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last night laura and I finished reading High Fidelity. I checked amazon and bestbuy.com, and it was just as cheap at my local blockbuster, so we’re going to watch it tonight. I’m all excited cause it’s so great.

I’m currently reading Permutation City, by Greg Egan. It’s awesome. Some of the best narative around the premise of mind uploading that I’ve ever read. The link is a great site for information, although I think I dissagree with some of the premises in the “Handy Neuroscience Facts” page. It’s getting added to my transhumanism links.

here’s my link for the day: Looks like someone had a nasty run-in with those sneeze fetishists. There is also a great (read: irreverent) jesus comic linked from the root. Very funny stuff.

I’ve got Kylie Minogue (Can’t get you out of my head) stuck in my head. A co-worker made me watch the video, and DAMN.

I have no links for today. Mondays are good-for-nothing. I’m waiting for my software update (osx improves itself!) before I get myself off to juggling.

I think nate’s girlfriend thinks I hate her. What’s more, I’m not discouraging her. Today she actually appologized for calling. I said “OK, bye.” and hung up. It was in the space after you say “no, he’s not home right now,” when a sane person would usually say “could you tell him…” or “just have him call me back then.” or “I’ll call back later, thanks.” I’m probably not one to talk. Here’s my social life: juggling in a gym full of nearly-strangers.

ok, so I’ve always kinda thought people who post their search engine results referrals are a little weird, but now I TOTALY see the attraction.

I come up first on google for the term sexsweat.

oh yeah baby. Plus, at some point I misspelled cocaine “cocane”, and if you search for “how to make crack cocane” (without the quotes) I come up first. It’s a funny misspelling, because–even though I know I’m a poor speller–I do know how to spell cocaine. I also show up when you search for “excitement machine” and strangely enough, blog + newbie does it too.

today’s link, a site full of flash games… they’re awesome: http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

I went to see a sneak preview of 40 days and 40 nights tonight, it’s a romantic comedy about this guy who is still in love with his x-girlfriend, and decides to go without sex for forty days and forty nights. It would have been a good date movie, but I went to see it with my roomate. At least he bought me dinner before hand. (Two-cheeseburger meal at McDonalds, with orange soda. I know you care.)

We wanted to try and remember to look up the female lead, Shannyn Sossamon, who is HOT. I wanted to know what else she’s been in, and Nate remembered a Knight’s Tale, but I thought she’d been something else. I guess not.

So, it’s movie night, cause now we’re going to watch Kiss of the Dragon.

today’s link is this amazing music video I stumbled into: http://www.tobyslater.com/consumption/

My roommate just tried to start his own blog, and got it all set up and stuff, then proceeded to write for twenty minutes. (or maybe more like 45) His session had expired (since when does blogger use session timeouts?) and he lost all of what he had just written. (Which was probably quite a bit after 45 minutes–and judging from his bitching afterwards.) Needless to say he was pissed. I told him how I’ve made it routine to copy text out of the main text field if I’ve worked on an email or an update for more than 20 seconds. I do this even in Eudora, but especially in any sort of webmail. When Eudora crashes on me at work it’s always frustrating as hell. (I only use it for my work mail because I can sort the emails into project folders so easily.)

I originally set down to write about how shitty I’m feeling. I just got back from reading a book to Laura, who stayed home from work today, and is misserable, and sick. I read more to her from High Fidelity. It’s not that I feel terribly sick, although I do feel as though I’m starting to get a headache, but I think just being around her–so misserable, so weak and helpless seeming–caused some sympathy gene to kick into overdrive, and I’m having sympathy headaches, and sympathy dizziness.

I got an email today from John, my younger brother, who is in the next few days going to be starting on a three month walk. He is in California right now, I’m not sure where, (I think San Fran–which I’d always thought, until looking at a map just now, to be south of LA–I am so dumb.) He’s going to walk at the very least to Portland, and if they get ambitious, to Seatle. He’s walking with three other people, and I can’t imagine it really. When I think about that kind of freedom, that kind of carelessness, I feel constrained by my job, by my debts, by my possesions… it’s a fantastic idea, really, and he’s doing it.

I finished A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius yesterday, and it was good. I felt thrown for a loop. It was as if the whole book was a discussion about the idea of self-obsession from this guy who is terribly self-obsessed, ridiculously so, and he’s not even trying to hide the fact that it’s all a joke in poor taste. Fabulous. Someday I’ll have such a great idea, and I’ll write it, and I’ll be famous. Just wait.

Matt Wilson lent me the book originally, and I meant to give it back to him today. He is in a new band with this guy he used to play with who is now in Semisonic. They’re called The Flops, and I just have to mention the site, because Matt is putting so much into it, it’s really turning out great. He’s writing all the copy, and it’s just chalk full of this crazy stuff. I hope he doesn’t get mad at me for mentioning it. I know they’re already getting signups and stuff, so it’s not like it’s some big secret. I dig the car–nuff said.

link of the day http://www.liquidgeneration.com/poptoons/britney_breasts.asp

This last weekend was MONDO, the local juggling fest. It was probably the best mondo ever, and I learned a ton of stuff, got a new set of props (zuni’s–poi) and otherwise enjoyed the hell out of the weekend.

Last night I took a shower, and finally unlocked the last character in DW3. I was up far too late doing it, but it was great. More playing tonight, if all goes well. Laura is sick, and I want to visit her, but I already have plans for group PS2… so… I hope she doesn’t hate me for not making her ckicken noodle soup.

I got an email from a once aformentioned old friend (peter) today. He says I “LIED” before when I mentioned him. I guess it’s only been a couple of months since he wrote last, not six. Sorry peter.

Back to the grind (for a half hour) before I head off.

morning is dismal. Outside raindrops on little stretchers are being carted to raindrop-morgues, dead before they hit the street. I woke up to the annoyingly perpetual dawn-hue from my window, sunlight filtered through cloud-layer after sadistic cloud-layer.

now I’m trying to psych myself up for going to work. This is much like ten minutes ago (showers are short now…) when I was trying to get myself up out of bed… thinking the door is so close, it’s not that far, and taking a shower isn’t so bad for at least five, maybe ten minutes–felt more like an eternity in that half-awake, almost-dreaming state just before the snooze kicks off, and my alarm continues its auditory barrage.

I can’t decide what kind of art car I’m going to turn my beat up old geo-prism into. I would like to do some kind of collage, but I’d have to use some kind of varnish, so the first rain wouldn’t just wash away the whole thing. I like this idea, because I could just carry around two tubs–one of adhesive, and one of varnish–and paste up anything anytime. It’d be dense, fun to look at…

I’d better get going. I need to work on finding a way not to work.

another thing that has changed is that now I have a car. It’s alex’s old car.

Laura played a dirty little trick on Jason by telling him that she had a new boyfriend (because when she got back, I was a new man, no hair, and a car!) anyway, he was amused when we showed up at his party together.