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Monday, November 24, 2003
7:05 PM55 of 500
Rolling Stones Top 500 Albums
Some of the 55 I own and their ranking:
1. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The BeatlesHmmm, maybe I should make links to my Amazon account for all the ones I own.
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
35. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie
62. Achtung Baby, U2
110. The Bends, Radiohead
156. Paul's Boutique, Beastie Boys
200. The Downward Spiral, NIN
305. Odelay, Beck
322. Ghost in the Machine, The Police
326. Disintegration, The Cure
342. Violator, Depeche Mode
419. Dummy, Portishead
470. Document, R.E.M.
Saturday, November 22, 2003
3:26 PM
The problem with Paul Ford
Is that everything on his site is funny, and easy to find.The scientist we spoke with, Dr. Charles Pinglador, wore a smock and nothing else. Also during that meeting, a goat ran out in the middle of the meeting, screamed out several key scenes from King Lear, and keeled over dead.
This makes it difficult to appreciate.
3:03 PM
This gave me a small headache
Perfect Magic Cube of Order 5 Discovered.
I just hope, that tonight, I don't dream of Magic Cubes. Math dreams make me a little crazy. When in school, I would sometimes wake after dreaming in equations. Spending your whole night dreaming of Longitudinal and Lateral Equations of Motion [PDF] are enough to push you over the edge.
Literally.
Friday, November 21, 2003
11:58 PM
5 stars
The only problem with watching the extended editions is that you want to see the extended edition of the next film. You don't want to wait until a year from now to see The Return of the King extended edition, you want to see it on December 17th.
The additions were very well placed and bring more elements of the book into the movies. I won't talk about them more, don't want to spoil it for you.
But Buy it now.
Watch it now.
I think I will be having a Lord of the Rings showing of the first 2 extended the weekend before Return of the King premieres.
6:32 PM
Plans
I had no idea what I was going to do tonite. I was going to play it by ear, then I got home.
This arrived from Amazon.
I won't be leaving the house tonite. I am going to pop some popcorn, get some soda and sit back and watch.
I still haven't decided if I want to watch the Extended Fellowship before, and get the back to back experience tonite or wait til before Return of the King.
12:07 PM
I used to do this on my answering machine
BRIDGEKEEPER: Hee hee heh. Stop! What is your name?
Script of Monty Python and The Holy Grail
ARTHUR: It is Arthur, King of the Britons.
BRIDGEKEEPER: What is your quest?
ARTHUR: To seek the Holy Grail.
BRIDGEKEEPER: What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
ARTHUR: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
BRIDGEKEEPER: Huh? I-- I don't know that! Auuuuuuuugh!
BEDEVERE: How do know so much about swallows?
ARTHUR: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
3:44 AM
Give an inch lose a TV show
There are only 2 shows this season that I would sell my future offspring to watch. 24 and Carnivale.
So, there is only 1 thing that can make me happy, the ability to watch these 2 shows. Now Luckily Carnivale is on whenever I want, thanks to on demand, but 24 is only on Tuesday nights at 9pm. Last year Fox would show it 3 times a week, once on Fox and then twice on FX. Unfortunately this year it is different:
We have NO plans to repeat any of the episodes of the show this season - on either FOX nor FX.The problem for me is that I don't have a programmable VCR. If I want to record a show I have to press record manually when the show is on. (Don't ask, combo VCR/TV with no remote) Last Tuesday, I forgot to do this and to my horror missed episode 3. I am still kicking myself over that one.
So get that VCR humming if you can't watch the show in its regular TUES 9pm ET/PT timeslot.
Thanks for writing
ASKFOX (Email from Fox TV's Website)
This week I made sure that the TV was on and the VCR recording before I left the house at 7PM for my weekly night of darts and beer. I got home to find that someone entered my room, as it was no longer locked. A voicemail had informed me earlier that the wireless network went down. So I assumed someone entered to reset the modem and wireless radio.
The TV was off when I entered the room.
With just 10 minutes left (Oh yeah I fucking checked),usually the best part of 24, one of my housemates turned off my TV, therefore stopping the taping of those minutes. (TV/VCR combo units suck)
Now my housemates have the right to reset the modem and the wireless radio, as I have told them they can enter my room to do so, but they aren't allowed to touch ANY-FUCKING-THING-ELSE!!!!!!!!!!
I am very pissed and pissed off right now. I don't even want to watch the 50 minutes I have taped, its almost useless.
AARRRGGGHHHHHHH!
(It's the little things that will cause the heart attack some day)
I really fucking need that TiVo (but I still haven't been paid for work yet)
Monday, November 17, 2003
11:58 PM
Just some boring facts.
Added some flicks to my Wish List and updated the rest of it. (As in I bought them myself.)
Carnivale has become my favorite new series of this season. Sampson appeared to me in my dreams last night, which has to be better than having Scudder in my head, but not by much (who really wants a Carny Dwarf in their head). My cable service just upgraded me to On Demand and I get to watch any episode whenever I want. Its making me crave a TIVO.
Badly.
If I actually get paid this week I might be tempted to buy one.
I have been really tired lately, yet here I am up at almost midnight instead of trying to get some shuteye.
Elsewhere:
Let them sing - An odd little flash, still missing words though.
The greatest album covers that never were - Kind of useless actually.
Send Them Back! - Feeling guilty about all those downloaded MP3s? Here's the solution. Love the layout, so 1980's poster.
2:50 AM
Pats 12-0
Good game, but I need sleep.
Saturday, November 15, 2003
11:58 PM
Malaise
I think, for the second weekend in a row, I am sick. I am not positive that I am sick this weekend because all I am doing right now is sneezing. I also have a little bit of congestion. It could just be the dust as I am cleaning* my room again, and I am allergic to 68.3% of all forms of dust and dander.
If I am sick, it better just be for a few more hours, I hopefully should feel all better by around 4PM tomorrow. I am going to the Pats - Cowboys game, which starts at 8:30, and I don't want to be sick while tailgating.
Cause that would suck.
I really need to organize my books, and papers, and magazines, and clothes, and fuck all else.
Ugh, I really don't feel well.
Go some place else:
Mom finds out about blog - The Onion
How to fix it so that Mom doesn't find the blog - Blogger
40 Best Directors in the World - Guardian Unlimited (I really think the Coens should have been Number 1)
* - Note: If I took 2 months off of work, spent that whole time cleaning, organizing, storing, throwing out and shuffling all the items around in my room, IT WOULD STILL BE A COMPLETE AND UTTER FUCKED UP MESS.
Friday, November 14, 2003
5:37 PM
Out for a pint, be back soon
Guinness is Good For You - OFFICIAL
Thursday, November 13, 2003
12:37 AM
New Who
Few things make me chirp like a bird with happiness.
This definitely did. New Doctor Who episodes on BBC 1 in 2005. I just need to find a job and an apartment in London and the world will be marvelous.
If I had found out in September my life would have been so much more happier these past few months.
Yes I am insane.
Sunday, November 09, 2003
12:39 AM
Purrrfect
Upgrade went smoothly. Now to play with my new pet.
Saturday, November 01, 2003
12:48 PM
Briefest stint as President ever
Daniel Goldin, former NASA Administrator, was supposed to be sworn in as President of BU today. But instead the school gave him $1.8 million to walk away.
That's a good use of school resources, don't ya think? The next time I get an email or letter asking to donate to my former school I'll send this Globe article instead.
From the email I received from the Board of Trustees:
"Also, the Board and Daniel Goldin reached a mutual agreement that he will not become the next President of the University. Each party wished the other well and agreed not to disclose any further details of the resolution."Excerpt from email from Dr. Aram V. Chobanian, the newly appointed President ad interim and Dean of the Medical School:
"I am truly honored to be selected to lead this outstanding university and thank the Trustees for their overwhelming support. Boston University is going through a difficult transition in leadership that will need to be resolved quickly and then be put behind us so that we can continue to build upon the extraordinary existing strengths of our institution."We'll see where the school goes now, and if they can get anyone to become President after this fiasco.
1:23 AM
139 words.
Nanowrimo 2003 has begun.
No title or name for the main character but a start has been begun, and words written.
Just 49,861 more words to go.
