• 24 October 2008 05:27pm: The sun is still up by the time I get home from work and I am listening to happy music. Must mean something. :)
• Today at 07:02am: Flies are out in force today. Everyone is flapping their hands about like they are trying to take off.

twitter.com/plicease

Anyone have any ideas what I should queue up in iTunes next? I listen to everything except for country and rap.

Haha just kidding, everyone says that.

In four years in Tucson, I remember it snowing exactly once. Actually I don’t even remember the snow itself, but reading about it the next Monday morning in the Wildcat, because I had slept through the snowing (and immediate melting) and it having snowed was newsworthy enough to be on the front page. Not that the front page had to be terribly newsworthy when it came to the Wildcat. Although I think the Wildcat probably had more content and journalistic integrity than mX does, and I always pick up a copy of mX if I am going through Town Hall station at the right time of day. The price is right.

I have been rewriting bits of my website in PHP in order to improve my PHP coding skills. It’s painful because Perl (on which most of my website is already written) is about a million times more powerful in almost every regard. It’s sticky to configure I guess, and is horrible to maintain if written by someone who is unskilled in the ways of the Perl. This is why companies that do OpenSource web development tend to stick with PHP, which bundles itself with everything and dumps everything (including kitchen_sink_faucet_on()) into the same global namespace. Hence the need to brush up on PHP and the loathing of said PHP.

I have also been introducing Tristan 賢 to some of my music. Some of it seems to be taking. I have this dream that he won’t be as conventional in his approach to things artistic as my dad is. He has to figure out what he likes on his own though, and he will do that, but it is fun to show him things that he might not otherwise see or hear :)

Feeling overly dramatic and totally energyless tonight. sendmail should die; remind me again why we can't just use postfix instead?

I have an urge to write another computer demo. Will need two things:

1. to review OpenGL
2. inspiration

Who wants to be in charge of sound effects and music?

The other thing I thought about buying in the bookstore was a Mandarin/English dictionary. I decided to wait for now. I've obviously become interested in 中文^[2], but I have a few 中文 resources that I should finish with before buying new stuff. It could be a passing interest after all.

1. I'm a dork.
2. Chinese language

These were taken at Bradstock 2005. See also:

• Bradstock 2004
• Bradstock 2003
• MikeFest 2003

People you love, will turn their backs on you
you'll loose your hair, your teeth,
your knife will fall out of its sheath

but you still don't like to leave before the end of the movie

People you hate, will get their hooks into you
they'll pull you down, you'll frown
they'll tar you and drag you through town

but you still don't like to leave before the end of the movie
no you still don't like to leave before the end of the show

Cake, "End of the Movie" from Pressure Chief

hello, i'm very interested in bidding for this item in particular the purest feeling, and i was curious if you would be willing to ship to canada, my girlfriend is a huge fan of nin, and she's been looking for a copy of the purest feeling for some time, and i would like to get her a copy, but you are the only one selling the album, and unfortunately it says for the united states only, if you could possibly see to mailing to canada i would gladly bid on it and pay for any extra charges in shipping it, as you can see i have a 100 ositive feedback and i pay for my auctions promptly, thank you for your time.