...so naturally, I'm sitting here watching YouTube videos, putting iff yet another inevitable conflict with exporting data matrices and confirmatory factor analysis.

I think I posted this song a year or so ago, performed by the uneven yet nonetheless overlooked band Gomez, and this video just makes me love it a little bit more.  The amount of ( Read more... )

So… my weekend (in the most coherent bullet points I can muster). 
I can assure the lengthy contents behind the cuts are well worth your time.... we're talking Lollapalooza levels of misadventure.

Saturday

• Wake up bright and early to accompany Tom to the Michigan Democratic Party Youth Caucus convention to pass out Spartans for Richardson ( Read more... )

• I am currently coming to terms with my lot in life as a number crunching cubicle dweller, endlessly inputting code that I only half-comprehend into a machine so it can tell me the multitude of ways in which I screwed it up. My current coping mechanism, not surprisingly, has been to remind myself that Elvis Costello was a computer programmer before ( Read more... )

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If you can make it through this video without laughing uncontrollably, you are a far better person than I am.

(Thanks Overcompensating!)

I'd like to refer you all to the just posted schedule for Lollapalooza 2007 ( Read more... )

Alright, so seeing as something like half of you seem to be leaving the state/country for something more exciting than East Lansing (if you haven’t left already that is), and seeing as I am still here, sitting in a tiny cube writing pages and pages of syntax and/or sitting waiting for the professor I work for to read over my work (and writing in LJ ( Read more... )

So I’m on a bit of a writing roll right now (I updated my music blog!  And might continue to on a regular basis again!), and I’ve been owing some sort of life update for a while now, so let’s see how it goes.

Basically, I’m starting to feel old.

I moved into my own apartment a month ago for the first time, and am now responsible for rent checks and ( Read more... )

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(as an aside, i've been spending the last few weeks procrastinating by watching the 50 some odd videos like this Ed Robertson of BNL has posted @ http://www.youtube.com/bnlmusic... all recorded live in his bathroom, i kid you not... the ones where Steve Page joins in are particularly

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I think I'd forgotten just how life affirming MADhouse can be when it works out really well.

Thanks to all of you who came to share, listen, or even just popped your head in for a second to see what was up :)