Okay, so now I’m listening to Hawksley Workman. It was a short classic rock binge, cut short by our trip to Sandy’s parents, and the fact that I was listening to Chemical Brothers at the end. Anyways.
Stock Car Banquets are strange. Drunk men who I hardly know are really strange. And we didn’t win anything. Rats. I wanted that biiig flashlight.
In my copious amounts of spare time (ah, I never tire of that phrase) I’ve started to read Godel, Escher, Bach, which I’ve had recommended to me many times. The easiest, quickest, most inadequate way to describe the book is: It’s about loops. Of course, I haven’t read much of it yet, but that’s my feeling.
For a while now, I’ve been thinking about history as cyclical. Maybe not quite cyclical, but very similar events happening over and over without people noticing their impact, or noticing them at all. Things like the number of times the US has interfered with a foreign government. Or the stock market. It just seems like the world is running in circles sometimes.
One thing that we must not forget his history. All of history, not the selective histories that most people learn or pick up. History from a more unbiased perspective; or if not unbiased, then from multiple perspectives.
In other news, I’m on a big classic rock binge. The vast majority of my musical consumption has been Led Zeppelin and The Doors. Yum.
Never interrupt a mailing list with 1100+ members and ask them to get back on topic. Ever. It is very counter-productive. I’ve learned my lesson. Self-moderation is the best method. Thank you. Now back to my regularly schedules calculus.
Yesterday was big shopping trip to Toronto. Ahh home, where the shops are plentiful and the people are getting ruder by the day, it seems. But the shopping is good. I bought a Nibbler Wind-up toy and a Selphie figure from Final Fantasy VIII. As well as some ribbon cables (hey, I’m still a computer geek, I need these things) and a book for my sister’s 30– er, 24th birthday 🙂
Picked up the latest Sloan album the other day. It’s not bad, but I think I’m going to return it today. Not quite what I was looking for.
VNC for the Newton is here! Here’s my cool screenshot:
I usually don’t get political, but today is a happy freakin’ day! Why, you ask? Because Mike Harris has resigned as Premier of Ontario!
Now maybe (well, once the Conservatives are voted out) we can start rebuilding some of, no, wait, all of the things that he destroyed.
The weekend was nice. It’s nice to do almost nothing sometimes. Oh well, back to here. Not that here isn’t great too, there’s just more work to do.
Yesterday we cleaned. And cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. And then I built LEGO.
…and then the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all
Musicially, I’ve been all over the place lately. From game soundtracks (Chrono Trigger, yum!) to Phish to Moby to Shaggy, my musical mood can probably be best described as mild schizophrenia.
Classes are heating up. Many assignments and the like. Ah, yes, school, I remember what that means. I have to think about my course selection for next semester already. Grrr.
Sandy went for some surgery on Wednesday. Not a major procedure, mind you, but she was still scared and so was I. She’s doing as well as can be expected right now, thanks to all of her friends who’ve been supporting her and gave her flowers 🙂
I really haven’t been writing a lot since this September 11 thing. And not because it affected me so deeply. Well, that morning I was thinking that Bill was alright, but then I found out that he was on the roof of his building taking photos of the whole thing. I’ve just had nothing that I needed to get off my chest out to the world, it seems. Maybe it’s because I have someone to talk to and who will listen to me at any time of the day, about anything at all. I still like to keep track of some things here though. Like lists of things I’m working on! Yeah!
This from the Portable Monopoly website footer:
Copyright ? 2001 – If you are stupid enough to have to steal material from this site you probably wouldn’t show up to court anyway. So go ahead and take whatever you need.
Must… find… time… to… write
I might be getting a bit of a cold. My throat was sore yesterday, and I’m a little bit congested today, but nothing too bad. Hopefully I’ll shake it off, as I hate being sick.
Tomorrow I should get my paycheque from Resnet and on Friday get paid from the theatre. Yay! Must remember to curb my spending.
I decided to do all of my e-mail on my Newton. Every now and then I flip-flop back and forth between my Newton and a desktop for e-mail. The Newton is great because I can compose and write replies anywhere at all. But the only downside is finding a place where I can plug into the net and send/receive those messages. The other day I found an unadorned Ethernet jack in a lounge in the University Centre… I think I’ll be trying to use that sometime soon.
I also went back to using my RangeLAN2 wireless card around the apartment. It’s fun to do e-mail from the couch, totally wirelessly. Hopefully some good WaveLAN drivers for the Newton will come out soon so I won’t be the only one doing this 🙂