Below are the most recent 9 friends' journal entries.

Sunday, December 20th, 2009
faceless_wonder	11:24a	thirty days: day 24 Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy "the company won't colour me" by colour of fire has been my crack lately. i've been listening to it over and over and over again. now, it can be your crack too. :) Current Mood: procrastinate-y Current Music: "the company won't colour me" by colour of fire (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
faceless_wonder	9:17p	thirty days: day 23 Day 23 → A YouTube video ...because cats in things they're not supposed to be are, in fact, amazing. Current Mood: exhausted (Comment on this)
Friday, December 18th, 2009
faceless_wonder	1:06p	thirty days: days 20 and 21 i got behind again yesterday. sure, i spent a bunch of time on a computer, but most of it was on computers that are probably as old or older than most of the people who read this...namely, my Commodores. Day 21 → A recipe i used to love to cook, but then outgrew it. when i was a kid, it was something special...i would spend hours reading the Joy of Cooking, and pick out recipes to make on special days. now, it's something that's at best boring, and at worst that i just don't have time to deal with, since there is so much other stuff i want or need to do. however, spinach gnocchi are really nomzy, and i should really get the ingredients and make some. Day 22 → A website Computer Stupidities is the funniest site on the internet. i stumbled across it many years ago, and have read through its stories over and over again. it's exactly what it sounds like--vignettes of really dumb things that people have said about computers. but, what can i say? i love stupid people stories, and these are the creme-de-la-creme of stupid people stories. Current Mood: geeky Current Music: "devotion and desire" by bayside (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
silellak	9:27a	New Year's Eve Party 2009 Edition XP SP3 It's time for our yearly New Year's Eve party - but with a twist! The theme this year is "time travel" - or, if you prefer, think it of as an era-themed party of your choice. Come dressed as someone from the 80's...90's...or the 1920's...or the 2220's. Or an alternate reality version of the 1980's. Or a week in the future. Anything you want! Be creative. Or don't. We will have appetizer-y food and drinks, but please feel free to bring anything you want! Except beer. We have enough beer. Please stop bringing beer to our house. Please? Type: Party - Holiday Party Network: Global Start Time: Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 8:00pm End Time: Friday, January 1, 2010 at 7:00am Location: Jason, Katharine, and Jamie's House Street: 914 W. Clear River St. City/Town: Tucson, AZ Current Mood: bored (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
faceless_wonder	3:27p	thirty days: days 15-20 thanks to my little jaunt to NYC for neighborcon last weekend, and the associated recovery, i've gotten way-too-many days behind on the thirty-days meme i'm doing. so...time to play a little bit of catch-up. :) *** Day 15 → A fanfic this is one that really doesn't fit me at all. i don't read fanfic. i don't write fanfic. i don't have anything to do with the world of fanfic. seriously, i think the closest thing to fanfic that i've ever created was a backstory that i started writing in high school [or possibly early college] about my imagined backstory for the song "hey jealousy" by the gin blossoms. i don't have it anymore, though, so you're out of luck. Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly) i have quite a few songs that make me cry, but "tonight is the night i fell asleep at the wheel" by the barenaked ladies probably has the strongest effect on me at this point in my life. it's a really, really sad song about someone who either commits suicide or just so happened to crash his car when his life was at a low point...and the lyrics paint a picture that can't help but suck me into the story. Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.) webcomics involve drawing, right? <3 i love toothpaste for dinner, and this comic is especially genius. Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy a silly poem: Fenton Phlantz by Jack Prelutzky Fenton Phlantz is fairly weird. He puts peanuts in his beard. Elephants are often found Following Fenton Phlantz around. Day 19 → A talent of yours singing. i've been singing since i was a little kid, and i love it. i've been in various choirs since i was nine years old, been in the occasional play or skit, and even took some voice lessons in law school. a lot of people have seen me sing karaoke...although not as many have seen me sing anything of a more classical nature. i really like karaoke, and there are some songs i've found that i can sing fairly well--but really, my voice is far more suited to more classical singing, and that's my favourite kind to do. Day 20 → A hobby of yours writing twitter bots. i've written quite a few so far, although the best one i've done to date is most definitely @rogue_bot. i started messing around with the twitter API a little over a year ago, when i wrote a twitter client in bash scripting language, and then moved on to playing with the python-twitter library and started to write bots. it's really fun. i can't say i've finished anything that useful yet (although i'm currently working on a CTA Bus Tracker twitter bot, which will allow people to query it and get bus tracker preditions via twitter--useful for those without a smartphone!), but they're fun to make and they allow me to practice my programming skills. Current Mood: happy Current Music: "tonight is the night i fell asleep at the wheel" by barenaked ladies (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
faceless_wonder	11:52p	thirty days: day 14 Day 14 → A non-fictional book this is tough. i don't read a lot of fiction...most of what i read is nonfiction. and, to just pick one? so hard. but, there is a book i've been going back to so much this year. it's basically a tour through many of the major security assessment programs, tools, and techniques. when i got it almost a year ago, i could hardly follow many things in there...but the more i learn about computers, the more fun i'm having reading through it and making sense of the examples in it. Current Mood: good Current Music: "shattering the stars" by forth effect (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
faceless_wonder	11:05a	thirty days: day 13 Day 13 → A fictional book a fictional book? like, a book that doesn't actually exist? or, a book chronicling something that didn't actually happen? either way, i'll cover both bases with this one: no, i'm not cheating. Glove Pond is not an actual book--it's a book within a book. The Gum Thief is one of my favourite books by Douglas Coupland. contained within the novel is another book called Glove Pond, which was written by Roger Thorpe--a character in The Gum Thief. Glove Pond is a Fitzgeraldesque yet deliberately ridiculous tale of woe...whereas The Gum Thief is a more modern story of futility, with a dash of hope. either way, my ability to describe the awesomeness of Douglas Coupland's writing pales in comparison to his actual writing. you should read this book--and if you're in Chicago, i'll gladly lend it to you. Current Mood: content Current Music: "white and nerdy" by weird al yankovic (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
faceless_wonder	12:30a	thirty days: days 9, 10, 11, and 12. thanks to my awesome little trip to detroit this weekend (you guys rock, i3Detroit!) and the associated recovery, i'm a few days behind in the thirty days meme. time to catch up! Day 09 → A photo you took i love this picture. it's of Matt Hoffman, lead singer of Shooting Blanks. i took it at their show at the Mutiny, back on November 24, 2007. he rocks out in this pic, as does his shiny, shiny guitar. Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago i don't even know for sure when this picture was taken, but from the looks of things, i'd guess that it was taken in 1988 or so. that would have made me five, maybe six. i'm the second from the left--and the others in the picture are my three siblings. Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently this would technically also qualify as one i took of myself, but it's a recent picture of me--less than a month old. i really love it...it's my favourite picture of myself in a very long while. Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy "full colour guilt" by boysetsfire...just because it suits my mood right now. Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: "full colour guilt" by boysetsfire (Comment on this)
Monday, December 7th, 2009
ghosttoboggan	10:26p	In discussing Louis-Adolphe Thiers' ruthless beatdown of the Paris Commune of 1871, Karl Marx dubs Thiers "that monstrous gnome." Wow. Could there be a better slam than that? At the very least, it's got a certain hyperbolic drollness. I wonder if any political figures of today might qualify as monstrous gnomes. (4 Comments |Comment on this)