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| ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bneely tipped me off to the Move D & Jonah Sharp show, but he ended up skipping it. I went anyway, and man oh man, I could not be happier that I did so!
- Move D! Jonah Sharp!
- They make extremely tasty drinks there
- The crowd was awesome.
- Walking late at night is something I love a lot. The 2½ mile walk was perfect.
For those of you who don't know, Move D is a really prolific German musician - counting both collaborations and solo releases, he's put out around 40 albums since 1992*. He mostly does ambient psy-chill house stuff.
Jonah Sharp used to put our music as Space Time Continuum, which ranged from ambient to IDM to jazzy IDM.
Anyway it was a joint set and was pretty good and pretty dancefloor oriented.
What surprised me the most was that the crowd was not a bunch of pale faced nerdy guys standing around scratching their chins, but a variety of people, more girls than guys, who were all smiling and dancing and being friendly. And the place was packed! I had no idea anyone but me listened to this stuff!
Plus it had been like a million years since I had gone out in San Francisco.
In conclusion: Yay!
* His most frequent collaborator, Pete Namlook, has put out literally hundreds of albums in that same time. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| I meant to make a remote shutter release button for my camera, but instead I just made a remote auto-focus button.
This is much less useful. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Yesterday polpo and I got up stupid early to line up in front of the Sprint store and wait for it to open so we could get Palm Pre phones. Sprint opened early on Saturday for the launch of this new phone, which was convenient for me. Arriving at the store at about 6:30 or so we were the first people there. But by the time the store opened at 8:00 there were about 30 people lined up there. I was excited about the new phone - it looked like a good phone from pre-release reviews & rumours, my old phone was on its last legs (keyboard was failing), and I have a perpetual discount as long as I stay on Sprint. This last one is a big reason I don't have an iPhone - I'd have to pay ~$30/mo more a comparable AT&T plan. That said, the reason I was first in line was not that I was the most excited about the new phone, it's because I wanted to get the phone and get home by 9:00. I was the first one to get the phone, but they had some computer problems, my phone didn't activate properly until they took it into the back for 10 minutes, (which meant that I looked through my bag of goodies and noticed that the charger box had a sticker that said "EMPTY" on it - they accidentally sold me the box from one of the display units!). Eventually everything got resolved, but it took long enough that I was a few minutes late meeting my teammates for:
Shinteki Decathlon 5
Decathlon 5 is the seventh Shinteki game - they did 2 before decathlonizing them (which didn't really change anything other than they shoehorned their puzzles into the same 10 categories each time). I have played in all of them. Sometimes on Desert Taxi, other times on Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow. This was the first time that Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow played wihtout me, though (I was on Desert Taxi)! I really like that Shinteki has capacity for so many teams - it's very nice to be able to encourage friends to play even though there's not room on my team!
Desert Taxi played with its most repeated permutation of members - Greg, Andrew Hertz, Jen Moore, and me. The last couple Shinteki games were excellent in most every way, but for a few reasons this one was more of a mixed bag for me/us. Even though we did quite well on it, we got pretty frustrated with the Exploratorium puzzle - it was basically an hour of trying to find specific mini-exhibits out of the zillions they have there, with no actual puzzle backing that up. The category was Teamwork so I guess the intention was that the challenge would be how to split the search up efficiently between the four teammates when all the clues were on one palm zire. We also spent an hour trying to tune in to and then understand some morse code on a radio (we couldn't find the station for the longest time, and then it was fast enough that it was just very hard for us to decode). We usually have a pretty good team dynamic going on, but this time there was a lot of sort of ambient crankiness. I think Manipulation (a bunch of colored hex magnets) was my favorite, but I also liked Wildcard (rainbow flags), and Enigma (crossword clues for anagrams of sets of color names) pretty good. And the weather was pretty much as good as is possible. The view from Hawk Hill (location of that stupid morse code) was incredible! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Okay, I just finished another 100 days. Again I will post a few extras that didn't fit in the previous 100 days. And hopefully I'll keep taking more pictures, but I do look forward to allowing myself to go to sleep even if I haven't. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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