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Today is a good day. I am cooking bacon. That is all.

Ugh. My computer has been getting slower and slower over the past few weeks. I think I figured out why. I am told by the CrystalDiskInfo program that the hard drive has a lot of uncorrectable sectors. She is dying.

I ordered a new laptop last week, it’ll be here in a week. So I decided to not write anything important to my desktop computer, wait for the laptop and make it my primary computer. I’m a bit freaked out at this. Change can be hard. Hell, I still have a land line phone.

Last week my beloved AG Neovo monitor died. I’ve had it for about 10 years. I had it repaired for $150 a couple years ago but it would be silly to spend another $150 on fixing an old 19″ monitor when I can buy a new on for about the same price.  Now this week my desktop computer is dying. It’s I don’t like it one bit.

I considered doing the following: get a small (128GB) SSD drive, a large (1TB) physical drive, reinstall XP, go from there. But why do it, really? I’m not a computer professional any more. My phone almost is as powerful as my desktop computer. I tell ya why I’d do it. Because I’m comfortable with it. It works. But the times, they change.

At XFF I donned video goggles and was asked to walk a maze. The camera was above our heads so it felt like I was playing Pac-Man with my body. Very cool.

Check out the OuterBody Experience Lab! It is fun!

The force behind OBEL is Jason FeKaylius Wilson

I got to meet more of my childhood  heroes at the XFF event. Here is Peter Conheim of Negativland and in wigglevision!

Performing at XFF:

local version:

:-)

Here’s a glimpse of the SRL Hovercraft by day (Hi Tad!)

And some SRL bedlam by night

We’ve got a great new postcard flyer in the Kinetics Department at the Crucible

That’s what I’m talking about!
Learn something awesome!
Bring a friend!

I just logged on for the first time to my entirely online Sociology class. This is one of the first things I saw:

So which browser should I use? How far back should I go?
Ah, I found mention that it won’t work with Firefox 10. But Firefox 9 was last built December 2011. Gulp.
Moving on…

I was looking for someone’s phone number today. I had the hardest time finding residential 411 service, you know, where they ask “What city and listing please”. I finally found my number. You might find these services useful. None are perfect but here we go:

Most useful directory service first:

• http://wp.superpages.com  (from Free, see comments)
• http://www.anywho.com/whitepages
• http://www.corp.att.com/directory/
• http://whitepages.com
• http://www.spokeo.com
• http://www.instantcheckmate.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-1-1

Also maybe useful

• 888-247-2425 Tellme/Bing
• 1-800-FREE-411

It was curious that dialing 411 on my landline and my cell phone both landed me with weird, unhelpful services.

Oop, I did it again. I hired a company to clean my fictitious rugs!

I’ve gotten about 5 robocall telemarketing calls from Carpet Care, 510-699-6152. I tried “press 9 to be removed from our list” a few times to no avail.

So I said “Yes, come clean my rugs!” They should be here tomorrow between 1 and 4.

I should be getting an angry human calling me tomorrow at 4:30 or so. At which point I believe I will be able to remove myself from their list.

I did this once before to hilarious (and effective) result.

I’ve been terrible about blogging about this of late, but I need to say what a great time I’ve been having with Megan and family over the holiday. We saw the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, opened presents and presents, went to Santa Rosa and to Bodega Bay. Megan is the greatest. I’m also thankful for a few moments of quiet after my stressful semester of classes, GRE studying, volunteering, and application putting-together.

San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. The show was great fun!

Bodega Head with Megan’s family

Bodega Head with Megan’s family in 3D Wiggle Vision! Click and enjoy!

Doesn’t Megan look terrific by the sea? What’s better than Instagram? When it’s real! I’ll give a gold star to whoever can tell me how I made this photo (hint: no digital effects were used)