Tuesday, July 20, 2004

 

Ashlee Simpson's "Pieces of Me" (iTunes link) is an absolutely superb piece of power pop. I'm saying it goes to #1 on the charts and stays there a while.

Just listen to her wail,

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

It seems like I can finally rest my head on something real
I like the way that feels

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . .

Better yet, don't just listen, throw your head back and wail with her, your jaw hanging wide open and your eyes almost shut from the effort, and feel the endorphins flow. That is a pop song.

The pipes on this girl!

posted by Miles 10:27 AM

Thursday, July 15, 2004

 

The original configuration was obviously a little less than optimal; I had my laptop as the server, and so the webcam link went down any time I wasn't at my desk. I've fixed it.

posted by Miles 4:08 PM

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

 

I don't know how long I'll leave this up . . . heck, I might decide to erase this post.

But, for now, check this out: Me, Live.

I bought an iSight camera, and I've set it up as a webcam using evocam shareware from evological

I can also use it for video chatting via AIM using iChat AV (on my end) and whatever IM software you're running, as long as it's pretty new - and even if you don't have a camera, I can "push" my video feed to you. So don't be shy, drop me a line! :-)

(Can you tell I'm totally geeked out over this?)

posted by Miles 12:02 PM

Monday, July 12, 2004

 

Today I face cleaning up from the tornado that appears to have hit my desk last week, as I was finishing up my paper and resubmitting to Neuron. But hey, I submitted!!!

I played in my third game as a Boston Mariner, on Saturday, and we won our first game since I joined! Everyone was pretty psyched - the team is 2-13 overall, now. I collected my first hit, a 2-RBI single that added insurance runs in the top half of the last inning, walked, and grounded out. In seven plate appearances I've now walked 4 times, gotten out twice, and singled once, so I'm batting .333, with an OBP of .714. :-)

Ever been to whatsbetter.com? It's a neat site; it rank orders everything in the world. I was walking down the hall to get a coke, just now, and thinking that it would be interesting to see a similar site that asked "who would you respect more?" and generated a rank order of occupations.

posted by Miles 11:57 AM