New toy and the Village; TV; Thumbsucker; Power lunch and happy hour
2/27
I got a new toy: a 500 GB LaCie hard drive, thanks to my fellowship. In addition to providing a good backup solution and the opportunity to offload some files from my laptop's hard drive and clear up some space, I also began the arduous process of reripping all of my CDs in Apple lossless encoding. I'll write more about that in an upcoming audio-related post, but, the difference is apprciable and I've been enjoying the improvement.
Cindy called and invited me to meet her and some friends in the village at O'Neil's. Thankfully we didn't stick around long and moved onto the Ginger Man, where quality beer was consumed.
2/28-3/1
I have something written down about TV. No idea what that's about. I really need to keep better notes.
3/2
Cindy and I finally got around to watching Thumbsucker. It was enjoyable, but didn't quite capture the Wes Anderson vibe that they were going for (though it did so better than, say, Napolean Dynamite). The Polyphonic Spree's soundtrack fit but I doubt it would stand particularly well on its own.
3/3
Our Friday seminar was given by a guy from the National Library of Medicine (who fund me), and there was a call for students to go to lunch with him (a new thing). Of course, I never turn down a free lunch. Instead of doing something worthwhile we went to the Rice Faculty Center. I mean, yeah, the meal was free, so it satisfied some basic requirement, but a restaurant would have been much more preferable. The conversation itself was at least moderately interesting.
I got an invite from Dan and Kristin to come over for dinner. Kristin made a great lasagna. The company was good. Good times all around.
There was a GSC end of term happy hour at Han's Bier Haus, which was new to me. It turned out to be a nice place. Nice front and back porch, nice beer (or is it bier?) selection, etc. Cindy met up with me and we had a nice time (or at least I did; this one too would come back to bite me in the ass).
I got a new toy: a 500 GB LaCie hard drive, thanks to my fellowship. In addition to providing a good backup solution and the opportunity to offload some files from my laptop's hard drive and clear up some space, I also began the arduous process of reripping all of my CDs in Apple lossless encoding. I'll write more about that in an upcoming audio-related post, but, the difference is apprciable and I've been enjoying the improvement.
Cindy called and invited me to meet her and some friends in the village at O'Neil's. Thankfully we didn't stick around long and moved onto the Ginger Man, where quality beer was consumed.
2/28-3/1
I have something written down about TV. No idea what that's about. I really need to keep better notes.
3/2
Cindy and I finally got around to watching Thumbsucker. It was enjoyable, but didn't quite capture the Wes Anderson vibe that they were going for (though it did so better than, say, Napolean Dynamite). The Polyphonic Spree's soundtrack fit but I doubt it would stand particularly well on its own.
3/3
Our Friday seminar was given by a guy from the National Library of Medicine (who fund me), and there was a call for students to go to lunch with him (a new thing). Of course, I never turn down a free lunch. Instead of doing something worthwhile we went to the Rice Faculty Center. I mean, yeah, the meal was free, so it satisfied some basic requirement, but a restaurant would have been much more preferable. The conversation itself was at least moderately interesting.
I got an invite from Dan and Kristin to come over for dinner. Kristin made a great lasagna. The company was good. Good times all around.
There was a GSC end of term happy hour at Han's Bier Haus, which was new to me. It turned out to be a nice place. Nice front and back porch, nice beer (or is it bier?) selection, etc. Cindy met up with me and we had a nice time (or at least I did; this one too would come back to bite me in the ass).
posted by L. Maxwell Ward at 11:26 PM
