Current location: Crystal Method concert @ The Fox Current music: the opening "deep house" "dj" ... Unce unce unce!

If you didn't notice after work today - Venus and Jupiter were -right- by the moon, looking -very- bright. I'm just noticing it posted on Wired and in the nightly newscast too. Purrrrrty.

Thanks again to mackys for inviting me to a fantastic Thanksgiving meal up in the mountains of Lyons at Rancho Lobo y Mariposa.

❤ The Onion

Once again, a November 15th "Forth Day" has gone by and I wasn't able to fly out to Silicon Valley to attend. But, I'm not the only nerd freak.

Two reviews:
http://jasondamisch.net/forth/forth-day.html
http://www.falvotech.com/blog/index.php?/archives/450-Forth-Day-2008-Report.html

Still hoping to see one of the past 3 years 'Fireside Chat' lectures posted on video.

gaaaa dell ultramini keyboard makes olpc xo seem typeable.

(via Rob R.) Cute CollegeHumor vid, not sure how old :-)

Nitpick: That's a Win95/98 bluescreen guyz, at least get an XP 'STOP' screen image :) Jeez, XP came out in 2001, you're as behind the times as Trent!

(jwz voice): I think that all of you (you with the jerking knees) who piped up to say "but that's not an XP bluescreen!!" should take a moment to realize that you just did the equivalent of complaining that I got Data's Starfleet rank wrong.

Current Mood: amused

KBPI morning music lineup = good gym music. Manson, Beastie Boys, Rammstein

WTH, the Subway near the mall is gone... ?!? They were always busy too.

Blah! Seasonal Affective Disorder in full effect! (Attempts to man up and deal)

(footnote: did end up going to the gym, although the workout took two @#$% hours instead of the hour or so it should have. And now my torso really, really hurts. Curse you side plank. Ow Ow Ow Ow. Zzzz.)

20 minutes since leaving work. 0.5 mi traveled. Note to self: find route avoiding Wads/287.

US gyms need the "empty hand" set of loaner stuff Wing mentioned

Voted this morning, no line to speak of at the polling place.

Moving the same month as the election creates additional bureaucracy.

Regarding the election, I still feel exactly the way I did four years ago. Anyone who cares can go see what I said then.

Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

—Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger"

If you're in the frozen dinner aisle, do *not* pick up Weight Watchers' "Smart Ones". I thought I'd tough 'em out because they're still $2/ea when Lean Cuisine climbed to $2.75/ea, but now I know why. Foulest tasting "marinara" sauce on the ravioli I've tried.

I'm even sick so I'm not supposed to be able to taste anything.

Ptooey.

2 cups coffee, 1 double-sized can of sugar-free Rockstar "for the riboflavin". Feeling like Arial Tetsuo on an adrenaline binge here.

Move-out: fin

Current Mood: calm

http://truckbearingkibble.com/comic/2008/03/03/the-treachery-of-base-building/

Current Mood: tired

2 blocks from my mechanic's shop at 4 on a weekday ... And he found the problem ... Auspicious breakdown is auspicious. 2 Volvo loads to go.