senseofdread

2007-06-20T09:53:00.000-04:00

Victoria Peak

2007-06-20T09:50:00.000-04:00

Mong Kok by day!

Pot? meet kettle.

2007-06-11T10:53:00.000-04:00

hooray for strict quality control!!

note to spammers

2006-12-16T12:53:00.000-05:00

when I get an email from Santa (RowlandUBryce@Delairgroup.com) that says "Your wife just emailed me" in the subject line I AM NOT GOING TO READ IT.

quote of the day

2006-12-04T21:05:00.000-05:00

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher (1889 - 1951)

我最喜欢的题目。。。

2006-11-12T21:18:00.000-05:00

proc freq

2006-08-21T00:25:00.000-04:00

best crossword ever.

deep down, we all want different things...

2006-07-28T17:19:00.000-04:00

let the 连通批发公司 break it down...hmm.

A mere bagatelle in comparison

2006-07-16T21:52:00.000-04:00

Tropicalia.

2006-07-13T18:07:00.000-04:00

"yeah....that's in the back...."

2006-07-01T13:22:00.000-04:00

"I don't even know what Pitchfork Media is. OOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!"

working hard, or....

2006-06-30T10:13:00.000-04:00

I'm working at home and it's actually going pretty well!! I can't believe it! If I'd forseen this I would have done this WEEKS ago!!!
ok back to work.

Congrats to JW for his passing on his thesis. i salute you with a virtual 红包. word.

(rob? rob?) nevermind.

2006-06-27T23:29:00.000-04:00

Here is a video of the ukelele orchestra of Great Britain doing "Smells like Teen Spirit."

Facelift!!

2006-06-27T22:41:00.000-04:00

was getting a little tired of the old look and decided to do some rearranging. it doesn't have the VD look, but I figured that was probably a good thing.

i'm still reworking the html to get the sidebar back in order. i love editing code!

wow.

2006-06-27T13:24:00.000-04:00

2006-06-27T10:32:00.000-04:00

Reading Under the Banner of Heaven sparked an interest in all things fundamentalist...that combined with a recent surge free time and the acquisition of a cambridge library card (and also a little urging from my roommates) meant that a copy of Dianetics found its way into my hands. I was hesitant about taking it out of the library since I discovered that the Government is keeping track of my borrowing (thanks, Freedom of Information Act!!) but it was pointed out to me that the government will probably be run by Scientologists in 20 years and that I'm really doing myself a favor by taking it out now. a long term investment if you will...oh boy, i can hardly wait.

anyways, I only read the first 10 pages or so, but nothing juicy. For the time being, I'm relying on South Park for the condensed version.

new radiohead song

2006-06-21T12:58:00.000-04:00

the dentist conspiracy

2006-06-15T13:43:00.000-04:00

i have always had a theory that dentists, have a cavity quota that they have to fill. you know, like traffic tickets and police. i think it makes perfect sense.

2006-06-12T11:32:00.000-04:00

"this sounds like a recipe for disaster." I couldn't have said it better myself. BWB, I am looking in your direction.

my favorite film remade as a teen comedy. hooray!!

2006-05-20T14:43:00.000-04:00

last night

2006-05-15T23:42:00.000-04:00

I had the strangest dream...call it stress, or maybe it was just the baby aspirin I took before bed (yes, I actually took "baby aspirin" and no I'm not 50, but how that happened is a different story in and of itself...) but it ranks up there as one of the single most bizarre things I have ever recalled.

The gist of it was this: somehow I discovered that I had a super-power. I could just point in a particular direction and instantly turn whatever was on the wall into a Pop-Tart. Yes! like you eat (or, rather, i eat. a lot). SOOooo there I was, pointing at billboards and turing them into large, frosted Pop-Tarts (to be fair, I made a few strawberry unfrosted as well) -- in mint green and light blue flavors like spearmint and wintergreen.

Anyway, but before you're overcome with envy... as fabulous as this may sound, I quickly discovered that there was a hitch (well, a booming voice told me). While I could turn anything into any flavor of Pop-Tart, I could only turn it into a raw Pop-Tart. That is to say, I couldn't make a toasted Pop-Tart. How frustrating!!!

I should have known it was too good to be true. Welcome to my purgatory.

[the water is warm....but the Pop-Tarts are cold....]

2006-05-12T22:05:00.000-04:00

no comment.

"solver"

2006-05-10T12:41:00.000-04:00

this stupid add-in for Excel doesn't "solve" anything.

duh-nuh- NAH-NAH,..

2006-05-07T01:48:00.001-04:00

just in case you happen to have nothing useful to do with yourself (like me). this is worth a little stroll down memory lane. As soon as I saw a mention of "West Beverly" I almost fell out of my chair and snorted my drink. Whew! those were good times.

cinco de mayo.

2006-05-05T23:54:00.000-04:00

happy cinco de mayo. my favorite day...after may 4.

forget cinco de mayo

2006-05-04T21:08:00.000-04:00

cinco de mayo is all well and good, but today is may fourth! like as in the may fourth movement aka 五四运动. oh boy, have i read some good 五四运动 literature. and may fourth was the day students all went on strike...sounds like a pretty good idea right now...

2006-04-29T15:46:00.000-04:00

Phoneless. Day 4.

2006-04-20T21:10:00.000-04:00

It has been almost FOUR FULL days since I woke up to find my cell phone in two pieces on the floor and I'm almost starting to find this phone-free living ok, save for the fact the whole terribly inconvenient part. Also, i've been hedging big time about buying a new phone, since they are all astronomically expensive. I figured that starting off by reading some reviews would help me out. not so. After reading all the horror stories of people bitching about each and every model, it was hard to rationalize buying anything.

finally i just picked something on ebay and instantaneously fell into a post-purchase dissonance induced funk.

humpty dumpty

2006-04-17T18:44:00.000-04:00

I woke up this morning to find my cell phone in 2 pieces, lying there on the floor. hmm, not sure how that happened.
...oh, and they were not two pieces that could easily be put back together.

so don't try to call me, cuz i aint around.

在一起, biotch!

2006-04-09T22:44:00.000-04:00

the rolling stones played beijing for the first time ever!
This quote (from a certain someone's favorite news source) has all the details. My favorite quotation:
"So old, and yet he can really perform," Song Jianghong said, referring to Jagger, 62.

One of the best things is that 崔建, chinese rock star, got to play with the Stones. Way to seel out, bro. you know things are changing when someone who's trademark song 一无所有 is being played for a crowd of people who payed 600 dollars for tickets.

"that's ridiculous."
it sure is.

Don't call me Whitney, Bobby.

2006-04-06T20:47:00.000-04:00

OMG. As many (okay, all of you) know, i have a passion for whitney houston. not for her music which i could (would prefer to) do without, but rather for one specific interview with Tv's own Diane Sawyer. She's a legend in my eyes -- made more so because that interview is now IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND. oh, would that i could watch those crack-laden antics one more time...

one caveat. mad props to mister jwww, to whom i was lamenting my inability to find aforementioned interview and once again he came through, telling me, "no, you have to search for streaming video," and found a clip with some whitney-diane action. from potTV no less.

hats off to you, my friend.

and now, for the real reason for this post -- whitney got her own petition. yes, it's a bit unclear as to what, exactly, one is signing on to, but it's certainly worth reading what others have written, even if you're not ready to commit.

crosstown bus

2006-04-04T18:33:00.000-04:00

I read this almost a year ago, and I still come back to it from time to time because it just makes me laugh soooo hard. i can totally see it playing out...

the morning comes in paragraphs

2006-04-03T22:45:00.000-04:00

nice sentiment. I almost wish I'd come up with it. Instead, I have the distinction of having heard (or, rather, mis-heard) that phrase when it was a song lyric in a song that I'm too embarrassed to tell you the name of. I will tell you that the last word was supposed to be "paradise" and there you go, you can probably figure it out. although my guess would be that there are pl-enty of (time) songs about morning in paradise. so there you go (again). but really, i just realized that the words are not about morning in paragraphs...it was quite an epiphany....

I have been doing this for as long as I can remember. I always thought that the Madonna song was called "Papa Don't Breach." Not like a breach of security. I thought it was like the breaching of a whale. like, maybe her dad was so mad he would "breach" which would be kind of like flipping out, but worse.

Return to Eastern Standard Time

2006-04-02T23:23:00.000-04:00

1 is the new 2 (is the old 2).

bad, bad, bad

2006-03-29T10:22:00.000-05:00

for reference purposes.

Two terrible choices.

2006-03-29T10:10:00.000-05:00

2006-03-28T22:27:00.000-05:00

2006-03-24T17:25:00.001-05:00

amazing sharon stone on the daily show clip!

2006-03-24T17:25:00.000-05:00

you tube

"I don't believe in Fairness" (aka I'll see it when I believe it)

2006-03-24T00:27:00.000-05:00

I just got back from a fantastic, fantastic show and it almost made up for all the crap-ass things that happened this week-- fair enough, mullet + working through spring break does not a tragedy make, but it's enough to put one off from glowing with wide-eyed splendor at the wonders of the world...
then i hung out at the bus stop in random-ass brookline for 40 min and was bitched at by the bus driver when he finally pulled up. now it's back to pcr in the AM.
all's well that ends well.

2006-03-23T13:38:00.000-05:00

I got a haircut the other day and i can't decide if it is Friends --The Rachel (circa 1995) or mullet (timeless).

2006-03-20T23:24:00.000-05:00

I read about this on Mocking Music -- the Mozart of the Mushroom kingdom, they call him. name Martin Leung: Irvine native, by way of HK. bad-ass pianist who arranges videogame themes for the 钢琴. I expected it to be really unpleasant to listen to, but it's pretty good...and in any case, this brought back a lot of memories......如果你ENJOY的话。。。there is more where that came from.
here is the YouSendIt link. (i just posted the song that my super mario gameboy game played. before i sat on it and it stopped working.

2006-03-20T20:05:00.000-05:00

I saw this in the window of Duane Reade on Broadway and instantaneously became overwhelmed with excitement. this is sooo much coooler than those red string bracelets! I can't wait to log in.

2006-03-18T01:18:00.000-05:00

I'm...on...vacatioooonnn!!!
[except it's not that kind of a vacation]

2006-03-14T20:10:00.000-05:00

kikulea...

after YEARS of searching, we've finally found what we've been looking for.

2006-03-14T19:33:00.000-05:00

Bandwagon Blogger. it's juba-rrific.

2006-03-12T22:35:00.000-05:00

this matchbox is from my MOST FAVORITE restaurant in the entire world! mmmm....pao cai bing.

2006-03-12T14:14:00.000-05:00

So Much WHaaaater

2006-03-12T11:24:00.000-05:00

This weekend I went to an electronic music concert to see Evan Ziporyn play and also to see Alvin Lucier in the flesh once again. That part was kind of nice and his piece was a juuuuust as I remembered all his other stuff being. and I was kind of glad I wasn't playing it, as I don't think i have the strength for 30 min glissandos. anymore.

2006-02-26T18:02:00.000-05:00

stupid hipsters. at least now you can figure out how to classify them. if you really care!
(and here is part II of the Field Guide to Identifying Hipsters).

in less hip news, i saw someone at the gym yesterday with her laptop on the elliptical machine. what is this world coming to? forget it, i already know.

2006-02-21T21:21:00.000-05:00

this made me laugh harder than hard. ay, mcsweeney's
that thing about the breakfast cereals had me falling out of my chair. in the library...

2006-02-19T23:19:00.000-05:00

新年快乐！！

polluted district.

2006-02-19T23:05:00.000-05:00

王府井的商场。我们的饭店就在后面 -- 在公厕的旁边，SEXSHOP的对面

难得好天气
(在鼓楼)

Keep those fossil fuels burning!

a fantastic day for ice skating in Beijing. I was always sure that someone would go careening across the ice and somehow end up crashing through down to the bottom of the pond, but since the temperature never got above 10 degrees, it was a non-issue

2006-02-15T21:01:00.000-05:00

http://freespace.virgin.net/alex.balanescu/cooking.htm

2006-02-12T01:24:00.000-05:00

2006-01-16T11:18:00.000-05:00

2005-12-24T22:34:00.000-05:00

不喜欢圣诞节。太无聊。。。。：(

"sucks to be who?"

2005-12-23T00:52:00.000-05:00

this is an excellent DAG that was drawn to show the fundamentals of epidemiology in layman's terms. an implicit assumption of course, is that the layman is a big alt-country fan.

2005-12-23T00:45:00.000-05:00

2005-12-20T10:40:00.000-05:00

okay, looking at the soup every day was making me feel *slightly* ill. so rather than taking it down I'm just going to hope that if I post more frequently it will fade into oblivion.

2005-12-18T23:51:00.000-05:00

soup's up.

2005-12-18T22:38:00.000-05:00

this is weird...on several levels.

2005-12-18T18:39:00.000-05:00

fell in love with a moca pot...
it's like heaven.

2005-11-15T00:40:00.000-05:00

senseofdread
Dudley House concert this friday night. woo!!! come out and show your suppowt.

2005-11-15T00:36:00.000-05:00

China or Taiwan? agh.

2005-10-16T15:21:00.000-04:00

wtf, does blogThis actually work?

2005-10-10T17:08:00.000-04:00

coffee

2005-09-14T23:15:00.000-04:00

Regressing!

2005-03-09T10:09:00.000-05:00

check out the partyparty website for some excellent tunes!

2005-02-16T14:21:00.000-05:00

my sister turned me on to these hairmuffs. Fabulous.

2005-02-16T14:20:00.000-05:00

patrick wolf is on pitchfork!

2004-10-20T14:59:00.000-04:00

blogging in sas class. last sas class!!!!

2004-10-13T10:15:00.000-04:00

e's been gone....
for so long....

but now it's time to do biostatsepiphys. :(

2004-05-02T22:20:00.000-04:00

If you like your ice cream blended with a variety of “mix-ins of nuts, fruits and candy to artistic perfection” plus a good dose of fascist/corporate/franchise fun, then look no further. Put some extra emphasis on the nuts and let us praise the Cold Stone Creamery® and its “entertaining environment”.
In case the whole ice cream being prepared on a frozen granite stone weren't enough (that's where the cold stone comes in, get it?) the folks here decided to add an entertainment factor to keep things interesting. Each time someone puts a tip in the jar, the entire staff breaks out into a clever take on a classic, well, known song. Like Take Me Out for some ICE CREAM. Clearly brilliant, but why, you ask? well, here's the rationale (according to the Cold Stone Creamery Website list of frequently asked questions).

Why do the crew members sing when they receive a tip?
The "Entertainment Factor" is meant to lend a fun, festive atmosphere in our stores and to set us apart from the competition. We seek out crew members who like to perform and we "audition", rather then "interview" them. Many of our crew members enjoy the singing so much that they develop new songs themselves

wow.

I guess it's like they say at the store: Say good-bye to frozen predictability and hello to a whole new way to experience dessert.

2004-04-28T13:21:00.000-04:00

I received the following email today. if i didn't already have a plans to go to nyc tomorrow I would be there in a heartbeat...

Dear Friends,

You'll be pleased to know that the famed Food Network (home of Iron Chef and Emeril Live) will be at Finale tonight, filming for their new program, "What's Hot? What's Cool?" They'll be at the Park Plaza location at 6:00 p.m. If you're looking for your 15 minutes of fame, feel free to drop by. FYI, they are looking to interview guests, too.

Hope to see you.

Kim Moore & Paul Conforti
questions@finaledesserts.com
www.finaledesserts.com

2004-04-26T22:11:00.000-04:00

i'm prayerful that candice will finish project. i hope j.f. will pray for her.

2004-04-26T21:01:00.000-04:00

i have big big plans....

I'm almost tempted. there is a risk free--money back guarantee...and I wouldn't mind being a little bit taller, and healthier, like the site says. Besides, heightmax is the safest height enhancing supplement out there. this is such a scam. but it's kind of amazing.

2004-04-25T14:57:00.000-04:00

this site appeared a while back. _Very_ clever.

2004-04-25T14:49:00.000-04:00

i saw this Japanese film that just got released from Kino this weekend -- THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE. I really liked it...yakuza action and Taiwanese immigrant drama...topped off with several rousing renditions of "Long de Quan Ren".

2004-04-23T10:55:00.000-04:00

check out the subservient chicken. really fucking weird. apparently this has something to do with a Burger King promotion. "Have your chicken any way you want it!" Just don't ask him to clap his hands...

2004-04-22T20:10:00.000-04:00

joining the club.

2004-04-22T19:15:00.000-04:00

I found this picture waaaaay too entertaining. It's a lego MRI! oh, if only I had the time to embark on such grand endeavors. For now I will stick to putting together the toys inside Kinder Eggs . Just yesterday I made a little figure with a body comprised of what I believe is intended to be kitchen paraphernalia. The the butcher's knife he's clenching offsets his cleverly coordinated ensemble and makes you think he might spring to life AT ANY MOMENT.

I keep thinking The Indian in the Cupboard...somehow the notion of angry looking figurines seem to conjure up visions of young adult fiction from way back.

Luckily, I rescued several Kinder Eggs from our neigbors to the north. I don't know why the US stopped selling them. Lord knows, we sell lots of other potentially dangerous crap. I heard that in Europe Kinder Eggs are marketed as the best chocolate for children, because they have the most milk of aaaany chocolate. Now there is some damn good marketing.

2004-04-21T19:18:00.000-04:00

something new to look forward to -- i am working both days this weekend. oh, i wish i could tell you all about the insanity

2004-04-19T22:44:00.000-04:00

wow. wish i spoke Quebecois French. it would have been quite useful this weekend. oh well...

2004-04-19T22:31:00.000-04:00

a beautiful day for X-treme outdoor activity. thank goodness i spent most of the day working

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