Andrew Huey | pointlessly blogging since 2001
I just took a look at StubHub.com to see if they had tickets for the Phish show at the Tweeter Center that’s coming up in August. They’ve got tickets from $99 all the way up to $1095. I like Phish, but not *that* much.
The new CD is good. I just got it today and listened to about half of it right after I got home from work. It definitely helped melt some of the stress away.
I just finished reading the last book in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy. Just for yuks, I did a Google search on “cheerful instead of surly”, part of a key line at the end of the book. I found a few interesting pages, including this one, along with some odder stuff.
The line, in part, is: “…showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above all how to keep their minds open and free and curious.” I particularly like the cheerful/surly part, partially because it’s just a nice turn of phrase, and in part because it’s something I seem to be having trouble with lately.
I stumbled across a good blog today, looking for something Phish-related: Wax Banks: Music
Perhaps I should swap my Gmail account for a picture of Gary Coleman’s head or this guy’s vote in the next election or lunch at the Carnegie deli. Or not. Geez, it’s just an e-mail account.
I just got myself a Gmail account! I spent the last hour or so changing my e-mail address at various web sites so that all the newsletters that used to go to my yahoo account will now go to Gmail. I really like the interface, and the absence of obnoxious, blinking Flash ads. The gigabyte of space is nice too. It’ll be interesting to see how the spam filtering works out. I’m getting about 50 spams a day to my Yahoo account. It files most of the them correctly, but I have to fish 2 or 3 good e-mails a week out of the spam folder, and I usually get 3 or 4 spam e-mails a day that wind up in my inbox instead of the spam folder.
Darn those republicans! No BAAF this year!
Somehow, I had completely missed the news that Richard Biggs passed away a couple of weeks ago. He played Dr. Franklin on Babylon 5, if you don’t recognize the name. He was a good actor, and it sounds like he was a nice guy.
Very strange David Hasselhoff news:
Yahoo! News – Hasselhoff Tagged for DUI — besides the DUI thing, the article also mentions that he’s working on a rap album. I must call Mike Pajaro and ask him about this..
A power line came down on our front lawn today at work. It made a nice little fire, and scorched the heck out of a good size patch of grass. And of course it left us mostly without power for about half the day. I had a lot of fun trying to hook up computers to the AC outlets that were still working, so we could get some critical payroll stuff done.
The best part, though, was when one of the PSE&G guys had to take a leak, and decided to do that right on the side of his truck, in full view of anyone who might have been looking in his direction. And a lot of people were, since they were looking out the windows gawking at the fire.
Apple – AirPort Express: I think I’ll be getting one of these when it hits the stores. I’ve been looking for a nice simple way of getting some of the music on my computer(s) out through my stereo.