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I've also been spending some time trying to sort out the Perfect Computer Workstation. I have a few very specific considerations that are very uncommon. I have 2 LCD screens, and need to add a single CRT for color accuracy. I don't want an ultra wide landscape view, so I've been considering options that would put the CRT below the LCD screens. there is no stock answer to this, so I've been considering a huge variety of options ranging from CRT below glass-top to weird constructions from metro shelving, to strange custom setups. so far none have emerged as the optimal mix of form, function, and frugality. the search continues.


that said, OMG I want this so bad, but can't justify spending $700 on something that doesn't quite meet my needs.

Moving and packing triggers a special sort of insanity in me. You see, I've loaded a few too many sound trucks in my day, and it has left weird scars on my psyche. When you load a truck for a gig, everything is in a sturdy case and tends to stack well. When you get to the gig, you unload the gear, and pretty much just take the lids off the cases. The gear remains in the case, and you connect the appropriate cables. Once everything is packed away, it remains in the cases for storage. The more you do this, the more you come up with clever ways of moving fewer things and making better use of storage, and more efficient setup. Everything has a safe and sensible case that it lives in.

This is the complete opposite of moving. When you move, you take all of your things from where they live, and cram them into various flimsy boxes made of cardboard. You also pick up furniture and develop a keen understanding of how much it was NOT designed to be moved around alot.

This has led to some really bizarre thoughts like "maybe I should build a box with dividers for all my framed art so that moving them in the future is easier". And things like "carbon fiber is too expensive, but perhaps a fiberglass-reinforced dresser would be sturdy, yet not too heavy". I also found myself contemplating designs for making a stackable dresser system with locking drawers, so you just pull a drawer or two off the stack and load it up without taking anything out of it. This led to the conclusion that the truly sensible thing would be to simply make all of my furniture out of road cases, after all, there are drawers for them, and it would make moving so much easier. There'd be essentially no packing at all. Clearly, storage should double as transportation. Shelves should have a panel that clamps on so you just move the shelf with all the movies on it instead of taking them all off.

Every time I'd pack up a cardboard box full of stuff, I'd find myself getting all kinds of twitchy about how insane it is to re-pack things instead of having rugged furniture that can efficiently transport it's contents. Sanity began to creep back in when if occurred to me that the 19" drawers in road cases would be frequently impractical. I eventually just gave up and crammed everything into cardboard boxes, grumbling quietly to myself about the impractical and non-rugged mindsets involved with dresser designs. "why doesn't this chest of drawers have recessed handles"

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So, what does one do when the mail only comes ~ 9 out of every 10 days? Not as in I only get mail. As in, I still have letters sitting out there. And I really need the checks in the mail to show up. Oh... and they won't show up tomorrow, since it's a holiday.

*headdesk*

On Sunday, I attended a martial arts demo and fundraising event at Mills College to celebrate Fukuda Sensei, the highest-ranking female judo master in the world, and to help raise money for the documentary being made about her. At 96, she still teaches classes in San Francisco. Here's a clip of the film.



ETA: You can donate here, the site of the filmmaker Yuriko Gamo Romer: http://flyingcarp.net/.

okay, i've heard enough people rant about how great last night was that i've decided to pay the whopping sum necessary to go see the pixies tonight. it appears to be sold out, however there are a veritable plethora of people selling tickets at face value on CL.

have any of you who went the prior two nights observed people selling tickets outside at sane prices or anything, thus saving me an annoying trip down to whereever for a dubious CL deal?

also, msjen, i am totally sorry i flaked on buying yours for yesterday. my night got all screwy and i couldn't go. blek.

I have one extra ticket for Imogen Heap tonight. Doors 7p, show 8p. $50.

Sheila and Blau, I'm looking at you.

If you want it, reply. I'll have to pick up the tickets from the vendor at 7pm, but I'll be able to meet after that.

The show is sold out and I've been trying to get tickets all day from different people off of Craigslist, and I finally found a vendor that would get me a ticket for slightly more than the already excessive price. *argh*

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Paul and I are going to check this out Friday night:


Wanna join us?? You know you do!! We first went to Cafe Cocomo at this years Decompression and were really impressed with the venue so we said we'd go back to one of their actual nights. Freaky Friday seemed like the best suited night for us since the rest of the time it's salsa, haha.

I just realized it's been a year since I posted anything here, and my last post was on the same subject as this one. Jesus. Maybe I should start spending more time on the internets again..

Anyway, for those of you who didn't get an e-mail (which means I don't have your e-mail address, 'cause I sent it to everyone in my list), I'm turning 40 this Saturday and I'd love y'all to come join me.

Yes, despite my "safety third" attitude, obsession with guns and explosives and excessive clumsiness, in less than a week I will have managed to survive 40 trips around the sun. I would love to celebrate with friends & nemeses alike, as well as to thank everyone who has been a part of my life and made it as enjoyable and special as I feel it is!

I've booked a room at Bourbon & Branch ( http://www.bourbonandbranch.com/ ) for Saturday November 14th from 9:30pm to 2:00am. Bourbon & Branch is located at 501 Jones St (between Geary and O'Farrell) here in San Francisco. This will be a private room – the password to get in is "Waffen". We'll have snacks and cake, but note that it's a pay bar.

Please come by and say hi!

anyone else going tonight?
were going to try catch dinner in chinatown at 6:15ish
will probably shoot to be at the center front rail of the 2nd lowest/ closes section of the floor