DAY THIRTY

how quickly time flies.

there was a big debate about kilts. definitely skirt-like. wiki says it, so it must be true.

did some major research this weekend on gypsies. gypsie comes from the derivation that people thought they were eGYPTIan. which makes a LOT of sense but I'd never though of it before. They were probably forced from their homelands by war, and started off as a VERY small group of people (now running about 2 million strong). One reason they were so discriminated against was that people thought they were Turkish back in the day (when the Ottoman empire was really expanding into Europe) People in Czechelslovokia were still forcibly sterializing Roma women as of 2001, which doesn't make sense. freed slaves in the Americas owned Roma slaves. England deported them to Norway. Irish travelers are a distinct gene pool from Roma, but Romanichals are not. follow hindu purity laws. so much i didn't know but which is so interesting!

Defenestration of Prague? Bring it! wow, and as an aside, i'm now really confused how bohemian royal lineage works. elected monarchies are crazy!

Ahh, language log. it's been too long, dear friend.

swoon. although law is cool too! really.

if you tell me you don't like radiolab, i will beat you up. for reals. this one's got stuff about how crazy cat ladies are sometimes crazy because there's a parasite that really likes (only works? i've just read the summary. listening now) cats, so if it gets into other animals -- like humans -- it changes their brains to make them like cats more. Parasites! Fear films. Social change. Man, that class where Liz and I got to just watch sci fi films and read and write about gender and fear rocked. Zombies. I think I shared that already. One of my fav blogs: parasite of the day. This radio program is FASCINATING! ZOMBIE COCKROACHES!

DAY TWENTY NINE

that's right, IN MY OFFICE ON A WEEKEND.

tonight there's a big party at club 17 and i hope all faithful readers of this blog come.

disaster porn. it's interesting because he takes a negative view of rumsfeld's speech which i've heard actually highlights a super important point in psychology. the point is getting less and less great with every zizek reference to the speech. ick.

modern warfare.

i dunno. hark, a vagrant! - opinions? i just can't get into it, but everyone seems to like it. it's kinda like that dinosaur comic which i hated for four years, but now love. love.love.love.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh damn!!!!! i just thought about NPR. weekends in the office are the BEST time to catch up on radiolab, cartalk, this american life and other fantastic goodies. snaaaaaaaaaap!

but first, it's decorative gourd season motherfuckers!

Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they’re both extremely fucking real.

wait, and shit got real?

sea cucumbers are really freaking weird.


and ohhhhhhhh my god this made me cry and cry and cry.

DAY TWENTY EIGHT

as predicted, i lost my earring. how is that possible? again? already? coming monday: another review of piercing my own ear.

i got a bunch of ppl in on tuvalu. and now i'm into the maldives.

tomorrow is BED BUILDING/MATTRESS BUYIN time! god it will be exciting. so exciting!!

went to THE DARKNESS again. that place is rather dark!!!

i hate the new google reader. hate hate hate. hate. hate. really hate.

i wanna go here. paris, 26 november.

this is cool and i want to do it.

i love thisisnthappiness.

tumblr: what is it? and who uses window's live? seriously?? confused. perhaps i should join this page. it seems like a mix between twitter, which i hate, and blogging. an awesome mix.

DAY TWENTY SEVEN

almost didn't post today. almost.

i hope i get sharp cheddar from the US. i had a dream of all sorts of delicious american foods. it was the best dream ever. i was so happy. i just kept discovering more nad more and more goods.

today was annual bar registration fee time and health insurance purchase time and it *really* bums me out. all that money which is necessary but sooooooooooooooooooo boringly spent. i could buy so much cool crap for the 600 lira i have to pay just to have the right to call myself esquire. which i do, all the time. i'd prefer if everyone i know starts referring to me as esquire. 600 tl is like... 120 articles of clothing at the t-town throwdown. a cool new phone. etc etc. :(

dalmation is not only a dog but ellis island used it as a race. weirds.

i should finally read snow crash. tried it like a bunch of times. maybe steampunk isn't for me. or postcyberpunk or whatever it is.

well, i guess you'll just have to be prepared to die. fantastic.

DAY TWENTY SIX POST TWO

ROBOT CARS MOFO

DAY TWENTY SIX

After an exhaustive pub crawl, which apparently only went to one pub (though, to be fair, I came in during the tail end of it), there has been a suggestion for a new place to go. For those of you who don't know, Baris is no longer at Ritim, so screw that noise. Instead, go to THE DARKNESS. THE DARKNESS lives up to its name -- it's kinda dark -- but it's pretty decent. Enough. Ish.

I got to re-pierce my ear at THE DARKNESS last night. IT HURT SO BAD. I swear, this is almost certainly not going to be the last time I have to do that. I need to get better earrings that stay on! This makes it the fourth earring that I've had to get.

I detectivized some stuff at the pub and it was awesome.

This weekend in fun times at my house, watch out for me trying to build -- wait for it -- MY BED!!!!!! ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh snap! it'll rock. planning on getting a mattress too, and then I can stop falling asleep anywhere but my room, where the mattress is tilted all funny and I don't like it and the cleaning ladies put a rug for god knows what reason on the bed and really, I should have just moved it but it seemed like a good idea to just leave it there and not sleep on the surface. AND THE WINTER CLOTHES COME OUT! ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! can you believe it? Can you believe it?!? Winter clothes are actually not exciting. Perhaps with my newly found wealth/yuppieness (yay fulltime) i should fill an empty, meaningless existence with CLOTHES AND PRETTY DRESSES?! yes. shopping tonight it is. i want a pair of fake uggs.

i have a pair of shoes that's not rabia's, but i thought they were. whose are they??? they look like the brown ones with studs here.

i want to see kaskade in person. cheerful happy music makes my day!

ows :(

i hate the new google reader.

DAY TWENTY FIVE POST EIGHT

omygod finally my mind has chilled out. That was weird! I mean like really weird! i wonder if perhaps in the future i should chill out on the coffee? finally seek medication for my quite-probably-there-adhd? THE PLOT THICKENS!!!

and this is a COOL name. GIGANTORAPTOR?!?!

i want.

This has to be as inaccurate as huntchat.com's claim that it's the "fastest growing network on the internet." though not as terrifying as the blind hunter. that website also notes that the fastest growing part of the internet is "www". am i missing something?

It's interesting what forces create the conditions for invasive species. Shipping, of course. But the international tire trade? Weird. Other fun invasive species - Banana Bunch Top virus (!!), the STARFISH??, the goat!. Remember that weird group that released each of Shakespear's animals in the US? I can't remember why, but startlings have destroyed purple martin populations. :( i want to have a purple martin house. and i want to have a purple martin-plumed face mask.

holy crap the common hamster is cute. hamster racing?

molly used to have this hamster. it would try to leap to its death every single time i held it. it's also like, the fastest running hamster EVER. now i want a hamster. and a kitten. and a dog.