Facebook has jumped the shark.

Good thing I went and got myself some shit to do in the real world.

Last night I read a really insipid article about marriage on WebMD. It contained a well-hidden pearl of wisdom in the form of a story about a housewife whose husband forgot to clean the sink trap every time he cleaned the kitchen. She became irrationally fixated on it, it tweaked her the fuck out, and for a while she berated, cajoled, pleaded and ( Read more... )

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I saw Let The Right One In for the second time last night. It reminds me of a trip hop song, something by Mandalay, very spare and bleak in a certain way but possessing an intensely fragile, halting beauty.

Portlanders, it's currently playing at the Laurelhurst Theater. $3 and there's pizza and beer.

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I just realized that my datacube is just about five years old. Well, the CPU and motherboard of it. And I'm not sure of the exact date because oddly I didn't post about it when I built it. Obviously the disks aren't 5 years old, nor the little CF card containing /boot which is wedged into the chassis and wrapped in notebook paper to prevent ( Read more... )

I have produced another helpful infographic in re: the financial crisis.


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For those of you who may be wondering what all this talk of a financial crisis means, I have prepared a helpful infographic that sums up all you need to know about the situation ( Read more... )

Near as I can tell, my 30,000th track scrobbled to last.fm was "Baby Let Me" by Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions.

(Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star fame...)


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We were leaving some kind of street fair or farmer's market with a bunch of little square tents on a patch of parkland. It reminded me of Eugene. We were about to cross a large intersection diagonally through the middle, and as we started walking a DJ at the street fair started playing a really infectious beat. We stopped about fifteen paces out ( Read more... )