Well, here i am at the lab, working full time as a helper dude just like last summer. i don't think i have an official job title here, everything's so informal, so i'm just gonna call myself helper dude. anyway, my job here consists of two parts: helping the researchers with their experiments, doing the scutwork, and working on my own project ( Read more... )

Well, first off, thanks to masha for of montreal, grizzly bear and cold war kids. i absolutely love all three, they've been pretty much everything i've been playing for a while now (as my last.fm account will attest). note on that: my overall "favorite artists" no longer reflect what i listen to anymore, but i like too many artists now for any ( Read more... )

and now i'm very tired, on account of the acting thing this afternoon. god. the freaking motorcycle business has made me an idiot for the bikes. i spent the afternoon in town for the acting thing, and the whole time i was checking out motorcycles like joe studly checks out passing asses. they're so fancy! i need to snap out of it ( Read more... )

the new bright eyes cd is awesome. son volt is catchy, as is deerhunter. shapes and sizes doesn't live up to the promise of "head movin'", which is a very good song, i think. sea wolf needs to do much more in the vein of "i'm a wolf." that song is absolutely phenomenal. elliott smith somehow came out with a new 2-cd compilation, of radio ( Read more... )

it's requisite that every graduating senior write something nauseatingly maudlin in their livejournal. it's practically the purpose of the thing. i'm not going to do that, though ( Read more... )

finally thought to bring a camera to school and snap some pics of the hulking thing itself. for all those curious, here it is:


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it's a weird sort of relief one experiences when a problem turns out to be entirely due to stupidity, and not some grievous issue. woohoo, i'm being dumb! in this case, it was a magneto...now the bike has a fully operational electrical system, since i've figured out that a single wire was supposed to go to ground, not positive, duh. cool! now ( Read more... )

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ok, so the motorcycle turns out to be perfectly fine and operational except for one thing, and that is the alternator. the battery isn't being recharged by the engine, so as the bike runs it gradually discharges the ignition system. what i have, therefore, is what amounts to an electrical motorcycle that still pollutes the environment and makes a ( Read more... )

slept in four different beds over the last week or so, in two different colleges, two houses and not nearly enough new sets of clothes (eugh). holy shit. gotta say, though, as far as prefrosh shows go, brown has its shit together. that was...that was just spectacular. a hip hop dance troupe with ten girls and one pudgy, awkward-lookin' guy who ( Read more... )