nanovivid

As I write this, we’re sitting in the airport waiting for our flight. Apparently they’ve been circling for the last hour or so due to weather and air traffic. One of the officials at the counter remarked that “they can’t stay up there all night!” and I felt very reassured to know that the laws of physics and gravity still apply!

Our last days in in Boston were of course quite fun-filled, even if we didn’t get to see the butterflies. That was the plan for Sunday but unfortunately after the deliciously sugary breakfast at Stephanie’s on Newberry, all the tickets to butterfly land had been sold. We lost at the butterflies. To make up for the lack of fluttery insects, we flitted around to various shopping establishments. (Gayest. Sentence. Ever.)

Excitement! The plane just landed. And they apologize for the inconvenience. How nice of them.

During shopping, I bored Bryan and Jeremiah to tears by going to CD Spins. If anyone has been music shopping with me, I’m sure you understand. I finally ended up with Odyssey by Fischerspooner and Remedy by Basement Jaxx, both for much less monies than retail.

Later, we attempted to go buy some booze, but the slowest waitress on the face of the Earth or any nearby planet at CPK and the bizarre Massachusetts law forbidding liquor sales after 6:00 pm on Sunday conspired to foil us. It’s just wrong, I tell you. Thus, we were forced to go without for the evening. We’ll plan better in the future, that’s for sure! The pizza was good, though.

People are now deplaning, so we’ll probably be boarding in a few minutes.

One more story before I go. Shortly after we sat down at the gate, a white wooden rocking chair appeared across the room. Neither of us saw it being brought in, but that’s just because it’s a rocking chair from another dimension that fell through a wormhole. Or maybe we were watching Lost on my PowerBook. But regardless of origin, there’s been a lady sitting in a white rocking chair in the airport. Quite the sight.

Everybody is off the plane so I’m going to pack up.

(We got home safely and without further incident. Back to work tomorrow, I guess.)

♫ Múm - We Have A Map Of The Piano

• Robot Cat Videos
  Talk about your uncanny valley. These things are CREEPY.

Since I’m at the Apple Store, I have to make a post. It’s tradition!

Bryan, the ultimate impulse shopper, decided this afternoon that he needs a 12″ iBook. He’s been missing having a Mac laptop since selling his old iBook to RyanHarne.com. Thus, we’re here and he’s checking out as I write this.

Also while here, we ran into some guy named Jason who knows Attarian from way back when. Itsy bitsy world! So Adam, Jason says hi.

♫ I think "The Way You Move" by Outkast is playing somewhere in the background.

• Apple Home Pages Since 1997
  A lovely piece of geekery.

We made it safely to Bostonia and managed to get where we needed to go on the T without getting killed. (Bryan claims that the T stations are “where people get killed in the movies,” though I do have to admit that the new station at the airport is quite nice and unkillfull, which is totally a word.) After meeting up with Jermina, er, Jeremiah, we went to his apartment to drop off our stuff. I’m just a LITTLE jealous of the view from his bedroom. (I’m talking about the view out the window! You and your dirty mind.) He’s got a great vista of downtown Boston across the harbor.

After we had lunch, Jeremiah got his Verizon bill and realized that they had misspelled his name as “Jerminah,” so that’s his new nickname. It’s funny because it sounds like vagina!

Speaking of funny things, there were a couple of things that Bryan found so entertaining that he couldn’t stop laughing at them. During the afternoon while we were hanging around geeking out, we ran across a song called Shoot Your Shot in the iTunes Music Store. I think it was originally performed by the J. Geils Band. Or it could be James Brown. I just saw both of those turn up in a search and then decided that, well, I DON’T CARE. The point is that the version by Female Trouble & Mad’House (iTMS) is pretty funny sounding. Not only that, but Bryan thought it was exceedingly entertaining and couldn’t stop laughing at it. Did I mention that this was in the afternoon pre-drinking? Because it was, but don’t worry. The drinking happens in the next paragraph, so I’d suggest going there now!

Later on for dinner, we went to the amazing Top of the Hub. That place kicks so much ass. On Jermina’s (heh, it’s still funny!) suggestion I had a lobster salad sandwich that was the shiznit. (Yes, I just said shiznit. What are you going to do about it? Just deal, mkay?) Seriously, del-fucking-licious. Before the lobster salad (did I mention it was good?) we got martinis. I know this will surprise those of you who know Bryan, but he got a mocatini. And by surprise, I mean… not. Those of you who know Bryan also know that Bryan + alcohol = entertainment, and he didn’t disappoint. After finishing his martini, he noticed that there were coffee beans in the glass. The following conversation ensued:

Bryan: What are these crazy things? Me: Coffee beans. Bryan becomes incapacitated by laughter.

Later… Bryan: They look like little bug turds! More laughter.

For the rest of the evening, all we had to do was say “coffee beans” and Bryan would burst out laughing. It’s a bit like Courtney and “bear suit.”

Unfortunately, I just realized that story probably wasn’t nearly as funny to anyone who wasn’t there. But I’m telling it anyway. So take that, establishment!

Today I think we might be going to see some butterflies!

♫ Antony and the Johnsons - Fistful Of Love

• This Shit Is Bananas
  A probing analysis of Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl”

Bryan and I will be getting up at 0Dark:30 in the morning to fly to Boston. We’re going to visit the fabulous Jeremiah Cohick, star of commercials and perhaps your dreams as well. It depends on who you are and what you like, doesn’t it! As with most things. Ah, observations about life are FUN!

Speaking of things to like, Antony and the Johnsons [iTMS] are pretty much blowing my mind lately. Be warned though: you’re either going to love or hate Antony’s voice. It’s not quite like anything I’ve ever heard — in the best way possible. You can hunt down some free Antony mp3s over at their record label. Also, Mr. Myke. has been kind enough to post the live XFM session.

I don’t know why I called him Mr. Myke — it just seemed appropriate!

As Bryan said, hopefully we’ll come back with lots of pictures. However, since Bryan hates pictures, he’ll probably run away from most of them. I’ll work on my ninja pirate stealth picture taking and uploading though! Once I do that, I’ll also have to work on my ninja pirate stealth wrath of Bryan evading. Stay tuned to see if I survive.

Did you notice how I said Jeremiah was the star of commericals? Well, maybe I’m from the future. The future where Jeremiah has stared in more than one commercial. That’s right. Now you’re all “Woah, man, stop! You’re blowing my MIND.” Well, try and pull yourself together. The future’s not all that exciting. It’s just like the present, only with more Jeremiah. And, for some bizarre reason, more cheese. Those future people are just crazy about the cheese.

♫ Antony and the Johnsons - Cripple And The Starfish

• Getting Real: Copywriting is interface design
  “Great interfaces are written. If you think every pixel matters then you also need to think every letter matters.” Amen.

• iPod War
  The object of the game is to put your music library up against another person’s - find out some secret favorites they have, and hope your guilty pleasures don’t pop up.

• Inhabitat
  Blog “on the future of design.” There is SO MUCH COOL STUFF here that I want to link just about everything. So I’ll just let you explore for yourself.
• Haiku About Lost
  Some are quite funny. My favorite was the last one. You should read them now.