He was talking about dark side of the moon.
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Blu-ray…. pulling ahead
Listening to: The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Ahh, a breath of fresh air.. just read this morning at the better format, Blu-ray, is finally pulling ahead of the other, lesser hd-dvd. Nielsen just reported their data, and it looks like Blu-ray is selling 2:1 over hd-dvd. This is great news,and I really really hope we can resolve this format war, and that the industry realizes that blu-ray is the better format.
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Back online
Listening to: Minotaur Shock – Rinse
The blog’s back online! I took it off line a month or two ago because, well, I was feeling bad that i hadn’t really had much time to update it with lots of quality material etc. I didn’t want it to get too stale. Also, I’ve been trying to do a big redesign for over a year, but haven’t gotten around to completing it.. by taking it off line i was hoping to force myself to re-do it. And i have… kind of.
I didnt realize that people actually read this, but i guess they do, and they told me, and complained that i should put it back online. So after some prodding etc(thanks Mercedes and Ben and everyone else!), I’ve put the blog back online. And yes, its been redesigned, but its not final. I just wanted a quick template so i could get it back online with minimal fuss and maximal cleanliness. So, here it is.
The constant updates won’t last too long, thought, as I’m going gout of town for a little while at the end of the year.
Anyway, keep checking back here for more random updates. Talk to ya soon!
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Sailing in French Polynesia
Me and 5 of my friends went sailing/scuba diving/exploring in french polynesia.
My Photos on Flickr
My Videos on YouTube
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guest list…
Central park summer stage guest list table…
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Tenerife Location
Hard core. Using google earth, i managed to re-create my location and perspective. It was really quite eerie panning around that area with google earth, and then getting to see what was beyond the hill in the background and how everything is situated..
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The Crew at Ken’s Cabin
Yeah so, i havent posted in a while, but that doesnt mean i’m gone. just been super busy with work, and as far as putting stuff on the web, i have! I been quite addicted to FLICKR lately. I bought a pro membership, and am currently in the process of uploading ALL of my old pictures to it (although most are ‘private’, its still cool to have them online for myself). I’m up to about 7800 now, after month 2 of being a member, and i’m waiting for next month to put more on, because i allready filled my 2gb monthly quota this month! Anyway, i’ll be making a lot more pics “public” and “friends only” soon.. just have to find the time to troll through all the sets and add captions and descriptions, change the sharing levels etc.. 7800 is a lot of photos to get through… and i’m only halfway done.
Stay tuned.Also, stay tuned for a pic or two from my sister Jill’s college graduation!
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Jeff and Bren on the Vortex
Bren and I on the Vortex rollercoaster at Kings Island. We were young. I found this photo in an old shoebox last time I went home. I don’t know why I’m posting it.. just thought it was funny.
Also, I just bought a Flickr pro membership, so i can store lots of photos and whatnot on flickr. It’s a pretty cool service, and offers lots of flexibility. For a whole flickr photo album, check out the Winter Music Conference post, below. -
Longest race yet…
Listening to: Boozoo Bajou – Dust My Broom
Yes, this morning I actually pried myself out of bed at freaking 7 am, put on my running shoes, and trekked up to central park to run at top speed 9.3 miles (15K) in the pouring rain. Yes, this was a Sunday morning, and no, nobody was cattle prodding me to do it. I did it because I wanted to. Um, right?
Yeah so anyway, I did do the race.. the longest one I have ran so far, in an effort to qualify for the 2007 NYC Marathon, and to whip my ass into shape first “for the ladies”, and secondly for the upcoming 2006 NYC Marathon, which I may or may not get into by way of a lottery. (That the only way I can (legally)run the 06 marathon, since you have to qualify for it the previous year)
This 15K was a run for Colon Cancer.. It’s always good to run for a cause, I suppose.This was the 3rd qualifying race for the marathon, and the longest purely running race I’ve ever done. Kind of scary thinking about running the marathon.. my legs were killing me by the end of this race, and even sitting here tonight, my hip flexors are sore, and I have a dime sized blister on the left arch of my foot.. think its time for some new running shoes, and/or new insoles. (I’ve had my most exelente Sauconys for about a year now, so its def time for a new pair anyway.)
Here’s a screen shot from my results, and a link to my results page.
In other news the rest of the weekend was not incredibly eventful… Friday night was spent.. um.. oh yeah, right.. After work, I went to meet Jill at a secret restaurant in the East Village where we had the best, cheapest and quickest Japanese sushi and soup ever.. good stuff. Then Jill went home to sleep off the rest of her cold, and I took an hour and walked from the East Village back home to the West Village. It was good, cause it was a great warm night out, and I got to listen to a good portion of this amazing audio book I am listening to… it’s called “The River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey” by Candice Millard, and it’s about Theodore Roosevelt’s 1913 journey down the Amazonian River of Doubt with his son Kermit and a group of Brazilains. It’s super fantastic, and there’s a ton of stuff about natural history, rainforest ecology, presidential history, and adventure! I would defininetly recommend you read it or listen to it asap. (the abridged audiobook is available on amazon.com, but I would recommend, if you’re doing the audiobook thing, to get the unabridged version, available on the iTunes music store, and at audible.com)
So back to my walk. It was good, and as I approached 6th avenue, I walked through a giant mob on the sidewalks on the fray between Greenwich Village and the West Village. It was such a nice night, I guess everyone was just hanging out on the sidewalk… Refreshing. It kind of reminded me of living in Spain and going to Plaza Einstein to Botellon. (Although it’s a little difficult getting ahold of 29 Cent “Slap Naranja” in the West Village).
Saturday was moderately uneventful. I slept till 2 or so. (I stayed up late Friday night installing Ubuntu Linux on an old computer. I know, I’m super cool etc) After doing a few errands etc, I went to babysit a little, made some cash money, then went home to sleep for the race today.Hmm, I feel like writing dry summaries of my weekends is kind of lame and old, but that’s pretty much what I’ve got so far.
Coming up, though, should hopefully be slightly more action packed… I’m going to Florida for the weekend next weekend, and its a distant possibility that I will be going to M3 the following weekend. We’ll see how that goes and if I can swing the plane tickets and accommodations. Oh, and the missing work. Right….
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Subway fun
Listening to: Radio1190
Fantastic tool for making your own subway signs! (Link)First!
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Work work work
Listening to: Tosca – J.A.C.
Ok, i swear, i’m gonna start blogging more.. but lately its been super super busy… i’ve been working a lot at Giant Step doing the street team thing, and just started working at Stanton Social running food.. cool place, and i got to meet Liv Tyler tonight when she was eating there…Also, i just picked up 2 dj residencies at Triple Five Soul and Diesel, so those are fun.
Ugh, ok, i will write more soon, but i’m waking up at 8am tomorrow, doing errands till 10am, then working at GS from 11-6:30, then at Stanton Social from 7 to 3am, then coming home, packing, and leaving for Las Vegas at 7am the next morning. Crazyness. More on the Vegas trip soon….
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Time Traveler Convention
From https://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/
The Time Traveler Convention
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)What is it?
Technically, you would only need one time traveler convention. Time travelers from all eras could meet at a specific place at a specific time, and they could make as many repeat visits as they wanted. We are hosting the first and only Time Traveler Convention at MIT in one week, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Why do you need my help?
We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that future time travelers will know about the convention and attend. This web page is insufficient; in less than a year it will be taken down when I graduate, and futhermore, the World Wide Web is unlikely to remain in its present form permanently. We need volunteers to publish the details of the convention in enduring forms, so that the time travelers of future millennia will be aware of the convention. This convention can never be forgotten! We need publicity in MAJOR outlets, not just Internet news. Think New York Times, Washington Post, books, that sort of thing. If you have any strings, please pull them.
Great idea, I’d love to help! What should I do?
Write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them into obscure books in academic libraries! Carve them into a clay tablet! If you write for a newspaper, insert a few details about the convention! Tell your friends, so that word of the convention will be preserved in our oral history! A note: Time travel is a hard problem, and it may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into oblivion. Thus, we ask that you include the latitude/longitude information when you publicize the convention.
You can also make an absolute commitment to publicize the convention afterwards. In that case, bring a time capsule or whatever it may be to the party, and then bury it afterwards.
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Cincinnati Night… 3-Ways and everything!
Listening to: Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll
New York City is absolute crazyness! I’ve been workin really hard lately, trying to move my way up at my internship…. going well, too! I’m now heading up the expansion/creation of our Radio Promotions department… so hopefully that will go well.. also, i just took a job waiting tables in times square… not the ideal location, but untill something better comes along, it will be fine.. at least to bring in some spending cash…Went to Crobar on Friday night to see Sasha and John Digweed…. was a good show, super loud, and ben, denise, melissa and i all got comp tickets, cause my company does john’s radio promotion.. that place is insane! it was packed body to body from about midnight untill 8am… ask ben, he stayed all night, i hear.
Talked to a few excelent and amazing people in boulder last night while i was babysitting…. apparently, as we all expected, mannequin makeout is still kicking ass, rocking huge audiences…. Mannequin makeout, you guys should really come play in new york! I will help get you booked! Also, i wonder how their cd is coming along..
Finally, i saw my very first soccer game at giants stadium saturday night.. despite the pouring, driving rain and insanely long and convoluted expedition out there, it was fun and exciting… i’m beginning to see why its somewhat popular in the rest of the world.
Ok, and tonight, i’m meeting Jesse and Emily at Edwards restauraunt, for an excelente Cincinnati Night.. We’re getting Skyline, LaRosas, Graeters and Montgomery Inn.. Should be wonderful, although eating Skyline in a “formal” setting seems a little inappropriate.. but whatever, its still skyline.
Oh oh, one last thing.. after about 5 hours or re-arranging boxes in my closed (read: apartment), i managed to extract a couch from the rubble, and then managed to stack up enough off the floor to make space for the couch in front of one of the windows.. soo…..i now have a couch for you to sleep on! So come to the city and visit!
The 3-Way beckons…
+++UPDATE+++UPDATE+++
Listening to: New Radicals – Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed…
Wow.. i was just at Little giant with Jesse and Emily, and we heard two excelente songs … Funkytown, by Lipps Inc., and almost all of “Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed…” by the New Radicals… remember those guys? They had one single years ago, and i thought they pretty much went away… but i guess not.. and actually, i quite enjoyed them.. amazing.
Went to see Sin City tonight as well… fun and exciting, incredible movie
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Expat
Listening to: Multicast – Further Obliq Perspectives
Theres a lot to post and so little time to post it. I’m heading off to Managua, Nicaragua tomorrow morning on business, but i will be back late next week. Here’s whats to come….
-Scissor Sisters at the Gothic Theater (pics)
-Mannequin Makeout at the Bluebird Theater (pics and interview with the drummer)
-Camping with Mercedes (pics and official wrapup courtesy of Mercedes)
-Nicaragua scouting trip (pics, business perspective)
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New York a gogo
Listening to: The Avalanches – Breezeblock (BBC Radio One)
Ok, so heres a little rundown of what i’ve been up to in the east so far:
July 23 – 26 – Chilled in NH with Jason at his summer camp. It was fun to go back to summer camp, at least just to see it… it made me remember all 5 of my summers at camp in Maine, spent chilling out on the lake sailing, shooting archery and riflery, and countless hours in the darkroom developing film and printing pictures for the camp newspaper…. ahh, the memories.
July 27 Chilled in NYC with parents and relatives, met people at APT in the meat packing district.
July 28 dinner with sister, seeing relatives etc
July 29 Charles in town, went out to some bars on the east side, met Clinique counter girls
July 30 Went over computer stuff with Richard, talked to music people, got Saki with Jill
July 31 Swam on the roof at the Soho House, met cool people, saw Sara for her 20th birthday, went clubbing
Aug 1 Went up to Greenwitch to chill with Charles among the boxes
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Communism Is For Lovers
Listening to:Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang
Coming up this Friday,from the mastermind of Ben Popken…
COMMUNISM IS FOR LOVERS
Friday June 4th 9pm
1523 18th St, 3a – Denver
electrocockrock, booty-bass – -DJ’s Popken, Sara T
biporno electropunk- – – – – – Houston Bernard
so ladytronesque – – – – – – – XOXOXO
electropop2cute – – – – – – – my velcro
Eyecandy by Eyecandy Magazine
www.houstonbernard.com
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Nigerian Bank Scam
Listening to:
Excelente, I got in my email today a nigerian bank scam email! Sweet…. when will i get my millions?
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 02:13:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: “frank 99”
Subject: urgent………….
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
MONEY TRANSACTION
My name is Mr Scott Hardy, and I work in the
International operation department in a Local Bank
here in South Africa On a routine inspection I
discovered a dormant domiciliary account with a BAL.
Of 36,000,000 (Thirty Six Million USD) on further
discreet investigation, I also discovered that the
account holder has long since passed away (dead)
leaving no beneficiary to the account.
The bank will approve this money to any foreigner
because the former operator of the a/c is a foreigner
and from Iraq in particular and I am certainly sure
that he is dead, and nobody will come again for the
claim of this money A foreigner can only claim this
money with legal claims to the account Holder;
therefore I need your cooperation in this transaction.
I will provide the necessary information needed in
order to claim this money, But you will need to open
an account where this can be transferred.
If interested send your private Telephone No. And Fax
number including full details of the account to be
used for the Deposit I wish for utmost confidentiality
in handling this transaction as my job and the future
of my family would be jeopardized if it were breached.
I want to assure you that the transaction is without
risk if due process is followed accordingly. Finally,
I will give you 25% for your corporation.
I look forward to a favorable response from
Your’s faithful
Mr Scott Hardy. -
Spring Break 2004 Wrapup
Listening to: Greyboy – Soul Mosaic
Ok, so spring break 2004 is over, and it was great. Chris is going to finish the synopsis tonight, so that should be online shortly, but in the meantime, check out to pictures, and leave a comment!
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Spain Nostalgia
Subject: Spain Nostalgia
Ok so I just read the latest dispatch from my friend Charles, who just arrived in Madrid, Spain, on his way to Granada… Where I studied last semester. I though i was done with the place when i left but i guess not.. looking back on it, going to study abroad, especailly in spain, was one of the best things i have ever done… i got to do a ton of traveling, refine my spanish, and learn how to live in spanish society.. it was soo cool. So anyway, wish Charles luck in spain… I’m sure he’ll have a great time partying it up in Granada… chilling at Granada10, Camborio, Jade, Mystic, Fiesta Punto, the Alhambra, Sacromonte, and going to those wonderful classes at CLM…In other news, life in Boulder has been hectic… Althought I haven’t been doing an incredible amount of school work, its still taking up a lot of my time… i wish i could just sit down and do it all and get it over with, so i can focus on other things, but i can… just gotta make the best of it. My Acid Lounge Entertainment venture is going along well…. nothing huge yet cause i just havent had the time… but we’re working on it. I met this girl Kate the other day at a party.. shes cool and we’ve been hanging out a little lately.. guess we’ll have to see how that goes…
