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I have two extra tickets for the Death Cab show this Friday at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. Spoon (!) and Mates of State are opening. The tickets were ~$43 each after convenience charges, but I'll part with them for $40 a piece ( Read more... )

My lease is up at my apartment here in Redwood City, and I'm seriously considering moving to San Francisco. I think it'd be fun to live in the Haight-Ashbury area. Does anyone have advice about living in the city? What neighborhoods are cool? How the hell am I gonna park my car?

This is how much it costs to keep a studio apartment warm (in California). I blame George Bush.


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( 1837 purged LiveJournal usernames )

"Jokesover" was a pretty lame username, so I've paid $15 to have it changed to something more fitting.

I wrote a program in Java to scan for purged usernames, so I have a big list of 1837 available one-word names if anyone is interested. Keep in mind you can only grab a purged name by using a rename token, not by creating a new account.

( Here's a random sampling )

With all this coverage of Hurricane Katrina, it seems like everyone's forgotten what's really important in the world today: Paris Hilton.

I was tagged by pandabeeName six songs that you are currently digging. It doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions. Then list the six artists and the songs in your LiveJournal. Last but not least, tag six other people to ( Read more... )

What the fuck is up with Target's new indie-rock ad campaign? They don't need to entice me by name-dropping Bloc Party. I was gonna buy my kitchenware there anyway.

Odds Against 7even

How do I use my computer's DVD burner to copy copy-protected DVDs? My computer came with this Sonic RecordNow! software, but it refuses to be an accomplice in my totally illegal DVD copying schemes. Do I need some special software to make this work, or what?