this is also somewhat belated, but here is what’s been on the night stand recently.
completed:
– High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
– Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh
on deck:
– Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (upon the recommendation of the illustrious anthony camara)
after an entire friday night spent wrestling with cables, dust bunnies, driver installations, and screws, i finally got my very bloated desktop back up and running. the video card had slid out of its slot on the mb, and i had to uninstall and reinstall the drivers for it, as well as make sure it still played well with everything else in the system. auuuugh. pain in the arse. but at least it’s back.
however, in light of the rather atrocious boot up and shut down times, i fear it is time for a reformat. auuugh.
— Conservative Texan families organize a Girl Scout cookie boycott over one chapter’s rather flimsy association with Planned Parenthood
— Martha Stewart found guilty on all counts. Martha Stewart Omnimedia stock nosedives (via Gawker)
— Neurology of a religious experience
— Fascinating case study tracking the influence of bloggers on the Trent Lott resignation story
— Dogs are remarkably sensitive to human social cues
— Federal funding for closed captioning pulled from over 200 programs (among those deemed ‘unsuitable’: i dream of jeannie, bewitched, scooby-doo, malcolm in the middle). neil gaiman mentions this issue on his blog as well.
ok, i’m ashamed to admit it, but i’ll come out of the closet. i like that Darkness song. in spite of their ridiculous video. and the lead singer’s ridiculous unitard. and the general 80s hair metal affectation. but aaaaaah it’s just such a catchy song!
the rest of the playlist:
* hives – hate to say i told you so (yea, it’s been out for a while, but 103.1 has been playing it lately and i was reminded how good it is)
* the bens – just pretend
* elastica – connection (does anyone have stutter? i think that’s my fav elastica song, but no one seems to have it)
* belle and sebastian – gigantic (twee goes pixies! well, it’s not really any b&s person singing, just some audience member, but it’s charming nevertheless)
* pixies – hey (i totally love this song)
* breeders – cannonball (/channelling kim deal…)
* stone temple pilots – wicked garden
* britney spears – toxic (pop bliss)
* dsico – groove’s a bitch (mix of dee-lite’s “groove is in the heart”, missy elliot’s “she’s a bitch” and basement jaxx’s “jus one kiss”… really really good!)
* ebtg – single (photek remix)
* janet jackson – someone to call my lover
* no doubt – sunday morning
* frente! – labour of love
* yeah yeah yeahs – maps (amazingly good)
* death cab for cutie – we looked like giants
* radiohead – there there, 2+2=5
on deck:
* massive attack, ebtg, guster, erasure, juno reactor. (thanks, brian!!! :D)
* feening for some cure…… robert smith makes a return with a b-sides release, an appearance on a blink-182 album, and new covers of his old tunes (311’s cover of “Love Song” appears on the 50 First Dates soundtrack).
* all the other music that’s on my dead-for-the-moment desktop computer. [wince]
pics have been offloaded from the digicam. take a peek here.
pictures from the disposable camera are forthcoming…
Oh the Joys of Ramen!!
SoCal grocery strike finally over. My Trader Joe’s will de-crowd at last.
so we weren’t able to find a way to arrange an stopover in Japan after all. Blame the Thai Airlines counter in India (which is actually run by Air India, who never has their act together) for being the recalcitrant bums they are. >:O we got in yesterday morning (sunday) as originally planned.
more to come later. :) for now, i’m just happy to be back in the good ol’ US of A!
last day here in mumbai. it’s gone by so fast!
finishing up packing right now…
we’re going to see if we can throw in a layover to osaka on our way back. ;-)
cool site chronicling and commemorating the early days of personal computing: computercloset.org
i had a Commodore64 and a Macintosh 128 growing up. My Mac only had 8MHz CPU and 128K of memory.. 0_o That’s less than what my CELL PHONE has!
I still remember in 1993, my dad got a DEC computer with a 1 Gig hard drive. He was quite confident that there would never be any way we would come close to using all that space. Two years later, to my father’s disbelief, I whined that 1 gig wasn’t enough. Five years after that, I was looking at 40 gig hard drives. And today, I want a second 80 gig hard drive so i can set up RAID (not for storage, mind you, just for faster access), and a DVD burner to back up my files.
It’s so quaint, then, to look at an o.g. Commodore64 box. (scroll down) =) =) =) But oh! the nostalgia and warm fuzzies of the good ol’ days. :)
