Author: grid

mood: listless

currently reading: Creating Applications with Mozilla

read till 2AM last night: the book that is Nate’s christmas present

listening to: Radio k’s webfeed

next band I’ll search for on winMX: add n to x

favorite blog entry read today: Old girlfriend from Deeply Shallow

new favorite skin for mozilla: GreyModern

Silk, our favorite brand of soy milk, now comes in a Chai flavor. Every bit as tasty as getting a chai down at the local coffee shop, for some reason going to the frigerator and pouring myself a glass from the carton is imensely satisfying. I had another one of those “I own a house.” moments just now as I got done playing my video game, poured myself a glass, and prepared for bed.

Damn it feels good to be me.

…now if only I didn’t have to go to work tomorrow.

Since I’ve transitioned to movable type, I keep thinking about moving all of my various other web-based journals into its marvelous safekeeping. My mindblurbs are the most ready example, but I have a few other pages here and there that I try and update on occasion, and movable type would just make it that much easier to do so.

But it doesn’t stop there! Oh no. I’ve had the strange compulsion to put all kinds of other journals into movable type too. Most notably, two journals that were never meant for public consumption, my jurnal journal (the one I’ve been keeping since I had access to a mac in the lab at the arts high school, in 1993), and my “books I’ve read” file. The books I’ve read has a new entry today, as I’ve just finished The Sex Sphere, by Rudy Rucker. But the whole point of that file was that I kept forgetting the plots of books I’d already read — so I started writing them down to remind me what the hell these books were all about the next time I forgot. (It works pretty well too, if I see a title of a book I think I might have read, I just do a search in the file, and if it’s there, I’ve read it sometime since 9-18-95.)

Point is, the file is full of spoilers. I don’t want people who haven’t read the book to read that shit. I mean, I usually write some kind of mini-review at the same time, so I know if the book was worth my time or not, but in general, this stuff isn’t blog material.

So why do I want to blog it? One reason is that I really want to have more than one category archive page. (Right now it’s just my poetry link on the right.) Maybe tomorrow I’ll start a book review category and post one for The Sex Sphere. Tonight I have one last holloween party to get toÂ…

I found this article posted by PerceptionManager over at waitress dreams. I agree with it wholeheartedly, and the part about how the media is portraying the possible war in Iraq makes me sick to my stomach.

So, when did google.yahoo.com switch to search.yahoo.com? I missed this metamorphosis, although when I did a search (of course with google!) I came up with a new york times article (from back in late September) that mentions how Yahoo was thinking about switching to Inktomi when their contract with Google was up at the end of the month.

Well, I have no idea when MyWay.com arrived on the scene, but I’d imagine it was shortly thereafter. Not only does My Way look incredibly simmilar to yahoo, but it touts a text banner boasting “My Way is up to 51% faster than Yahoo!”. My Way is heavily google-branded, and appears to do almost everything Yahoo does, including provide free email, web-games (some of which I have already sampled, and are quite fun,) news, and of course the web-directory.

On one hand, I love yahoo. I’ve always liked how sleek and slim it was. But now My Way (whose very NAME appears to say “You don’t like me yahoo, I’ll do it My Way,) is even sleeker and slimmer. Their moto (under the logo) is “No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.” I mean, how cool is that!?! I’ll be signing up for free email tomorrow sometime just to test it out.

It seems like every other day I run into another interesting article about how google ranks stuff… this one has lots of interesting links to examine sometime when I’m not about to fall asleep.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot my title pun! Sometime soon I will decide what picture I’m going to use to make a LEGO Mosaic. I can’t wait!

I would just like to say that anyone who decides who they should vote for based on campaign commercials on TV should be drug outside and shot.

This list makes a far more convincing argument for mozilla than I do. I even learned a few things. *grin*

In other news, Gay Sheep brains were dissected and compared to the brains of straight sheep. I guess it’s just furthering the argument that gayness is hereditary. Now what about bisexuals? What do our brains look like?

It is impossible to find information about the Judges that are going to be on my ballot later today… In general, I feel we should have more access to non-biased information on political candidates.

I wonder what the statistics are on number of people who end up actually voting for the “lesser” elections. I have no idea who any of these people are… it’s sad, really.

OK, so I was going to write about how we haven’t had heat all weekend because our furnace is busted, but if there’s anything that gets me all fired up more than being cold, it’s all the concerts that are coming up next-fucking-week!!!

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ok, the anxiety starts next tuesday the 11th:
I’d love to see Sigur Ro’s at the State Theater, but far more likely to be within my price range is Tahiti 80 at the 400 bar.

wed:
Haujobb, this awesome German techno group is playing at the Quest.

thurs:
nothing I want to see, although I know people who would want to see both Blues Traveler and GNR (Guns N’ Roses).

Fri:
FUUUCK. I gave up my opportunity to get tickets with Laura to see Ani Difranco (which is probably fine with me) because I thought I’d be seeing Peter Gabriel, but his tickets are $40 for the CHEAP seats. So screw that. Then I found out Lords of Acid is also playing that night… but I just found out their tickets are $23. Grrrr. I’ll probably stay home and save money.

Sat:
I have a party to go to, so I’ll probably miss this one too, but I’d love to see Beth Orton at the Fine Line.

Sun:
I will most definitely cough up $10 to see Lali Puna in the 7th Street Entry, so at least the week ends on a good note.

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The agony of this post brought to you today by The Twin Cities Alternative Shows List. Damn you for being so good and comprehensive!

PS. I feel I should also mention the Leslie Ball/Artists Emergency Relief Fund Benefit concert that is tonight, and again on wed. The one on wed is not a concert so much as a cabaret, and is also the one I’d more likely want to see. Unfortunately, I’ve had plans for this wed for a couple of weeks now, or else it’d totally be worth the $25. Wed is also the Halo Effect CD release party, which I would be interested in seeing, because I saw the lead singer play something solo at Balls last Sat, but alas, tis not to be.