July 2008

Muxtape and photos for July 2008

Submitted by domesticat on 7 July 2008 - 8:55am

I've updated my muxtape with some songs that have been stuck in my head over the past month or so.

What? That's not enough for an update for you people? Hmph. Okay then. Then how about photos from the Bleu, Sandra McCracken, and Derek Webb show I attended with Geof:

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Lens of yesterday's eye

Submitted by domesticat on 9 July 2008 - 6:51pm

If I had to guess, I was six. Maybe. Too young for such things at the time, too young for such things even now, in an age of technologized children. I was young, and my memories took longer than most to root, so I do not remember a time when I did not know the inner workings of a camera.

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Matthew's Movie Notes, part 1

Submitted by domesticat on 13 July 2008 - 11:13am

I have this friend.

Everyone say hi to Matthew. (Hi, Matthew!)

He's a grad student at an unnamed large university in the northeast, and he's known me since I was ... crap, let's not get into how long we've known each other.

Suffice it to say, somewhere in our teens, we discovered we were kindred spirits. For quite some time now, he's been sending me one-liner movie reviews on netflix, and my general reaction is usually a snort of laughter. I haven't done anything with the emails, but I haven't deleted them either. He has since agreed to let me repost some of his movie comments here, so I present the first installment in Matthew's Movie Notes...

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We have ways of making you nap

Submitted by domesticat on 16 July 2008 - 7:08am

Consider this portion of yesterday's twitter traffic:

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Readiness

Submitted by domesticat on 21 July 2008 - 7:53pm

Almost.

I am in placeholder time, the time between fully here and fully there in which one's thoughts are distractedly trying to root in both places at once and -- usually -- failing miserably.

The twitter repost script is turned on, so you'll see my increasingly nervous natterings as the trip inches ever closer. it feels real now, real like the fine layer of cat fur Tenzing deigned to place on my bags tonight.

Jeff is gone to Seattle already; words sneak back east of his doings and his travels. The stories await my arrival for the telling; all I have right now are Adam's snapshots of Jeff, so familiar and yet so far away.

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Twitterlog for Monday, July 21, 2008

Submitted by domesticat on 22 July 2008 - 12:30am

While I am on the West Coast, I've got a script set up to automatically repost my tweets in 24-hour batches. Here's what I've been up to:

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Seattle, Day 0: Travel

Submitted by domesticat on 23 July 2008 - 12:30am

While I am on the West Coast, I've got a script set up to automatically repost my tweets in 24-hour batches. Here's what I've been up to:

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Seattle, Day 1: Baseball!

Submitted by domesticat on 24 July 2008 - 12:30am

Baseball games, movies, and more. Tweets from Seattle, day 1.

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Seattle, Day 2: Librarians

Submitted by domesticat on 25 July 2008 - 12:30am

Librarians and interstate commerce. Tweets from Seattle, day 2.

  • 8:28 AM PT: ...and I? I'm the dork who can't sleep in while on vacation. Smiling
  • 3:43 PM PT: At World Spice, buying about $150 of spice requests for friends. Shop clerks just called me a pack mule...
  • 9:25 PM PT: I am a good fit for this grad school. Alternately excited and utterly terrified.
  • 10:24 PM PT: Watching World Spice folks create a spice order for Salumi. 15 POUNDS of paprika!
  • 10:26 PM PT: Attempting to drive the Fail Whale Jeep out of metro Seattle. Expect hilarity.
  • 10:40 PM PT: At Carmelita, waiting for Michael Porter. Restaurant menu inspiring drool.
  • 10:41 PM PT: @canspice You gonna have blogging withdrawal after OSCON?

Seattle, Day 3: Commerce

Submitted by domesticat on 26 July 2008 - 12:30am

July 25th -- our tenth anniversary -- in which we gather at a remote riverside cabin with friends. Hilarity ensues. Tweets from Seattle, day 3.

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Seattle, Day 4: Cabin

Submitted by domesticat on 27 July 2008 - 12:30am

Seven geeks enter a cabin. Who runs screaming first? Tweets from Seattle, day 4.

  • 10:49 PM PT: Hot tub? Win. Hot tub with old friends and 21-yr-old single malt? WIN.
  • 4:19 PM PT: Sitting outside. Listening to Skykomish River race over rocks. Solitude > people right now.
  • 5:12 PM PT: Realizing I still have another 8 days away from work. Grateful that time runs slowly here.
  • 6:55 PM PT: More river photography. The fire's lit for dinner. Soon, salmon.
  • 8:30 PM PT: Single malt, mead, silly movie. Sundown comes slowly, this far north. Not that I mind.
  • 9:53 PM PT: Lost Skeleton of Cadavra - fucking win win win. Pass the boozahol or I won't survive...
  • 10:15 PM PT: I can has hot tub. *nod*

Seattle, Day 5: Cabin, Day 2

Submitted by domesticat on 28 July 2008 - 12:30am

Jeff and the Canadians head home. Asai, Adam, and Amy go camping. Brace yourself. Tweets from Seattle, day 5.

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Seattle, Day 6: Civilization, bah!

Submitted by domesticat on 29 July 2008 - 12:30am

Asai heads home, leaving Amy and Adam to camp for themselves. Tweets from Seattle, day 6.

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Seattle, Day 7: Civilization, bah!

Submitted by domesticat on 30 July 2008 - 12:30am

A day spent off the grid. Tweets from Seattle, day 7.

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Seattle, Day 8: Civilization, bah!

Submitted by domesticat on 31 July 2008 - 12:30am

When writing these blurbs in advance, I realized I had no idea what this day would hold. Tweets from Seattle, day 8.

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