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Weeks (months?) ago, Caroline of Pinky’s Paperhaus tagged me for a list-meme thing, and it’s well past time I responded. Here are the rules: We have to post these rules before we give you the facts. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about …
Continue reading “What drives me to you is what drives me insane”
According to the people making the film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel, I am a study in contradictions. How can I be both proud and modest? Or shy and assertive? Please clean up this mess with your perceptions of me by clicking the above movie and answering a couple of questions. I hope I don’t …
Received this missive on the mailing list of Mike Doughty today, announcing what would surely be my dream band: Mike Doughty is involved in a new project called PASS THE MIKE with Mike Campbell (The Heartbreakers) on guitar; Mike Mills (R.E.M.) on bass, guitar and keys; Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) on drums; and Mike Watt …
My mini iPod knows all, sees all, tells … some.
Did you think I’d be able to stick to my “I’ll add only 15 books to LibraryThing each day” promise? If you did, I hope you didn’t put money on it, because you’ll have to pay up. I couldn’t sleep last night, so I added a few more books — about a hundred. I think …
I am incredibly busy, as evidenced by my lack of recent posting here and here and here. And so when Syntax of Things described the time-consuming diversion that’s slowing his packing for an impending move, I seized on it like a drowning swimmer. And so now I’ve started cataloguing my collection of booksin LibraryThing. Check …
So much hipper than a mix tape: Click to listen to my iTunes signature. (NB: It’s large — 5.8MB.) An iTunes signature is a smear of bits of tracks from one’s iTunes library. You make it with this application. [The iTunes Signature Maker] selects a small number of your “favorite” tracks based on some simple …
Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.
And I was thinking just last night that I was a little misanthropic. Uncanny!
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