Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-26

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

• “Heraclitus would have had a f***ing Twitter feed.” – In Defense of Twitter: http://cli.gs/QBYuBt #
• crappiest crap crap NYTimes article ever: http://cli.gs/E4TMbS author fails entirely to recognize the software’s potential. #
• the body as processing plant: in 24 hours, 2 pints (stout), 2 cups PG Tips tea, 1 cup coffee, 1 litre water, 1 giant glass of OJ. #

Normal needs a new laptop

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

my current one is starting to broken:

updates, coming soon, promises promises (and death)

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

quick notice here.

first off you’ll notice some changes ’round these parts. things look pretty stripped down, pretty bare. this is all part of a plan.

the approximate fourth incarnation of this blog in as little as 18 months, this time it’s all part of my upgrade and conquer initiative launched several weeks back.

The second incarnation went from the WordPress 1.5 to 2.0 codebase (I can’t even remember the first incarnation!); the third was actually implemented because of a forced downgrade in MySQL databases from switching hosts (a frustrating but necessary maneuver); this fourth incarnation comes with an upgrade to the WordPress 2.3.1 codebase, which has also rendered a huge chunk of some old code obsolete, thus the switch (temporary?) to K2 until I get around to polishing off some ideas and implementing some new features.

compound all of this development with having worked nearly 30 hours between two jobs in the past two days, and you can see I’ve been a little busy. Additionally, in more-depressing news, last Friday morning one of my uncles was fatally shot during a robbery in my hometown of St. Louis, MO. the type of thing one never thinks happening to one’s family, needless to say it’s shook us up. After the news broke Friday, I just sat at home all day, watching movies to get my mind off the idea. It’s not that easy.

There is, of course, a lot to report. More news about the GTA IV mural; some thoughts about Mike Nelson’s A Psychic Vacuum; Halloween; and more. It’ll all come soon, I promise promise.

(okay, not so quick. so be it!)

i’m baaaaaaack!

Friday, August 24th, 2007

first order of business: a coffee. then a nap (yes, coffee, THEN nap). then email, facebook, flickr, another nap. you know how it goes.

first thoughts: the sun here… it’s the best.

currently

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

in London. sitting in a cafe behind the York pub right outside the Angel tube station. it’s been exactly 3 years and 1 day since I’ve been in London. a lot has changed – more on that later.

trying to pin down my friend Ed Short, I’m supposed to be crashing on his couch. He hasn’t picked up his mobile phone for over 4 hours now. Not that I mind sitting in a cafe, but carting around my luggage is a bit difficult, not so much because of the weight but more because of the sunburn I intentionally received yesterday (the 30kg backpack and straps really dig in to the skin!) on the beach in Pula, Croatia. That’s right biyotch! I was swimming in the Mediterranean less than 24 hours ago! Of course London is grey, overcast and rainy! Okay some things here haven’t changed!

But I guess I can’t – actually – complain, like I said the sunburn was intentional. Sometimes a burn is just good for you, and me, I like to sensory overload my body every now and then. It’s sort of like every surface cell of your skin eating Sriracha for a couple days!

WiFi here is hard to come by, and this particular cafe closes too early by my opinion (9pm, for a Saturday).

I have a shedload of images to upload to Flickr, things to write, and notes to transcribe to posts. Unfortunately what WiFi is available here is paid for by the hour, rounded up. The Internets were hard to come by (as in never) in Pula, so it’ll take time, but I’ll make it worth the wait!

cheerio from the Angel, N1, London!

one more day?

Monday, August 13th, 2007

what can I say, Budapest is great. Actually, Buda is the shit. Pest is the town centre. if I lived here I’d live in Buda somewhere. guess that makes sense, rumor has it that’s where the fam is from.

so originally the plan was to have left earlier today for Croatia, to relax some days there before then heading to Kassel, for Documenta, and then from there to another city or two or direct to London to finish off this trip. then I got thinking, why Kassel? Documenta is pretty well documented online, indeed many of the works are pretty conceptual and only need to be read about or understood, not viewed. and another portion of the works I have no doubt I’ll see at another point in my life, and so I seem to think it’s just not necessary, and I’d much rather go easy on myself and trade an extra day in Budapest and an extra day on the beach in Croatia for a train hop to Kassel to engage with art that is, after all, just art.