On attracting women
From a discussion thread about bluetooth mice and charging cradles:What? Am i gonna stop by the local cafe and pull out a cradel everytime I wanna use my powerbook? Cradels dont pick up chicks. Efficient Desk Space picks up chicksUm, efficient use of desk space is nice, but spelling and punctuation are what pick up this chick. Just FYI.
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...are you sure you don't mean, "lack of spelling and punctuation will completely undermine your attempt to pick up this chick?" For all the years I've been emailing and instant messaging and blog-posting in with correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation, the impression I get is that all it's served to do is to get the content of my posts read, instead of ignored...
...but are you saying that for all of the effort I've been putting into content, in reality it's just the FORM that's been getting me all the hot internet chicks? Criminy...
...but are you saying that for all of the effort I've been putting into content, in reality it's just the FORM that's been getting me all the hot internet chicks? Criminy...
Cheese and left-handed microphones will reply to efficient yogurt salesmen. Do not disengage after a trial in surround-sound medicine. Well, if he were around the sky when I had filmed that sight of a purple orange, then muffin would have striven to damage all sorts of imitated and mocked (but never cradled) pencils.
Huh? At least the previous comment meets basic syntax rules. Guess that guy's getting all of the hot internet chicks, too.
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I'm trapped under something heavy
Twenty-five hundred pounds of boxes, to be exact. Posts will resume here when I've finished moving. In the meantime, here's a cute picture of Jill and Khaldoun.
Cubed
Today is my cube birthday (27=3^3). I haven't had this much fun since I was four (2^2) and have to wait a long time for the next mathematically-significant age (64=4^4). Other moderately interesting facts about the number 27. It should be a good year.Comments
Happy Birthday. You have many mathmatically signifigant birthdays left. You have 2^5 to look forward to, as well as 2^6. You probably won't make it to 2^7 though.
Then you have the primes to look forward to, lets see, between 27 and 100 you have 29,37,41,53,61,73,89,97, and if you can swing it 101 as well.
Then you have 42 of hitchhikers fame, and all the palindromes, 33,44,55,66,77,88,99. Although neither of these are mathmatically signifigant they are fun anyway.
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Then you have the primes to look forward to, lets see, between 27 and 100 you have 29,37,41,53,61,73,89,97, and if you can swing it 101 as well.
Then you have 42 of hitchhikers fame, and all the palindromes, 33,44,55,66,77,88,99. Although neither of these are mathmatically signifigant they are fun anyway.
Wish you were here
My dad's scuba diving in Cozumel this week. In a quick note filled with the requisite foreign-keyboard typos, he said:Did four dives yesterday, one coral scrape, a moderate sunburn, a lost dive light and a bite from a leopard eel I was harassing last night. He only got a mouthful of wetsuit, though.
Radiohead and Elliott Smith for solo piano
Pianist Christopher O'Riley has just released his second album of solo piano transcriptions of Radiohead. He explains why the complicated arena-rock anthems appeal to him:"Unlike a lot of pop groups that are chord-based—you're chunking away at a very vertical texture and structure—there's a sense of counterpoint in Radiohead's music without being arty about it; it's not like they're trying to make a Bach fugue. Most of the ideas are rather simple and yet the fact that all five of them are contributing something very particular and integral to the structure that suggests to me various ways of fitting that on the piano.
The glockenspiel in "No Surprises" suggests me playing very high up on the keyboard and I'm left with nothing below that except the sound of Thom Yorke's voice, so I've got the thumb of my left hand taking care of him. As pretty as they sound, these are the hardest pieces that I play.O'Riley performs a classical repertoire, as well:
I've been playing half-classical, half-Radiohead concerts now, most recently Shostakovich preludes and fugues which are rather thorny pieces. And the nice thing about that is as hard as they are to play and to listen to, I can go back and forth from the f-minor prelude and fugue of Shostakovich to "No Surprises" and it's a kind of leavening, a sorbet course to get the audience ready for the next big Shostakovich piece.O'Riley is now working an album of Elliott Smith pieces. He plays a gorgeous rendition of "Not Half Right" on this Studio 360 interview.
San Francisco pics (and a massive rationalization)
The very, very long silence around here can be blamed (sufficiently, though incorrectly) on my recent trip to San Francisco for a library conference. (Actually, I've been dealing with moving companies and journal editing and cell service switching and finishing with my job and playing with my new computer and a host of other stressors.) But as my friend Dinah would say, "Bad Moira. No biscuit."To atone, I've posted a few pictures from my week in SF.
Included is this one of Cáfe Madeleine, where Erin, Michelle, and I had many a tasty breakfast.
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What, no biscuit? Surely you're being too hard on yourself. You shouldn't cut yourself off entirely. If absolutely necessary, you could just scale back a little--limit your biscuit consumption to say one or two a day perhaps?
I don't envy you the task of consorting with moving companies. When I moved to OK-lahoma, my belongings arrived two and a half weeks late and at 9:30 pm. My neighbors never forgave me.
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I don't envy you the task of consorting with moving companies. When I moved to OK-lahoma, my belongings arrived two and a half weeks late and at 9:30 pm. My neighbors never forgave me.
Librarians on film
In her upcoming documentary, The Hollywood Librarian, filmmaker and librarian Ann Seidl seeks to dispel stereotypes about bun-wearing, sexually repressed bookworms milling about uselessly in libraries. Remarking on one character's experience in Sophie's Choice, Seidl said:If your patron faints and then vomits, it's a sign of a bad reference interview.Interspersing interviews with clips from such movies as Party Girl, Mathilda, and Desk Set, Seidl hopes to sex up this underlauded profession. Or at least to prevent people from treating it with undue reverence and fear. She says:
When I tell people I'm a librarian, they always say, "You don't look like a librarian." And then they act as if I were a priest or a nun—that "librarian" is some quasi-religious profession. They get all confessional, saying "You know, I haven't been to a library in years. . . . Um, I don't think I have any fines."
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