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From my stats log:
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From APNIC whois search on the IP address:
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country: cn
descr: shanghai city

It’s not random that someone is searching for my name in Shanghai on the English google site. Hi Dad! We miss you, get home safe.

If you’re in North America at the moment, I hope you caught the lunar eclipse last night, the last total one until March 3rd 2007, which surprisingly isn’t all that far away. I caught a few pictures with my tiny little camera, but the’re not worth showing. Let’s say it just looked something like . There was a time when I had a telescope, and the moon is usually bright enough that if you put a digital camera up to the eyepiece, it usually turns out a pretty nice shot, but it was unfortunately stolen a few years ago. I do miss it…

Anyway, the eclipse was cool to watch. It makes you think about how our planet is situated in the solar system, and how gigantic everything is and how it all fits together. It makes me wonder how (or if) people can fail to be mezmerized and driven to learn as much as they can about the world around them, or should I say, the worlds around them. Here’s a good place to start.

It’s pouring rain here in Berkeley! First big storm of the season and it’s got rain and wind and lots of it. I’m looking out my 3rd story window watching the wind blow the rain in little flurries so it almost stands still in midair for an instant. I love rain

Other minor notes: I got a haircut finally (yay), and Futures comes out in stores today, so if you like Jimmy Eat World, go get it.

Let me warn you of a few things before I start this rave review: first, that it will be a rave review; and second that I won’t use any music industry terms (emo, punk, indie, rock, radio-ready, and especially pop) to describe this album. I think it’s downright wrong to criticize any band for moving away from their previous ‘category’ or altering it or messing with it or starting to sound different (God forbid!).

So let me begin by saying right out that Jimmy Eat World’s new album Futures is a masterful collection of music.

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bushSpeech. Just go, it’s genius.

I’ve been incredibly busy lately, so sorry if you’re coming here expecting to find something interesting. I’d just like to say that my motherboard died and remained dead until I got a new one, when I found out that you can’t just swap hard drives with a new motherboard, and proceeded to install a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro on my new 250 GB hard drive. Let me just say, it’s squeaky clean and the difference is incredible. Now I just have to go through my checklist of about a hundred programs to install…

It’s also worth mentioning that it’s really nice to have a laptop for situations like this. Instead of “oh crap, my desktop died, now I don’t have a computer” it was “darn, my desktop died. I’ll just order a motherboard tomorrow and dual-display my laptop with this nifty 19 inch monitor that suddenly became free.” Yay.

And in other news, I’m bus-trippin it down to U$C this morning to watch the football game (go bears) and play some cool music… gimme a call if you’re at the game and I’ll wave… as if you could pick me out in the crowd of 92,000. As Terry Pratchett would say, “!”.

One more time: Go Bears! Beat the Trojans!