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Monday, September 18, 2000

Misc.

Some really lousy DDR pictures are up now. They are mostly of Laurel's butt (red skirt) and Julie's butt (jeans). Sorry ladies. My favorite is the crude panorama shot that I put together in the darkness. Everything's probably misaligned but hey whatever.

I think I need to make an index page for all my photo pages as they're all kind of hidden and this is right now the only place to find them. I make my thumbnails and pages using QuickNailer, which is great, but I need to concentrate and build better headers and footers and indexing so I can keep track of them. Yay. Another damn geek project. Sigh.

The bf and I spent Sunday at his dad's art show in Brooklyn. I don't think he sold as many pieces as he wanted to, but it was still a rather interesting experience. The woman who presented the show had been living in this huge, multi-room gallery space for 20 years, but now she's being evicted because it isn't a residence. At first I thought that sucked, but then I met the woman and she wasn't very nice so now I'm more in the oh-well-sucks-to-be-her-but-she-IS-a-bitch-afterall-so-she-deserves-it camp.

We spent most of the show walking around from gallery to gallery being civil but eventually I folded and dragged out my book and sat down to read for a bit. I've been reading Snow Crash this week, about 5 years after everyone else -- I picked it up because a friend mentioned it at the same time I noticed it mentioned on a website, and you know what Agent Cooper always said about two events that occur simultaneously. (Actually, now that I think about it, I can't remember exactly WHAT Agent Cooper said but I know it was something about not ignoring two things that are mentioned together or something like that. How can I live by his words if I can't even keep them straight in my head?? Brownie points for the first person to email me the correct quote, ok?)

Anyway, where was I? Oh, Snow Crash. The downtime at the gallery gave me time to finish reading it. I really enjoyed some of the linguistic and religious theories, and most of the story was really quite funny and exciting, but the ending wasn't all-that. Still, I'd place it pretty high on my recommended-cyberpunk-reading list.

On the agenda for tonight: Buy a VCR before the new season of Popular starts on Friday (and convince the bf that we need a multi-format machine so we can watch PAL videos!), then head to Julie & Megan's for another DDR rehearsal. Someday I will be as good as Irene Cara in Flashdance. I will.

Posted at 04:05 PM

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