wow I wonder what the

wow I wonder what the Republican response to numbers like that is. Listening: (none) Feeling: very sleepy

ARGH!

Apparently I grew up in a world different from others. A world where CDs are to be treated as near sacred objects that will break at the slightest indelicate moment. I’ve been re-encoding CDs from my collection and reached Orbital’s In Sides disc 2 with the 28 minute version of The Box. This is a CD that had been loaned out and returned somewhat scratched. Apparently the scratches destroyed The Box.

Stupid Lunar Eclipse

I lost my 80 GB drive yesterday. The controller went out on the drive. 30 GB of music went with it. I’m not looking forward to ripping all my CDs again. Stupid moon. Listening: (none)

Tivo has gone mad recording

Tivo has gone mad recording random TV shows and mislabeling them as porn. For example it recorded an episode of “The Waltons” off the Hallmark channel but the guide describes it as Up and Cummers vol. 16 with April and Randy Wes. Imagine my disappointment when I finished the hour long episode to find it did not actually contain adult content, adult language, nudity or sexual content. Other great hits include Totally Anna which was actually “Fishing with Roland Martin” on OLN. Imagine my surprise when So Big! actually turned out to be the 1932 classic film based on the Pulitzer prize winning book.

Busy day. Apt Minds launched

Busy day. Apt Minds launched two more web sites. Went and saw the Team Tapioca entry at the Angelika on the big screen. One of these days I’ll dig out from the mountain of things to do. Listening: Song Of Sand - Suzanne Vega Feeling: anxious

Movie madness

Finished the 24 hour video race today at 11:41pm. The goal for the race was to make a 5 minute or less movie that used the stranger as a theme, had a location involving a body of water, had an umbrella for a prop and had the line “We must be nuts!” between midnght Friday and midnight Saturday. I was up with team tapioca till about 5am saturday morning working on a story and then up again at 8am to start shooting it. Thomas finished editing, rendering and printing to tape around 11:20pm and we had it at the finish line 21 minutes later. Out of 90 teams competing 69 finished the race. We had made a movie the weekend before to prep with school as a location and duct tape as the prop. Both of them were a lot of fun. I certainly learned a lot.

God's whip

A gem from Salon’s 5 part series from Sidney Blumentahl’s new book:

In 2002, DeLay preached to the First Baptist Church of Pearland, Texas, that God was using him to promote “a biblical worldview” in politics, and that he had pushed for Clinton’s impeachment because the president held “the wrong worldview.” Listening: joyride - Built To Spill

How about those Wild?

I realize that NHL viewership is about the same as the XFL. If you aren’t watching this years Stanley Cup playoffs you’re missing some great stories. The Minnesota Wild are a recent expansion team, three years old. Expansion teams never make the playoffs, let alone go past the first round. The Wild had the incredible bad luck to have to play the Colorado Avalanche in the first round. The Avalanche have two Stanley Cups and are always contenders for the Stanley Cup. They had the Wild down 3 games to 1 in the first round, a situation teams rarely come back from. It’s happened, I believe, 36 times out of the thousands of playoff series. The Wild won the next 3 games and surprised everyone.

40 days, and 40 nights

Wow, you don’t see this often. A regional ISP may be shut down because of flooding. They must be scrambling to build a system of dikes and levees to keep their offices out of the water. They’re right next to a major drainage ditch so I bet that’s overflowed.

I guess I’m lucky that we just got some annoying humidity and no severe weather in Dallas. Listening: Universal Mind - Liquid Tension Experiment Feeling: giddy

Rich, old, white guys I'm coming for your souls!

[The following is a letter I wrote to Public Storage today. I pay $91 a month for a storage unit and have for oh three years now (Well it used to be $79, then it was $83). Statusfactory pays that bill like clockwork every month so I was surprised to get a notice saying I owe $0 but they want a $10 late fee. I was angry. I put on my shoes because I wanted to go to PS and scare the shit out of whatever old man/woman they had working there. I shit you not, PS hires retired couples to staff their locations. I called to make sure they were open, they are unpredictably closed at times. In the ensuing conversation I got to be indignant on the phone and that calmed my ire somewhat. I didn’t drive over…but I did write this letter]