if you are like me, then i dont want to meet you. cross the streams, protonic reversal, you know the shiz. but if you are like me, you dont have a mac. you might have an iphone, but you dont have a mac. lets take this a step further.
if you have an iphone, and have a pc, then you have itunes.
itunes on a pc. itunes on a quad core pc. itunes on any pc.
sucks. itunes has gotten so bad that i get into a bad mood when i launch it. i get mean. i get angry. im not someone you want to fuck with when i have itunes open.
yesterday, the clouds parted. no, not the kind of parting where you think “holy fucking shit the clouds just parted and i had a revelation.” more like “hey lookie there some clouds are parting!”
for it to be the former, the foobar plugin foo_dop would have to work perfectly with my iphone. it does not. yet. however, the latter has been achieved with mediamonkey.
i know i know. mediamonkey is uglier than monkey turdz. it used to be anyhow. now it is passable with some mediocre skinning.
still, it is far superior to itunes for managing music, tagging music, and syncing to the iphone. oh and not generally sucking huge piles of memory and dinosaur shit.
so now itunes has been relegated to firmware updater, iphone backup, and background suckass. i can use my iphone with ease and transfer music with ease.
a lot of other stuff in my life is going on. its all good. saw paul rusasabagina speak at TU thanks to margarets headsup. still love the life out of the ratatat remixes album. still love mitch hedberg. playing games = awesome. taking walks at night : awesome. gaming with dongle –> awesome. cooking, delicious. the rigs are informative. the cat is dapper. the pants i wear are all too baggy. the face is devastatingly 5′oclock shadow at all hours. the pile of shit on my desk at home is getting taller and taller even after i finish everything on it. the pile of shit on my desk at work disperses then gets moved to my whiteboard.
here are some videos i took on my phone that i havent rotated yet. if your life is good why not quit checking faceshitbook all the time and call me up and chat with me? fuck the internet. <3 internetz.
http://flickr.com/photos/saboot/3290379725/
http://flickr.com/photos/saboot/3290375761/
http://flickr.com/photos/saboot/3290374239/
im having fun. rawk your face you lovable monkey.
i found arthur ganson when i was in chicago. the kind of art that when you see it the first time you realize you are a total hack at everything that you yourself do.
i heard the song meu canário yesterday and realized just how vulnerable i am to pretty songs like this. its an interesting song for me because i suddenly find myself in tulsa in a new world with new people who have already grown familiar with things and here i am. new to my home, new to my career, and once again climbing into a new place alone and unsure of how to react to most things. i have been fortunate as i have made great friends so quickly and one of my best friends from austin just moved into town.
i spent the week of christmas in atlanta with my sister this year. she is a doctor and she was on call the whole week which thrilled me because i finally got to see her in action. she is good i love the clark kent to man in tights transition she makes it is gripping. we had great fun simply working on little tasks she had, listening to music, and laughing for little to no reason. christmas dinner was sushi and udon and it was delicious. she did not get called too often so the bulk of the time was chillacks and we even managed to meet good friends of ours for the most delectable vietnamese food i have ever salivated over. COM vietnamese grill. that would be nazias props and nobody elses.
i miss my sister a lot and unfortunately somehow she and i have never managed to end up in the same city since we left high school in houston. while we talk all the time on the phone it just isnt the same as cooking beans and meeting friends together. i suppose this year i have felt more wrung out from such thoughts than others. too many hoops i guess to hop through in a small amount of time.
leaving my friends in austin was extremely tough on me because i have the best friends in the universe and they constantly proved it. worse yet i knew i was moving to a place that in itself is not on the map for travel, so in a way it was saying bye to many of my friends for a while. travel is expensive and i suppose if you are making your dimes count tulsa does not come up on the lonely planet priority list. well unless you go to page 194 where it says “if passing through tulsa be sure to stop by and say hi to samir he misses you and is also still attempting to do handstands without success.”
while i knew my work was going to rock the coconuts i did not know how it would be to enter into a conservative city smaller than austin. it wouldnt have mattered i guess if i was married and wrapped up in my own life, but single, n00b, and friendless, i felt like i was starting the same uphill climb again that was going to drain me of energy once again. it turns out i was partially right. its draining to make new friends, new habits, and new routines. and i have even started dating here, which i did so rarely in austin that it feels like hanging from monkey bars. i sucked at the monkey bars then and now, so i guess ive come full circle. the last six months have been more active than most of the time i spent in school collecting my second degree.
on new years i hung out with alan and michelle. we played darts and monopoly and watched bad movies and ate QT pizza and it was great. alan pretty much called me out on any urban myths that needed clarification. in case youre wondering john amos yes AMOS not STAMOS is alive and well. i guess if i had been watching television for any time in the last four years that one would not have sneaked by me. still. taken in by john stamos, taken in by j amos. screwed in 09. already.
im not one to make resolutions. they are stupid. words are beautiful but they can be shoveled out by the truckload and yet cause no real change in spite of their beauty. most of my changes were dropped into my tomato sauce months ago and the sauce is simmering right about now.
so tomorrow a big thing for me is finally starting my stint volunteering for hospice. i havent explicitly volunteered since when i was a biochemistry student in austin. but the random compulsion to do so was very much the same then too i suppose. it took a really long time to work out the paperwork and references and test and background checks but finally tomorrow i will get to see patients and im quite excited albeit nervous. while my sister and mom have worked in healthcare for years now i am completely new to the setting and i have little to no personal experience in this arena. i dont think it will get in the way though, and if it does ill find out extremely quickly im sure.
i have been to a few hockey games and seen pucks flying by at 932,000 miles an hour and now have a firm foothold from which to give you everything you need to decide whether to go to a hockey game. if you are on the front row, GO. if you are not on the front row, PASS. pretty much that simple. if you arent hearing a puck whizz by or hearing a guy grunt as he leaps into a wall to prevent another guy from tapping a cookie across the ice, then you damn sure cant hear the zamboni churning the ice into a nice solid floor to glide on. i mean, what the hell is left? ill tell you whats left. a totally pathetic attempt at stirring up a dram of patriotism from an unenthused crowd with crap renditions of the anthem. lame end of period theatrics that are like americas funniest (not funny at all) home videos. there are girls wearing impractical uniforms on the ice, dumb rodeo like games on tricycles, and extremely overpriced beer and brats. you can get all of that at my apartment so just come over here instead and pocket the ticket money.
piu piu, piu piu
it got cold again tonight. i like it cold here. at least right now. at some point im going to start biking to work and i want it to start during the cold. another stupid arbitrary decision i have made. ill make more im sure this year. stay tuned for them.
i hope that this was not negative. ive tried very hard to be less of a sarcastic dick in tulsa. i mean i dont plan to be less hostile to stupid people so no slack on that front. if you say something fucking dumb and then ask me why im quiet its because im preserving the peace and letting my sarcastic disquietude speak for itself. the overall air will be placid and aloof which is what im shooting to attain at some point in my manic life. unfortunately though im going to leave things with a negativism. or at least a call to negativism in a dignified and tasteful fashion.
this new year is different for me in that it marks the first year i have felt a palpable air of terribleness brewing in every aspect in my world. there is war there is depression there is class disparity there is recklessness wastefulness and worst of all there is callousness. there are things in the news right now in pretty much every country that should make you cry every hour on the hour.
so stop fucking basting the turkey with happiness and pretending its your right to ignore all of that and pantomime your stupid traditions and keep getting wasted on your good fortune. make 2009 worth something more than dumb party hats and getting drunk on shit champagne.
<3
Bones, sinking like stones
All that we fought for
Homes, places we’ve grown
All of us are done for
We live in a beautiful world,
Yeah we do, yeah we do,
And we live in a beautiful world,
Bones, sinking like stones
All that we fought for
Homes, places we’ve grown
All of us are done for
We live in a beautiful world,
Yeah we do, yeah we do,
We live in a beautiful world.
Oh, all that I know,
There’s nothing here to run from,
And yeah, everybody here’s got somebody to lean on.
(coldplay, pre-suckage)
a glimmer of indifference in an expected sea of sarcasm and insignificance
the last month really seems like it happened in moments. fleeting moments too. i have become enmeshed in good work, so my days i dont have to worry like others about being bored at work. as a matter of fact i have the luxury of ALWAYS wanting to work hard because there are so many cool things i want to do at work. im fortunate in this respect, i realize this.
in no particular order here are some interesting things going on in my neck of the forest for the trees:
went to india. my mom set me up with a ticket to india to go to my two cousins weddings in pune. met up with my sister in newark, and we flew there together. while there was much anxiety the day before, the terrorist situation melted away after a huge military convergence. so we flew into mumbai and drove straight to pune without issue.
i decided to try something new out so i left the camera at home and use only my iPhone for all pictures, knowing there would be other people taking pics. i took the phone also knowing that with all the neat toys and goofy image editing apps i waste time with that lots of people would be entertained, and i was right! you can see my pictures here:
http://flickr.com/photos/saboot/sets/72157610905198862/
it worked out pretty well mainly because i knew my sister was taking great pics which you can see here: http://flickr.com/photos/yasboo/sets/72157610861520738/
im back now and while happy to return to work and my apartment, i cant help but feel differently after this trip. i guess its the bustling and active lifestyle people have to have due to all of the infrastructure problems. in spite of the power outages, the dense living, the pollution, the corruption with the government, and the host of interesting foibles related to living in a place where so much of your family lives, i am compelled. who knows where i end up but there is india literally in my blood so i wont deny the propensity i have for one day living in the country my parents are so in love with.
i will post a slightly more detailed impression of my trip later, but im working on other things related to the trip so i doubt it will be as matter of factly blogged so that i dont spoil the punch with lots of dirty dipped hands.
this holiday season is a weird one in so many ways. i will be going to atlanta to hang out with sister instead of houston with the parents. it would be extra splendid to go to houston because my cousin and her hub, plus another cousin are visiting my parents, but i had decided earlier to go to atlanta. everything is cool boss. we will have fun. the cat is going to go with me because she needs a change of venue.
also i will be starting hospice soon. this is very exciting for me. at this point its relatively inexplicable why though, so more on that after it has progressed.
technical topics i may or may not have conveyed:
i have an iphone and i like it more than you love your first amendment. yes. i said it you slub. iphone is a brilliant device in spite of the shitty management of apple with bloated software that can make you a sandwich and throw it up on your face. get one and join the world.
xbox dashboard is brilliant. watching macguyver season 1 through netflix via xbox is brilliant. 3 person voip chat a tat is brilliant. get one and leave the world.
i have begun putting my new nightstand into effect. its coming and its going to change my life. my life being relatively simple and constant, minor perturbations will have significant effects. you should see what weird cheese does to me.
steven helped me properly format the sidebar on my page. it looks nice. you should check it out and then pour a 40 out in honor of stevens work. the only two major changes coming on the blog are replacing those dumb pictures in the header ribbon with less general and less totally boring images, and retagging every single post i have. i have decided my tagging scheme is so convoluted that i cant properly access my own posts.
what else is there? it is tundra here. solid cold. i dig it, but i really need to start layering clothes, as in ways it is colder than chicago. i am spent.
hope you are getting plenty of fiber.
if you are like me, then i dont want to meet you. cross the streams, protonic reversal, you know the shiz. but if you are like me, you dont have a mac. you might have an iphone, but you dont have a mac. lets take this a step further.
if you have an iphone, and have a pc, then you have itunes.
itunes on a pc. itunes on a quad core pc. itunes on any pc.
sucks. itunes has gotten so bad that i get into a bad mood when i launch it. i get mean. i get angry. im not someone you want to fuck with when i have itunes open.
yesterday, the clouds parted. no, not the kind of parting where you think “holy fucking shit the clouds just parted and i had a revelation.” more like “hey lookie there some clouds are parting!”
for it to be the former, the foobar plugin foo_dop would have to work perfectly with my iphone. it does not. yet. however, the latter has been achieved with mediamonkey.
i know i know. mediamonkey is uglier than monkey turdz. it used to be anyhow. now it is passable with some mediocre skinning.
still, it is far superior to itunes for managing music, tagging music, and syncing to the iphone. oh and not generally sucking huge piles of memory and dinosaur shit.
so now itunes has been relegated to firmware updater, iphone backup, and background suckass. i can use my iphone with ease and transfer music with ease.
a lot of other stuff in my life is going on. its all good. saw paul rusasabagina speak at TU thanks to margarets headsup. still love the life out of the ratatat remixes album. still love mitch hedberg. playing games = awesome. taking walks at night : awesome. gaming with dongle –> awesome. cooking, delicious. the rigs are informative. the cat is dapper. the pants i wear are all too baggy. the face is devastatingly 5′oclock shadow at all hours. the pile of shit on my desk at home is getting taller and taller even after i finish everything on it. the pile of shit on my desk at work disperses then gets moved to my whiteboard.
here are some videos i took on my phone that i havent rotated yet. if your life is good why not quit checking faceshitbook all the time and call me up and chat with me? fuck the internet. <3 internetz.
http://flickr.com/photos/saboot/3290379725/
http://flickr.com/photos/saboot/3290375761/
http://flickr.com/photos/saboot/3290374239/
im having fun. rawk your face you lovable monkey.
