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July 12th, 2009
 | 09:55 pm
I just finished 100 Bullets, an comic book epic (2200 pages) that blends several neighboring genres: pulp crime, noir, and conspiracies. I liked it a lot but the plot made me literally dizzy and nauseous at one point because I read too much too fast and couldn't keep track of all the characters and their shifting alliances and hidden motives. Good stuff, on the whole, but lurid and violent (that's pulp/noir for you).
I especially liked the way that it started out being episodic, with the stories only connected by the loosest of threads, but as it progressed, things began to tie together (although some of the episodes turn out to be red herrings and never really tie in to the plot as a whole, which keeps us guessing about what's important and what isn't). This is a device I've enjoyed in several other works (e.g. Babylon 5, Cerebus). Also, important events before the first issue's events are gradually and carefully revealed in flashbacks, letting us fit the original layout of the chess pieces together even as the characters' secret plots and alliances and betrayals play out.
Snappy dialog, but the way they blended visuals from one scene with dialog from another got a bit too cute at times. Terrific art. Good stuff, but an expensive proposition: 13 reprint volumes.
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June 17th, 2009
 | 06:14 pm
Recent activities:
- a couple of weeks ago I attended a con-within-a-con. The gaming community where I hang out a lot (podcasts, forum and gaming servers, focused mainly on Team Fortress 2 along with Left 4 Dead and Warhammer Online) decided to have a get-together at a con in Birmingham, Alabama. One of the podcast hosts was organizing the con anyway and so it seemed like a good way to get people to meet up. So I went down for a few days and had a good time. The con itself was not really my thing - socializing with strangers in wacky outfits is not my thing. So I mostly hung around the other gaming community folks and we had a lot of laughs playing Rock Band and so on. The hotel was, frankly, a dump. The con won't be going there again, I think. The gaming community will probably have a separate get-together next year, maybe in Vegas.
- Last weekend I flew down to Baltimore to see an old friend from college get ordained as a Catholic priest. I and 2 of the rest of our college clique attended the ceremony at the cathedral (we did not take the Eucharist) and then a reception at the large, imposing and now mostly-empty seminary. We didn't have much time to talk to his reverence but we had a good little reunion nonetheless. I should have flown back that night but instead I got to hang around the inner harbor for a while. My sushi dinner was spoiled by the guy at a nearby table vomiting all over the floor.
- My company has closed our office in Cambridge so now I'm working from home most days. I have a cubicle at the campus in Wakefield and I'm expecting to go up there about once every two weeks. Since the bus passes close by my parents' house, it also makes it easy for me to stop by for dinner once in a while, if I plan it right.
- I'm enjoying 3 comics series that are relatively new to me: the Goon, 100 Bullets and Powers.
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April 24th, 2009
 | 03:20 pm
Dear Lazyweb peoples:
Having grown up in a Protestant household I am unfamiliar with certain Catholic celebrations.
What does one get for a child having her first Communion? I don't know the child very well, but her mother is an old and dear friend from High School with whom I remain in touch and see a couple of times a year. But I don't know the child very well. Gift certificate? Cash? Flowers? A laurel and hearty handshake?
Similarly, what does one do when a friend is ordained as a priest? A gift? A charitable donation in his name? etc.
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April 9th, 2009
 | 10:08 am - "facilities"
A few months ago management transferred half of the Cambridge office (where I work) out to the suburban wilds of Wakefield. The Wakefield facility is reasonably accessible to those with automobiles, being a stone's throw from Boston's main ring highway. They allowed half of us to remain here in Cambridge, consolidating us in a smaller space and subletting the remainder.
Well, to no-one's surprise, they've now decided to close the Cambridge office entirely, and everyone must transfer to Wakefield. Pointing out that we could have saved a lot of time and energy and logistical effort if we'd simply done this in the first place is a waste of time.
My current commute consists of walking about 30-40 minutes, which I enjoy because it's exercise and fresh air. Commuting to Wakefield would require spending about twice that (each way) on the subway and bus.
My manager has told me that they're "thinking" about setting up a shuttle bus service and/or allowing some of us to work from home. If it's workable I may end up doing the home office thing, which would require a herculean amount of organizing and tidying on my part (something long overdue). But I'm pretty sure that working from home would not be good for me; I tend to huddle in my cave far too much and this will contribute to the cabin fever. Whether the job market in Boston would welcome someone with my particular set of skills is unclear, so I'm not sure I want to bolt just yet.
Plus, my departure would put my manager and teammates (for whom I have a good deal of respect and affection) in a terrible spot. We're currently in a long mothballing process, helping the Oracle bozos in Tel Aviv take over the functions that our home-grown system performed before the merger. If these things were offloaded then I would be more comfortable leaving.
But taking that subway and bus out to Wakefield, even for occasional meetings, would be somewhat dire. The fact that the bus passes about a block from the house where I grew up, in Melrose (and where my parents still live) would reinforce the whole thing's sense of inescapability and futility. I moved in to the big city and there I am again, riding the 136 up Main Street, past the YMCA where I learned to swim and the fire house and the high school and the funeral parlor and the surgeon's office where I had 4 teeth removed and the nursing home where my grandmother worked and the hospital where I was born.
Anyway, the change is scheduled for about 2 months from now. Further updates as events play out.
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March 27th, 2009
| 10:50 am - lucid waking
Last night I had a dream in which (among other events) I heard a particular song I haven't heard for a while, and when I got to work and turned on my iPod it was the 4th song that came up (out of 2600). Yeah.
Current Music: Moody Blues, "Floating"
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March 10th, 2009
 | 03:52 pm
I got Rock Band 2 for the Wii 2 weekends ago, but I only got the drum hardware. I've already got Guitar Hero 3, so that's all the pickin' & strummin' I can handle already covered, and the microphone is Right Out, so BEAT DRUMS BEAT DRUMS. I've been banging away on the hard & expert levels and haven't failed a single song yet, and I'm up to the point where I've unlocked the first overseas cities. I'm not sure what percentage of the song list is available to me but I'm cooking along. So far the song with the highest "UGH, do I really have to play this next" factor is Dylan's "Tangled Up In Blue". Others vary in their cheese/poser factor, but the drumming is generally fun. There is a feature that allows me to buy and download other songs too, but each song apparently takes up approximately TEN PERCENT of the Wii's entire hard drive so I won't be doing too much of that.
Last night I was so beat that I went to bed at 8:30 ... and then woke up WIDE AWAKE at 3:30. So I feel rested but I will probably crash early again.
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February 23rd, 2009
 | 05:48 pm - I used to read a lot ...
This weekend on Meet the Press there was a pundit named Becky Quick, and all day today I've been trying to remember whether there was a famous character by that name in an early (say, 18th century) English novel. It drove me nuts so I spent about half an hour with Google & Wikipedia until I finally realized that I was probably thinking of Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair (which I've never read).
This weekend I also finished my second reading of Swann's Way; ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) evandra and I are reading A la recherche together, although she's gone back to Florida so we'll be chatting about it by phone. The first time I tackled Proust I only made it through Within a Budding Grove (about 1/3rd of the whole) so I hope this time I get farther. Having someone to keep pace with is a good motivator.
I'm also slowly reading Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel and so far it looks like a lot of common sense backed up with facts, so I'm not really finding anything surprising in it ... but it's early yet.
Current Music: Ethel Waters: I Got Rhythm
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February 19th, 2009
 | 12:27 pm
Last night I saw Coraline in 3-D with Greg H. It was terrific; definitely try to see it in 3-D if you are planning to see this at all. The use of 3-D was really clever and it was clearly designed with this in mind - it wasn't just an afterthought or superficial to the story. I think it was the last night for 3-D at the Boston Common Loew's, though.
I've done a couple more gaming podcasts:
Ten Days in Africa: http://deadworkers.com/network/?p=813
Zack & Wiki: http://deadworkers.com/network/?p=989
Work is still a MAAAADHOUSE.
My dad had another health scare a couple of weeks ago. His eyes had been watering a lot so he went to see the eye doctor (first time in 15 years), who examined him and said "You have acute glaucoma. You need surgery right away to relieve the pressure." My dad said "OK, I can come in next week" and the doctor said "No, NOW. You could wake up blind tomorrow. We're going over to the laser guy pronto." Apparently if your eye pressure (on whatever the scale is) is in the teens, you're OK, and if you're above 22, you have glaucoma. My dad was in the FIFTIES. So he got the surgery and now he's on special eyedrops and he'll probably be okay but JEEZ LOUISE let's try to stay on top of things. Thank you again, modern medicine.
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January 20th, 2009
 | 12:42 pm
FINALLY!
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January 19th, 2009
| 11:56 am - another hunt done
This past weekend was another MIT Mystery Hunt - a team-based puzzle competition. I did a bit better this year than last; I was the main solver of three or four puzzles (out of hundreds), which is better than my record last year (approximately zero). I had a lot of fun but I'm coming to the conclusion that maybe next year I should try "remote" solving from home - that is, participating with the team but via the net, instead of in an MIT classroom.
It's good to solve things together and sit down with someone and go over ideas ... but at the same time I have a lot of trouble with the environment: lots of tense, loud people packed into a small, uncomfortable space for three days, combined with sleep deprivation, lack of exercise and strange diet. A second room is set aside for resting and food, but it's only as comfortable as what you bring to lie down on, and I feel obliged to tiptoe around if anybody's resting. I brought an air mattress and some sheets and a blanket and a pillow, but (except for a couple of hours on Friday night) every time I went to lie down, someone else was already lying in my bed. I felt like one of the Three Bears! (Disclaimer: I'm not angry about this - this is a "funny thing happened to me on the way to the brain-fry" category of story.)
I know I should've just nudged them, but they needed rest more than I did, and I'm too passive about these things. But it brings up aspects of my psychology and upbringing. See, if someone else had brought a mattress or a sleeping bag I would never in a million years have used it (asking permission first or not). Apparently I have different attitudes about personal space - to me, using some else's bedding is like picking up their sweater off the chair next to them and putting it on and walking away. I probably should have realized that furniture works differently - people bring beanbags, pillows etc. with the expectation that they are for communal use. And that's OK -- it's just took me by surprise. Granted, I should be more assertive about such things, but by that point enough other people had used the bed that I felt icky about using it myself, so why disturb them? I'm glad I brought it because it helped the team - a couple of very productive solvers got some quality shut-eye.
But I was proud of myself for not getting upset about it (much) -- I fumed quietly in a dazed manner for about ten minutes and then I just dealt with it and went home to sleep on Saturday morning and Sunday night.
But it highlights to me that I'm old enough now that I don't want to give up familiar creature comforts - my couch, my fridge, my brand of peanut butter, my shower, my stereo (for short breaks to massage the other hemisphere of my brain). The classroom environment makes the puzzle endurance test into a real ordeal for me, and maybe I would have more fun as a remote person. I don't know. I would probably be less effective as a solver, and I'd miss out on the plus side of social activity. Hard to say. Maybe a mixture of the two? Hang out in person for brief periods and then skedaddle?
As for the hunt itself, it was pretty ingenious. I only worked on a few puzzles; as with last year, I have a knack for picking up puzzles that are destined to go a long time without being solved, and some never get solved at all even after extended pounding by people much quicker and sharper than I. I'm not aggressive enough about grabbing new puzzles, so as new puzzles get released, the quicker ones get solved rapid-fire while I'm staring at the same thing for hours on end.
Overall, still glad to participate; the team is a great bunch of people.
ADDENDUM: It occurs to me that several of my teammates read this journal; let me emphasize that a) I'm not mad at anybody and b) I'm not fishing for apologies. See you next year (if not sooner)!
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January 10th, 2009
 | 09:49 am
Bill Moyers is still terrific:
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January 6th, 2009
 | 09:33 am
Had a nice brunch with Greg & Meghan and evandra on Sunday; traded gifts with Greg. He got me a signed & numbered Roger Dean print which I'll need to get framed.
This week I also bought myself the 6th and final volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, which is a total of 24 DVDs full of Warner Brothers cartoons (about 370 in number), covering the whole range from the crude black and white early stuff (Buddy, Bosko, et al) up to the sad late-period Daffy vs. Speedy stuff. It includes almost every WB cartoon I would want ever to see, but upon reflection I've come up with a few missing personal favorites that I'd love to see released on DVD sometime. Remember these?
- "Daffy Doodles" (1946) - Daffy is running around the city drawing mustaches on advertising posters and any other face he can find. Porky is a cop out to stop him. Features Daffy singing "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter". Also, when they're chasing each other around a skyscraper ledge, Porky almost loses his footing and Daffy runs back to save him, pauses, looks at the camera and says "Awfully sporting of the little black duck!" before fleeing again.
- "The Goofy Gophers" (1946) - the first appearance of the Goofy Gophers (after you! no, after you! Oh I couldn't possibly ... after you!). Features their frequent opponent, a dog with an over-enunciated Shakespearean ac-tor voice. The killer moment for me is when the dog puts on a ridiculous camouflage outfit and tiptoes across the garden, freezing for a moment to intone to the audience "... commando tac-tics!"
- "Piker's Peak" (1957) - Bugs vs. Sam, trying to climb the Schmatterhorn for a prize of fifty thousand cronkites (or is it krankheits?).
- "Little Orphan Airedale" (1947) - first appearance of Chuck Jones's "Charlie Dog", who starred in a total of three shorts in which he's always trying to get Porky to accept him as a pet. In each one, Porky mails Charlie to some far-off locale, upon which he instantly returns in local costume, sporting an accent. In the other cartoons he goes to Siberia ("HOW DO YOU DO!!") and Scotland ("och, laddie, it's guid to be back" *bagpipes*). In this one he goes to Australia and comes back to demonstrate how a kangaroo hops ("IPPETY OPPETY"). The other two are on the DVDs, but this one isn't, and it's my favorite of the three.
I was so tired yesterday that I couldn't finish my workout with my trainer - coming back to work after time off always gives me insomnia. So in the evening I managed to avoid my recent pattern (take a nap upon arriving home from work and then stay up all night playing games on-line), and instead I stayed up until 9:00 and then went to bed and slept for 9 hours. So today I'm actually wide awake for once. Maybe I can keep this schedule now that I'm back at work ... but of course in a week and a half the MIT mystery hunt is coming up so that'll probably mess me up again.
My company is trying to get as many of us Cambridge employees as possible to relocate up to the Wakefield office, but not having a car would mean a lengthy subway/bus commute. So I've told them it's not an option; apparently some people are being allowed to stay here if Wakefield isn't an option and now I've attempted to join that group. Whether they think I'm important enough to warrant this special treatment remains to be seen. Buying a car and dealing with gas, insurance, upkeep etc. would be equivalent to taking a 5-figure pay cut for the privilege of retaining my job and frankly my job isn't sufficiently marvelous to make me do that.
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January 2nd, 2009
 | 09:41 am - various
Happy New Year!
I was pretty sick for most of November; just a respiratory bug that took forever to go away and left me low on energy. I haven't been in the gym much in December either but I'm planning to get back on the schedule and diet now that the holiday food choices are out of the way.
One of my main problems has been staying up too late playing games on the net. In particular Left 4 Dead came out and I found myself up until 3:30 with Vernon and other people, shooting zombies. It's a good game but I think I don't like it as much as Team Fortress 2. In Left 4 Dead it feels like I'm solving the same problems over and over again (the vaunted "AI Director" notwithstanding), and the visual design gets depressing (it's always dark, not to mention the zombies). TF2 is more brightly colored and funny and upbeat, even though you're still blowing each other up.
Christmas was much less stressful for me this year than usual, mainly because my family all agreed to stop doing adult-to-adult gift buying (unless somebody spotted something particularly apropos) and instead just focus on the kids. This was a big help to my mother, who has been frazzled lately with almost-nightly obligations at the church as well as starting a new job, and she feels compelled to make Christmas perfect for everybody. Not having to run around finding gifts for me and my siblings and in-laws reduces the load.
My dad's health is still improving; he only uses the cane when using the stairs now, and he's back at work.
Work is still blah; we're mostly waiting for other people to get their act together. There are about half a dozen projects circling above my head like birds; eventually one of them will land and I'll jump on it. As an example of what I'm dealing with, I recently changed a password (on our data server) to a new string with a comma in the middle (like "ajpoe,gruam"), and then people started complaining that neither "ajpoe" nor "gruam" worked as the password. Yes, children, that's because neither of those is the password. Per your instructions, the password is "ajpoe,gruam". Many of my outgoing email messages include lines to the effect of "if you'll scroll down and re-read my message from 3 days ago, you'll see that ...".
I reconnected with two of my favorite people this month. My old friend Brian from college was in the area for a wedding and we got to have dinner and lunch on consecutive days. I've known Brian for 24 years and hadn't seen him in person for about 10. I finally got to meet his partner Hiro, who's been with Brian for about 15 (I think) years. They live in the Pacific Northwest and I've never had enough of an excuse to go, not that I really should need one. We had a lot of laughs about things old and new. Both meal groups also included Peter R., another of our classmates; he and Brian were close at the time but I didn't know him well. It was good to get to know him in the present -- he's smart and funny.
Also, evandra is back (almost). She's in town for a few weeks as a preparatory trip but she's planning to come back for good later this year to study to become a nurses' aide. We had lunch a couple of days ago and had a terrific conversation.
I've been reading a bit more; I just finished David McCullough's John Adams and liked it a lot. I haven't seen the HBO series yet, but I'd like to. Adams was never really very clear to me as a historical figure and this (obviously) has improved that. But it also changed my images of other figures like Jefferson and Franklin and Hamilton. It was a bit thrilling to read sentences mentioning events here in the Boston area, too, like when Adams had dinner with George Washington (and other people) during the Revolution at a house I've walked past a thousand times in Cambridge. I think I'd like to go down to Quincy and visit the Adams historical sites; I can get there by subway.
I've been watching more movies, too. I enjoyed Falling Down and Scrabylon (a Scrabble documentary), but I was disappointed by Pirates of the Caribbean, which didn't ring well for me. It had some amusing moments but there was too much about it that was facile and predictable, and there were a couple of plot points that didn't make any sense to me.
Le Cercle Rouge was as good as I'd remembered it. Capote was great, but I'd already read the biography it's based on so I could fill in a lot and I could see why it might seem incomplete or un-anchored to someone who doesn't know much about Capote. I also got a huge kick out of Lagaan, a three-hour Bollywood classic.
I don't like making "resolutions" but here are a few things I'd like to do differently:
- get back on the gym routine and stop backsliding on diet choices
- stop whining when I'm playing a game and I'm not doing well
- file my bills & papers (at home) more promptly instead of letting them pile up on the sofa
- stop getting angry at work, no matter how "justified" it may be
- post more to LJ
- get back in touch with pgrape - I have no excuse for letting that channel of communication stagnate (AGAIN)
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December 18th, 2008
 | 02:25 pm
OK, so I haven't been posting. Short story is that I was sick for several weeks and it lingered for another several weeks. During that time I stopped going to the gym and basically dragged myself to work and back home again, and played some games, and accomplished little else.
Anyway, I had to post this: last week my kindergarten-age nephew was in the school Christmas pageant with some minor part (an animal or a star or some such) with no lines. As one of the Magi began his speech, my nephew rushed forward, grabbed the mic and began beatboxing Biz's Beat of the Day. The mic was wrested from his clutch shortly thereafter.
This might be my favorite thing ever.
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November 24th, 2008
| 03:09 pm - did anybody forget a piano?
Baldwin piano discovered in Harwich woods
By CAPE COD TIMES
November 23, 2008
HARWICH — Police are seeking key evidence to solve the mystery of a piano found in the Bells Neck woods yesterday.
At 3 p.m., a woman walking on trails inside the conservation area discovered a piano in the middle of the woods. The Baldwin piano, which had a matching bench, is in perfect working condition, police said.
The piano is extremely heavy, and it took more than a half-dozen men to load it onto a truck, according to police.
Because of its daunting weight and superb condition, the piano was not simply pushed out of a vehicle in the woods, police said.
Police said they have no idea how the piano came to rest in the middle of musical nowhere. A general notice has gone out to area police departments in an attempt to figure out whether the piano was stolen or lost.
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November 20th, 2008
 | 12:49 pm - hey look, I'm on a podcast
OK, so there are these 4 guys who do a bunch of game-related podcasts on things like World of Warcraft and Team Fortress 2. I've been listening to the TF2 show for a while and hanging out on their forums and playing TF2 on their community servers, and I've also been listening to their Warhammer Online show and playing in their guild (along with about 300 other people). They recently started a daily short podcast called "the Daily Gamer" in which they do a brief intro and discussion about some game or other, and it's supposed to be about computerized games: PC, console, web/flash, handheld and so on.
So last Sunday I was watching the video feed of the recording session and hanging out in a chat area with other fans (something I have only done once before, but I was feeling sick and didn't feel up to doing anything active), when they started doing some Daily Gamer quickies. Wes (one of the 4 hosts) said that he was thinking about doing one on Lost Cities, and I piped up on the chat window about how that was a great game and I played it just last week ... and he asked me to cohost the episode with him. It was fun!
Here's the page:
http://deadworkers.com/network/?p=628
But Lost Cities is a real-world card & board game, you say, not a computer game. But it's available online at brettspielwelt.de, and Wes had already done an episode about the board game Acquire (also available online), so they're arguably computerized.
I think the episode went well; they might have me on again sometime if the situation is right. Anyway, if you like it, leave a note on the podcast page.
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November 14th, 2008
| 11:24 am - miscellany
Work continues to suck. Right now most of my time is spent rewriting a crappy old JavaScript/SQL web app using ASP.NET, but as I'm going I'm redesigning the database because it's horribly and stupidly and pointlessly broken. Those responsible no longer work for us. However, this is a low-priority job, and every other little thing that crops up is higher priority and pulls me away, making it difficult to concentrate and get any momentum going.
My gym trainer is going to be quitting the gym and opening her own training business soon, and has told me that she will probably have me help her out with computer stuff (website, a workout/exercise/client database, that kind of thing). It'll be good to do some 'real' work outside of the company for once. I have no plans to get into consulting or web design but it'll make a nice change of pace.
Meanwhile I'm spending most of my nights playing games online; Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is the main time sink. I still play some Team Fortress 2 but I'm getting very rusty. (If you play WAR and I know you and you're looking for a server/guild let me know; my guild is large and disorganized but any member can invite other members.) But it's not a completely sad tale of social isolation: I mostly play with people from the TF2 community I've been hanging out with for the last few months. Fun times, mostly.
I'm still reading books, slowly. I'm still working my way through the complete Jack Vance, and I'm halfway through a period of non-SF stuff he did, mostly set in the San Francisco area. Stories of familial revenge and looking for smugglers' treasure.
I also picked up and rapidly finished Iain M. Banks's The Algebraist, which had been sitting on my night-table for over a year, stuck at the 1/3rd mark. I liked it a lot, especially the characters of the "Dwellers", a race of aliens who live inside gas-giant planets. But the ending was a bit unsatisfying. Maybe now I'll go back and read some of his earlier stuff; I've been stuck halfway through Use of Weapons for far longer (probably five years). His "Culture" setting is intriguing but somehow I like his stand-alone books better (like Feersum Endjinn). The Culture books seem flat and quiet, somehow, even with all the epic scope and wars and destruction.
I also read Bill Bryson's new book about Shakespeare in about two days. It was mostly a history lesson than a biography, because Shakespeare is such an enigma, but a nice summing-up of the state of our knowledge (for the layman).
Movies and TV: not so much going on. Gave up on Heroes, waiting for Lost and Breaking Bad and Rescue Me to come back.
Last night I was at a pub in Beacon Hill because my friend Catherine was in town. She's a fellow ex-member of the Finnegans Wake reading group (which is now going strong with over a dozen members), and now lives in Cambodia working for a humanitarian group of some kind. She comes back a couple of times a year to visit and generally has a bunch of people get together for beers. She's a wonderful person but we didn't have much chance to talk - too crowded, too noisy. The main characters from the FW group story were also there, including the loopy but wonderful older guy who still runs it and the pompous bozo whose grating personality eventually drove me away. I gritted my teeth and put up with him cordially until it was time to go.
Last weekend I had brunch with Greg H., and then we joined his brother & niece and went to an art exhibit at the Mass. College of Art. Somebody had built a large wooden shack in an exhibit space, and the shack was basically a large acoustic speaker box, and there was a band inside, playing. It was loud and fun and casual.
Current Location: the salt mine
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November 11th, 2008
 | 11:10 pm
Per a conversation with cthulhia at dougo's birthday dinner, here is my new Team Fortress 2 spray image:
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October 21st, 2008
 | 10:20 am
The ongoing wonderfulness of Scary Go Round just intensified when they dropped a quote from The Wire in the last panel of today's strip.
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October 2nd, 2008
 | 02:29 pm
Criminal mastermind at work (Seattle bank robbery with inner-tube getaway and unwitting Craigslist accomplices)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008217929_robbery01m0.html
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