May 2007
MayMay 31 Thursday 07
"Why, thank you."
The other day I called the cable company to move my sister's cable from our apartment to her new place. I gave the woman on the phone the address and all related pertinent info. She looked over the bundle of services we had and the amount we were paying for them and …
MayMay 30 Wednesday 07
lolcat poem - Updated
From: Making Light
I in ur sonnet, doin ur ritin.
How do this hapn? I just a kitty.
Main job of catz are just 2B pritty!
('Cept with the doggies, then us be fitin.)
Course back in da old days catz was workin
Eatin ur mouses an axin fr milk...
Now giv me treatz or me …
Guilty Pleasures
I am having a hard time deciding between two songs that are both vying for the title of "jay's official musical guilty pleasure of summer '073. One is the new track from everyone's favorite boy-band-that's-not-really-a-boy-band, Maroon 5. The other …
MayMay 22 Tuesday 07
"there are lots of k. millers in the world"
From the amusing wrongkmiller.wordpress.com:
according to the u.s. census, miller is the country's seventh-most popular surname: nearly five out of every 100 people is a miller. the census doesn't calculate how many of those millers have a first name starting with "k," …
MayMay 18 Friday 07
New Digs
So, I got the call on Wednesday, and I officially have a new place to live. I was worried about finding a place in my price range that I actually wanted to live in, but was surprised to find a number of places fitting both descriptions in Southside. I …
MayMay 14 Monday 07
"I don't get no respect. No respect, I tell ya."
From the Wikipedia article on Rodney Dangerfield, who died in October of 2004:
When Johnny Carson died on January 23, 2005, a correspondent from CNN called Dangerfield's longtime publicist, Kevin Sasaki, and asked whether Dangerfield would be available to share comments …
"I don't get no respect. No respect, I tell ya."
From the Wikipedia article on Rodney Dangerfield, who died in October of 2004:
When Johnny Carson died on January 23, 2005, a correspondent from CNN called Dangerfield's longtime publicist, Kevin Sasaki, and asked whether Dangerfield would be available to share comments …
MayMay 11 Friday 07
Mongrel Nation
A documentary in short snippets by comedian Eddie Izzard, produced by The Discovery Channel in the UK. The documentary deals with how many of the things (language, monarchy, food) which are thought of as being quintessentially English are, in fact, pieces of culture …
It always starts out so simple
In late November 2003 I saw a piece online about NaNoWriMo that sparked something in me. The desire to write, dormant since my teens when playing music took over the creative/expressive portions of my brain, suddenly flared up again like an old injury that throbs at the …
I hope I don't have a girlfriend either...
... she'd feel pretty neglected since I never call her or see her or anything.
One of the annoying things about being male and putting down "Single" on your MySpace profile is that you get a lot of messages and friend requests from girls who are just pimping their …
Messing around in Audacity
Audacity is a small, open-source, freeware sound editing and recording program available for Windows, OSX, and Linux. It can be used for editing existing audio files or for simple track-by-track multi track recording. I've used it before to edit or change the bitrate of …
Escalation of Graffiti War results in longwinded rambling.
Found this on Curbed, a quite entertaining New York City real estate blog.
Someone has been defacing some Banksy "wall art" around Williamsburg by rolling over them and replacing them with other stencils. Then, someone defaced those stencils with random splashes of …
Free Education!
Open Culture: University Podcast Collection
Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts
Berkeley on iTunes U - entire courses available online, requires iTunes
These sites are goldmines for the autodidact types, of which I is one. I just loaded up my iPod with some …
A Smorgasbord Of Videos Which Have Entertained Me Recently
I decided to embed the vids this time around rather than linking. If this causes any problems (slow loading or the annoying tendency of some videos to not play sound when too many are open at once) let me know.
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul - Music Video
Next Read, More Thrift Store Book Stuff
I recently finished John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. After putting the book in my "Read" stack in the back of the shelf, I looked about trying to decide on my next read. The possibilities ranged from Stephen King (Misery or Hearts in Atlantis) …
Apartments and Purging Cycles
There are eras in life which culture and history have pre-labeled for us; infancy, adolescence, and middle-age, for example. There are also the labels which we use in our own mind to rope off portions of the continuous stream of our life into palatable and easy to …
On Creative Commons
The image to the right is the first time (that I am aware of anyway) that one of my photos has been used under the auspices of the Creative Commons license. I …
Tracks
I have been ill for the past six weeks or so. It started with waves of nausea, followed by long periods of weakness, shakiness, lightheadedness, and dizziness. It would go away for a few days only to return back to torment me for a few days in a row. The nausea …