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| Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 |
daemonv
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12:10p |
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7:17p |
Pregnancy TMI
Pregnancy diary, week 11: Yesterday, while hanging over the toilet in between vomits, I found myself whistling the tune that had been going around my head. I think you've officially spent too much time vomiting when you can absentmindedly whistle at the same time. Also, despite the fact that I'm still down several kilos from my pre-pregnancy weight, I'm already getting stretch marks on my belly. How does that work?! |
drspin
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2:13a |
jesus
tonight was a lot more of a thing than i expected. also, today sucked at work. |
| Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 |
daemonv
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12:10p |
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robogock
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11:56a |
meta
I keep composing LJ posts in my head, but then I never bother to actually write them down. :( |
| Monday, January 4th, 2010 |
daemonv
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12:10p |
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drspin
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12:24a |
shakin it
i spent most of today watching bellydancers shaking it in a competition, american idol style. that was pretty cool. i _really_ don't want to go back to work tomorrow. :-/ |
| Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 |
drspin
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8:04p |
aw man
finally did it and became a registered member of yelp. now i feel compelled to write reviews. so help me. |
drspin
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7:04p |
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drspin
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2:08p |
mmm
funny night at mighty last night. deru played a solid set of idm goodness, in line with what i've heard from him before. apparat was nuts - awesome tracks, awesome energy, out of nowhere. i was _super_ impressed, _way_ better than i expected, and i expected pretty good. there was some problem with the transitions from a couple tracks though that resulted in silence a couple of times...not sure what was wrong there. but the music was great. the crowd was what was funny. first, it was _packed_, on a night i thought would be pretty chill. second it was a ton of hippies - dreadlocks, patchouli, more body odor than usual...very bizarre for mighty. the outside djs seemed to be dubstep, and the dj between deru and apparat, bluetech, basically sounded like electronic worldbeat / funk. so maybe that was the draw? who knows. my frustrations with the crowd at mighty seem to be caused by mighty though, not the particular composition of the crowd. all the same problems last night with people who can't dance in confined spaces, people slowly walking backwards into you for an hour, people constantly cutting through the dance floor (where are they all going??). it's really too bad because the sound is so good and the music is so good and i get a little more fed up with it every time. |
daemonv
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12:10p |
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| Friday, January 1st, 2010 |
daemonv
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12:10p |
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| Thursday, December 31st, 2009 |
daemonv
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12:10p |
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drspin
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1:03a |
nice
the past few days with leah visiting have been a great way to relax after colorado, and an excellent finish to 2009, including lots of walking around san francisco and an awesome dinner at acquerello last night. |
| Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 |
daemonv
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12:10p |
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| Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 |
daemonv
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12:10p |
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| Saturday, December 26th, 2009 |
daemonv
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12:10p |
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| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
daemonv
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12:10p |
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| Thursday, December 24th, 2009 |
drspin
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10:45p |
woo!
merry christmas everyone! i hope you get to have a happy day with your loved ones today. :-) i miss you all! |
mdrnprometheus
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8:48p |
Advise me, interwebs
For Winter Holiday, I am getting myself a new phone, as the PalmOS is headed to its grave and I can't get the dang Treo to work with my carrier quite right anymore. I've determined that (A) I like TMobile enough to stay with them, (B) I will not tolerate not having a physical keyboard, and (C) I want an Android phone. Careful consideration has narrowed this down to two candidates, both of the same price. Poking on them for nigh unto an hour in the store has not helped me decide between them. THerefore, I choose the wisdom of crowds. What should I has in my pocketses? I'm trying to choose between the Google/HTC G1 and Motorola Cliq. If I used a lot of social-networking sites, I think I'd like the Cliq, but I don't, so I don't. The trade-off is simpler: the G1 has more physical buttons and a trackball you can use to scroll screens/items when the keyboard's closed. The Cliq has more app storage space and RAM, which makes it work a lot more snappily. I really like having buttons and other physical objects, because touchscreen scrolling and touch keyboards hate my fatty fingers. I can't decide if the better speed is worth the interface annoyance, although I feel like I'd get used to the latter at some point. There's also some weird questions about OS upgrades that I choose to ignore because it's all speculative anyway. Opinions? I think I might just pay the stupid $10 restock fee, get a Cliq, and then walk around with it for a week to see what happens. |
stepleton
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7:44p |
Back from Rio de Janeiro today, where I took some of those lo-fi iPhone panoramas I've been known to make: ( Read more... )An interesting thing happened one day while we were swimming at the beach at Ipanema. The weather was superb; brilliant sun and warm breezes on the longest weekend days of the year. The waves were also terrific---I dunno, maybe four or five feet tall? Perhaps a few were larger. Sure, they were powerful, but nothing a decent swimmer couldn't handle. Well, I had a nice time swimming in the waves and trying to body surf, but before too long a fireman (?? his red swimming outfit said "bombeiros" on it) turned up and indicated that I was to return to the shallows, and not to venture further than knee deep from the shore. I swam back and stood there for a little while as the fireman waded off, but since plenty of other people were still further out, I soon ventured back into the waves. It wasn't long before the fireman waded back from the other direction, though, and this time he blew his whistle when he saw me busy not drowning in water deeper than my head. Back to the shallows for me. I have a hard time understanding what that was all about. None of the other lifeguards on the beach (NB: not firemen) seemed concerned with my being out there. I have it on good authority that I did not appear to be struggling, and in fact I wasn't. I am a capable swimmer---not competitive, sure, but I wasn't in any trouble. I don't look frail, and of the five or so other people nearby that the fireman allowed to remain in the deeper waters, there were a couple whose athletic talents could perhaps include, say, horseshoes, but not the 100m freestyle. The most obvious thing that would set me apart, of course, is that I was probably the whitest guy on the beach. Regular (friended) readers of this blog, as well as regular friends, will understand why I almost never go shirtless, and if I do (actually this was pretty much the only time), I wear layers and layers of sunscreen. My gleaming pallor was surely screaming "not from around here" or maybe even "never went outdoors before", and perhaps the fireman assumed that I couldn't swim. Well, that was a bummer. I heeded his silly instructions. I didn't want to distract him from his important job watching for fires in the Atlantic Ocean. It was late in the day anyway. We left. |
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