| A Milestone |
[12 Jul 2009|11:07pm] |
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After two and a half years, I've hit 20k miles on my Civic. I think people are going to be fucking whizzing around in flying cars and time traveling DeLoreans while I'm still piddling around in my Honda. If nothing else, I'm going to run this mother into the fucking ground.
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| Plastic Music |
[07 Jul 2009|01:59pm] |
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The mail service in Groton is so damn erratic. I remember when I lived in Gales Ferry, the mail was fucking late if it wasn't delivered by 12 or 1. Here? Jesus, who the fuck knows. I got it yesterday at around 12:30, but today it's around 2 and nothing. Some days you're lucky if you get it before 4. It's ridiculous.
I downloaded the new Regina Spektor album shortly after it went up on what, but I only got around to listening to it recently. It's not bad. It seems more self-aware though, as if Spektor is cognizant of her quirkiness. I thought it sounded much more natural on previous albums. It's also overproduced, which seems to be the norm for mainstream/Billboard 100/Top 40 music these days. As if making the instruments and vocals sound squeaky clean and unnatural is somehow a good thing. It sounds like plastic if plastic made music.
The new Grizzly Bear album, on the other hand, is a great. We saw them open for The New Pornographers last year, and they were pretty good. We were impatient though. They're not the sort of group you listen to when you're geared up for some bouncy pop like The New Pornographers.
I only recently noticed that I really haven't hung out with anyone but Dana lately. Not that that is a bad thing, we get along swimmingly, it just seems my social life is only in motion when I'm making calls and being sure of plans. Once I stop doing that for whatever reason, be it because I'm working a ton or I don't have time or it slips my mind, the gears stop turning. It seems most of my friends find it difficult to tear themselves from their love interests or to pick up a phone to shoot a quick text.
The only person to get in touch with me to hang out in recent memory was Kyle, of all people.
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| Sunlight |
[06 Jul 2009|12:38pm] |
I haven't slept in a while. My brain is excited that I'm actually awake during the day, but my body is tired and sluggish. I can't reconcile the two. I'm too awake to sleep and too exhausted to do anything constructive.
What a waste.
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| No Pirate Uniforms For Me |
[01 Jul 2009|04:18am] |
I just pulled my credit report and credit score for the first time in a couple years.
I rule.
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| Aim For the Flattop! |
[28 Jun 2009|06:00am] |
Subcreatures! Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, the Traveler has come! Choose and Perish!
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| Three Newcastles |
[27 Jun 2009|09:15pm] |
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There are three Newcastles in my fridge at home, courtesy of Dana. I may have to drink all three when I get out of work in the morning. This week has been absolutely grueling, and I'm not even through working all this overtime yet. I am so tired and frazzled.
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| Solidarity |
[26 Jun 2009|05:59am] |
Sometimes, I look at people in their cars passing by me on the road and I realize that that's a person. A person, who is nothing more than an extra in the movie of my life, that is going somewhere. Or away from somewhere. They have a family, and possibly a spouse. Hopes and dreams. A past. If they're not driving like an asshole, more than likely a future too.
And then their car whizzes by and they are nobody again. I'm a nobody. But I might be the most important nobody.
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| Shower |
[24 Jun 2009|05:35am] |
One time, when I was 15, I took a shower in the rain.
I was hanging out on my street with a bunch of other teenagers, shooting the shit and what not, when the sky opened up. Torrential downpour. The kind where you can barely see 5 feet in front of you. One of the girls had this idea to run into her house and get some soap and shampoo. When she came back, we all stripped down to our skivvies and took a shower in the rain. No one prompted us, no one really discussed it. We just did it.
I'm beginning to realize my youth was one long banal thread, punctuated by bizarre scenarios such as this.
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| Gee. Thanks. |
[21 Jun 2009|09:06pm] |
CRAIG: Oh wow, the Ghostbusters Blu-Ray has a PS3 theme on the disc.
DANA: Be sure to blog about it.
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| Do Not Want |
[18 Jun 2009|08:53pm] |
Food poisoning. I wish I was at home playing Ghostbusters instead of being at work.
Ghostbusters rules by the way. Eating yucky chicken does not.
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| セガガガ |
[17 Jun 2009|05:52am] |
I can't believe there's a copy of Segagaga on eBay. That's not something you see everyday. All for the bargain price of $75, plus $4 shipping and handling.
I suppose not this time.
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| Shillin' Makes Me Feel Good |
[15 Jun 2009|02:20pm] |
Dan Aykroyd just called me to remind me that my copy (copies) of Ghostbusters will be in tomorrow.
And then he reminded me to bring in any old games to trade in towards my purchase.
Oh Dr. Stantz. What won't you do for a couple of bucks?
In other news: G-DAY TOMORROW
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| Capitalism |
[12 Jun 2009|02:02am] |
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Dana's on my nuts about renter's insurance. I have Progressive for car insurance and if possible, I'd like to just get renter's insurance through them, but their website makes no mention of it, and parts of it are done "due to maintenance." I tried Geico just to get a quote, but their site is under nightly maintenance too. What a pain. I can't think of a single business critical app we have at work that goes down for four hours on a daily basis. It boggles my mind to think this is so commonplace.
We got iPhone 3Gs today. They're cheap now, and I saved over buying two 3GSes, which I decided were not necessarily worth the extra money for me. Dana's enamored with it, despite being so resistant to change. I'm kinda of surprised unlocked first-gen iPhones go for hundreds of dollars on eBay. I had no intention of selling my old model, and thought about just Jailbreaking it or something. Now I think I'm going to make capitalism work for me.
Unless someone reading this wants it, complete in the box with everything it originally came with. I'd sell it for much cheaper to someone I know.
Some folks in Japan have constructed a life-sized Gundam on Odaiba. The head moves, the body lights up and it shoots out mist. It's a shame we're going back to Japan until next year. Odaiba is just over the Rainbow Bridge, which isn't far from our hotel at all, but the Gundam will be taken down by then. Lame.
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| Crack. |
[10 Jun 2009|06:40pm] |
I shattered the screen to my WonderSwan Color today. It's going to cost about $85 to replace. I'm not happy about that at all, though I'm not nearly as upset as I thought I'd be. It is one of my favorite systems though, so I'd like to get a new one sooner than later.
I got my TurboGrafx-16 in the other day. Finally. Eight business days via FedEx. Nice, huh? I was really looking forward to it because the dude at the Toy Vault got in 19 TG-16 games, but has no way of testing them because he doesn't have the system. He told me if I brought in mine and helped out, he'd give me some for free. I brought in the TG-16, but a lot of the games didn't work. He just gave me the stack anyway, which was awesome. I brought them home, cleaned them up with Windex and now they all work. Maybe not on the first try, but after 2 or 3 tries, they all fire up. Pretty cool.
He also had in some Super Famicom games, notably Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger, which I snagged. The American versions of those games tend to go for a lot of money. Not because they're in any short supply, but because they're highly sought after. The Japanese versions aren't worth dick, honestly, but I didn't have to sacrifice my first born for them, and I can actually read most of what's going on anyway.
On iGoogle, my Japanese word of the day was 大人, or otona. I love how clever Japanese can be. One doesn't have to know that those characters together read "otona," but the meaning is easily gleaned from their combination. 大 is dai, or "big," and 人 is hito, or "person." 大人 literally means adult.
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| iPhone 3GS |
[08 Jun 2009|04:17pm] |
New iPhone 3GS announced. $200 for 16GB model. 8GB iPhone 3G models have dropped to $100. This is an interesting conundrum for me. There's no doubt that I'm going to upgrade, my first gen iPhone has really slow data speeds and some of the functions in the new 3.0 software are not compatible with it. However, the new 3GS hardware does not really impress me. Apparently the processor is faster and you can take video and there's a compass feature, etc, but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra hundred bucks. Two hundred dollars, really, because both Dana and I will be getting one. Typically I'm a "spend the few extra bucks and get all the doodads" kind of guy, but I'm not convinced in this case.
I will have to meditate on this.
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| This is Why I'm Marrying Dana |
[08 Jun 2009|02:52pm] |
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This was waiting for me on the dining room table when I woke up. I didn't have my contacts in, so initially I thought it was the TurboGrafx-16 I've been waiting endlessly to arrive in the mail. It was not. It was something better.
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| Of Ceras and Rogens |
[07 Jun 2009|03:41pm] |
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I used to be compared to Michael Cera. I didn't mind, the resemblance was unmistakable after all. Now I'm being compared to Seth Rogen. Cool dude, but I'm pretty sure that means I've gotta hit the treadmill.
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| Scratching an Itch |
[05 Jun 2009|01:47am] |
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I changed my Livejournal's "title" to 私の「ライブヂョランル」 (watashi no raibujoranru, or lit. "my Livejournal"). Normally, this is not something to call attention to, however, I do not own a Japanese keyboard, nor know the Unicode for kana. I went to Wikipedia and pulled each of those characters piece by piece. I'm going to take this time pat myself on the back.
On a similar note, I'm super excited because we have tentative plans to go to Tokyo again next year. It's not really set in stone, though, mostly because no one but myself has completely committed to the idea (not even Dana, haha), and of course things can change in a year's time, but I've had this itch I can't scratch and the only cure is FUCKING JAPAN.
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| Free: Atari 2600 |
[03 Jun 2009|05:10pm] |
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Anyone want an Atari 2600? It's a standard 4 switch Woody, comes with the power adapter, an after-market controller (which works just as good as any other) and a copy of Combat, one of the best games on the system. You'll have to buy your own RCA (female) to coax (male), which is necessary to hook it up to your TV. Radio Shack sells them for a couple of dollars, they're not hard to get. Extra controllers are fairly inexpensive on eBay, and games are cheap and plentiful.
Free to a good home. And by good home, I mean someone who genuinely wants an Atari 2600.
EDIT (7 June): Well tough shit. I already gave it away.
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