The coldest winter I ever spent
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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:
Also maybe useful
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)
My electric razor is currently in the Berkeley Police property room awaiting me (long story). After 2 days without a razor, my face felt like a porcupine autofelating itself: not good. I’ll get my electric back soon but I had to pick up some interim Bic razors at Walgreens.
After lathering up my face, I touched the razor to my upper lip, gave it a tuGGHHHHAAARRRRRGwhatthefaaaahk?! Ouch!
What the hell are people thinking, using a razor instead of an electric is masochistic! I’ve used a rotary electric razor since 1990 and never looked back. And today I was reminded as to why!
Screw bladed razors, get a Norelco rotary electric razor! They rock!
I received and then participated in a fun little Facebook exercise that proved to give me a good smile. It was really nice seeing friends check-in, if only briefly.
Here is the post, with last names removed:
