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Thursday, September 26, 2002

CD Mix of the Month Club
This is why I love the Internet:
"It's like the Mickey Mouse Club, only no Britney. And no one calls you a mouseketeer unless you want them to. Here's the deal: Every month I make a mix CD. If you want a copy, just send me a mix CD of your own. Hopefully, we'll both find some new music we'll like. Bonus prize: if you send me two copies of your mix, I'll send you my mix and a copy of someone else's, chosen at random from what I get in the mail." –Josh Benton, CD Mix Club at crabwalk.com

posted by ml @ 09:15 AM PST [link]

Monday, September 23, 2002

Move Over Diana Prince
Real life Jordanian Wonder Woman Whallops Creeps
After being verbally harrassed by three men in the street, a Jordanian woman took off her cloak, revealing her dress underneath, and proceded to beat the holy crap out of the men. It's suspected she was trained in martial arts. The three men were too shocked to react at first and ended up knocked to the ground, screaming in pain. They then scrambled up and fled. [via boingboing]

posted by ml @ 12:56 PM PST [link]

Wining Allowed
Went to a great wine bar this weekend...Noble Rot, located at 2724 SE Ankeny, is a hip place to have wine (beer too) and small plates of delicious food...
posted by ml @ 10:31 AM PST [more..]

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

A Blogger Plus
Blogger Blog*Spot blogs can now host images! Yay! You need to upgrade to Blog*Spot Plus for a nominal fee. Maximum amount of space is 100mb.
posted by ml @ 03:16 PM PST [link]

Monday, September 16, 2002

Weekend Update
I woke up early Saturday morning to log on to my computer to buy tickets for The Strokes. But I couldn't get onto the Fastixx website. Obviously, a dial-up connection isn't the best way to buy tickets online for a band that regularly sells out shows. I panicked for a few minutes and contemplated going in to work to take advantage of the T-1 line, but decided to just go to a Fastixx ticket outlet instead, my local Safeway store. I got there about an hour before tickets went on sale and there was only one guy waiting. By 9 a.m. there were probably about 15 people waiting for tickets. I got away with tickets in orchestra section B, row A. Yay!

Racing for the Cure at 7:30 in the morning was a little hard, but it was overcast and cool out, so that was good. I was home by 8:30 a.m.
posted by ml @ 09:37 AM PST [link]

Friday, September 13, 2002

Pop vs. Soda
What do you say? [via metafilter]
posted by ml @ 10:07 AM PST [link]

Thai Elephant Orchestra
Elephants in the Thai jungle were given instruments that they played with and soon began to play on to create music. You can buy their CD at this site, as well as listen to some sample tracks. Very avant-garde and not half band for a bunch of pachyderms. [via boing boing]
posted by ml @ 09:43 AM PST [link]

Heart Attack
Omigod! The Strokes are coming to town on October 22. I think I have died and gone to heaven. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. I plan to be in the front row. No cost is too high.
posted by ml @ 09:16 AM PST [link]

Thursday, September 12, 2002

Finally!
I just got Movable Type installed correctly. It took about four days before I could get everything running smoothly. I love Blogger and Grey Matter, but have wanted to check out Movable Type ever since I started reading Mena's blog, dollarshort. When I finally got this server space that supported perl, CGI, and MySQL, I decided to dive right in. So far, so good. It looks like a great publishing system.
posted by ml @ 12:38 PM PST [link]

Tuesday, September 10, 2002

Big Fat Laughs
My Big Fat Greek Wedding was as funny as everyone says it is. A good time was had by all!
posted by ml @ 09:49 AM PST [link]

Monday, September 9, 2002

Are You Ready for Some Football?
I can't believe football season is already starting up again. Our weekly Monday Night Football dinners commence tonight with the Pittsburgh/New England game. Unfortunately, I will have to miss out because I made previous plans to see a friend and I didn't have a clue that I was planning something on football night.
posted by ml @ 02:25 PM PST [link]

Wednesday, September 4, 2002

Race for the Cure 2002
Race for the Cure is on Sunday, Sept. 15. Be one of the estimated 43,000 people to support this worthwhile event and cause! Register now!
posted by ml @ 09:56 AM PST [link]

Tuesday, September 3, 2002

I Love Long Weekends!
I had a very busy four-day weekend. I was house/dogsitting Chuck, and it seemed like I had my own dog again. She's this great ridgeback/pit bull mix. She loves to be scratched and petted. I felt bad when I had to leave the house though. She always seemed a little sad.

My family had a nice Labor Day BBQ at my grandmother's house on Sunday afternoon. Lots of good food and badminton too. I also saw a ton of movies: 13 Conversations About One Thing, Tadpole, and The Bourne Identity. I'd recommend all three.

School starts this week. I expect to be really busy this month.
posted by ml @ 11:12 AM PST [link]

Monday, September 2, 2002

I tried...
After seeing Lord of the Rings, I thought I would finally give the book series a chance. I wanted to start with The Hobbit just so I had background on Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. However, About five pages into the story, I realized I was bored. I cannot get into the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Perhaps I will just try to start reading The Lord of the Rings, but I fear the same results. Instead I'm reading Cold Snap, short stories by local NW author Thom Jones.
posted by ml @ 08:22 AM PST [link]