I spent a while haxoring my sidebar to look cuter, and I added this little widget that displays my top albums on Last.fm. I’m in love with it ’cause it took about a half-hour to get it working. I just wanted to share my glee with my rockin’ sidebar.
I’m off to TFO with Christen. :)
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I’ve been catching up on a lot of tech projects today.
I uploaded my photos from my phone to Flickr (and figured out why it wasn’t working before).
Here’s a hawt pic of Megan at that weird party we went to:
This is a cool vista point kind of place we found in Old Sac.
I also reconfigured my blog’s sidebar to show those photos, made it a little easier to see stuff, and added the search bar.
Most importantly, I washed all my clothes.
TFO is tonight, I’m waiting to hear back from Christen to see if she’s going.
My copy of Dragon was shipped yesterday, so I should be able to voice-rec to my heart’s content. It’s going to be amazing to answer emails again. The little things we take for granted.
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I had so much fun today!
Work was, well, mediocre. I was the only one in the office, and as I was doing the email there was this thing…finding out that people in your office are homophobic is really weird. It’s like being black and learning there’s a KKK stronghold around the corner.
I dunno. It’s just scary.
But I got a lot done, and then drove to Brian’s house for the iGasm that was the iPhone release hoopla. We actually totally missed the launch and everything, but Christen said there was a huge line. I did get to play with one, and it was friggin’ amazing.
But personally, it doesn’t have key features I need:
The web browser was awesome though, it was a really cool phone. I already have a phone that can do almost everything that the iPhone can do though, so it wouldn’t be much of an upgrade for me. And definitely not an upgrade worth $500. I’ll get the second generation iPhone with 3G and more storage.
Anyway, Brian and I had a great time walking around the mall area. I bought The Haunting of Hill House again (I swear, I’ve bought that book like fifty times ’cause I always loan it to people), and I got Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lights. I ripped it into Apple Lossless, which means the computer plays it bit for bit as it is on the CD, and the quality difference was amazing. I felt like I was listening to it for the first time again.
I also pre-ordered their new album (I forget what they’re calling it) on iTunes. It comes out in a week or so.
After Best Buy, Brian and I got food at that Japanese place we like in the food court, then we went to the Apple store so I could ogle the iPhone. Then we went to the Nordstrom’s coffee place (which I had no idea existed) and got delicious coffee/smoothie stuff.
Best Buy again to get a CD Brian’s mom wanted, looking desperately for Goldfrapp DVDs, and then to Barnes and Noble to look at astrology books. They didn’t have anything by Simone de Beauvoir except for The Second Sex. I’ve been dying to read The Mandarins ever since I read about it. I’ll have to get it online. The clerk was really disappointed too…he was all “Gosh, this is a bookstore, you’d think we’d have some of Simone’s stuff.”
I love people who are on first-name terms with existential authors.
After the mall, we got orange smoothies and went back to Brian’s place to watch YouTube videos and awesome Adult Swim stuff on Joost. It was my first time really using Joost, and I must say even on Brian’s rather old computer, it was freaking awesome. I can send people beta invites if you’re interested.
But it’s nearly four thirty a.m. so I must be going. Tomorrow I get to wash all my clothes. All of ‘em. I’m on my last pair of underwear and socks today. :)
Oh, I was hovering over the “publish” button thinking I’d forgotten something. I did. Drew and I are now like, officially dating. I am very excited about the “us” after last night. We had so much fun! We cuddled and watched Murder, She Wrote. Isn’t that the most romantic thing ever? Well I think it is! :)
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I invited Brian down to Arden Fair to see all of the iPhone hilarity…Christen told me that there’s a line stretching around the mall for iPhones. I want to see the mayhem, and stop by Barnes and Noble.
I’ve been buying so much DRM-free music on the iTunes Music Store, it’s scary. I bought the new Robbie Williams album, and a bunch of music videos. I also pre-ordered the new Interpol album, which gives one access to pre-sale tour tickets (awesome!).
Well, it’s 6:02, the iPhone is officially on sale. It’s time to go to apple.com.
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I just got back from Drew’s. I went over there at like seven p.m. It’s now 4:30 a.m.
There are no words.
Incredible. Amazing. Surreal. None of them come close.
I feel like I’ve never been more intimate with someone.
I just want to live that night over and over again forever.
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Christen and I woke up an hour or two ago, we’ve been surfing Digg and GodsGirls all morning.
She’s going to see Allen today to talk about things (they broke up yesterday). I didn’t go to my class, we hung out at True Love for a little bit and then met Annie and walked to Capitol Park. After that, we walked to Old Sac and hung out at the river for a while. It was surreal and beautiful.
Afterwards, Annie biked home and Christen and I walked all the way back to True Love where we had parked (24 or so blocks). It was an epic journey, but quite fun.
I met Christen at the West Sac Blockbuster, and we got a bunch of movies and went back to her place to watch them. The one she popped in was this psychedelic “documentary” of sorts of the Manson family and all the killings…we really just couldn’t see his whole message.
And basically, all we could say after watching it was “God, that is exactly the kind of life the HorseCow people want to live” and “Fuck the sixties and fuck hippies.”
Everybody sold out.
But I guess that’s just how it goes. That whole thing could never happen again…Christen was saying that Charles Manson was on parole but he like won’t leave. I thought about it for a bit, and realized that the whole world he knew was gone, swept away by technology and the whole 21st century mindset. There’s no free love, there’s just AIDS. Weird.
Oh, the cool news is I just bought a copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8. It had better not be a pirated copy. It was only like $9 though, so who knows. I could have sprung for 9, the most recent version, but the speech engine isn’t better, it just requires less training. And I’ve already gone through the training thing and added all my custom vocabulary, so I might as well just get 8. I’d been using version seven for years with no problems, so 8 might be better.
I did go on the Dragon site and it said that the headset I have (my Plantronics DSP-500) is like the best one you can get. So all my research paid off :)
Drew and I are going to get together tonight and talk about important things, the logistics of a relationship, the emotionalness of it, everything. I couldn’t sleep last night, mostly because I was hungry, but also because I had a bit of anxiety about the next day. I mean, how often does one meet a cool, down-to-earth guy that isn’t a drug addict or a club slut. Or both. *cringe*
I used to think things like having compatible interests was more important than having compatible personalities. Adrian and I had nearly identical interests, but he had this roller coaster manic depressive personality that was fueled mostly by how many pills he’d taken that afternoon.
Having compatible lifestyles and personalities I think is more important than interests, although I’m not saying that Drew and I have incompatible interests at all. I love his taste in movies, and I’m still blown away by that Korean horror movie we watched. I don’t know him very well, and as I’m realizing, I haven’t met his friends. I think I’m going to invite him over to meet Christen and the housemates. As he and I talked about, seeing how well a possible significant other meshes with your friends is an invaluable canary in the coal mine.
My friend Chris from Davis says that I’m trying to explain emotional situations logically, and that it’s self-destructive. But I really have no framework other than logic to try to understand my life. I know that relationships aren’t as cut-and-dried as a cost/benefit analysis, but I want a relationship to make both of our lives richer and to have great experiences.
Hm. Well, enough pontificating. I think I’m going to try to find some breakfast. I need to drive back to the Carmichael area today, and as usual, I’m dreading it (Christen now lives about an hour away by scooter).
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I just wrote a whole post on my phone and the damn thing deleted it. Fuck you, phone.
I’m hungry and tired and can’t sleep.
Fuck this phone. And I can’t write on my computer until I buy Dragon NaturallySpeaking. $99 down the fucking toilet.
Fuck the world and fuck this phone.
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Yesterday was hectic. Work, then school. However, I did discover this organic food co-op right near my work that I picked up a delicious breakfast at for only like $3.
My class went well, she passed out a sheet of all the different positions we’ve been doing, so I’ll actually be able to practice at home. I keep losing my balance during the balance poses, and I need to work on that.
After class I went over to Christen’s and we cleaned up her room a bit, hooked up her TV, and watched The City of Lost Children. It’s one of my favorites, it was her first time seeing it. She liked it.
I was IMing Drew before we started the movie and he said that he’d just recently seen it. I just love those directors, Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. We also talked about some more serious things, which was good. I was thinking about him all day, for some odd reason. It wouldn’t be completely conscious, just in the back of my mind I’d see his face and it would make me smile.
I really expected him to blow me off (I have no self-esteem) but we actually started talking about possibly starting a relationship…which I’m excited about. There are some practical hurdles though (as neither of us have our own place).
I’m still at Christen’s house, she’s getting ready for work, and I should be getting ready to drive back to my house, but I’m still kind of tired. We did get up at like 11 a.m. (very early for me).
Well, I should get going.
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I just had the movie night with Drew that we’d been planning all week. It was SO fun! We watched:
Blue (of the Three Colors trilogy)
eXistenZ (David Cronenburg. Classic.)
A Tale of Two Sisters (this awesome Korean horror movie)
and half of Shaun of the Dead. The first two I’d brought over, number two was Drew’s recommendation, and Shaun of the Dead was just on TV.
He’s really fun. We went to Chipotle (my first time going there) right when we woke up (three or four-ish), then went to his place for movies. His house is hyper-modern…I was in love. His mom paints too, which is awesome.
We snuggled in fear during A Tale of Two Sisters, and I played with his hair a lot. He’s really cute. There’s a big difference in people who are hot and they know they’re hot and people who are really cute but they don’t know it. I love shy guys.
But yeah, it’s 3 a.m. and I have to work tomorrow. It’s light meal then sleep time, ’cause I’m starving.
I am so into Drew and I can’t put into words why.
Also, commenting is not working and I can’t figure out why. I’ll work on it tomorrow, but I did figure out a big culprit today. Hopefully a more detailed analysis will root out the problem.
I really like this theme though. Do you see that little slider at the top? You can just slide that and look at anything that’s ever been posted on here, fast-forwarding and rewinding as you like. It’s like instant replay for my friends.
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I watched that twenty-minute long or so video demo of the iPhone that Apple posted today, and I must say, if the touch technology actually works I am going to want one SO damn bad.
Another incentive to finish college and get a real job.
I’ve been working more and more hours because I’m so poor.
No more data plans. I’m hating life.
I’m supposed to go meet Annie at Crepeville after work. I don’t know what to say to her.
Eh, about the iPhone, Apple always screws early adopters. I’m going to get one of the ones after they fix all the bugs, bump the storage capacity to 16GB, and add 3G. I have 2G mobile Internet on my Dash, and it is just not fast enough.
Cingular has a 3G network, too…I don’t know why they chose to use EDGE (2G).
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