Plaidophile

One month in the making

While going through my books, I came across a familiar yellow folder.

This made me happy. Because for the first time on the Internet, you can see— Well, let's say that I was exceedingly bored in high school.

A yummy experiment in baking, adapted from the back of a box of Nestle's baking cocoa powder.

1. The Frontalittle entry last week won!!! Yay! This is the first time I've been involved in a winning entry on Songfight. (Which means now I no longer have the title of "longest-running participant without a win" anymore, though people are telling me that it doesn't count if it's a collaboration anyway. But I totally made that track, in more ways than one...)
2. I have an entry in Moscow, Idaho.

So, the friend who hosts this site for me popped online and gave me a little code snippet: Basically, compile it and run it with something like "./a.out Foobar" and it'll output the string repeatedly, rotating the capitalization to the right. (With the caveat that it doesn't work with more than one capital letter.)

But it seemed rather bloated to me, so I rewrote it...

but would there really be so much media attention if it weren't so fun to say "cockle picker?"

I decided to do my taxes early this year. As it turns out, I owe about $1300, because my fellowship (which was previously tax-free) has changed to taxable status this year (even though it was funded with tax money to begin with). Ludicrous.

So after getting upset with myself for every mistake I've made in life, I calmed down and made some brownies, and thought about the problems in trying to get a job. (Maybe it'll lead to a solution.)

1. RemixFight is in full swing. I have an entry for "Skin, Disguised" and my song "Sunny Again" is being butchered for next month's competition.
2. I did all the mixing/sequencing/sound effects/Godzilla noises for The Frontalittle Squad this week at Songfight (title: Goodbye Monster, in case it hasn't been posted yet or if it's already been taken down when you read this).

A Whole Lotta Nothing had a little bit about DJ Danger Mouse — The Grey Album. From the New Yorker article I was interested enough to download preview a few tracks, and can't help but think that this is just an ill-conceived publicity stunt.

I will most likely be performing at SongFight Live 2004 in Austin, TX on June 19. No venue has been announced yet, and the date might float around, but hopefully I'll be able to get the requisite vacation time (assuming I have the requisite job to get vacation time from by then) to make it there.

Today (February 1) only, the Apple Store has a 10% off sale for the full-size iPods and select iPod accessories. Get them while they're hot.

(I'd grab a 15GB but I need to save my money, and $270 is the normal educational price anyway. Since the university bookstore doesn't actually check for current enrollment before giving .edu prices on computer stuff.)