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marginaliana gave me three things which I may or may not know or care about.

1. aardvarks

I never read Cerebus, or at least not more than a few pages. I had a friend in high school who had all the graphic novels up to that point in time. He warned me that they were already starting to get weird, and not in a good way. I guess I was fortunate in that.

2. oil painting

The thing that I find weirdest about oil painting, other than the basic foreignness of being able to draw in the first place, is that you layer the paint. I always just assumed that it was like pencil drawing (or, let's be honest, crayons--I'm not very sophisticated when it comes to creating visual art) where you just kind of have to get it right in a single layer. But with oils you can layer the paint on for depth, or for mixing in the colors for particular effects... It's weird.

3. shoes

I have more shoes than I thought I did. I have a pair of everyday walking shoes, boots, tai chi shoes, dress shoes (loafers), a pair of cute pumps, a pair of running/athletic shoes, slippers, and some old shoes that I use to go into the backyard/garden. (Ok, I may have lied about one of those.)

Feel free to ask in comments if you want three things.

Went to see viennateng (with highceilings opening) show tonight. I went with deborah and cnoocy. cthulhia showed up a few minutes after we did and sat behind us. ursamajor we met up with at the merch table between sets. momijizukamori found us after the show and walked back to the T with us.

The concert was excellent, too, in addition to the impromptu meet-up.

Dear Ubuntu,

Do you think you could have at least one release where you can do an upgrade and not break lirc?

No <3's,
-me

People here are very happy.

I think everybody at the New Pornographers show was drinking PBR.

On the Red Line home, somebody lit up a joint and apparently passed it around to a couple of people before putting it out.

Then our bus picked up the occupants of another bus which was stopped on the side of the road, only to have the police pull it over a few stops later and arrest somebody. And then pull it over again after another stop to arrest somebody else.

Good times.

Totally worth reading article at Ars Technica today: How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet"

another post regarding dreamwidth comes
with five more invite codes to give to folks.
(though maybe this is just a way to test
the crosspost feature in production now.)