just got rick rolled by sean shocks 80's mix...

wrapping up a great day with 5am brisket bits breakfast tacos with cheese!

Brought down a wild pig while out hunting with dad! Got to keep the meat from this one too!

getting acquainted with gate arpeggiation and getting confused by the potential interaction between scale and key...

have a sinking suspicion that we're about to find out exactly what it takes to make me actually cook something...

quoted Mom: Do you cook at all? Ever?

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enjoying the forced relaxation of holiday store closures...

realizing how much I need DSP both upline and downline of the looper...

I have determined through careful research that the perfect width for a bathroom is 6 feet, with 36 inch counter height...

Noel, yo. O.o

having out to Sean Shocks 2008 breaks remix while waiting at the bank teller...

watching dew mist off the trees like smoke in the morning sun...

everyone knows that a new musical instrument for yourself is a great gift for everyone else this year!

I can't tell Seans kid to look up a word if he doesn't have a dictionary and won't let her Google! PREVARICATE!!!

once you start getting all "meta" and self-referential, logic starts to hurt a bit...

I need a more interesting book to draw me to an empty bed; can't wait for xmas!

feasels won't even bother opening their eyes without more than a five minute guarantee of committment from me...

wondering if I'll fail to recognize exhaustion until after I'm too tired to bother with a bath...

an hour and a half before I can get french toast and bacon? Don't see myself making it this time...

Fuddle Perrets: they pool in concave spaces...

an improperly sealed cup of coffee in the car will teach me more about my bad driving habits than anything you could possibly say to me from the passenger seat...

somebody in Texas ask for rain this xmas? O.o

waiting for water to boil; I call it "cooking"... rice, in this case... could use some bacon with it...

clementine is not the same thing as orange. I'm not even sure wth a clementine is, beyond that song...

just tonight realized that "No Train Horn" was a sign for me and not the train... which was, in fact, blowing it's friggin horn...

and right before the Terra Nova big season finale climax: "you must wait 72 minutes..."

don't know where I got the impression that SW:TOR would be F2P, but they are sure proud of their product!

need to move in somewhere with a hot tub so that I can stop taking so many baths...

cross-referencing Heinlein's historical notes from To Sail Beyond The Sunset; Japanese bombing of San Francisco?

working out something to do for the next hour, before I make my next french toast run!

more restless than tired, and considering an early morning french toast run... or I could drop in on Mike early!

restarting the day again, beginning with french toast...

now that it's AFTER noon, my phone will, of course, stop ringing...

preparing to fight fire with 150 watts of my own flavor...

the carpet cleaning crew working next door need to all be shot and have their loud assed equipment destroyed...

heading into town for a break from projects and code...

was so out of it when I went to bed that I was trying to spell parmesan as parmejan...

hmmmmm... noon? really? ugh... sleep imminent... didn't plan that all-nighter...

watching Verizon take a 15 minute area wide network reboot at the WORST possible time...

getting ready to knock out a few site enhancements before jumping into Tribes:Ascend...

wondering if I should bother trying to find someone to go on a french toast run with me...

relearning the idiosyncrasies of my washing machine...

first I completed the Laundry Quest, now I'm stuck in the "crafting" phase the produces clean clothes...

FINALLY doing my first load of laundry in like two months...

don't got to Lowes unless you want the to sell you the COMPLETELY incorrect part...

five new episodes of shows I watch are available now, but it looks like that will be something for the weekend...

apparently, dryer outlets are now 4-prong, not 3-prong... gonna have to change the cord, looks like... *ugh*

dryer hose: it's all about the quest for the missing "part"...

my arms and hands feel like jello from lugging a washer and dryer up two flights of stairs; but now I can do laundry!

finally finally catching the end of the end of Harry Potter... f'real!

Having redbox outside of every store sounded like a good idea when it wasn't freezing outside...

if Paypal didn't force this "rolling reserve" on me, I'd have money to pay bills right now...

churned out my three miracles for today, and even got one in return!

I can't even drink from sippy cup without spilling it on myself...

when answering machine stops recording before I'm done talking I feel like I've won...

need a second computer to watch shows on so that I can mute the one I browse with when ads push audio at me...

brain done been fried over easy on Drupal; time to check and see if the Tribes servers are back up again yet!

shutting down resources to try launching Tribes...

no control over when it happens, but tonight I'm a badass again for some reason...

two minutes before I find out if Tribes will install after downloading...

waiting for a Tribes to finish downloading and trying to hold my water...

CONGRATULATIONS! You have been selected to be one of the first people to play and give feedback on Tribes: Ascend...

William Shatner in Psych: "Chad... is the leader of the crew that you are looking for."

yes, neighbor, when you force me to listen to your dog, I prevent you from hearing your tv. That's how this works.

you can always tell the sounds of someone moving in up stairs: *CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG*...

Tanuki pooped in the litter box; I think I'm gonna throw a party...

I <3 Leverage. This show is so well written; I'm glad it's back on again...

trying to avoid reacting to my neighbor playing loud music at midnight...

larger chair base: stub toes more often. smaller chair base: fall over more often. decissions, decisions...

carbonated beverages are noisy on an empty stomach...

hello, Verizon? Yeah, it's no longer "throttling" when there is ZERO throughput...

would like to congratulate Verizon for having shitty service even during off-peak...

having a chuckle as a sudden rain storm and high winds chase the drunks back inside...

The Secret World is still six months away from launch, according to Tørnquist...

made it back to Austin in once piece...

one song and then a commercial already? fuck off, Spotify!

six hours of sleep before the holiday drive or work on more code? O.o

tonight was the first time I've ever been "sprayed" by a cat... *gross*

quoted Summer: You Gen-X'ers don't believe in snowflakes...

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took the DISC personality test after DrupalCampAustin and got 52% Dominance...

decompressing...

ran out of fires to put out, waiting for the adrenaline to finish flushing out now...

getting the most out of 150 watts as part of some quick stress relief...

the korean take-out smelled funny and went straight to the trash; Pizza Paradise time!

running on fumes...

laptop is running slower than my brain; time to pack it up and find some breakfast!

remembering singing No New Tale To Tell with Zach Helke a long long time ago...

no, Rosalynd, a sockpuppet is not a weird sex act... O.o

afraid to touch anything because I KNOW it will explode...

gonna just start deliberately breaking everything so that it starts working...

screaming children outside; must either flee or destroy them...

wondering what could possibly break next and ready to end it all...

found a shirt I don't recognize in my closet, but it's too small for me. Putting off laundry as long as possible...

the ferrets look like a coupla drunks that are too wasted to move their heads far enough to actually look at me...

...and then Firefox died and now I have to wait for 85 tabs to restore... *sigh*

first Drupal died, then Verizon died, then my mouse died, but at least I drowned out my neighbors 2am muzak...

introducing my neighbors and their little yippie dog to some Skrillex at 150 watts...

I will reload this damned video until you stop forcing the ad on me, Youtube!!!

watching Roz do the espresso machine dance...

looking for the new genre tri-fecta: airships, dragons and mecha...

I'm turning into House...

I swear I clicked on Fringe, so why am I now watching an episode of House?

why the hell does a carpet cleaning van have to make so much damned noise?!?

watching the incredible midnight turnout at Gamestop for the Skyrim release...

the banks can show their appreciations for veterans tomorrow by STAYING OPEN!

suppressing my inner english major...

imagining a choose-your-own-adventure written backwards, like Memento...

so, that expression "sailed the seven seas"? I got news for ya: there's more than seven...

why do I wait until midnight to work? because that's how long it takes all of you to get off Facebook, Youtube and Netflix...

looking around the cafe to see who's cellphone is ringing... uh, mine, apparently...

each hospital needs to have a full bar inside, called the paternity ward...

tried meditating, but it seemed to cue the loud drunks to return home...

still wondering why nobody has gotten a mecha mmo published that is still online...

have progressed from the stuffy nose phase, through soar throat, and into runny nose...

quoted Rosalind: All you need is a girl with pink hair...

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mid-day peak traffic and the bandwidth blues...

Quote by Rosalind

Posted the following quote by Rosalind on Ivory-Tower: Don't be freaked out by Chad; he's just fuckin' weird...

quoted Rosalind: Don't be freaked out by Chad; he's just fuckin' weird...

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quoted Sean Birchfield: Where's my controller?!?

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quoted Znork - Slashdot comment: Enterprise Solution - Solvent used for dissolving piles of cash in corporate vaults.

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looks like it's my turn to have a cold now; drinking green tea for my sore throat...

finally, enough wind to fly my kite! If only it wasn't dark outside...

enjoying peak traffic bandwidth... not.

why do I stay up all night? No traffic and off-peak bandwidth!!!

working through Halloween... teh suck...

watching Verizon's 3G network completely choke on evening peak traffic...

time for breakfast!

ANOTHER train, ALREADY?!?

jacket weather! Time for leather!

forcibly suppressing my passive-aggressive desire to pitch the un-iced latte I just got...

REAL SLEEP!!! It exists and it is mine! First real sleep in months!

I'm holding out for breakfast tacos... seriously...

catching the first episode of Vipers Creed as my Saturday morning cartoon!

not much of a meteor shower, unfortunately...

I am going for a morning walk! you should too! I'm going to bed when I'm done!

going to go chill outside and see if I can catch any of the Orionid meteor shower!

fleeing my neighborhood to escape the incessant barking...

and now it's time for the all morning police siren ensemble!

now construction works are sweeping the street with brooms, making all the dogs bark.

the moment I give up on sleeping and get dressed, the construction noise stops...

wondering if I'll get more than a page and a half of my book read before passing out...

vacating Dolce Vita before they close down around me...

settling in at Dolce Vita to get some work done...

a ferret is not content escaping something until it has managed to sneak back in again...

hammering in your backyard at 8am on Saturday is NOT involuntary, asshole!

no, seriously, I'm going to bed now!

up all night working, greeted with client calls and construction noise at 7:30am...

7am road construction with motorized jackhammers? Just shoot me now...

time for bed or time for Redbox and Whataburger? Haven't seen the new X-Men yet... O.o

anyone repulsed by sage is possessed by bad spirits! >.<

just considered the possibility of setting publication status based on mood...

College Station took all the water, Texas. It's a monsoon here, with flood warnings...

nobody appreciates burning sage...

I could totally pull off being Doctor Moreau!

I am Papa labRat.

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defined covenant on Ivory-Tower: a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement.

defined galere on Ivory-Tower: a group of people having an attribute in common.

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defined oculus on Ivory-Tower: Latin for "eye". The circular opening at the top of a dome.

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defined surrogate girlfriend on Ivory-Tower: also called a pseudo-girl/boy friend

a close friend of the
opposite sex that you spend a lot of time with and talk to often much
the same as you would with a girl/boyfriend, though they never will
become your girl/boyfriend due to factors such as, but not limited to:
age difference, the other person being in a relationship, the other
person living too far away, fear of ruining the friendship etc.

You
will often to "date-like" things with them, such as: go to dinner and a
movie, take them to a party to introduce them to your friends, or have
them meet your parents. though you will never do other "date-like"
things, such as: hold hands while walking, get/give a kiss goodnight,
have them to a big family function like Christmas dinner etc.

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a close friend of the
opposite sex that you spend a lot of time with and talk to often much
the same as you would with a girl/boyfriend, though they never will
become your girl/boyfriend due to factors such as, but not limited to:
age difference, the other person being in a relationship, the other
person living too far away, fear of ruining the friendship etc.

You
will often to "date-like" things with them, such as: go to dinner and a
movie, take them to a party to introduce them to your friends, or have
them meet your parents. though you will never do other "date-like"
things, such as: hold hands while walking, get/give a kiss goodnight,
have them to a big family function like Christmas dinner etc.

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yes, yes it is a bit like a squirrel and a raccoon hanging out... >.<

watching the parade of negative dog owner stereotypes marching through Dolce Vita...

headphones are the new zen...

daycare at Quacks right now; you've been warned.

quoted Sean Birchfield: I will be extra pissed if we're Cylons...

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killing center channel kills the guitars too; not sure how I feel about that...

karaoke: A God In An Alcove!

enjoying some private home karaoke listening to In The Flat Field by Bauhaus...

I'm sorry, but there are no search results found for "St.Ego isn't perfect..."

and if screaming kids and barking dogs don't wake you up, the church will come knocking.

taking a break from code to catch up on the latest episode of Fringe!

screaming children, barking dogs, motorized jackhammers, and a helicopter today?!?

I want a soundboard of all the cute noises women make that they have no control over...

today's attention span requires time-lapse video for documentaries...

feeding my sweet-tooth with a Cosmic Trigger from Daily Juice!

I didn't know there was such a thing as "Emo Rap", but that explains the lack of smiles.

it's "heads-or-tails", "tits" isn't on the coin and are so cheating...

you say "Peter Pan Syndrome" like it's a bad thing... O.o

do vegetarians all feel the same about not having alcohol as I feel about no meat...

now it finally makes sense: beer is alcoholic pastry!

is there a pill you can take to fix being tone deaf? O.o

Hyde Park: take your dog with you to the grocery store and leave him barking in the parking lot while you shop! *grumble*

CTRL-ALT-DEL: how to wave your hands in the computer's face and say "HEY! I'D LIKE SOME ATTENTION NOW!"

just discovered that The Saint was originally a four season TV show that aired ten years before I was born...

late night greek mythology chat with Brookie and Sean...

what time does the bookstore open and who wants to go?

who's up for saturday morning anime?!?

somehow, throwing a ferret into a pillow gives it the impression that it's now indestructible...

Quacks opens in 30 minutes, and I'm hoping they do ham and cheese croissants again today. Who's with me?!?

explaining the concept of a "manipulation sandbox"...

a red light behind a fan works about the same as any other flashing red lights with regard to making me anxious...

it's official: I'm feeling froggy!

somehow I don't think that wearing headphones and singing along at volume would go over well in a crowded public setting...

am I part of the last generation to have grown up watching Cheers? O.o

quoted Rosalind: I'll have what he got!

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having a semantic failure and recovering from it poorly...

BSG humor is lost on most ppl: "Maybe it's because I'm a Cylon, and I've never seen you at any of the meetings..."

woke up with an hour of Romper Room left to endure; went for a smoothie and watching Lost Girl until children be gone...

pondering my chances of being allowed to sleep through the morning or whether I should just go get breakfast tacos...

introducing my ocarina to my vocal fx processor; 5th up and pixelate both produce nice results...

planning a nice hot bath before returning to bed and dreaming hatred at my neighbors...

the neighbor, her drooling spawn, and her yippy-dog all needed a taste of Creaming Jesus - Temple of Shite today...

Lost Girl: my new guilty-pleasure series. I mean, c'mon, a succubus? What's not to like?!?

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quoted St.Ego: Do you know what it is like to be a part of something infinite? Any part of it at all, no matter how small? The infinite gives you a certain perspective, like the opposite of a thousand-yard-stare. You no longer have to look in order to find miracles...

quoted Sherlock Holmes: I'm not a psychopath. I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

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it's ALL guilt-free cheesecake with my metabolism!

of course if I had gone to eat talk tonight then I wouldn't be driving all the way across town to menu in order free credit card I left open app

sounds like the local precinct just got a call about a donut sale...

getting a bug for the whole youth hostel thing again...

headphones, apparently, are the ideal way to avoid listening to me vocalize my internal dialog. =P

realizing that a halfway house and a youth hostel are two completely different things...

coping with the introduction of an exciting new fragrance to the cafe: wet dog. WTF, people?

if you own a cafe with chalkboards in the bathrooms... move the damned things to the hall for those still WAITING!!!

wisdom begins with "I'm not listening to Chad..."

if Mercury isn't in retrograde, I'm going to track it's sorry ass down and put it there...

listening to SquirrelRove issue idle threats...

wondering if a tattoo artist would be willing to tattoo a pet so that it could pull off "research animal" status...

listening to a guy talk about the local raccoons taking advantage of the drought to get at fresh water shellfish...

I've just been accused of being a "Shit-Talking Maven"... O.o

Enjoying breakfast tacos and the ephemera of my own vivid imagination at La Victoria Bakery... Time to get stuffed.

Biscuits and Groovy doesn't open for four more hours... QQ

no way you will miss that IM "ding" when it comes through a 12" at 150 watts. O.o

watching some movie where aliens invade Mexico just below the US border...

my phone is proving inadequate to blog with solo; must hijack Kevin's camcorder soon...

I need my own crozier...

starting to feel less like karaoke and more like mst3k when I've got a show playing on the second monitor...

just finished squeezing out a song based around a chorus of "where is Wes?"

okay, everything patched through to the amp in the corner of the office now; glorified karaoke for hermits for the time being...

just got the bright idea to move all of my audio equipment into the office and plug my laptop into an available aux port!

I will empower you if it's the last thing I do...

quoted Sylvia Edwards: It's okay now, because I can go in and edit it...

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making use of the immense ambient heat produced from my laptop to compensate for Sean's A/C; yeah, I know it's hot outside...

someone send me a beta invite for Firefall, pullleeeaaaaze!!!!

I wonder if my back neighbor is afraid that I'm going to huff and puff and blow their house down...

apparently, online games are no longer bothering with release dates until the last minute...

adding the noise trucks make when they back up to the list of things that justify homicide...

most beautiful day in weeks, temperature in the eighties!

get rid of your dog. put it to sleep. leave it outside of town at a park. I don't care. Just get rid of the damned thing.

200 watts of dog whistles, dubstep, and me screaming at the top of my lungs. Enjoy, you fucking dog owners...

that's right, neighbors, I've got a 200 watt dog with an "on" button; enjoy!

using the loop station to patch dog whistles across the industrial tracks I'm blasting into the backyard...

if you can't learn to silence your unregistered daycare before noon, I will continue to drown you in electronica...

you don't answer the door but you do bring your dog inside; don't ever pretend to me that you are unaware of the problem...

defined amanuensis on Ivory-Tower: one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript.

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quoted St.Ego: The truth can be eroded...

quoted St.Ego: Live music is when I can see the DJ.

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think I'm going to lose the big tree in my front yard due to termites...

letting the weasels stretch their legs while I kick back to some Duck Sauce... oOowoOowoOo-oo... Barbara Streisand!

got a phantom hole in my foot from sitting on a rock during a 4 hour phone call...

I'm titling my first track "Matt's Neighborhood: Please Don't Rape This White Boy!"

have experience my first experience of making the music in my head come out of a speaker...

either Verizon isn't passing text messages or I am not very popular today... O.o

temporal shiboleths: what year is it?

okay, so the Kaoss Pad is really just a big 2 dimensional foot pedal for your finger? The mystery is gone...

just worked out that phrase repetition is the new (or "a convenient") replacement for rhyme...

just realized why I keep seeing multiple Kaoss Pads daisy-chained together in sets: one effect per pad at a time...

somebody wake up and invite me to breakfast!

the proof of my prophetic powers just became manifest. QQ

no barking yet this morning; just know it will start when I go to bed tho... *grumble*

laying down the Breakfast Taco Dub. O.o

recorded my first song track into the RC-50; I'm titling it "Your Voice Is A Tool", but it's less impressive than it sounds...

watching a lightbulb go out and feeling relieved that it's not the electricity flickering instead...

hot tip: don't start a 10,000 hour project expecting to be good at any part of it...

wondering where I might be able to score 65,000 cubic feet of mylar balloons at...

I'm not pumping frequency out back to babysit your kids for you; enjoy some Girl Talk at volume, "neighbor"...

12kHz at 200W for about ten minutes results in a dead calm across the neighborhood. Hear that but not your own dog or kids? =P

just when you thought it was safe to try going to sleep, the neighbors decide to throw all their kids in the backyard...

from experience, I know that the neighborhood dogs will stay quiet until the moment I lay down again...

the next Tribes game is already due out this fall and is going to be F2P! This or FireFall, which shall it be?

that's right, be afraid if you hear my banging on your front door like that at 5am; thank your dog, asshat.

anybody have neighbors without dogs and a vacant couch? O.o

dead microphone cable, but I can route my dog-whistling phone through the effects board to teh PA in the front doorway!

going on a quest for brisket, egg and cheese tacos at Rudy's BBQ!

if there was a jalisco's nearby that did brisket bits with cheese breakfast tacos, I'd be out the door already...

wondering if I am actually hungry or just wishing they served Korean from my neighbor's backyard...

that's right, it's me, ringin yer bell and pounding on your damned door at 5am because you can't control yer damned dog!!!

somebody invite me to play FireFall, puleeeeeaze!!!

I <3 Torchwood, and this latest plot twist rawks...

posted Movie Trailer Marathon: Recap: http://ping.fm/235eT

Movie Trailer Marathon: Recap

Periodically, the time comes for a good ole movie trailer marathon. When you are caught up on your show(s) and not yet ready to call it a night, you can always pick your favorite movie trailer site (Apple, for me, ironically) and fill an hour or two of back-to-back previews... assuming, of course, that you don't watch TV... I can only speak for myself, there.

I advise watching your trailers on a dedicated broadband connection. My 3G my be, in fact, dedicated, but we all know it's not supposed to be that way. ;-)

Click past the break to see which trailers struck my interest and what my expectations are for each...

Continue reading...

yes, Verizon, the east coast just woke up and started getting online; spare some bandwidth to Texas, wouldja?!?

3G should be streaming video capable. News flash: it's not. Capacity issues, Verizon? O.o

enjoying a little late night movie trailer marathon, courtesy of Apple.

worked out all the pertinent features of the RC-50 and my effects processor; just gotta get familiar with using them all now...

just learned how to turn quantize off by turning the guide level to off on the RC-50...

drums isolated on center channel and vocals et al left playing when it's canceled out? Who mixed this crap?

going to call my folx so that Murphy gets my clients to call back in the middle; otherwise, it'll be a few hours...

trying to work out the timing for catching a live drum loop...

the anxiety of leaving my phone at home is unfounded when I come home to no text messages, no calls, and no voicemail...

discovered a large, unopened caramel Twix in the fridge! Score!

roadside, logged in, on a client call, on my way to a client meeting... I'm the Mary K of web development...

I could play with my loop station if I could just dig a 1/4 to 1/8 coupling out of my electronics mulch...

the latest episode of Torchwood is BRUTAL! First time I've ever seen a main character killed off in an incinerator! >.<

it is friggin hot, not to completely belabor the obvious...

Whataburger: it's all Marija's fault now...

scraping all the excess crap off my Whataburger with cheese, because they can't get a simple order right...

starting season 3 of Leverage; finally an episode that was recorded with adequate volume...

wondering when Roland is going to update their website to stop saying the RC-50 "has arrived" and start saying its GONE!

somebody killed the deejay at Flight Path...

Back once again for the renegade master, D4 damager, power to the people!

installing Java Runtime Environment so that I can run some better EEG feedback software...

just achieved the "Focus Expert" achievement on my EEG while trying to figure out it's settings...

need dual-shock EEG feedback so I can read it with my eyes closed because my brain will be buzzing...

Not focusing isn't the same as relaxing and not relaxing isn't the same as focusing, apparently... >.<

finally got my Neurosky Mindwave working and confirming my first assumptions about my own brainwaves...

back among the living again; wasted a birthday being sick... >.<

got my old LCD back and running it dual from my laptop! If only video would fullscreen without disabling the other monitor...

my laptop just became home to a spider... ewwww

hey, Verizon: your network SUCKS!

just opened up the box I was using for a bedroom table to discover enough of my clothes hiding to double my closet size...

why do I have The Final Countdown earwormed?!?

just flying to Tibet costs $2k! I guess the most expensive part is just getting there!

jumping between networks to try and get a connection that is worth a damn; contemplating putting off work til later...

doesn't matter if I'm on Epoch's network or Verizon; the internet is just friggin SLOW tonight...

four-way stop: roll for initiative!

I could put in earplugs, turn on music, whatever, but the point is that the damned dog shouldn't be barking at 4am!

standing in the middle of the street screaming for the neighbors across the way to shut their damned dog up...

it's arbitrary...

it takes time to collapse a waveform; gimme a little patience here...

fighting off a sinus headache from all the allergens while I secure a table at Epoch for the crew... tgif

starting to think I blew my opportunity to sleep by playing Magic cards with Sean at the hookah bar for three hours...

if I lived near Cafe du Monde, it wouldn't be a question; I'd already be enjoying beignets right now...

debating a trip to Magnolia; I'd have to come back north through morning rush hour afterwards... QQ

nothing open except Epoch and Bennu, but not in the mood for cafe food, so all I would do is drink coffee... >.<

I done did stay up too dang late agin; kinda wired and hungry, trying to convince myself something out there is worth eating...

pouring out a half gallon of sour milk...

okay, Spotify is live in the US now! Someone with an account invite me, pls!!!

realizing that the window is not a television, so the picture is not likely to change any time soon...

my fridge is a graveyard for take-home food...

reflecting that even if my laptop and web server were faster, my internet connection still wouldn't be, thanks to Verizon...

suddenly realizing I have the makings for waffles with almond butter and crofter's jam with maple syrup! teh munchies!!!

Daily Juice needs to open from 2am to 4am and charge a premium on smoothies; call it "Nightly Juice"... I WANT A SMOOTHIE!!!

I have every client synced to call at 5pm on the 4th of july...

wondering if my "only smoothies before dusk in this heat" policy could just be considered a form of "fasting"...

NetFlix: for hardlines online, no 3G streaming...

if they went to all of the trouble to make a "US" version of the show Skins, they should have actually written a new show for it...

what sounds good for breakfast today? I want to nosh on something before I pass out...

soooo I mighta watered the back lawn all night... O.o

so used to working during the daytime that I'd forgotten how sweet off-peak bandwidth can be!

relaxing at Ya Hala Hookah Lounge with some strawberry shisha and Moroccan tea...

fashion forcast: a netbook baldric; a net-baldric!

dropping in at Starseeds. Need more nail files...

preparing to brave 35 North; dreading the worst after today's earlier frustrations...

Daily Juice has a large Cosmic Trigger with my name on it when I leave the office...

pitstop at 24 Diner to score some waffles...

avoiding the sun...

so the next season of Weeds starts Monday and has the cast in NYC, apparently...

Skype prevents calls from hearing iTunes running! I can jam out while on a call now without having to keep toggling mute!

if the banner ads I get served are any indication, apparently I'm in the cosplay demographic...

taking refuge in a 3rd client meeting today rather than risk rush hour traffic...

my get-up-and-go just got up and went...

between the strawberry-banana smoothie and the multi-vitamin, something better kill these toe cramps soon!

finally getting around to replacing my registration sticker with the new one that has been sitting in my center console...

should I name my firstborn "Small Iced Latte" or "Large Iced Latte Junior"? O.o

a "milk run" may be easy, but it never seems to be convenient...

researching the history of the Longbowman Salute...

discussing the acceptable limits of brevity and it's impact on the 'bang' character...

narrowly resisting the urge to lose myself in Ruminations.com for about an hour...

performing site-to-site transfers and looking forward to seeing Mike in about three hours for the first time in years!

the goji berry ratio in this granola is way too high...

working from a sushi bar at Mopac and William Cannon while I wait for traffic to die down enough to drive home...

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dinner and a movie sounds so much better than running QA on code before taking over development of it...

debating between X-Men at 10pm and going to bed at 10pm... have you seen X-Men yet? O.o

Done watchign Game of Thrones, and I would have to be drunk to enjoy watching anything else that is one; is that the appeal?

Coping with the emotional impact of the end of the latest episode of Game of Thrones...

if the internet connection doesn't improve, I'm going home to take a nap...

who needs an alarm clock when you have neighbors with dogs and lawn equipment...

who do you turn to when you ARE the expert?!?

brain wants to code, body wants to abandon post; who will win? O.o

coming down with a serious Daily Juice craving...

This. Is. Hypnogagia. O.o

not sure what you are supposed to do with dried strawberries, but they don't go well in cereal...

kicking ass and taking names in Drupal with my new development buddy, Parveen!

starting a load of laundry... I'm almost down to nothing but business casual again...

if you found out that one of your company's target demographics included pederasts, would you market to them? O.o

just rolled past 40G downstream for the month on my cellular broadband...

lolspeak has become so pervasive that "damnit" looks like it is spelled wrong and should be pronounced "dam-nit"...

the latest episode of Game of Thrones is all cued up and ready to play; too bad I don't have any time to watch it...

patiently waiting for Game of Thrones to become available online...

Who wants to go to Galaxy Cafe with me for breakfast?

considering Bouldin Creek to be too far to drive for breakfast without another excuse to be that far south...

I have written teh code; should I write more teh code? O.o

I want soup for breakfast, but it won't have enough flavor until after noon, no matter where I try to get it at... *sigh*

feeling dawn approach at a roughly mach speed... seriously, that's how fast it approaches!

jamming out to AfterHoursDJs.org while I bust out some code for a few projects...

trying not to botch my skill check...

the fall TV lineup is a stark reminder that not everyone is a geek...

it is 100 degrees outside and rush hour traffic; I am ready to leave but not ready to face THAT!

getting unmarked important is different from being marked unimportant... O.o

I am Captain Ellipsis!

guess it's been so long since I mowed grass that I forget how long it takes... someone else to do it for me. ha!

12:34! make a wish! *poof* my lawn guy showns up so I can stop turning away random mowers...

the motorized jackhammering has begun; they must have followed me from Cedar Park, tha basterds!

new incentive to mow your lawn: everyone with a lawn mower, free time and two eyes will wake you up wanting to mow it...

a fleet of construction vehicles just started ripping up the street outside...

wondering if I rely on idioms in common speech as much as I think I do, and how much that might be affecting understandability...

dismayed by the post-2am crowd at the corner by Bennu that all seem to be competing with each others car stereo...

hacking all of my hair off in a wild cathartic episode...

settling in at Bennu to get some work done...

still waiting for a DVD release date for Space Battleship Yamato 2010...

listening to the thunder and the hail of a morning storm and reminiscing about storm watching with dad...

breaking in my new personal assistant!

settling in at Epoch, searching for the motivation to get my busy on... what are you doing?

making plans for blaring music into the backyard starting at 3am, for my neighbor who likes to powerwash at 8am...

"Congratulations! You've just buffered an hour of silent video!"

wasn't going to watch Castle after I finished The Borgias, but it's the season finale...

ducking the cafe music in favor of headphones...

starting my day with 15 minutes left in it, technically... *yawn* I can haz napped 4evar...

just leave the damned smoothie in the blender at least until the crushed ice will fit in a straw, m'kay?!?

back at Bennu, sharing a table with yet another cute blond student; Austin seems full of em!

looking for my mojo in the beat...

relaxing to the gentle lullaby of thunder and lightning...

hunger but no appetite... time for another smoothie...

made it past the midnight hump; productivity reflexes kickin back in finally...

watching this video load is like watching your health meter in a game without healing potions...

I hereby spontaneously manifest new episodes of Game of Thrones and The Borgias! Glad I decided to skip Redbox earlier!

back at Bennu, slogging away at code... pause for surprise...

putting some decibels behind 12kHz for the neighborhood canines and birds...

planning to go hit Bennu for a smoothie; no other smoothie place is gonna be open...

electronic dog whistle plus stereo speakers perched in an open window equals incredibly quiet neighborhood!

mmmm... to sleep, perchance to dream?

taking my ease at the Seoul Asian Food Market on north Lamar...

parking, seating, getting online, finishing updates, rebooting; would really prefer to be working, ya know...

I want to live in area code 404 and have my voicemail greeting say "page not found".

rediscovered the spare power cord I left at DoubleHorn last week...

no parking at Bennu or Epoch, and Redbox was broken... but Sugars is open and has free wifi!

gave a homeless guy my sammich and now I'm hungry...

went from AC to heater yesterday and it's still pretty darn cold out for May in Austin...

it's 2am and there still isn't any parking at Bennu... when does the school year end? O.o

okay, I'm past my basil-pesto phase already; you can stop surprising me with it on my sammiches...

hard at work on a Sunday night...

gonna try rocking some Secret Agent station here at DoubleHorn and see how Vince takes it...

who's hungry? O.o

once again reaffirming that I already know what I like; veggie sammiches are for hippies...

my brain is reacting to the hour by shunting me back into work-mode...

finally catching a break from work; time to catch up on The Borgias!

if you need to listen to your headphones that loud, get a decent pair; those pieces of shit don't cut it, sorry.

still highly impressed by the "clockwork world" introduction to Game of Thrones...

preparing to migrate from Genuine Joes to either Epoch or Bennu, depending on who has parking now...

ZERO parking at EITHER Bennu or Epoch?!? Genuine Joes has loads of parking, but they close at 11pm...

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going from Portishead to The Cure on the Bennu PA; baristas are my people.

call it "Millionaire Cheesecake" all you want, I'm not forking out $5 a slice for any of it...

sitting at Bennu in a plush leather chair with wheels, but no room to ride it around inside...

using episode two of The Borgias as a carrot to get myself to work...

between Game of Thrones and The Borgias, it looks like there will still be shows worth watching on TV...

getting set up at Bennu; had to make the drive for an italian club sammich from Fricano's Deli...

managed to go to Epoch and leave my phone at home; feel kinda nekid without it... how about you?

sent off my taxes, turned in my redbox, and waiting for the AC guy to show up before my laptop overheats...

watching episode one of Game of Thrones. Looks good so far! Too bad Legend of the Seeker was such a PG flop...

didn't find my broadband dongle until after I had already called Epoch and emptied out my computer bag...

everything with a siren within a mile of Epoch must be going off right now for some unknown reason...

shorts sounded like a good idea sitting in an 84 degree room, but it's a few degrees too cool without pants outside...

bandwidth sux from Epoch tonight; can't seem to win at trying to be productive this weekend...

bored out of my mind and nothing going on tonight...

so, apparently, there IS an actual Airship Pilots License, and it's a PITA to get. Wonder if I can bring my own to class?

had planned to be at the Arboretum at 7pm for Patrick Rothfuss' book signing event, but, as always, spent the time working...

Reappropriated Federal Steampunk Equipment http://ping.fm/m7bDq

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I think they really said "boffin spies" in Star Wars, not "Bothan spies", and somebody just made some shit up afterwards...

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settling in at Caffe Medici to work while traffic dies down...

a latte sounds really really good right about now...

the (ex)neighbors FINALLY came back for their blasted dog; I feel like I should take a quiet nap on principle now...

at Epoch, since the dog my neighbors have abandoned decided to bark all morning...

vacation: doing nothing productive for as long as it takes to feel like you desperately need to do something productive.

not really sure when I'll be able to get around to mowing the lawn; it's hot out and I have an endless workload...

4C has 3 E's in it!

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how do you keep your airship secure and still manage to reboard it if you are the only crew member and need to disembark?

passing sirens, barking dogs... I must be home... *grumble* What did I come home for again? Oh, yeah, sleep... *sigh*

my barista just totally looked for my tab under the name "Rick James"; extra tip.

after spending all night at Cyrus' desk, I keep expecting this office chair to slide back every time I untense my legs...

wishing I didn't have to work so that I could take advantage of the solid bandwidth and do some online gaming...