February 2012
30 posts
I just signed into the student loans website..
… since I got one of those “HEY WE HAVE A LETTER POSTED FOR YOU” (note to the internet: that’s what email is for, not your website) and discovered I have a balance of $0.00.
Something — not me — paid off the balance of my student loan 3 days ago?
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: Neon Cathedral, from Ryan... →
That’s my music at the bottom there!
mackryan:
Recently, I got a chance to work with Reed Ruddy and the Seattle Rock Orchestra at Studio X on a record we’ve been chipping away at for a while now. It’s a collaboration between us and Allen Stone titled Neon Cathedral. You may have heard the track when we premiered it at the sold out Allen…
Sorry, I thought this was just amazing. →
On the various bots that roam Amazon and price books:
Before I talk about my own troubles, let me tell you about another book, “Computer Game Bot Turing Test”. It’s one of over 100,000 “books” “written” by a Markov chain running over random Wikipedia articles, bundled up and sold online for a ridiculous price. The publisher, Betascript, is notorious for this kind of thing.
It gets...
Idiolect.: to the left →
federov:
What I didn’t mention in my post last night (the one about how I was called pompous by my prof) is that those comments occurred in the context of a conversation about “masculine” and “feminine” writing conventions. Basically, masculine writing is assertive/aggressive/direct (lots of…
Pompous! I admire the original poster for getting called pompous, as a lady it’s pretty...
“But we still have legitimate concerns here. It seems unfair that the designers...”
– From -alpha To -webkit: Fix All the Prefixes—Revolt! Puppy—I blogged my answer to this question last night. If you’re a web designer and not exhausted with the vendor prefix mess, why not have a read? (via ragdoll)
This was a great post. Just sayin’!
I wonder how “gun-meet-foot” it would be to go shopping for sweaters (I’m thinking super tight 50s and early 60s style?) instead of practicing the music for my concerts this week.
Today was terrible!
Last meal was over 10 hours ago. Now spending all the cash I made at my orchestra gig on a cab ride home.
Planes
I like the different groups of people on the flights that go to Lincoln and to Seattle.
Seattle flights have aging hippie-ish moms with bright striped socks and sensible Mary Janes. Dudes in their mid-40s with black plastic glasses that still spike and floof up their gray hair. Lots of brightly colored hair. Multiple musical instruments. Dead silence as everyone taps on their smart...
January 2012
28 posts
Oh, speaking of my 2007 ex...
So we have new lead-type guy on our team - not my boss, but say, a peer of my boss. He’s looked sort of familiar to me since he was hired. I assumed since he’s at least 10 years older than I am, and pretty mellow, that I was probably way off - how could I have crossed paths with this guy?
I learned on Friday he’s a professional Magic card player. I think he was at the...
My latest peak of stupidity
So I hung out with a dude (went on a date with a dude?) this weekend and it was actually, like, good.
I’m only mentioning this because I’m facing the reality that I don’t actually know what I’m supposed to do if I want to see him again? Send stupid text messages? I don’t really enjoy doing that. Be blunt about wanting to hang out with him again? Okay, I...
And finally
This week I had two dudes invite me to see bands with them - one in March and one in April. What does it mean?? It’s SO far out.
And, on being a straight lady with a...
This week everyone is back at work (from snow, vacations, conferences) and the countdown seems to be on to the moment where I have to work closely with a dude at I went on a couple of dates with last year that totally did not call.
I know he (and everyone) notices my presence in the building at work more than I notice them (I have boobs and green hair), but he and I awkwardly pathed-around...
Managed to take a situation where I was getting set up as the fall guy and spin it as a victory for teamwork and for everyone involved.
I think, I might not be terrible at my job, I feel like a project management super hero for owning the situation like that.
I’m also too exhausted to leave the house tonight (but I have a PAID recording gig tomorrow morning anyways, so it’s for...
/nirak.tumblr.com/: Could we please stop using the... →
nirak:
1: It’s mostly applied to girls. Boys are allowed to state what they like more often without being accused of being overly individualistic. *edited to add it also seems to be applied to trans* people a lot.
2: I have seen it used several time now by misogynists who want to put down a girl who…
I never really thought about how it’s applied mostly to girls, huh. I think...
Getting back into Classical Music, Part 1
I’m doing a recording session and playing a concert with the Northwest Symphony (I think? I don’t even know the name of the group I just showed up on time for rehearsal)…
This might sound completely dumb, but let me say - playing Ravel is like, EVERYTHING I HATE about playing classical music. Someone remarked to me that the piece (Daphnis et Chloe) is pretty, and I agreed...
I spent most of the day yesterday in bed, and am still in bed right now (9:21am pst). I think, perhaps, this isn’t good.
edit: This post was supposed to go to the other blog. I have had a really rough like, 3-4 days which I think is hormone related.
