If you put gel in your hair in the morning, and then decide to shave your head soon after, do not expect to be able to simply brush away the shaved hair from your body with a towel, as you normally would. If (foolishly believing the hair to be gone) you put on a shirt, immediately remove the shirt from your body and place it in a hamper, as it will be an itchy shirt until next washing.

Laura Holder made me buy a Swiffer. I think my roommate's cats barfed barbacue sauce(?) in the spare bedroom. It will be swiffed. [update: it was, my god it was]

There are many free-roaming cats in this neighborhood. Many, many cats. They sneak over at night while we are sleeping, lounge around the backyard and steal pomegranates from the tree.

I've recently found myself with more free time than I really need to be having.

Wow. Was transferring hard drives from one mac to another, figured I'd moved everything, and inadvertently blew away several years of carefully collected and organized bookmarks.

It's actually kind of refreshing.

I collect... I collect wires. Wires and wire related things. I have so many of them. A large box in my closet that I've been sorting through, throwing away much fewer than I really should be throwing away, but I just can't. There's another box in storage, too. I've an idea for a sculpture that'd use a good bit of em, but first I'd need to learn to weld. Which I have, before. Learned to weld, that is. But I've forgotten it all.

I also have a higher than average fear of death(or pain) by electrical shock, something that all these wires, if connected [im]properly, have the ability to do. I shock myself on doorknobs and stair rails a higher than average percent of time I come in contact with them, too. I believe that is related to my magical ability to turn off streetlamps with my mind, though.

I'd like to know, what do you collect?

It's an obsessive complusive thing, I am forced to read or delete. Having all the folder names go from bold to plain text as I clear out my email every evening is more satisfying than I'd like to admit.

This weekend, I am buying major appliances. I am excited about the idea of owning my own fridge, washer, and dryer. Something here feels very wrong.

In the area surrounding the house, hair salons and smoke shops outnumber every other kind of store by a 2 to 1 ratio.

There is an elementary school down the street. I wonder if I'll be voting there.

The laundry room has hookups for both gas and electric. The oven and broiler are avocado green, with chrome trim.

The babelfish translation of El Escorial, the street on which the house resides, is The Dump. El Escorial also happens to be a famous place in Spain that is not, I'm led to believe, a dump.

There is no mailbox, there is a mail slot. When coming home from work, I will find my mail laying in a small pile beside the door. I think that is neat. I wonder if bees can get inside through a mail slot.

Your search for "giant go stones" did not match any documents.

So I found a house to rent. Three bedrooms, tiled/wooden floors, nice lil pool, and a plant garden foyer sort of thing in the front. A lot of personality in this place. Driving up to the house, it looks like one giant tree surrounded by a wooden fence. I'll be moving in with a friend this week.

In this house there is a third bedroom. In this bedroom the floor is a wooden checkboard grid. This wooden checkerboard grid is large enough to be used as a 9x9 Go board. Now I've got to figure out what to use as stones for the game. Black and white plastic plates might work, if I could find a few stacks for cheap. Or tortoises, if they'd stand still. Dilemma.

This made me laugh.

I need a good solid book covering CSS. My usual path of travel at this point would be to just get the O'Reilly edition, but in this case the last printing of the CSS Definitive Guide is May 2000, ages old in computerbooktime.

So, coder people, what book should I pick up? I'm looking for something that is part reference, part usage... Maybe Eric Meyer's new book?

So SciFi has gone and pulled the rug out from under Farscape, one of the few shows on television that isn't junk(and, aside from Twilight Zone and MST3k reruns, one of the only reasons to even tune in to the SciFi Channel).

I wonder if the push by fans will be enough to save the show, or at least have it renewed on another station. Has something like this been successful in the past?

Ken Bereskin, Product Manager for Mac OS X, has a weblog. Now's yer chance to find out just what those 150+ new features in 10.2 really are(he's outlining a couple of em every day).

I need a new PDA. Running out of space on my Palm IIIe(oh how I long for a portable dictionary), and I don't think it's worth upgrading. I tend to carry around with me more things than one can comfortably fit into pockets, so I've come to the conclusion that it's time to buy a backpack. As I'll have a backpack, PDA size/weight won't be an issue. I'm seriously considering a Newton.

A friend of mine sent me a link to the Degree Confluence Project. From the site:

Looks like the confluence at 36ƒN 115ƒW(already photographed several times) is just down the street from work. 37ƒN 116ƒW is a bit farther away, sitting up in Nye County outside Mercury "The Gateway to Yucca Mtn", Nevada(and apparently on the edge of a blast crater), but it's the last unphotographed confluence in the state. The primary issue would be navigating our way about the Test Site, and whether we'd be able to get within camera distance without being shot at. Anyone up for a day trip?

Google, as an Aid To The Indecisive:

cream cheese jalapeno poppers (4120 results)
cheddar cheese jalapeno poppers (3000 results)

Thank you Google, I will have the cream cheese poppers.