Thanks Jim for helping me move out of my apartment today! I think we both had a good time. Here's my favorite quotation from today:

Jim: ...at this point, there's nothing behind us but urban decay.
posted at 10:16 PM

I washed my dishes in my bathtub today, because I had a lot of them to do. It's really something -- I think because I went through a whole bottle of Dawn. And it left food boogers in the bottom of my bathtub. Eeeeewww.
posted at 12:21 AM

It's Funny Day today! Why? Because I read two very funny webpages today:
1. Neal Pollack's "The Dark Goddess of Russia is Horny" at McSwys.
2. Modern Humorist's Birthday special.
posted at 2:16 PM

Zesty? Zesty!

Zesty? Not zesty.
posted at 10:46 PM

I was just called by a telemarketer from a travel agency. You'd think the company would realize that soliciting for vacation packages a mere three days after April 16 is not the best way to spend your marketing dollars.
posted at 6:09 PM

Jeff: You're that fascinated by the size of my penis?
Amy C.: Sure, why not?
posted at 10:32 PM

Jackie: I need a picture of a goat then i can sleep
posted at 11:13 PM

My favorite new word to use is Buxtehude (BOUK-stah-houd). Not only was he a Swedish-born organist and composer, but his name serves as a replacement for all kinds of profane actions and objects. "Ew, someone Buxtehuded and it really stinks!" "Stick it up your Buxtehude!"
posted at 9:09 PM

Ah.. this is a nice Easter weekend. I'm trying to forget that when Easter is done, I have one more week of classes, then POOF it's finals, juries, and the icky process of moving out of my apartment back to my parents' house. There's an awful lot of work ahead, so for now, I'm sitting back and eating Krispy Kremes.
posted at 3:27 PM

Hot diggity, I'm going to the Rufus Wainwright show! You should all go on Napster and download "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" and the live version of "Poses". Both of these songs will be on the upcoming new album, and they're excellent (or perhaps "supa-fly"?).
posted at 10:23 AM

My presentation today went very well, thanks to my use of Apple's iTunes. I plugged my computer into a television, played some gamelan music, and turned on the built-in visualization. It was super-trippy, or as an audience member called it, "tight".
posted at 4:47 PM

Never forget Balki.
posted at 10:45 PM

I learned two valuable lessons tonight:
1. Before paying for your print job and sending it to the library printer, make sure the printer has paper. (Thank goodness I didn't learn this one directly -- thanks Mr. Anonymous for screwing yourself immediately before I had the chance!)
2. When walking around late at night, leave your wallet at home, because this provides a good excuse for not giving money to panhandlers. (I thought of this before heading out, and it turned out to be an excellent idea.)
posted at 12:16 AM

Conversation from Cass Cafe last night:

Drunk woman (to drunk friend): Look, that girl just got dessert!
Jeff: I'm not a girl.
Drunk woman: Oh.
  (momentary pause)
Drunk woman (to drunk friend): Could've fooled me!
posted at 3:53 PM

Kottke's entry for today looks suspiciously like my entry for March 30th. What a copycat! :)
posted at 10:41 PM

Because OS X can be quite sluggish at times (meaning, those times when your computer is on), I've compiled some tips and suggestions for making it run as fast as you can.

1. Set your display to Thousands of Colors. Wow, does this make a difference! Dragging windows is much faster, and generally things seem more responsive.
2. Defrag your OS X partition with Norton Utilities 6. Norton said that my partition's fragmentation was "extreme". Strange, since I started with a freshly formatted drive and had only used it for a week or so. I suspect this is the Apple Installer's problem. Nonetheless, defragmentation seemed to make a speed difference.
3. Avoid the Finder as much as possible. This sounds outrageously silly, but the Finder still is not a Cocoa application. (If it were, my scrolling wheel on my mouse would work.) This makes it very inefficient and slow because it's not fully optimized for OS X yet. Hopefully, the upcoming OS X updater will improve performance, but until then, I recommend sticking frequently-used applications and folders in the Dock so you don't need to navigate as much.
4. Avoid Internet Explorer as much as possible. Internet Explorer 5.1 Preview is Cocoa, but not multi-threaded. This means that all the advanced kernel features of OS X are wasted on IE because the kernel can't split up the application into separate tasks. OmniWeb is a decent substitute, but it doesn't let me post to my blog. :(
posted at 10:39 PM

Guide to Understanding the Female Language, Part 1

Girlspeak: I'm afraid I have to cancel our date, as I'm going to my doctor this evening. I'd like to make it up to you, though.
Guyspeak Equivalent: I'm never calling you again.
posted at 10:07 PM

I attended Ralph Nader's lecture today. He is still very very insightful, incisive, interesting, and funny. I just wish I could read or listen to him without becoming depressed over how much corporations rule our lives.
posted at 11:29 PM