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Tuesday, April 30, 2002
5:34 PMdirect loans
I really need a job.
I keep saying this to myself. In the same frame as I need to lose weight and I need to clean my room. I really haven't been doing much to actually get a job recently. I have stagnated at the pharmacy, and when I return home I try to divert myself from the facts, but it has been almost a year since graduation. I went to go get the Sunday paper, but they were all sold out. I would have just flicked through the pages anyway.
Where has my will gone to lately?
(this rant brought to you by the Department of Education, which sent me a bill for my student loans today.)
Saturday, April 27, 2002
11:41 AM
earthfest
Heading out to the concert soon. Haven't seen Midnight Oil since '92. Don't think I'll stay for Raitt, not much of a fan. Hope to get there in time for Garbage.
I'll be riding down.
Friday, April 26, 2002
8:15 PM
Books
I really need to update my books page. I've read 6 books since the last time I listed anything.
Things that I must buy and read in the coming months:
Biographies of:Washington
Some early histories of the US, say 1780 to 1820.
Franklin
Jefferson
I am reading Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis right now and am on an early US kick.
8:15 PM
Manson denied parole
Whew! That was a close one. The parole board was unanimous in its decision but FOX News forecasted an early release based on bad exit-polling data.
7:59 PM
What Day is it?
"...Abdullah wants to ignore yesterday, Sharon wants to ignore tomorrow, and Arafat wants to ignore today.
"...A society that makes a best seller about how to get its teenagers into Harvard will eventually build Harvards of its own. But leaders who glorify a teenager who committed suicide in a supermarket full of civilians will never build a country that can live on anything other than oil; their priorities will be too messed up." (requires free NYT account)
10:24 AM
Things I love Early in the Morning
1) The doorbell ringing at 8 AM.
2) The doorbell ringing at 8 AM when you don't have to be into work til 11:30.
3) A roommate answering the door, but only after you decide that you have to answer it and so you get out of bed, but before you get downstairs you hear the front door being opened.
4) A carpenter knocking on your Door at 8:30 AM so that he can take window measurements, after you have fallen back to sleep.
5) The fact that even while half asleep you know that the 2 windows in your room are different sizes, and have to tell this to the carpenter, who has only measured 1 window, and has just said, "well, they are both the same size so you don't have to move those plants."
Originally posted over at 53
12:04 AM
music that soothes
Medina: Mixed By Djamel Hammadi From the first track to the last, electro/jazz tunes with a middle east twist. Very late Dead Can Dance.
Champs Elysees Cafe To continue the lounge experience.
And the definite finish, Saint-Germain Cafe.
I highly recommend these.
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
4:06 PM
fave sites drying up
a (short off the top of my head) list of sites that I love that are no longer around (or that which don't post as much):
lemonyellow.com: I loved this site. This is the reason that I really noticed blogging and the reason why I started. I wish Heather didn't stop, but I am glad that she posted while she did. Otherwise I would never be here.
spacegirl.com: Angela and I went to school at the same time at West Islip High. She was a year ahead of me and the school goth. I was just a shy kid. I might have had a crush on her, but that was 10 years ago, and she has married, and I'm not telling either way. She stopped posting here, and now sometimes posts on trippyswell.com.
hoopla.com: Of course the real reason that this site has disappeared is because Network Solutions is run by apes and toads. Leslie now has it up and running on a different site. Which I just found. But I am still mad at Network Solutions, those bastards.
dooce.com: Just decided that her site was interfering too much with her life. As she lost her job because of her site, I understand her reasons. I just am sad because of them.
opinebovine.com: Just up and disappeared.
5:28 PM
online darts
oh this doesn't look good. I may never leave the house now.
Friday, April 19, 2002
12:02 AM
New Home
It feels so good to look up at the address bar and see http://www.jadedturtle.com.
I really have to go to sleep, but I really want to do all the transfers, but I also want to do it right, but I want to do it now.
I don't know if I will be able to sleep.
hrrmmph.
Monday, April 15, 2002
8:28 PM
purchases after taxes
Just bought a Nikon Coolpix 2500 2.0MP Digital Camera. I am charging the battery, and am waiting to start clicking.
Was over at Logjamming.com and they will be my new hosts once all the paperwork is done.
So yes, Martha, I will be getting a pretty choice tax return. The rest, yes there is more, will go in me savings.
Sunday, April 14, 2002
1:20 AM
500
It seems that Hoopla might not be back for some time.
It seems crazy that this could happen and I hope it gets resolved soon. Links: Textism, MetaFilter, and nothing.
This all makes me a little nervous as I am trying to transfer my first domain.
I really like (liked) hoopla and hope that it can return.
12:46 AM
Hungry?
Try Babycakes. smooth and succulent. tasty and toothless. link from Neil's Journal
Monday, April 08, 2002
1:30 AM
I will not be stamped, indexed or paraphrased
I just finished watching the first episode of The Prisoner, "Arrival", on WNET. I think that this was and is one of the best produced shows in all of television's history. I hope that WGBH brings it back into their programming line up.
The Village is a place that I hope to never visit. But viewing it is entirely different, anyone got a spare $127.46?
5:47 PM
geocities
Oh yeah thats right, I can't FTP anymore. I knew there was something I was supposed to do.
Back on blogspot til further notice.
5:35 PM
Mushrooms
I have always had a curiosity when it comes to nuclear weapons and power. I have written umpteen papers on the subject for college and high school. Likewise I have always been drawn to picture of nuclear explosions. I have a poster of one destroying an atoll on my wall above my bed.
I don't know what the fascination is. Is it a byproduct of growing up in the 70's and the 80's when we thought that nuclear war was a certainty, any day so little domestic problem would flare up to a full Thermonuclear War between us and the Soviet Union. Taking the whole planet down with us, or just the fact that the colors look cool, or is it a reminder of what we have done already and that which we may do again?
Here is an assortment of pictures of US tests. link from Daypop
Tuesday, April 02, 2002
5:36 PM
4th most wired city in america.....
..... and I am still using a 56k modem. ugh.
12:26 AM
terps are turtles too
So in the pool I picked Maryland to beat Duke. I considered attending Univ of Maryland, and I got in, but I liked Boston better. 64-52. So I'll find out tomorrow if I am the pool winner or not, don't think many people picked Maryland 2 weeks ago.
Also: It seems that my Wisdom teeth no longer want to stay quiet. My lower jaw is bugging me right now. Thought I would have a few more months.
Also, Also: I was up almost $100 at one point in the poker game, but ended up $10 down by Sunday Morning. Oh well, it was fun and the Steak Tips and Ribs were great.
