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Hi guys. I think I forgot about Vox for a really long time. Instead of writing a big update, I will share some things.

Oops

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First, a tip. Don't place laptops at the foot of the bed, despite putting it in the same place for weeks, someone is bound to step on it.Ouchies.

I guess I've been obsessively listening the Neon Bible for a few weeks now. Modest Mouse has also been actively dancing in my playlist, and most recently Baby 81 by BRMC. I'm definitely looking forward to their show in May. I sure hope tickets aren't excessively expensive. Don't tell anyone, but here's a song off their new album.

That's all I have to say for now, as there is plenty of work to do. At 2am. Sigh.

Show us some great sunglasses.

sunglass fun

Do you play any musical instruments?

In elementary school, forever ago, I played the trombone. For fours years. I would still love to pick it up again. Trombone in a jazz band? Hell yes. 

After having a great deal of work uploaded to me, I'm encountering pain. I've not been using a mouse for the past while when on my laptop. Doing extensive photoshop work with a macbook's touchpad has lead to the downfall of my right arm. I suppose this is what an RSI feels like. You would think after years of being in the tech field, I'd have a better grasp of ergonomics. Alas, without a proper desk and chair, it is rather difficult to keep that in the forefront of the mind. At least it was up until IcyHot, which I've learned is a cat repellant, became my arm's best friend. How the heck do I deal with this?

What is your work desk set up? Coincidently, that also happens to be the topic of the photo hunt today.

For those on SuicideGirls, stay tuned tomorrow. ;)

Are you a morning person or a night owl?

I'm actually nocturnal. 11 is when I am ready for productivity.

I have yet to sleep today though. It's been, 29 hours I think? Wednesday night was spent in LA shooting with my favorite SG photography. At 5am I started working on one of the sets we shot, and finished... about an hour ago. I am ready for sleep.

But I am also ready to WoW.

Considering my background, that being I've only been in the USA for 1 year, is it normal for the CIA to be recruiting for their organization during previews at the movie theater?

What's up?

I have a migraine.

I know, my title sounds dirty and I'm really late on this, but I just haven't had a need for spreadsheets in, well, since whatever class in school requires spreadsheets. Considering my oldness, that is quite a long while ago! This evening, I found myself sitting on the floor, legs stretched out beneath a tiny Ikea table destined to break in a move, watching Iron Chef America (the tofu battle, yeah!) and sorting Magic: The Gathering cards. There are three boxes of cards to go through. sitting here. Two are the standard set boxes, but the third? It's one of those monster sized card collection boxes. I fear it! It could injure my frail tiny bones if it were to fall out of the closet on top of me (this one time, at the grocery store, I had a large box of pudding fall on me).

My mission is pretty simple, yet tedious and prone to procrastination. I've got to sort through, document each while cross referencing their value via ebay. In comes tracking and Google Spreadsheets. Text edit was not efficient at all, especially if I wanted to sort it, not to mention add the total value. I created a Google Spreadsheet, keeping track of the card name, its series, the amount of instances and of course, the value. My favorite part is that I could save, and let others view as well as edit this, so should I gain a partner in this huge task, we could both work together on it. Fantastic. Sadly, after documenting the puny 20 cent cards, I'm told to only keep track of the $5+ cards. Argh.

Thank you Google for taking away the need to install Excel or OpenOffice. I'd never use them anyway.

Justine Joli

One of the highlights of attending the Suicide Girls 5 year anniversary party in Hollywood is that I had the honor of being in the presence of my most favorite porn star. While watching the SG Burlesque show, I was told by some hot, tall dude that miss Justine Joli had just walked past. I immediately lost total interest in watching these girls shake their good and off I went to find her, in hopes of speaking to her. When I did see her, I could not talk to her at all. I felt like a total creep. I felt like one of the people over in the corner that know who I am but dare not speak to me. I feared going up to her and saying something horrible and embarassing. I regret the decision to not approach her as she is the most stunning female I've ever seen.

Best of all, tonight my friend Zoli and I were discussing miss Joli. She's got a personal porn site. For a mere $4.99 I could have all the Justine Joli lesbian goodness I want, along with her friends, including Jezebelle Bond. But could I do it? No! Why? Because I felt like a perv! How this makes sense? I haven't a clue. But it does amuse me.

So hot. If I did hardcore lesbian porn, there is no one I would rather get it on with.

Among the new features, the album art retrieval function looked really neat. I'd heard of the CoverFlow program previously, and it was obviously being instituted in this new version of iTunes. Excitedly I selected "Get Album Artwork" hoping to fill my library with covers. Up until this morning, I never cared at all about having the covers, but now that the option exists, and it is relatively painless to retrieve them, I want them all. Quickly enough I realized the algorithm used to match songs and artists to the iTunes store was seriously flawed. Take Belle and Sebastian, for example. You would think that "and" would be matched to "&". Better yet, the album is called "The Life Pursuit". I purchased it as such. The iTunes store has it as "The Life Pursuit (Bonus Tracks)". I had to manually change the album name to match the store in order to retrieve the album art. The inability to match similarities boggles me. I understand that certain rules could make the process too open, and cause too much annoyances, but these tiny naming issues? Next up is my Built to Spill "You In Reverse" album. It's playing right now. With no Artwork. Of course, when I click on the arrow, it takes me to the store with the album art right there. Why do I not have it then? What's your issue iTunes? Why must you deny me my free album art?