04 PM,
Thursday 14 February 2008
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Positive cemetery
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06:56:59 PM,
Wednesday 13 February 2008
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I dreamt a love poem last night, but I can't remember any of it except one line:
I dared not embrace that which you eschewed
I think the whole thing was creepy and gothic, some mixture in tone of Tennyson and Poe. It was also probably terrible judging by the quality of that surviving fragment, but in the dream it seemed to be brilliant. I've dreamt poetry before, sometimes with much better retention rates. Does this ever happen to you?
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12:04:03 PM,
Wednesday 13 February 2008
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Our Lady of the Patriotic Chihuahua
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11:31:51 AM,
Tuesday 12 February 2008
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Negative cemetary
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11:20:57 AM,
Tuesday 12 February 2008
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Positive viewpoint
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10:59:10 AM,
Monday 11 February 2008
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Fun with negativity
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10:55:16 AM,
Monday 11 February 2008
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The cat wishes to help
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06:06:24 PM,
Saturday 9 February 2008
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Whiskers
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08:36:00 AM,
Saturday 9 February 2008
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Came up from the basement with a large pile of freshly laundered clothes and dumped them unceremoniously onto the bed. Then I heard a muffled and bewildered, "Mrooow?" A second later the pile began to quiver, and out from the depths emerged the cat, looking rather disgruntled. Poor kitty. I don't suppose it's much fun to have a bunch of stuff suddenly bury you while you're sleeping, even if it is mostly soft and warm stuff. I took a few minutes to pet her and apologize afterwards.
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06:24:05 PM,
Friday 8 February 2008
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Today I went and waved Obama signs at commuters. I suppose that means I am committed and might as well say so online. Tomorrow I will vote for Barack Obama in the Massachusetts primary. I think he might do some good as president. Here's hoping anyway.
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04:30:06 PM,
Monday 4 February 2008
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*Wherever you are, there is proper pizza just down the street at 12 am on a week night. Important for tired and hungry travelers.
*The city noises (people, cars, sirens, construction work, etc.) have a reassuring consistency. Like the ocean. Pleasant to sleep to.
*Even at the Econolodge free continental breakfast bar, the bagels are good! Very exciting if you are in bedrest exile because you played DDR on an injured ankle and can't walk around much, thus making the mass of city out there untouchable. Here's a question, though: If bagels are such a New York staple, why does the cream cheese come from Philadelphia?
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02:35:22 PM,
Friday 1 February 2008
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I was going to post about how upon eating an apple for the first time in months, it's a bit of a surprise to remember how satisfying the crunch and the juicy sweetness are, but then I realized I was eating an apple in the Big Apple, and the pun nearly killed me, so I decided to blog about that instead because misery loves company and so on. Any terrible puns following you today?
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11:49:11 AM,
Friday 1 February 2008
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I shouldn't have given in to the urge to play DDR just because I had one of the songs in my head and my ankle wasn't hurting quite as much as yesterday. Now it is hurting more, and is more swollen. Blah.
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05:09:57 PM,
Wednesday 30 January 2008
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*I have still written every day this year.
*I am maintaining an average of 1k per day or greater.
*At least half of my words for the year have gone into the novel I mean to finish in the first quarter of the year.
*I have written 2 and half short stories as well.
*I am deep into research for my next Big Project, which I plan to start writing in April.
*Current wordcount for 2008: 30,325.
*I am happy.
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07:42:36 PM,
Tuesday 29 January 2008
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Fast Times At Ridgemont High is not as entertaining as Sixteen Candles, but still better than Pretty in Pink. The problem is its really disjointed. Nothing flows. It's sort of like watching a comic strip. You can have silly strips on some days and serious strips on other days and they can all fit together in the format of comic strip, but it doesn't really work for this movie. It's sad, because there are individual moments that shine (Mike Damon calling in his debts, Spicoli's pizza), but overall it just sort of lags. It wants to have the depth of The Breakfast Club, but it doesn't let us get to know the characters well enough for that. It's fascinating, though, because you can clearly see that this is Cameron Crowe and Amy Heckerling. There is a lot that feels similar to Clueless in the style of this movie, and it definitely has the Cameron Crowe vignette thing going on. You can tell that dialogue and plot fluency are things he's had to work at over the years. Almost Famous is a much better movie than it would have been if he'd written it in the 80s. The events in that one could easily seem disjointed, but they end up flowing well, and I think it comes down to practice. Not sure what we'll watch next. Open to suggestions.
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02:37:58 PM,
Tuesday 29 January 2008
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Sixteen Candles is better than Pretty in Pink and not as good as The Breakfast Club, but probably on par with Say Anything, though they have different strengths and weaknesses. The biggest thing that really got to me in Sixteen Candles was the racism. Long Duck Dong, the Chinaman!?!?! Seriously ugh. But Molly Ringwald did the disgusted teen angst thing really well, and there were some fantastic lines in this movie ("I can't believe I just got felt up by my grandmother!" "We have $70 and a pair of girls' underwear, we're safe as kittens." ...). There were plenty of painfully awkward moments, too, of the sort that appeal to fans of "The Office" and similar. I have to say they generally just hurt me, but that was the goal, and they were efficient The other thing that I really liked was that they ran with the over the top, non subtle score instead of trying to make it dignified, because dignity is not what this movie has to offer. Also Anthony Michael Hall, who was just ridiculously cute as "the geek" character; a role that would set him up for years typecasting, it seems. John Cusack did nothing for this movie, but it was weird to see him looking so young. I could see watching this one again if I happened upon it.
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11:39:45 PM,
Sunday 27 January 2008
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I have a library card! And 3 library books! Very exciting.
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03:35:22 PM,
Saturday 26 January 2008
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As promised on the quotes guessing meme, prizes for all winners!
For K, because she is a scholar: Drunk History, a video that very much matches my own experiences of intoxicated academic ramblings.
For Martin, because he is Wikipedia obsessed: Jal. It's not just a nickname for your Fear Sweeney kid!
For Tim, because it's the moral flipside of the don't tease tigers story: video of a lion hugging its rescuer friend.
For Liz, because she understands about cats: How to Wash a Cat, an instructional video.
For Mira, because she likes opera: Dragostea din tei, the... er... opera version...
For Moira, because Oded Fehr is her TV boyfriend: I'm Too Sexy is pretty obligatory for fanvids as far as I can tell.
For Moss, because he loves flan: Sabrina, Total Verhext! (the relevant bit starts at 7:10).
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11:33:05 AM,
Thursday 24 January 2008
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Say Anything is better than Pretty in Pink, but not as good as The Breakfast Club. I do now finally understand why all the girls I knew in college were so taken with John Cusack, though. In Say Anything he's carefully calculated to be the optimal leading man. He's genuinely nice and sensitive, but he's also a kick boxer and a vaguely reckless driver, so you know he's masculine. Very important to be masculine, you know. Much more understandable to like him over that than it is to like him over High Fidelity. In any case, the movie pretty much coasts on him, both acting and characterwise. The weirdest thing was that the famous scene, where he holds up the boombox, which both Moss and I have known is a pop culture sacred moment for years, was really anticlimactic. I mean, nothing happens. Good soundtrack, though.
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11:38:26 PM,
Tuesday 22 January 2008
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My ankle is hurting, and yet I keep going back for more DDR. Madness, I tell you. I should not have played at all today. I should probably not play at all tomorrow. That makes me grumpy.
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08:17:16 PM,
Tuesday 22 January 2008
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Back in prehistoric times when teacups and dinosaurs roamed the earth...
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01:31:53 PM,
Tuesday 22 January 2008
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3 weeks into the year, I have still written every day, and I am still averaging 1,000 words per day. My current running count is 21,119. Yay!
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11:57:46 PM,
Monday 21 January 2008
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Knitting progress after lesson 2
The little bit farthest away from the needle is what I did during lesson one sometime in December. That square of messiness was four hours of painstaking work. Today I spent about three hours doing a nice block of Garter stiches followed by a block of stockingette stitches and then the start of a second block of garter stitches. I am quite happy with my progress. This is just practice yarn for nothing in particular, but my next project will be to buy non practice yarn and make myself a scarf. I live in Boston and I have no scarf. This should probably be fixed.
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06:48:46 PM,
Monday 21 January 2008
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site & script courtesy of Moss