Someday you'll be an old bastard too.
the more you know, you know you don't know shit
I had an excellent birthday. Y'know, three weeks ago. Danny and Cimmy (
star_holder) got everyone together at the Sandbar to wish me well. They bought me seven, eights shots, I don't know. The one called the Three Gentlemen turned out to be Jack, Jim, and José, which is seriously fucking wrong. If you know me on Facebook, look at my pictures and you'll find the evidence. The KU marching band showed up, and I'm going to pretend it was for me.
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I woke up Monday morning to find three-quarters of the Evening Episode asleep in my living room. Their drummer and programmer of electronic beats, Ira, slept in the van outside. Their bassist, Chris, is Danny's brother, and Danny showed him the glories of Guitar Hero while I was at work.
I'd like to talk about the show, but it would require me to have any kind of talent for music reviews. I enjoyed it. I'd never gotten to see a theremin played live before, which was a treat. It belongs to Chris but Theresa the lead singer plays it. Not that it's the most amazing musical sound you ever heard, but you play it with your body's electrical field.
Half of my immediate coworkers have left or are leaving. I've been on the job four and a half months and am probably going to be a senior guest relations rep in the next two. This is one of those things that entails more responsibility than pay increases. It's nice to be wanted, though.
I read most of Orson Scott Card's primary Ender series in the last couple of months. I love his ability to expand outward in complexity by whole orders of magnitude in the course of a book and not lose the reader. Right now I'm reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon for the first time in over three years, after having read the prequel Baroque Cycle twice. He wrote the prequels such that it feels like he wrote them first; things in Cryptonomicon that reference the Baroque Cycle feel like callbacks even though it's anachronistic to think of them as such.
By the way--is it current accepted style to put book titles in italics rather than underlined text? I grew up underlining them and don't feel comfortable doing otherwise, but it seems like that's what you're all doing these days.
I'm going to get drunk and dance.
I had an excellent birthday. Y'know, three weeks ago. Danny and Cimmy (
star_holder) got everyone together at the Sandbar to wish me well. They bought me seven, eights shots, I don't know. The one called the Three Gentlemen turned out to be Jack, Jim, and José, which is seriously fucking wrong. If you know me on Facebook, look at my pictures and you'll find the evidence. The KU marching band showed up, and I'm going to pretend it was for me.
~
I woke up Monday morning to find three-quarters of the Evening Episode asleep in my living room. Their drummer and programmer of electronic beats, Ira, slept in the van outside. Their bassist, Chris, is Danny's brother, and Danny showed him the glories of Guitar Hero while I was at work.
I'd like to talk about the show, but it would require me to have any kind of talent for music reviews. I enjoyed it. I'd never gotten to see a theremin played live before, which was a treat. It belongs to Chris but Theresa the lead singer plays it. Not that it's the most amazing musical sound you ever heard, but you play it with your body's electrical field.
Half of my immediate coworkers have left or are leaving. I've been on the job four and a half months and am probably going to be a senior guest relations rep in the next two. This is one of those things that entails more responsibility than pay increases. It's nice to be wanted, though.
I read most of Orson Scott Card's primary Ender series in the last couple of months. I love his ability to expand outward in complexity by whole orders of magnitude in the course of a book and not lose the reader. Right now I'm reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon for the first time in over three years, after having read the prequel Baroque Cycle twice. He wrote the prequels such that it feels like he wrote them first; things in Cryptonomicon that reference the Baroque Cycle feel like callbacks even though it's anachronistic to think of them as such.
By the way--is it current accepted style to put book titles in italics rather than underlined text? I grew up underlining them and don't feel comfortable doing otherwise, but it seems like that's what you're all doing these days.
I'm going to get drunk and dance.