Tweets for Today

• 12:09 Bah. Committee meeting day. At least it will all be over soon. #
• 17:13 Good feedback with CM, but need to further negotiate conditions for graduation with boss. Dreading that conversation. #
• 20:06 Dinner @ Mission Burrito. #
• 22:52 I totally called this after I started Twittering: tinyurl.com/6crsup (via TMN). #

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Tweets for Today

• 11:45 Bah. Committee meeting tomorrow. Must finish presentation... #
• 12:01 Pitchfork's new fonts: difficult to read at chosen size, exacerbated by using serif for heads and sans for body, rather than vice versa. #
• 12:03 Body text is Calibri; head text is Cambria. I need per-site font settings. #
• 15:51 Made mistake of taking iBuds on the shuttle instead of Ultimate Ears. Regretting. Too many people talking engine noise. #
• 21:37 Somebody thinks they're clever, and they're right: bg5000.tumblr.com/post/31854880 #
• 21:37 Did you know Jack Handey was real? www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/04/15/books.jack.handey.ap/index.html #
• 21:43 Seems like Jack Handey and Douglas Adams had use similar techniques to construct their sentences to comedic effect. #
• 21:49 "Eldest children are punished more". I knew it! tinyurl.com/yvrra8/news/2008/04/16/npunish116.xml #
• 22:52 Dairy Queen ad narrator sounds like Dubya, or at least a Dubya impersonator. #

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Tweets for Today

• 13:28 The mystery of the unknown key has beensolved. It's to the complex's pedestrian gate. No wonder I didn't recognize it. I've never used it! #
• 14:10 Hah. This will go well. tinyurl.com/6krmrq #
• 15:17 Cool houses: tinyurl.com/5voudp #
• 15:50 Preparing for thesis committee meeting. Worst 2 parts of my year. God willing, this is my second-to-last one. #
• 17:38 First take on Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin's new album: too damned slick. #
• 18:51 I'm glad that on my iPhone, Mobile Safari no longer causes the iPod app to crash with great frequency. #
• 03:01 Enough No More Heroes for one night; I suppose it's bed time. #

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Wrong

This is very me. Except I don't really bother getting in internet arguments (often). And I really try to avoid arguing about things that I can't prove factually true. But, you know, the hatred of wrong-ness, the like of right-ness... yep...

Win is rolling his eyes.

The curse of popularity; also, why I haven't updated lately

This article from the Onion AV Club makes some nice points about why your favorite bands getting big (looking at you, Postal Service, Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire) kind of sucks. And the difference between liking music and loving music. And the difference between liking anything and loving anything.

It incorporates several themes I've been meaning to write a little essay or essays on lately. So go read it and then pretend that I said all that stuff.

So I'll get an update done soon, I promise. The last month or so has been busy. Trips out of town, company in town, lots of school. I have a thesis committee meeting next week, which is always a big deal. Cindy got me addicted to 24 DVDs (currently on season 3, and, honestly, the addiction is starting to wane). My copy of Super Paper Mario arrived on Saturday and it too has been taking up a chunk of my time. And there's always stuff to read.

But I'll get around to it. It'd just be nice if all this could be magically taken care of. It's much more fun writing about things that just happened than things that happened 4 months ago. I guess a partial solution is to start writing some posts in real-time so that they're ready to go when I catch up to the here and now...