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if you still care, don't ever let me know

Posted on October 30, 2009
it has been a couple of months since i heard a new song that grabbed me and shook me.i heard "snuff" by slipknot for the first time today, and it was exactly what i needed. i was pretty shocked when i found out it was slipknot, since most of their stuff really doesn't do it for me, but this one just gives me goosebumps...

:P

Posted on October 18, 2009
(warning: whiny, cryptic rant ahead.)i've been feeling really weird, really off, these last few days. i know in my head what i want and need to get done, but nothing's coming. i'm going through a time of banging my head against a wall repeatedly. there's no real reason why i can't get past that wall...

my ipod smokes crack rocks.

Posted on October 16, 2009
i'm at the hackerspace reading through some 501(c)(3) documentation. a couple of other people are here. my iPod is playing over the speakers.it played "through the fire and flames" by dragonforce.....followed by "i want it that way" by the backstreet boys...

ad fail

Posted on October 04, 2009
i saw an extremely infuriating ad for Chicago Public Schools this afternoon on the #152 bus.it was part of their "Just Go! to school" campaign, and the point of the ad is that if you went to school and graduated, you could grow up to be like the people on the ad...

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twitter done right

Posted on October 04, 2009
some tweets are good enough to re-tweet. few tweets are good enough to blog:"Last night's sweater smells this morning like the ghost of 118 hugs. All perfumes cancel themselves out and smell like a 747's bathroom."thank you, Douglas Coupland. you really are my favourite living author...

i love seether.

Posted on October 01, 2009

ohai

Posted on September 27, 2009
it's been a while, i know. it seems the more that's going on in my life, the less i have to say about it.this weekend, i've been chilling out in DC. in fact, i'm still there...i leave tomorrow, early afternoon. it has been an amazing weekend so far...

i'mma let you finish...

Posted on September 16, 2009
from kanye west douchebag, i present the first one of these crazy lolkanyes that have been taking over the internet that has actually made me laugh hysterically:what can i say? i'm a sucker for Lamarck references...

pride

Posted on September 14, 2009
Mark takes people who couch their gay-bashing in religious terms to task wonderfully here.amen.

a year

Posted on September 11, 2009
it was just over a year ago when i started my job at the law firm...september 8, 2008. it feels like that was longer ago than that. all the events of the summer of 2008 seem so far away, really: finishing law school, studying for the bar, taking the bar, starting the job with the law firm...

summer songs

Posted on September 09, 2009
i posted today on my twitter feed, asking everyone what song reminded them of the summer of 2009. it's weird...i don't usually have songs that remind me of any other seasons, per se, but every single year i have a summer song. my summer songs are never the bubblegum stuff associated with the term "summer song"...

thoughts

Posted on September 06, 2009
i just pulled out a very tangible reminder of the double life i used to lead: a little plastic business card case. one side, the side with the clear cover, was full of my business cards from the law firm. the other side, the side with the opaque black plastic cover, was full of my chicago flag business cards with my personal e-mail address and website...

unlike games, it has a real computer keyboard!

Posted on September 05, 2009
it's william shatner.advertising the commodore vic-20.i can think of few geekier advertisements.

more tubes!

Posted on August 25, 2009
i have a website now!no, i'm not moving this blog. this is for my personal rants. rogueclown.net, my new site, is a home for all of my computer and hacking projects. it'll be really nice to have a separate place for that.so...if you're interested in that stuff, check it out! i don't have a whole lot up there, since i just brought it up today, but it should get really interesting in the coming months.

zyzzx road

Posted on August 25, 2009
"zzyzx road"by stone souri don't know how else to put thisit's taken me so long to do thisi'm falling asleep and i can't see straightmy muscles feel like a meleemy body's curled in a u-shapei put on my best but i'm still afraidpropped up by lies and promisessaving my place as life forgetsmaybe its time i saw the worldi'm only here for a whilebut patience is not my styleand i'm so tired that i gotta gowhat am i supposed to hide nowwhat am I supposed to dodid you really think i wouldn't see this throughtell me i should stick around for youtell me i could have it alli'm still too tired to care and i gotta goi get to go home in one weekbut i'm leaving home in three weeksthey throw me a bone just to pick me dryi'm following suit and directionsi crawl up inside for protectioni'm told what to do and i don't know whyi'm over existing in limboi'm over the myths and placebosi don't really mind if i just fade awayi'm ready to live with my familyi'm ready to die in obscurity'cause i'm so tired that i gotta gowhere am i supposed to hide nowwhat am i supposed to doyou still don't think i'm going see this throughtell me i'm a part of historytell me i can have it alli'm still too tired to care and i gotta gostill too tired to care and i gotta gostill too tired to care and i gotta gostill too tired to care and i gotta gostill too tired to care and i gotta gogo homestill too tired to care and i gotta gostill too tired to care and i gotta go

i think i found the right song.

Posted on August 23, 2009
"what you live by"by harvey dangermeet me up on ninety-ninebeneath the marco polo signi?ll be the one with a box of wineand a hundred dollar carwe could talk about the lives we?ve ledand count the reasons we?re not deador maybe we could talk insteadabout the ways in which we arealways nothing or too much to sayonly so many sides of the record to playand the song that got stuck in my headsaid you die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byevery timelike carnivores to carnal pleasuresso will we to desperate measuresmelting into stagnant puddlesbeat down by the suni went to schooli didn?t stayspoke right up when i had nothing good to sayand i said it to anyone who would listenlay me down in the bed that i madestarved for sleep by the shrill serenadesinging over and over:you die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byevery timeyou die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byyou will die by what you live byevery time

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Posted on August 22, 2009
it's horribly unnerving when you can't find the right song for how you feel. there's no way my amalgam of emotions is anything new or interesting, but i'm still trying to find someone else on my playlist who has felt it and vocalised it.

i <3 bad puns.

Posted on August 21, 2009
today's xkcd is amazing, although there's part of me that wonders what took them so long to make such a characteristically xkcd pun.

dispatches

Posted on August 18, 2009
HAR was ridiculous, and ridiculously awesome.not much time for details now, since i'm still away (and don't want to get too sucked into the intertubes to explore Amsterdam some more!), but it suffices to say that i'm still alive, i'm still in Europe, and i really, really, really don't want to get on the plane tomorrow.

the jetset life is gonna kill you...

Posted on August 10, 2009
i'm finally recovered from defcon. that's a good thing, since i'm heading off to yet another con this week.on tuesday morning, i fly out to new york city. i have about a day and a half to goof off with Rob...i'm not quite sure what we're going to be doing, but whatever it is, it'll be lots of fun...

some people are stupid.

Posted on August 10, 2009
$250,000? really?

testing...testing...1...2...YIKES!

Posted on August 07, 2009
i love jokes with long, elaborate setup.i love when Black Hat does mischievous things.for these reasons, i declare today's xkcd to be full of win.

shame on you, North Carolina.

Posted on August 05, 2009
recently, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law mandating that Governor's School charge a $500 per student tuition.this makes me extremely sad.if there had been tuition for Governor's School in 1998, i would not have been able to go. it was that simple...

how to go to vegas without gambling a cent...

Posted on August 05, 2009
wow, it's been a while. but, then again, that's become my modus operandi here, right? it seems the more i get into computers, the less i blog. chew on that for a while...anyway, i'm just now getting to the point of having recovered from defcon. that was last weekend, and i was in vegas from tuesday, july 28 until monday, august 3...

wrong number...

Posted on July 27, 2009
...seriously, this makes me wish i had a good bell system voice. really, the only good phone voice i have is a phone sex voice, and that's not nearly useful for this kind of thing.

there's nobody learning such a foreign word as fair...

Posted on July 23, 2009
in his blog, squelch84 asked, What are you listening to this week? Give me your play lists.i don't so much have a play list this week, since i've been doing a lot of reading of the type that music distracts me a little more than i can stand to be distracted during such reading...

vanish

Posted on July 22, 2009
vanish fascinates me.a group of researchers at the university of washington released it yesterday. it's a tool that basically puts an expiration time on any information you post on the internet. it uses a secret key to encrypt the data, and then sprinkles the key into many little pieces throughout the vuze P2P network...

Wesley Willis is the daddy of rock and roll!

Posted on July 17, 2009
i did it!yesterday, i spent a little over an hour standing at the corner of Franklin and Jackson, blasting Wesley Willis from an iPod speaker and holding up a sign christening the Wesley Willis Tower! it was a blast...i got such a range of reactions, and it took far longer than expected for building security to kick me off of the premises...

rock over london, rock on chicago.

Posted on July 15, 2009
the sears tower officially changes its name to the willis tower tomorrow.this, of course, means that it is the Wesley Willis Tower.i think i'm going to go over there, stand on the street, and blast some Wesley Willis songs to commemorate the occasion...

waiting in line with an accordion

Posted on June 26, 2009
so, i did try out for American Idol on Monday. it was weird.i was up by 3:30am, in a cab by 4:00am, and at United Center by 4:25. im used to seeing these times on clocks, of course, but only *before* i have gone to bed. by then, i was still in the third corral of people: not one of the first there, but by no means among the last,, since we weren't told to be there until 5am, and were told that the absolute latest we could arrive was 8am...

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