It has been more than two months since I’ve posted something. I guess I’ve had an uneventful summer. I was working two jobs and started an internship.
Classes begin Monday. I’ll have two, along with two jobs (one different), and an internship.
I have no readers so this doesn’t even matter.
Everyone else wants (or already got) an iPhone, but I’ve been drooling over the Helio Ocean for a while now. The hardest part is facing the switch between providers (Verizon to Helio) and facing a new 2-year contract. I’ve come up with a plus and minus list.
Positives:
Negatives:
I’ve always wanted an always-on internet device without having to pay the through-the-roof charges for EDGE or EV-DO or whatever. It just seems like a really scary purchase and commitment. Help me.
LG cell phones are in great demand due to their durable batteries. LG always leads its competitors in debuting outstandingly good camera phones and plenty of latest ringtones. LG electronics have made their name in cell phones and computers. And they provide a lifetime warrantee with several of their products.
I’ve been pretty much Window-free on my personal computer for about three months now. I started a new blog to document my foray into the world of Linux.
That is all.
Happy New Year. I’m really quite good at these month long absences of writing. Hopefully that will change. I would like to write more and take more photos to illustrate this site this year. Maybe I will actually change some things around with the way it looks too. It has been a year since I shifted over to WordPress and I haven’t done anything significant.
Maybe more later.
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I visited with my sister, Shelly, and some of her friends tonight. We were at a bar in Santa Monica. I don’t think any of us were having a spectacular time.
I got everyone to leave because I wanted to be back at my place reading the material for my classes next week. It was far more engaging than anything in that bar.
I still can’t believe I get to go to school for this stuff.
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Last night was my 3rd time seeing SY on tour in support of Rather Ripped this year. Maybe because of that or because I was behind tall people the whole show, I wasn’t entirely blown away.
The openers were way out there. The Skaters played one song for 20 minutes. It seemed like guitar fuzz only to me, but I actually enjoyed it. 16 Bitch Pile-Up was a bit different. They played mostly tape loops and effects boxes. Jeff (a fellow MLIS student that went with me) said he thought they sounded amateurish. He’s a fan of experimental music like I am, but I do see his point. Some of the clicks and pops and scratchy noises didn’t seem like there was much thought put in to them. They did have some really great sounds toward the end of their set though, mostly when the music became full and loud.
The crowd absolutely hated this band. I’ve never heard nastier things being shouted at people on stage before. I wish Sonic Youth knew how the crowd reacted to the noise and then threw the same stuff at them. I’m always up for a half an hour or more of feedback from them. They actually seemed to do a little less of that this time. “Teenage Riot” had a long outro of guitar drones, but there wasn’t much else in the set.
The set with a few annotations:
Candle (great surprise as an opener)
Incinerate
Reena
Eric’s Trip (I would’ve liked to see another Lee song since I’ve seen this 3 times)
Do You Believe in Rapture?
What a Waste
The World Looks Red (what a treat!)
The Neutral
Rats
Jams Run Free
Pink Steam (the best of the new songs played, this song rocks)
Or
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Turquoise Boy
Teenage Riot (the crowd went wild, it was great to hear)
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Lights Out
Shaking Hell
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It is Sunday in Los Angeles. I have been here since Thursday night; in my apartment since Friday morning. I met my roommate, Patrick, when he came in Friday afternoon. He seems like a real reasonable guy. This next year (or two) will not be one of those scary roommate experiences from what I can tell so far.
We were at dinner yesterday (Patrick and I) when the specter of loneliness hit me. It had been only a couple of days, and I’d been in IM and text messaging contact with friends, but I missed them greatly. Knowing that opportunities to see them would be rare I got a little sad.
So far it has been very boring. Aquiring furnishings is a priority, but finding deals seems tricky, especially when having to consider the LA traffic.
I will be returning to San Jose soon. I don’t think I can handle a week of sitting here when my job nor my classes have started. I’ll definitely be attending Ming & Ping on Saturday and a birthday party on Sunday.
I need to phase myself in to the fact that I have relocated.
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