I’ve been attempting daily tasks/goals to get things done. Getting even 1 or 2 things done in a day feels pretty satisfying. Sadly, it hasn’t worked out quite like that. Yesterday was bill day. How many did I pay? 0. Monday was “clean out my Firefox tabs” day. How many of the 40 I have open got closed? 0.

This post to try and get some of these gone. Plus, who doesn’t love long lists of silly things?

• I had no idea Jack Handey (I’m assuming of SNL fame) was still around. And writing things.
• FUCKIN NARWHAL LOOK AT THAT MOTHERFUCKER (via cal — and not unlike the singing shark)
• sex book filing fail and vibrator boyfriend
• thomas kinkade’s 16 guidelines for making stuff suck. kurt, this one is for you for sure.
• would you have guessed that prescription drugs kill 300% more americans than illegal drugs? i wouldn’t have, though now that i know it makes perfect sense.
• a short (and heartbreaking but odd) documentary about genesis p orridge and his/her deceased wife, lady jaye. the two of them were creating living art by undergoing cosmetic surgeries to look exactly alike as a more complete bonding of their two beings. she died last year and this video piece is about genesis now. it’s surreal but romantic and makes me so sad for him.
• john and i were watching the macy’s parade when the rickroll happened. he called it; i couldn’t believe it was truly a rickroll. it was. the entire nation got rickrolled at the macy’s parade.
• ian mackaye on belushi and playing snl in 81 with fear. (will, i can’t imagine you wouldn’t enjoy this)
• ge might be on the verge of collapse. or at least some serious trouble. oops.
• momus on 1:1 ratio of experience: “1:1 ratio of experience to writing means that you’ve become an efficient journalistic machine: nothing you do ever goes to waste. Every single thing you experience gets written about somewhere. It doesn’t have to be experience in the real world; it almost seems like I write, now, about every website I visit too.” this is exactly what has gotten me back up off my ass. i realized that i used to do a lot more of this digesting outloud and i’ve slipped as my career has continued to grow. (via tomorrow museum)
• and finally, and perhaps most importantly, tina turner at 69, in her mad max outfit for a concert. and you know what? she looks damn good for 69.

well, i got rid of a few windows. i missed linking to banksy’s storefront, a video explaining higher dimensions, that nyt netflix story, the newsweek story i havent finished on the presidential race (yes, im that far behind), the 24 hour beethoven that kottke linked to along with his star wars post, a finance post and the one man thriller video one, kinky sci-fi books,

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. i forgot how old i was a few minutes ago. i was convinced i couldn’t be more than 31, at best. maybe still 30.

no, im 32.

this happened a lot for a while after i was sick, between maybe 28 and 30. i think it happened because i felt like my time being sick wasn’t real somehow, that it didn’t register in my brain as being alive. or learning. who knows.

. i got an xbox 360 last weekend. i bought it to feel less lonely when sitting in my apartment. it’s worked decently well so far, though i need more xbox friends. last night i played an online game with strangers for the first time. that was every bit the disaster i thought it would be. i don’t think it counts towards social time to have to listen to ignorant assholes who can’t even read the word ‘idle’ on the screen nor know what game they are playing. all in all though, it seems like it was a good purchase. time will tell.

. ive dreamed now about zombies (from the xbox), some weird sex dream and (i think) a work related dream, all in the last 3 nights. i think there is more, but the best was the whole bit about flying to hawaii to escape zombies. because, you know, zombies cant swim. or fly. that was a genius idea.

. i think in the next few months, i’ll feel more comfortable talking about work on here. that’s nice — there is something good about not discussing it, but at the same time, it’s the majority of my life currently. i’ve become a manager, am an engineering lead and have done a bunch of really neat stuff that i’m pretty proud of. so there, maybe i just talked about it anyway.

. it’s foggy today. that’s not the same as rain, but it’s better than no weather at all.

. i had a semi-fight with my sister last week, one that had been building for a while. we had drinks on monday night and i think things are ok. i don’t like that things got to the point of me having to say crap like, ‘i want to be a good big brother to you.’ but there we were. i think it’ll be ok.

. and at the moment, that is my life. the hope is to come up with a better answer to ‘what’s new?’ than my usual ‘nothing.’ but thus far, i’m just digging myself more and more into a routine. i have gotten old, afterall.

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