Random things again…
… because i have no time for a real post at the moment.
Want to watch international soccer matches online but only have telnet access? Don’t fret! There’s always ASCII-fied World Cup coverage!
OUPblog combats “marriage protection” FUD.
YouTube loveliness: first, Stevie Wonder sings his own heavily funkdafied version of the Sesame Street theme, then we go back and watch him perform “Superstition” for the kids. And we wrap up with the geekiest mashup I have seen in aaaaaaages.
Pride STL was over this past weekend, and I’m still recovering from the festivities. A more complete recap later, and perhaps this time there’ll be pictures.
Learned recently that not only does my mother read this blog, but also that she wants to go to “Showtune Tuesdays” at a local gay bar. These revelations came within minutes of each other, and it took Fred and I a solid hour until the second one really sunk in. (in the car on the way home: “Wait — did your mother just say that she wanted to go to Showtune Tuesday?” “Whoa. She did.”)
I won a cryptex from Google for being a superawesome puzzle solver. w00t. It’s cool even though you only have to solve the last two characters to open it. Too bad I didn’t win their grand prize, though.
My current musical obsessions are Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (fast becoming this year’s summer song), the Pointer Sisters “Pinball Song” (scroll down a bit; anybody who has ever watched Sesame Street knows this one), and Miranda “Don” (a fun bit of Spanish-language pop I found on Fluxblog a few months back).
Food-wise, re-discovering pan sauces… after successfully adapting one printed on the back of a package of frozen tilapia fillets, I found an even better one online, which is hereby recommended both for its flavor and for its simplicity.
Work? Heh. Ask me later.
Backing up the iPod to my home file server even as I type this. It’s a long process — 18GB doesn’t get there in the blink of an eye, even through fat pipes — but I’m making serious headway. Once the initial backup is made I plan to run Unison every so often to keep things up-to-date.
And now, to the homework section: go read Perge Modo “Found Objects“, Joe.My.God “My Gaydar is Not 20/20“, and anything from AngryBlackBitch but most especially “ABB’s planned discussion with the sorta-gentlemen from Missouri“.
Talk more later. Sorry ’bout the delays.
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