http://blog.meaplet.com I support your art but that does not mean that I must support your revolution. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:53:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am mostly trying to avoid meme-type things on this blog, since I generally find them pretty irritating. But I am taking this opportunity to introduce you to my wee avatar. Mostly I find it kind of hilarious that is what is essentially yet another doll/avatar making site, just like we've ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/08/20/keeping-up-with-the-dela-cruz/ I got this email today. I enjoy how very unsure of himself the spammer is. Has he started questioning the value of his work? Dear Sir/Lady: Sorry to disturb you. We are a wholesale company in China. We mainly sell electronic products, such as digital cameras, cellphones, LCD TV, xbox, Laptops, DV, Mp3&Media Players, ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/08/18/i-hope-this-spam-is-helpful/ After a lot of searching and two weeks of homelessness aka couch surfing, I am going to be signing a lease for a new apartment tonight. The new apartment is small, cute, and ::mine alone::. It is excellent for escaping from in case of fire, but it's a terrible location ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/08/15/night-neighbors-and-contingency-plans/ Scene: Jen's living room. Jen, Molly, and Wojtek are watching the Olympics. Announcer: This must be a little bit like waiting for Godot for them. J, M, and W look at each other and question whether the announcer knows what he's talking about. Molly: "Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/08/12/absurdism-at-the-olympics/ A couple of days ago the headphone jack on my MacBook Pro started to glow an eerie red, and my internal speakers stopped working. Below, I've provided a brief explanation of what happened, and the steps I followed to resolve the problem. Apparently it's a common issue on MBPs. Clever folks ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/07/31/disabling-a-mac-book-pros-optical-out/ The problem with moving is that every time I do it, there are more things to pack than the time before. I cry foul. (To be fair, my mother claims that I don't actually need to have every bank statement, starting in high school, neatly filed. I like having it. Possessions ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/07/27/the-problem-with-moving/ I got back yesterday from 10 days in Miami, FL, at the GALA (Gay and Lesbian Association of) Choruses Festival 2008. GALA involved eight days of, well, choral music. And gay people. And fun. The title of this post is based on "It is the Song," a piece commissioned for ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/07/21/it-is-the-post-i-will-be-writing-all-my-life/ I spent the summer I was 17 in central Massachusetts, just outside Worcester. I'd taken US history the previous year, and had gotten to the state level with my History Day project on Hamilton and Jefferson. So to say I was a little bit fixated with the Founding Fathers would ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/07/04/god-knows-the-temperatures-hot-enough-to-hatch-a-stone/ For your further education, I'd like to shine a little bit of light on two very different people who are infrequently confused, except by me. Jon Sims was a luminary of the San Francisco gay music scene in the 1970s, founding the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Freedom Band and the ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/06/30/for-your-further-education/ I was writing an awesome post recommending music I like, but it turns out that Wordpress.com doesn't like links to the iTunes music store at all. Just like they don't like javascript, or web forms, or really anything that could make me a quick buck on the internet. For this ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/06/23/42/