May 5, 2004
welcome, freshman

strange dreams again last night. one where i was back at work, in some class about... some religion class... freshman religion class.

another one where some other country launched some satellite and castro had taken cheney hostage, or something. i guess they were taking advantage of the shuttle not flying, i think. seems suspiciously like the terrorist dreams i used to have.

then i woke up, and don't speak was in my head.

i hooked up the other ost to the databarn:

mds1.databarn.87k.net:/databarn-mdt1/databarn-client 330G 69G 261G 21% /barn

i can write to it at ~80M/s which isn't bad.

if you didn't get all the httt singles, then you really should get the COM LAG import. i got it even though i have all the singles, because i find radiohead cds to be indistinguishable from pure, raw love.

for joe's birthday we took him to the capital grille. he said it might have been the best meal he's ever had. so i guess that was a success.

good night and thanks for listening.

posted by jacob around May 5, 2004

May 6, 2004

"The thing I've always appreciated about hockey is that it is, in a sense, very venue driven," says Swangard. "There is a general correlation between having been to a game and your interest in the sport. Talk to NFL fans, you may find thousands upon thousands who have never seen a game live." Most NFL fans learn to love the game through television. Hockey has never been that lucky. Its fans grew to love it after seeing a game live: The speed and grace of the players, the nonstop action, the crashing into the boards are all elements no other sport can match. "You have to see a game to appreciate it, and once you do that, you're bitten by it," says Charles Jacobs, executive vice president of the Bruins and son of team owner Jeremy M. Jacobs. The trick is getting new fans to bite.

-- Boston Globe, On Thin Ice

posted by jacob around May 6, 2004

May 7, 2004
thought control etc.

today while running in the park i overheard some people sitting on a bench:

As for the gun... when you're in a vehicle, as for the gun...

posted by jacob around May 7, 2004

May 10, 2004
it's like a metaphor

i keep dropping stuff in the toilet. last week it was the cardboard tube from an empty toilet paper roll. yesterday it was joe's toothpaste.

posted by jacob around May 10, 2004

May 11, 2004
of mice and etc.

after the flames game i went to get some ice cream at the store. i saw a little mouse (maybe it was a big rat?) run across one of the aisles.

posted by jacob around May 11, 2004

May 12, 2004
it feels like someone's birthday

while looking around for red hat linux 7.3 cds, i found a cd i hadn't ripped yet. i kept looking, and it ended up being about 15 i'd missed. i think there are still some in cleveland i don't have yet.

posted by jacob around May 12, 2004

May 17, 2004
money's too tight for steak...

As if the cover weren't enough -- it's a full page ad for Goldschlager, which is a satire of the frothy-lipped milk campaign -- each page of "Might" contains at least one reference to a sponsor. "Miller Lite Ice welcomes you to page 52 of the Oct/Nov Might" or "Sony is glad you're on page 26 of the Oct/Nov Might" are two phrases appearing in place of a page number on every single page.

-- some article i found on might magazine (in case you missed my birthday last year)

it should be said, however, that i would not classify myself as a fan of so-called "lifestyle magazines."

i found out why a couple of the cds from the other day hadn't been ripped: they are a bit more scratched than my laptop would like.

since phil is out of town, we didn't play hockey this weekend. i spent some of it starting to clean my room, but i didn't really finish. but i did wash (part of) my desk with a sponge so that probably makes up for all of the orange peels all over the floor.

i am afraid that if i go to sleep, i'll have a tooth dream.

posted by jacob around May 17, 2004