Last night I heard a domain name in a dream, and it struck me as sounding really neat in a nonsensical sort of way. So when I woke up, I registered it.
Normally I far prefer dot-net to dot-com, but since that’s how I dreamed the name it didn’t sound right otherwise.
If you’re into it, you can read about the dream here. Perhaps I’ll think of something cooler to do with the domain someday, but for now it’s a spare site to doodle with.
I got home from the show at stupid o’clock in the morning, and crashed for a bit.
I woke up at about 5AM to some weak sunshine coming in through my window, and suddenly remembered that it’s trash collection day. Grumbling, I threw on a random pair of shorts and a shirt, and blearily trudged outside to drag the full can out to the sidewalk in front of my house.
It’d been raining off and on, but most of the night’s weather was misty and cool without being cold. The ground glistens with morning dew turned up to eleven by a night of fog, the earth soft and wet without being muddy under my bare feet. It felt awesome.
The air is crisp, cool, moist, clean, and refreshing, like really good lettuce. I took a few deep breaths.
The birds in the trees around my house are chirping their morning chirps. I’m a total sucker for wild birdsong, always have been. A few squirrels run their errands along the branches.
The sky is completely overcast as it has been for most of the past week, but the morning Sun was behind it. I’m quite light-sensitive and sunlight is normally not my favorite thing, but at this moment the clouds and the angle all seemed to work to make it bright, but not uncomfortably so. This is no gloomy grey haze, but a shining blanket stretched across the sky. Thanks to the clouds, for once I didn’t need sunglasses to enjoy a Summer morning.
When I grumpily forced myself to get up to complete an annoying chore, I wanted nothing more than to get it over with and get back to bed. Once outside surrounded by an unexpectedly perfect moment, I was pretty unsubtly reminded of so many of the reasons why I love the world, so many things I’d lost sight of lately.
I’m grateful. I really did need that.
Tonight on Off the Hook Ray Beckerman of Recording Industry vs. the People, aka Slashdot’s NewYorkCountryLawyer, joins us for discussion on Capitol V. Thomas and other things. We’ll also be talking to Joe Sibley, one of the defendant’s attorneys in that case.
Geek Prom was epic. Many thanks to the awesome folks at Pumping Station One!
Nicky won the science fair, and quite right too. Her project was a discussion on music, illustrated with a working Commodore 128 which she had programmed to play 12 of her own compositions.
I landed safely in Chicago, a mere 7-8 hours behind schedule. Yay, Nicky!
Speaking of my intrepid girlfriend, she found herself getting a neat article written about her, complete with quotes from her dorky boyfriend.
Tonight I do Off the Hook and then crash at dear gracious kat’s place. Tomorrow I fly out to Chicago, where I shall visit with my dear Nicky, go to Geek Prom, and generally geek out and gadabout like a hooligan until Tuesday.
Those of you in the area, please get in touch if you’d like to meet up!
If you’re looking for something to do in Manhattan this Friday and dig political humor, you might like to check out the Obama Comedy Duel, featuring well-known pundits being funny on purpose.
Tell Ellis I sent you!
This Thursday I fly to Chicago to spend some quality girlfriend time with my quality girlfriend, who has asked me to Geek Prom.
Would anyone in the Manhattan or Queens areas be willing to let me crash on their couch on Wednesday night? I’m flying out from JFK airport on Thursday, and it’d be really awesome if I could avoid having to go home to Long Island after Wednesday’s show only to head back out to Queens in the morning. I’m fully housebroken!
The Vendor Client relationship - in real world situations - Mara showed me this one. It’s completely brilliant, and painfully true for any freelancer.
Transforminators - I think I’d rather see this film than either of the films it’s mashing up.
Mad Zac’s Post Apocalyptic Adventure - SORP Films‘ submission to a jelly company’s commercial contest. The fact that it didn’t win is a sticky fruit-flavored crime against humanity. Zac explains the whole thing in the beginning, or you can skip ahead to 2:28 or so to get straight to the ad.
Henry Rollins vs. Iggy Pop - Rollins discusses trying to out-rock Iggy. Hell of a story if you’ve got 20 minutes.
Hyperland - Douglas Adams (yes, that Douglas Adams) and Tom Baker (yes, that Tom Baker) star in a 1990 fantasy documentary about interactive and interconnected information, including hypertext and the emerging Internet.
Twitter is fun so far. I take back one or two of the bad things I’ve said about it.
In unrelated news, Grey and I went to Borders yesterday. For some strange reason the book-lookup kiosk decided to display her picture.
http://twitter.com/rob_t_firefly
All the cool kids are doing it, apparently. It’s been on TV and everything.
I can’t yet say whether I’ll keep using this or not. We shall see!
I just completed a very short-term temp assignment; they only needed me for half-days yesterday and today.
I live on the South Shore of Long Island, and the gig was located up toward the North Shore. Public transport on Long Island is generally serviceable if you want to go east or west, but for travel north or south you’re stuck hopping, zigzagging, and transferring from line to line in a bizarre parody of Frogger. And the connections are crap, especially during rush hour.
In strictly linear terms, as the chronometer flies, my commute was about two hours more than I was actually present at the job.
I’m now ready to stretch out, have some ice cream, crank up a bunch of Barney Miller episodes and call it a freaking day.
Walking down a store aisle with my mom earlier today…
Me: Oh look, Aerobed mattresses. Those are what Aerosmith sleep on.
Mom: Actually no, they don’t sleep, they just drink and do coke. And when they want to lie down, they go to rehab.
Me: …
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