berkleebassist

• Me: We can drink beers!
• Amber: Beer goggles don't work that way. It won't make the baseball more interesting.

Apologies to anyone who tried to visit Saturday or Sunday, as my site experienced some major downtime due to some cluster issues my host was having. Everything seems to be resolved now, but let me know if anything seems off.

Saw this post on Deus Ex Malcontent a few days ago, just now mentioning it. It is, in turn, a link to this article on the Huffington Post. Quite an interesting read, hopefully it signals the end of this damn circus that is this year's Democratic Party.

So the last week basically flew by; my sister's graduation last weekend was awesome. Really great to see my family & since it was only the second time I've ever been to Salem, I finally got to meet all of my sister's friends & hit the bar with all of them to celebrate. I'm really excited for my sis to move up to NYC though, it'll be great to have her close by again for visiting & such.

Work is going as it should; my schedule remains the same which is absolutely amazing. Seriously, my boss is totally the coolest, always willing to work with me regarding hours & days off & such. So I continue to have Friday-Sunday off, the exceptions being weeks I needed Monday or Tuesday off (working on Friday those weeks.)

As for my social life, definitely a rockin' weekend has already begun. Kicked things off Thursday night with the Video Game Music Club Band, hanging out here in my place drinking & enjoying each other's company. Sadly, three of our members are leaving to head back to their home countries (Taiwan & Denmark) but we wished them well. Last night I hung with my new friend Emily, who is a totally awesome girl. And tonight I'm going to Lettuce with my buddy John Cooke. In case you don't know, they're probably the most ridiculously amazing horn funk band ever, right alongside Tower of Power. Sunday will be spent enjoying the great outdoors with a friend of a friend.

In case it's not obvious, I'm trying to expand my circle of friends, as my closest ones moved away to pursue opportunities elsewhere. Still keep in touch with them, of course, but having friends here in town is vital.

Found by way of Jenna over at vom dot com, quoting Dan Savage:

When two dudes marry, the marriage-is-between-one-man-and-one-woman brigades crap their collective pants, vomit up ten thousand press releases, and run in circles screaming about all the hurricanes and earthquakes and unattractive haircuts that Our Loving Father™ is gonna rain down on our heads if we don't pry Adam off Steve right fucking now.

Well, the one-man-and-one-woman crowd has been strangely silent about this polygamist sect in Texas that's been all over the news. It appears that the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been organizing marriages/statutory rapes between one man and dozens or more women and/or girls. "Where's the outrage?" writes a reader, which prompted me to go looking for some outrage at the website of Concerned Women for America (www.cwfa.org). There are more anti-gay-marriage press releases packed onto CWFA's website than there is fudge packed into all the homos in all the Sodoms in all of North America. But there's not one single word that I could find about these straight men in Texas violating the holy and sacred one-man-and-one-woman rule. What gives?

(Via vom dot com)

Burger King is never a good idea

A: Why do I sometimes think that Burger King is a good idea?
B: Burger King is never a good idea
A: Well, it has now become a part of me.
A: That's right: they were filming one of their commercials, and the King raped me.

(Via A Prolific Squalor)

Just stumbled across this while updating my copy of Greased Lightbox, a fantastic GreaseMonkey script (for all you Firefox users out there.) It's called Smart Image Resizer, and it's a great piece of PHP that can resize images on the fly without modifying the original. Very very cool.

Seriously, this is amazing. Pants with a built-in keyboard, speakers, and mouse!

(Via Vous Pensez

Trying out blogging from my iPhone; pretty nifty. I'm currently sitting by gate B10 in Logan Airport, waiting to board my 10:30 flight to Roanoke via Philly. My sister's graduating from college tommorrow, which is just unbelievable to me. Then in June, she moves to NYC! Crazy stuff. Not only that, but my brother is graduating high school on 3 weeks, and a buddy of mine is getting married 2 weeks after that! Momentous occasions this spring, to be sure.

But right now, I'm exhausted from a couple of sleep-deprived nights. Helped my friend Christine with two final projects this week, both followed by early mornings. Currently running on about 4–5 hours of sleep. No fun. Hopefully I can catch some z's on the plane.

On another note, the jazz group Ellie & I are trying to start may finally have the kick in the ass it needs: a gig. Well see how that turns out.

Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Old [totally NSFW]:

(Via Deus Ex Malcontent.)