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current archive July 01 - 31 June 01 - 30 May 01 - 31 Apr 01 - 30 Mar 23 - 31 Mar 16 - 22 Mar 01 - 10 Feb 16 - 29 Feb 01 - 15 Jan 16 - 31 Jan 01 - 15	WED MAR 22 00 I'm beginning to think that my body has moved to a lesser known time zone somewhere in the mid-Atlantic. More early rising. My half-baked excuse? Travel, baby. I'm off to Toronto for the day as tonight is Rob's Ottawan's in Toronto party. No, I'm not in Toronto but that's beside the point. The upside? I'm hoping to have lunch with Jish, before heading over to the ROM to try and see Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. 7:03
	TUE MAR 21 00 Lunchtime fortune: "You will travel far and wide for both business and pleasure" A few days ago I posted a link to Hot Dispatch and a comment about the artificial page curl. I received the following comment from a fellow there: "You could be earning money by clicking on the artificial page curl -- we're getting hits from your site, and we give referral fees." I've inadvertently stumbled upon an alternate revenue stream. 23:27 INSOMNIA. Would someone please tell Steve Champeon that I was pleased to meet him in Austin. I would myself but my email keeps bouncing. I don't know if it's more of the peterpan@jezebel.com induced stupidity. From an weekend email: "Anyway, I am sitting here in my apt. in Zurich watching your website on TV. I must admit that is VERY strange. It is on a program called GIGA (www.giga.de) from Germany. They are currenly browsing through a bunch of your mirror photos..." Please tell me that I didn't look like a complete lunatic. Quite frankly, if I was in Germany, I would rather watch Battlestar Galactica. The dubbed version rocks! 5:45	Just call me little miss potty mouth for today was a potty mouth kind of day. Evan has has joined FOJM More science experiments in the log failure report: deepleap.info Finally hip waded through the FOJM submissions. Please welcome Crazy Uncle Joe, Matt, Michael & Derek (there is no spoon) among others.
	MON MAR 20 00 Mission to Mars is just a juiced up version of Sony Style without the beautiful young things. Oh, and Gary Sinise wears too much eyeliner. 22:01 If it was just me, I'd be quite willing to let this go. But, I keep coming across references regarding Cam's natural giggliness. I offer the following: Brad, Jason and Wes. Three fine gentlemen, all well respected, with the same conclusion. Cam, don't shut down on us... Embrace your giggliness. 14:50 As much as I bitch and moan about living in New York, I must confess that I carried away quite a few gems. One such would be "Fuck you Harvey Keitel." 12:18 Ooooo la la. Bump rocks! Those damn cheetos are driving be mad. Spring, spring, spring! I am blissed out by spring. The club bunnies downstairs have rented out their space to a film crew. Depending how things go, this may be the week I become inspired by Riverdance. 9:20	I especially like Ev and Dr. Evil's son. Check out Halcyon and his brother as they watch the SXSW movies! (right hand column, second picture). Oh Elise! Can I post that lovely picture I took in Dillards? Heh heh. I'm definitely going to upgrade from this to this.
	SUN MAR 19 00 Oh Ben, what have you wrought? 22:14 This is all about Bruce Sterling's bathroom. Judith and I had talked about an Austin mirror shot before SXSW and I do have others but this one ( II and III), well, they're very special. Did you notice that Derek, Judith and Jesse were also taking pictures? I did. Thank you Bruce! 7:24	I just got through telling Meg that these cool lego apps that my friend Eric built were secret, but apparently, they're not. Go play! I'm warning you now though, I lost a morning the first time he sent me the Brix Builder URL. Brix Builder Demo Pixelego Viewer Pixelego software tool
	SAT MAR 18 00 Despite the larger event of the tsunami rolling towards me, I find myself looking forward to next week. My high school class has never had a reunion in the, well let's just say few, years since we all went our ways on to higher education. Twenty of us are gathering in Toronto, Wednesday night, to swap war stories. I should be clear from the start. I hated high school. It might have something to do with the fact that I was maladjusted, awkward from a failed attempt at French immersion in grades 6 and 7. It might also have had something to do with my mother's unsuccessful battle with cancer during the last two years. My two oldest friends will be there. Diane and I were in the same kindergarten and Sunday school class. Ruby and I rode the bus together after school in grade 6. Old friends are wonderful, but they can also be a pain in the ass. As I was reminded recently, they know all your old stories. So I'm going to tell you a couple now and rob them the pleasure of embarrassing me. Yes, it's true. I was very drunk at a party and fell asleep mid-sentence. Remarkably I awoke an hour and a half later to complete the sentence I had begun. Granted, the conversation had moved on somewhat during my slumber. There was a horrible, pink, hippie phase and Ruby has the pictures to prove it. At the time, I was quite fond of my Pepto Bismal pink harem pants. Now, it's merely horrifying. Let's just say that I'll never run for public office. 14:28 Marvelous Matt has come to our rescue with Real portrait versions of the dancing loggers... Let the antics of Groovy Jason, Peterme, John I and John II delight you. Oh dear... Bryan remembers my inebriated babbling about Poutine. Poutine is one of those foods that you shouldn't really discuss unless you can immediately produce the food object for consumption. Yes, it sounds disgusting, but trust me, it's divine. 10:38	baby, there's enough schwag for everyone! "I can see clearly now, the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind. It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day. It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day. I think I can make it now, the pain is gone. All of the bad feelings have disappeared. Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for. It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day." toes are #9999CC
	FRI MAR 17 00 Can we all make a pact to spurn the artificial page curl? 21:03 What's the giant sucking sound? Oh, that's my bandwidth. Check out the the groovy movies while you can, I'm going to have to mothball them soon. 20:36 Yes, yes, yes - I know that you are bored to tears with all the SXSW chatter. But, please bear with me for just a few moments longer. Have you ever wondered how the loggers shake their booty? Wonder no longer. Unfortunately, lame-o Heather angled the camera oddly so you'll either have to rotate your monitor 90 degrees clockwise or crank your head around. I think you'll enjoy the entertainment. The files are a tad large, so grab a coffee and kick back. Groovy Jason [AVI] [MOV] Peterme [AVI] [MOV] John I [AVI] [MOV] John II [AVI] [MOV] Please feel free to suggest appropriate dialogue for Jason's lip flapping. I can't remember what he was saying at the time. 09:57	Somehow, in my sleep deprived dementia, I purchased a copy of Martha Stewart's Baby for Claire. I feel dirty.
	THU MAR 16 00 Send a St. Patrick's Day Card! The first of my SXSW snaps are online. I stupidly held the camera in a portrait orientation for the movies. We'll have to view them like emoticons... Perhaps, when I've caught up on my sleep, I'll be able to figure something out. 22:20 No shit "Beware the Ides of March." Nineteen hours later, I'm back in Montréal. Thankfully Ellis came to my rescue and retrieved me from O'Hare around midnight or I would have passed the night there. I realized this morning, as I noodled around the web(b)logs, that I've come away with something from SXSW that I hadn't anticipated. It first struck me as I caught up with Judith. It wasn't me reading, but Judith reading to me - in her voice (and what a great voice), and it made so much more sense. It was repeated through Elise, Matt, Peter, Meg, Jason, John, Cam, Derek, etc. It's quite magical! 12:01	"Elijah ... was prominent in opposing the worship of Baal in Isreal under King Ahab and Jezebel, and by virtue of his loyalty to God was depicted as ascending directly into Heaven." Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia I have some great photographs and even more fabulous movies... Be prepared to see John, Jason & Peter shake their booty! I think I'll spare the world Ben humping Derek. I have the be all and end all bathroom mirror picture! Bruce Sterling's bathroom mirror! Cam is in complete denial. He's just a giggly hunk of love. Don't let the gruff "next me was a fart machine that looked like Walter Mitty" fool you.

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