Things I have learned from the new(ish) DDR:
Chris Brown and Bobby Brown are, believe it or not, completely different people, who abused different girlfriends. Bobby Brown is good, while Chris Brown is bad even for a latterday teeny bopper.
Goldfrapp may be interesting. However, interesting for 90 seconds on DDR has led me astray before.
Unbelievable by EMF is the best DDR song yet discovered.
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09:21:57 PM,
Tuesday 18 August 2009
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I am also keeping a spreadsheet with various activities that make me feel good / useful as columns, and keeping track of how often I do them. Yesterday was a complete and utter failure in this regard.
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09:30:08 AM,
Tuesday 18 August 2009
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I am attempting to denews, or at least depolitic, starting with NPR. It isn't fun, it doesn't make me happy, and it will go on just the same regardless.
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08:29:27 AM,
Tuesday 18 August 2009
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Having to write powerpoint slides taps into all the paper-writing avoidence techniques I painstakingly developed at St. Johns. Fortunately the word counts are much shorter.
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07:27:09 PM,
Monday 17 August 2009
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Spending all day listening to Roy Orbison is a peculiar experience.
If I had to pick the middle of my musical world, it would be the Jeff Lynne collaborations of the late 1980's. I guess one day I should listen to his solo album, or ELO, or something. But Cloud 9, Full Moon Fever, Into The Great Wide Open, Traveling Wilburys vol 1 and Mystery Girl are all just great. Cloud 9 was the first tape I ever bought, when I was 10. I had this bright red mono tape player that took C batteries, and could record off the radio. The songs I recorded off the radio were Call Me Al, Sleep Comes Down, Built this City on Rock and Roll and Spies Like Us. and I dubbed a selection of Billy Joel and Peter Gabriel's So off my big sister. I was an Adult Contemporary preteen.
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02:31:49 PM,
Monday 17 August 2009
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I'm very glad society is structured so that it occasionally gives someone like Hideo Miyazaki an army of animators and the freedom to do things which are difficult to explain. Not just freedom from marketability or whatever, but also the freedom from seriousness and gravity and artistic ambition. Ponyo is a movie by someone with nothing to prove, out to please themselves. I'm thinking of Raise the Red Lantern again, a movie that was constantly demonstrating it's power over the audience, showing away. There were several points in the movie where I felt, yes, this is exactly what moving pictures are for. And several more where I felt like I was seeing something utterly unlike anything else.
I'm going to go have nightmares about goldfish now. Lots and lots of very happy goldfish.
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09:35:07 PM,
Saturday 15 August 2009
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Coming to work early was sort of nice. I just have to remember not to expect to get away early just because I arrived early. The 4:21 friday ! email is too much of an institution. I need to learn the proper technique for the mythical Lunch Hour.
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04:48:21 PM,
Friday 14 August 2009
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A fantastic old post from McArdle on those door to door fundraising operations.
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08:57:57 AM,
Friday 14 August 2009
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I've been trying to play one game of Go a day, and have encountered a strange phenomenon: sandbagging. I've played a couple games with people much, much stronger than me, who resigned after decimating me. Presumably because they enjoy trouncing people. If you think about it, it makes more sense than using a computer program to cheat.
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04:21:03 PM,
Thursday 13 August 2009
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Ponyo opens this weekend! I am excited! No subtitled version this time. I dearly hope it's another My Neighbor Totoro. I've only read one review, but it sounds similarly nightmarish. (Maybe it's just me, but the catbus bears a striking resemblence to the sorts of nightmares I have)
I'm not sure I remember the last time I was excited to see am movie that wasn't made for children. I loved Moon, but I was completely unaware of it before seeing it. I've been thinking lately that things children shouldn't watch probably shouldn't be watched. (but, having minimal exposure to children, I probably also have excessively permissive ideas of what they should watch). Mostly I just mean Tarantino is a blot.
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09:42:30 AM,
Thursday 13 August 2009
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I can stop any time I want to.
If anyone at work goes through my notebooks, they're going to want to think 40 has some strange significance. _
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11:04:52 PM, Wednesday 12 August 2009
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08:23:17 PM, Wednesday 12 August 2009
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