Nice little piece comparing how your 25 cent bet at the seediest Nevada casino’s slot machine is safer and more secure than your vote for President at the E-voting booth in your neighborhood.
The New York Times > Opinion > Making Votes Count: Gambling on Voting
pictures and updates to come soon. but very very briefly:
– jer’s family is cool =)
– epcot center freaking rocks
– jer’s dad is an unbelievably amazing musician. anyone know any alt-country music producers?
– got digital cable installed today, cancelling dish network tomorrow. our new plan comes with a dvr and a cable modem. we now have history channel international, bbc america, and a third c-span station! and with the dvr, i can tivo washington journal and simpsons to watch when i get home! joy!
– got a new case for my digicam. (we lost our old one, a really nice soft gray leather one, in japan) This less attractive replacement is better than nothing.
– i still think my photo printer is freaking cool. waiting for the wallet size paper cassette so i can start printing out labels. keke.
– i hate jcrew, but i’m guess i’m going to have to start liking it because they have decent office-appropriate clothing. grawr. expensive. but decent.
good gracious, i’m a total yuppie. 0_o
After a week of anxious waiting, my canon cp-200 card photo printer finally arrived on Monday. It’s already one of my most satisfying purchases. It was super easy to set up — I got the whole thing hooked up and printing photos from my s200 digicam in less than ten minutes. The prints are surprisingly good quality because of its dye sublimation printing process. I’d say that they come out to about or a bit better than Ofoto, which i consider the best of the online digital photo developers. Printing is really fast — a 4×6 photo takes a little over a minute to print, while card size photos are produced in a about a minute’s time. Plus, it’s just so darned fun. Watching the chemical process of a picture emerging on paper happen before your eyes is one of those simple marvels of science, be it in the darkroom, in a polaroid, or generated by this printer, as each layer of primary color gets coated onto the paper.
i got a USB cable today to hook the printer up directly to my computer, and i’ve gone nuts printing out all those old pictures i never had a chance to develop. it’s fantastic! I’m going back and making postcards/printouts of some of the nicer pictures i’ve taken over the years to send out to friends and family.
do you want a postcard? leave a comment and i’ll pick something out for you! or if you have any special requests, i might be able to honor those too. ^_^
three albums up. alice’s birthday, catalina island, and coachella. no captions yet, but maybe later this week.
v. v. briefly
radiohead was amazing
pixies were fucking awesome
the rapture blew me away
death cab was sweet and sorrowful. i love you, ben gibbard!
beck should not have been at the gobi tent
such a shame wilco wasn’t there
sweatproof sunscreen isn’t. your eyes will sting anyway.
101 degree heat and 50,000 people not a good combination, but stretching out in the open patches of grass on the polo field felt nice.
music festivals are awesome, even if there are 50,000 people and you can’t get closer than 1 mile from the stage. nice just to be there.
left after radiohead and skipped out on kraftwerk cuz we were too tired and didn’t want to deal with the challenge of 50k people leaving the festival at once. boo no kraftwerk
still coughing up the pound of dirt i inhaled walking back to my car after the show
traffic on the 10 freeway sucked on the way back because there were two stretches under construction
the denny’s at ontario airport was a bit of a godsend
hearing about day two made me wish i could have stayed.
can’t wait till next year!! :D
hope you all treated those fine ladies to something good today. =)
(something like my hair, which i will eventually post a picture of. really.)
1. Working makes it hard to post in a blog. and before you get all excited, it’s not like a real permanent thing or anything special, i’m just helping out a friend at his small business.
2. My blog comments are getting porn spammed. paresh, how did you deal with this?!
3. I really really want to go to Coachella now, but I ain’t got tickets. Know anyone with a pair o’ tix (for the Saturday show) that they want to get off their hands? Share the love, baby!
4. I don’t speak smart. I talked to some of my old professors today (wise and lal) and i love them i love them. I just hate how I talk stupid at them. Bah, I’m such an intellectual whore… or would I be more of a groupie? Either way, the point is that i’m out of my league.
5. Working makes you want to paaaaaartay. I wanna go out and shake my booty!
6. Sitting at a desk all day makes you fat. I resolve to put my gym membership to good use.
7. I only saw a total of 15 minutes of the entire Apprentice series, but apparently I had seen enough to get quite pissed at Omarosa. More importantly though (for Trump, anyway), his self-promotion series has done its magic on me: jer and i are seriously considering going to Trump’s casino in Palm Springs… cuz Dave Chappelle is going to be there! :D
8. Catalina Island is purty. The semi-submarine ride is a rip. I’m not paying $20 to launch 16 ‘torpedoes’ of fish food. Then again, we did pay exhorbitant prices to get on the stupid thing. Long story. Anyway, pictures from this trip are forthcoming.
9. it’s bad news when your dentist decides to explain a procedure he can do for you by citing the show ‘Extreme Makeover.”
