I forgot all about this thing! I don't ever write here anymore, really -- I lost interest long ago in chronicling the minutiae of my days. Well, at least in excruciating detail. That's what Twitter and Facebook status updates are for. Plus, I simply got sick of putting my life out there for the entire world to see, especially with the ubiquity ( Read more... )

From the Wikipedia entry on the crappy movie "PCU" --> "In one scene, the building referred to as 'the freshman dorms' is actually the Ontario Provincial Legislature."

"Somewhere Else" continues to grow on me. I'm at the point where I still think Most Toys and Last Century Of Man are crap, but everything else is good to great. I've even changed my position on the drawn out second half of The Wound. It's such an odd shift from the tempo of the first half of the song, but the imagery and sonic details are too ( Read more... )

It's finally here! Early impressions, after ~3 spins:

The Other Half, The Wound -- Very good, tight, chiming & rocking. Great vocal melodies & musical twists and turns! The drum and guitar sounds in Other Half are fab.

Somewhere Else / A Voice From The Past / No Such Thing -- crazy good! The title track in particular is spellbinding and up ( Read more... )

I was crabby earlier this morning, but now not so much. Waking up with a sinus headache (day two of horrible sinus pressure/pain; day four of general sinus unpleasantness) certainly didn't help to put me in a great frame of mind ( Read more... )

Due to my office's two block proximity to campus, I was able to wander over to the main ticketing office and score tickets to see the Arcade Fire at UC Berkeley's Greek Theater in June! (sans Ticketmaster's usually exorbitant "service fees", to boot) The Saturday night show was already sold out, and the Friday night one was perilously close to ( Read more... )

I've mostly been obsessed with Twitter lately. My mini-blog is here. The entire concept of having to say what you want to say in 140 characters or less is not only a challenge, but I also find that it distills my thoughts down to the essence. Especially considering I have the tendency to be a wordy writer, otherwise ( Read more... )

I just enrolled at Laney College (the Oakland community college in the East Bay wide Peralta CC system) for the Fall '07 semester! Why, you may ask? I'm going back to school, at least one class at a time, to get back into the language learning scene. My latest challenge? Mandarin Chinese! I have no doubt that it's going to be incredibly ( Read more... )

I came in early to kick ass and be mega-productive at work, only to be foiled by malfunctioning technology! They installed an upgrade to the held-together-with-tape-and-string database we use and now none of my import/export tools work the way they should. Hooray! So now I have to wait for the admin to roll in around 9/9:30 so I can try to ( Read more... )

The curry was terrible. I got it from the same place I always order from in Oakland, and it's normally excellent. But they must've had someone different cooking, because not only did they give me the shaft when it came to the amount of chicken in the dishes, there was also no potato at all in the vindaloo, and everything was drowned in oil/ghee ( Read more... )