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Does such a device exist? I'm sure that many people, especially Guys, would love to just take a button that's fallen off their shirt and re-attach it with a satisfying cla-chunk. Maybe this is my big get-rich idea and I'm just throwing away any patent rights by posting it here. If that's the case, oh well. I'm waiting for a better, more exciting idea to get me motivated enough to actually do something about it. Yeah, I'm looking at you caffienated orange juice.
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Last year I made a Shoegaze For Dummies mix for some friends at work. Unfortunately, my iTunes library got screwed up shortly afterwards, so I don't have a record of exactly what was on there. However, I know that at least half the songs on this list were there, and this other one has a bit more of the obscure stuff. If I had to choose one genre to listen to forever, this would be it. I'd miss my Britpop and R.E.M, but my dreamy distortion-induced daze would more than comfort me.
Thanks to Torr for both of these links.
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I'll post some of my own photos soon, once I finally get the last couple of months of shots off my cameras. For now, check out this great shot. I think I've figured out how she did it, but it took me a few minutes. I love reflection photos, although I haven't been able to get many really good ones myself. I found this photo through the list of Magritte tags (via Kottke).
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After checking out Lifehacker's Coolest Workspace Contest, I've been on the search for the perfect desk. When I moved a few weeks ago, the old monster desk was dumped in the basement storage with hopes that someone will reply to my long-expired Craigslist ad and offer to come take away its disassembled pieces. When I moved in, I thought that I had everything sussed out. When we got access to a van or truck, I was going to head to Ikea and buy their flexible, comfortable, and wonderfully-named Jerker desk. Someone has even made a shrine to this piece of furniture. However, over the past few days I've been feeling like I need to minimize even more, so the upper shelf needs to go. I've been scouring sites from Crate and Barrel to The Container Store to Design Out Of Reach. Still, I might end up crafting my own desktop and use some combination of shelves and legs from The Container Store as the base. But I still don't know. Does anyone have any favorite desk ideas or stores? My mind can still be changed a few more times.
While on the Ikea idea: here's a blog post that claims to explain the company's naming conventions. Now I need to meet a Swedish guy named "Jerker."
Tomorrow night I head to the Garden to see Pearl Jam again. Thursday night will be spent at Great Scott for the British Accents 7th Anniversary Party. A few Brit-inspired bands from NY will be playing, and then DJ Dave will be spinning some Britastic tunes afterwards. As regular substitute DJ for the show, I'm pretty much required to go, not that I need the encouragement.
Now playing: Patti Smith - Horses
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Happy belated birthday to Drive Blind! About a year ago, on May 16th, 2005 the first post was pushed out into the interweb. I wasn't really sure what I wanted this site to be when I started it, and I can't really say that it's followed my mission statement that I laid out in the beginning, but it sure has been fun. It certainly hasn't become a huge web destination, but I do appreciate knowing that people come by to read what I write here. I want this next year to bring some more regular posting, hopefully some more music for you to hear, and finally do something about that "Photos" link on the left. Truly, one of my favorite milestones with this site was when I finally figured out how to enable comments at the end of last year. I love seeing what others have to say and enjoy the interactive aspect of the blog. I get a lot more out of it when the information on this site goes two ways. It's also resulted in a lot of comment spam, which is a pain to clean up, but I guess it shows that at least somebody is searching around the site (even if it's a web bot).
I think I'm finally coming out at the other end of the condo buying & moving madness, so I'll be back here a bit more regularly. Over the summer I hope to dive a bit deeper into really using my beloved MacBook Pro, see some great music (Radiohead in Boston!), and get my life back into some normal rhythm. Of course, I'll be starting to plan a wedding and setting up the new condo, so I'm sure that whatever nebulous plans I have will fall to pieces.
Thanks for reading and stopping by over the past year and, of course, give me a piece of your mind below here in the comments.
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Like crack for the geeky masses, it's a new Google tool. Google trends lets you see when everybody else has been searching for items. You can compare two against each other, try to understand strange peaks (i.e. what sparked a big uptick in the "loser" searches at the end of last year?), and generally waste a whole lotta time.
Tomorrow I begin blogging from the new condo, which I hope will be a more regular occurance than apartment blogging.
Finally, DailyKos tells you how to contact your telco and let them know how seething mad you are about them selling your calling history. They mention that this is against your terms of your agreemend with the phone company. If anyone knows exactly what this is violating, I'm interested to hear it. It would be good to be armed with that info before bringing it up in my call to them.
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I did the DJ thing on WMFO again yesterday. Here are links to the playlist and the archive. The music part of it turned out sounding pretty good, even though all of my CDs are currently packed away in cardboard boxes. Almost half the songs that I played were released this year, which probably makes this the most up-to-date show I've done. Check out the new Primal Scream single, "Country Girl," about 50 minutes in, or stream a better-quality version. I thought I'd written them off after the abominable Evil Heat, and then they come back with this.
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