Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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11:51 am - Will buy anything with "Transformer" on it...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
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8:57 pm - Everybody here comes from somewhere.
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8:56 pm - Iron Man
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
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10:50 pm - CD of the week, April 20.
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
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10:21 am - I don't want to be like you.
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
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7:56 am - Are you *insane*?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/23/AR2007122302487.html
I just heard about this yesterday. A town in Germany's radical new approach to traffic safety is to *remove* every traffic management system in place. The idea being that people will (literally) slow down and think for themselves, hopefully more courteously, about how to manage the flow of traffic when the things that manage it for them are removed. It looks to me exactly like one of the hair-brained ideas I would come up with, only to write off without ever voicing as infeasible and reactionary Social Darwinism (big word).
It will be interesting to see where this leads.
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
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4:59 am - CD of the week, April 13
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The weeks in which I was deployed will simply be skipped. I was unable to buy CDs, generally, so I could not purchase a CD for the week. So those weeks will be skipped, now and from here on.
This week, we have I Robot from the Alan Parsons Project, and Bridge Over Troubled Water from Simon and Garfunkel.
I have almost *no* recollection of individual songs from I Robot yet, but I already know that I love it. It's atmospheric in a way. You don't absorb the individual songs, but it makes the perfect background music to your life.
I'm sure I'm not the only person to feel this way about a piece of music?
current mood: Contemplative
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
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2:02 am - The PADD I always wanted.
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1:51 am - iPod Touch
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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5:07 pm
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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1:08 pm - I guess I am in the Navy after all.
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I'm going to be gone from tomorrow morning until the middle of April. We're supposed to be back the 11th. See you then!
Good thing I bought all those books recently.
current music: It's very disturbing that I can't get "Beat It" out of my head.
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
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11:46 am - CD of the week, March 9.
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Symphonies 5 and 7, Beethoven.
An excerpt from Symphony 5, I believe, is the ringtone on my landline phone. It was the least annoying one available. After noting how many pieces there were to it in MIDI, I decided it was high time I branched out a bit. So here we go.
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
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8:30 pm - CD of the week, March 2.
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This is technically last week's purchase, even though I made both it and this post today. There will be another for this week in a few days.
I'm trying *not* to keep buying two CDs every week*, but these were packaged together as a set.
Sap and Jar of Flies. Two early EPs from Alice in Chains.
* - well, for the CDOTW. There might be more music picked up here and there that I just won't mention here. This is something of a "bare minimum" record-keeping.
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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12:26 pm - Trying to refresh.
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Do *all* electronics courses or texts look like they were editted by a drunk?
current mood: Wishing he were drunk.
current music: Pearl Jam
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3:36 am - Woo.
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The combined purchases of a dressing with a texture I can actually enjoy and some bowls that are both suited to the purpose and easier to clean than the Gladware I was using has resulted in me eating many, many salads over the past two days. Unfortunately, the cucumbers were overdue, I had to cull a good amount of the lettuce due to its age, and the parmesan might be going soon, too, but I've become a little accustomed to such wastes. Sadly. Anyway, as it stands now, my diet has taken a rather vegetarian turn.
More lettuce and cheese are cheap, anyway.
Hopefully I can balance out all the fast food I've eaten lately.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
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4:48 am - Awesome.
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No wonder my PC wouldn't stop overheating. The fan is barely spinning at all.
You'd think the board sensors would have told me that. Guess I should've been my normal cynical self.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
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3:33 am - Wow.
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Checking the release data on Wikipedia, Tidal came out in summer of 1996. I think I first turned on the radio in the seventh grade, and "Criminal" was one of the first songs to catch my attention.
So it's probably been a full decade between my initial exposure to this album and my actual purchase of it. That is... a long time.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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9:15 am - CD of the week, Feb 24: the female voice.
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
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8:14 am - D:
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
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2:53 am - CD of the week, Feb 17.
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As of late I've become enamored with a program on the local public radio affiliate: "Out of the Box", hosted by Paul Shugrue. On a weekly basis, an album is selected as "CD of the week" and recieves significant airplay during that week.
I've recently thought that I don't have enough musical exposure. So, for 2008, I will enact my own "CD of the week" program. Each week I will buy at least one new CD. I'll rely on LJ to keep me honest. The previous seven weeks of 2008 will go unaccounted, with the hope that next year this will continue, and the next, indefinitely. It's a work in progress.
For this week, we have Sara Bareilles's Little Voice, and Simon & Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence, August 2001 edition.
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