Dear Mr. Beerioth:
If you double-check your records, you will find that during the entirety of last night, my alcoholic beverage consumption consisted of one (1) bottle of Guinness Draught – not even a full 12 ounce bottle, since the folks at Guinness are apparently cheap bastards and only give you 11.2 ounces per bottle.
Given the [...]
Archive for July, 2007
A Note to Beerioth, Demon Prince of Hangovers
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Most Dangerous Website
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So I recently discovered AbeBooks, one of those seller-conglomerate websites like Half.com, which specializes in books – including rare, out-of-print, and first edition copies.
May I be the first to say: *drools*
While I have suspected that I have the bibliophile gene for quite some time (if I didn't, I probably wouldn't have been so excited [...]
What I'm Consuming Now, Part 1: Books
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Note: The title of this post was originally supposed to be “What I'm Reading Now”, but I've branched out somewhat in my entertainment choices since elementary school and there didn't seem to be a less generic word for a combination of reading/watching/playing, whichever was appropriate to the medium. And this being a capitalistic [...]
Celebration!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Because I've actually been feeling pretty happy the last couple of days, I'm officially celebrating Brain Weasel Stomping Day. I'll be leaving comments on people's journals and suchlike, but if you'd like to have something positive directed at you feel free to reply here! We'll see what I can come up with. [...]
A hypothetical question
Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Say I need to learn to sight-sing music fairly accurately, starting from a position of almost no skill in such. I have one month in which to practice.
Anyone have any suggestions?
A short prayer
Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Amen.
(From here.)
New books!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I know that I'm hardly alone in this feeling, but I really don't think there's anything quite as exciting as new books. Even when they're copies of books you've already read numerous times, it's still so much fun to open the shopping bag or the Amazon box and see them there, just waiting to [...]
Birthday pictures!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Birthday pampering was awesome. The masseuse over at Seventh Heaven (the local day spa) was kind of shy, but good at his job – I don't know how long it's been since my back has been that relaxed. And Brian and I both noticed that the girl doing pedicures had the most magnificent [...]
Truly, this is what the Internet was invented for
Posted in Uncategorized on July 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the originating website:The Doo-Dah News Network brings you the finest headlines that you can sing to the tune of “Camptown Races” if you add “Doo-Dah” to the end.
As near as I can tell, it works – feed any of these into Google and you'll come up with a genuine news story. What I'm [...]
Abstract electronica
Posted in Uncategorized on July 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It strikes me that ambient electronica music is much like abstract art, in that both are extremely tricky to create. Sure, anyone can toss some paint on a canvas or mix a few sound samples and call it abstract or electronica, but it's not the physical process that's difficult. In order for it [...]
