No Fucking Way

Tommorrow is my first payday. My laptop died....TODAY.

I think the universe has clear intentions for my money. And those intentions involve giving it to Apple.

Basketball

I'm, on the strategic level, all about the D and the hustle and a good fast break will always bring a smile to my face. Thing about it is, eventually I am going to get tired and so become selective in which turnovers will involve my running across the court.

It's a fairly common thing. But here's the rub. No matter how exhausted you may be, when you sink one you will /immediatly/ head across the court to "D up". Not only that, you're going to do it with a serious mug on as if that kind of shit happened all the damn time. You might even afford yourself a clap or two.

True Life: Alfonso.

Orchestra

For lunch today I took in an afternoon performance of the Seattle Symphony. Since I was hungry I found their opening with "Hoe Down" from Rodeo, or what I found out to be the "beef, it's what for dinner" song quite grating. Besides that slight I enjoyed it as I always enjoy orchestra.

There are three things about orchestra that always get to me. First is the bald-faced absurdity of the concept. Here's how it breaks down to me: A group of people decided that they are going to take some wood and horse-hair and on a whim create beauty that isn't seen, but experienced. It can't be put more precisely. What music is and what music does, when taken together, confounds. It is particularly stark when you watch the music makers live.

The second thing is the Violin players, or the way they play their instrument. As they hold the violin to their cheek and allow their faces to progress through the entirety of our expressive spectrum I feel left out. It's like they are snuggling a lover to their cheek and holding a whispered conversation. I feel it is rude and almost overtly sexual.

The third thing is a little more techincal. Orchestra conductors don't seem to conduct on the downbeat, but rather on the upbeat. I found out when I did the orchestra thing that it's how you conduct strings; it has something to do with bowing and bratty-ass musicians. To an old band salt like myself it's like the conductor's requisite wild mane of hair is swaying out of sync, almost like a bad xvid file. While it's very off-putting I am inexorably drawn to watch the conductor. Often very slight people will seem larger than life as they dance a movement out of an army of musicians. Also I had a /MAD/ crush on our drum major in high school. In any case a third of my time is spent reconciling the conducter with the orchestra.

I was impressed.

Netflix

I am now a netflix subscriber and since I toil fruitlessy through an expansive dearth of blogging inspiration I decided to post my queue as it stand on this, my first day of Netflixing:

1. Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder: Disc 1
2. Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder: Disc 2
3. This Is Spinal Tap
4. Waiting for Guffman
5. Failure to Launch
6. Crash
7. Coach Carter
8. Basic
9. Secondhand Lions
10. Closer
11. Tsotsi
12. Talladega Nights
13. Just Friends
14. Mini's First Time
15. Tortilla Soup
16. Friday
17. Drunken Master

I'm excited! If anyone has suggestions (challange: it has to be something I havn't seen) let me know.

Been Getting into the Whole "Podcast" Thing

And this dude? Makes me pee myself he's so funny.

http://askaninja.com/node/2613

If you do not appreciate the humor, please be so kind as to die violently...soon...on youtube.

I'm At Work....

And I have spent the last 2 hours reading up on python unit test.

I'm still holding my verdict at cautiously optimistic, but thats a hell of a start.

(Test: how well do you know me? Is the appropriate emoticon for this post ^_^ or =-( ? )

ZOMG WTF LOL