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Woah, I almost missed my blogging deadline for today. But I shall remain victorious!

Bryan and I are going Geocaching tomorrow with some friends, which should be great fun. The weather is even looking like it should be pretty ok!

That’s about the extent of our big weekend plans at this point. My only other goal is to continue hacking the fuck out of my MySpace page until it is marginally less ugly. You can see the progress I’ve made so far if you’re interested. There’s still a long road ahead, I fear. It would be much longer were it not for the genius work that is Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace. GENIUS.

What are YOUR exciting plans for the weekend? I’m hoping somebody is staging a peaceful takeover of a hostile alien warship because, MAN, who doesn’t love a good takeover?

♫ Junior Boys - Count Souvenirs

I’d like to take a moment to apologize to the universe. It’s come to my attention that the end of time is scheduled for this Saturday and it’s my fault. See, I now have a MySpace profile, something that I had never really planned to do.

Simply signing up for MySpace isn’t what’s causing Armageddon though. The real problem is that I’m kind of enjoying it. I know… MySpace is ugly, messy, and the downfall of western society. Damn if it isn’t pretty fun though!

So when the stars start falling on Saturday, you know who to blame. Now I’m off to try and make my page pretty (since I’m too late for Ze’s I Knows Me Some Ugly MySpace competition, I figure I should try and balance things out a bit with some non-ugly).

♫ Underworld - Play Pig

I’m not going to apologize for not blogging, because I’ve decided to stop feeling guilty about it. Lately it’s felt like a chore to write anything, and I don’t want my site to be something I feel obligated to work on. I think it’s better for my posts to be less frequent if I enjoy them more that way.

Now that my non-apology is out of the way, here are some things I’ve been up to recently:

• Redesigning Bryan’s site. It’s all raspberrylicious now. But you probably already knew that!

• Visiting Bostonia again and had a fabulous time with Jeremiah, Arthur, and RyanHarne.com. Highlight of the trip (apart from finally getting to meet Arthur): the crazy drunk guy that we saw twice on the T who told loud, disjointed stories about whatever crossed his mind, including the price of dry cleaning a shirt in the 1930s.

• Seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (while in Boston). I absolutely loved it and recommend that you stop whatever you’re doing and go see it now. Seriously, put down that highly educational textbook and go rot your brain. It’s worth it.

• Learning Ruby by reading Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. It’s by far the most bizarre, original, and enjoyable programming book I’ve ever read. There are cartoon foxes, aliens, elves, and, yes, chunky bacon. Ruby seems like a pretty cool language, so I’ll probably figure out some sort of project to write just so I can learn it.

• Trying to get over a sinus infection-ish thing. Ugh.

• Not going biking like I wanted to because of said sinus infection-ish thing. Double ugh.

• Being way too entertained by the phrase “chunky bacon.” But really, it’s pretty fun. Try it!

Chunky. Bacon.

♫ Gus Gus - David

As someone coming out of a conservative southern Christian background (though not Southern Baptist), this analysis of southern conservatism really rings true with me. I especially understand the parts about the “Us vs. Them” mentality and the ideas of spiritual warfare ala Frank Peretti (yeah, I have to admit that I read these books back in high school). I definitely still appreciate the values of Christianity (forgiveness, love everyone around you) but I’m glad to have left the culture.

♫ Paul Van Dyk - Live 7-31-2004

This makes me snicker uncontrollably. And I Don’t. Know. Why.

♫ Kings of Convenience - I Don't Know What I Can Save you From (Royksöpp Remix)

Peasant’s Quest. Sweet baby jesus, this is good. Any hopes of productivity for me have just gone right out the window. Good thing I don’t have a job right now.

♫ Head Automatica - Beating Heart Baby

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About has to be one of the more entertaining sites I’ve seen recently. Totally nuts and completely wonderful.

The Rasterbator … no, it’s nothing perverted. Actually, it’s an incredibly cool image manipulator that makes giant pictures from small ones. Check out the site for a better explanation and examples. I’ve made a couple posters using it and the results are spectacular.

This interview with the creator of Real Ultimate Power (under Ninjas Are Awesome) is very cool and gives some insight into the site. Also, for those who aren’t aware, there is a book which I plan to get eventually.

Did you ever believe weird things as a kid? So did these people.

Enjoy your trip around the interweb and remember to tip your conductor.

♫ Unkle - In A State

I can’t believe I missed it!

Completely hilarious re-captioned cartoons.

“How is the weather today?” “Fine and sometimes bear.”

Must… stop… reading!

♫ The Bens - Bruised

NASA has developed technology to interpret subvocal phrases. Very cool.

And this iPod³ trailer (17 meg Quicktime) is really neat. Fake, but neat.

Yeah, I know I need to write real updates, shut up and be patient.

♫ Sigur Rós - Flugufrelsarinn