i’m pretty sure i’ll be headed to miami again for the winter music conference (now called the M3 Summit), March 5-9.
remember that "tmobile sidekick vs. sprint treo 600" nerd article i put on my website a while back? that month it got 15,000 hits (exceeding my bandwidth and putting
my site offline for the rest of the month). it’s gotten another 10,000 hits this month. i just pulled it off so my site doesn’t go down again. do they offer a pulitzer prize for nerds?
update: i guess i’m not that popular after all. web logs show that some dickhead pointed an ‘autorefresher’ at my page so that it would reload it every few seconds. that’s where all my hits came from. oh well, i guess i’m not that popular after all. 
anyways, i’m denying that IP address from now on.
yahoo is beta testing
RSS news syndication to My Yahoo. click the link to add it to yours and try it out.
productivity by proximity
so i rolled outta bed around noon yesterday, and by 3pm i’d done 2 loads of laundry, mailed a package at the post office, eaten lunch, and got a haircut. pretty easy when everything i need is within a few blocks. shoot, i should sleep in even later when i’m caught up on all my errands.
Currently Reading
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
By Thomas L. Friedman
uh oh, more memory loss. vague recollection of a joint birthday dinner with oli…mexican place, playing bingo and winning many, many shots of tequila. it was a bit of a reunion for six of us who’ve been friends since grade school, so we were particularly boisterous. i remember yelling a lot, laughing my ass off, and having a grand ol’ time…but unfortunately can’t recall ANY of the conversation. can’t remember what i ate, either.
woke up this morning and tried to piece things together, like the guy in memento. for some reason i’d sent 7 blank emails to people. made about 8 phone calls. apartment keys were still in the door lock outside the door, entangled in my headphones. went to put on my contacts, opened the case and found one missing, the other ripped in half (disposables, so it’s ok).
high school pals
rob & me about to french kiss
wasted with oli & julie
a 30yo woman was electrocuted a block from my apt when she walked over an electrified metal grate. apparently her 2 dogs started frying first, then she went to save them and she got fried. these grates are all over the city and people walk on em all the time. it could just as easily been me. yes, this blog and everything in it eventually comes back to me, doesn’t it.
more on meat
most of my rants are factless, baseless, and broad generalizations based on bits of information that i let in through a shield of cynicism. but here’s an article that backs up what i said about the meat industry a few days ago:
Big Beefs Dirty War - Meat industry has resisted cleaning up its act for decades
- "The meat business spends lavishly to support its political agenda."
- "Most of the industrys largess goes to Republicans"
- "Big beef has a special friend in President George W. Bush. After all, Bush is the former governor of Texas, the nations top cattle-producing state"
- "the Clinton administration took another stab at making meat safer, introducing a program to test ground beef used in government school lunch programs for salmonella." "many in the meat industry wanted the program shut down, and shortly after taking office, President Bush announced plans to do just that. After a public outcry, the testing was reinstated."
i’m not against eating meat or anything. i just hate the way the meatpackers will do anything to cut costs, and how they buy off the Republicans and our President. i’d happily pay $1 more for a burger to make things safe. just like i’d happily pay $1 more per gallon of gas to help research alternative fuels.
isn’t it weird how we pay exhorbitant prices for stupid things (movie tickets, CDs, clothes) and there’s so much price pressure on important things (gas, meat…um, i can’t think of anything else)
