The temporary Hastings thread

megalolz

However, it's not perfect, so I'll sell something else and keep the thing.

Whatever.
Who wants what omiage(souveniers)?
It'll be mid April at the soonest when I return.

Plz to recommend musical experiences for my sis and I. And curry.

I've decided to eat some kind of curry each and every day that I'm in the UK. My GI tract is less excited than my mouth, but whatever, he's a bit of a low man on the totem pole, you know?

?! Story here?

(Also, how was your semester and are you done with orgo? Important questions must be answered!)

For curry I always send people to Shampan on Brick Lane, Diwana (veg, Sunday = paneer day) on Drummond Street, Kastoori (vegetarian) in Tooting or you should just amble on down to Southall for the Asian Suburb experience and choose any restaurant - although I prefer the Punjabee. They have a good Sri Lankan on tghe way from train station to the Broadway there.

suzy: sweet. i'll have to cut and paste that. i'm definitely into cheap. we'll be staying in W2 (i think??), if that means anything.

Argh on your prof, that sucks about the full grade thing. When will you be doing your med school applications? (I have an ex who is doing it now - at age 38 or 39. I'm pretty sure your orgo grade is better than his was, too. Plus he took that class in, like, 1988 or something. Not much doubt in my mind that both of you will get in, actually.)

Help, everyone: my mom has a headcold and is getting mean! I brought her the best matzoh ball soup in the Cities and she is being a total fucking bitch, still. Not even a thank you, which is a hanging offence when she doesn't get one. She accused me of not speaking English and I was this close to telling her to get fucked, and was that English too difficult for her etc. KILLKILLKILL.

However also from this deli: proper corned beef and black-as-night pumpernickel.

I once many years ago considred that as a profession. Very briefly.
Like, 10 minutes.

Ugh suzy, so sorry about your mother. Slip her some kind of cold medicine that will knock her out for many hours. Also, where did you get the matzoh ball soup? That sounds awesome.

suzy: heard the lebanese stuff up there was the jam. will have to cross-reference w/our friends that live in the hood for optimum eating efficiency

Sarah, it's Crossroads Deli at the Minnetonka/Hopkins border. My mother now in Sinutab coma of her own devisement so reprieve for another few hours. Next: wrapping declassé presents for my little cousins like pink or purple clothing and EZ Bake Oven and utter crap I would never give on 'turns you into a total cracker, pregnant at 12' grounds. I love wrapping when it's not all my sister's stuff that she's just dumped and said 'wrap this'.

Wrapping: only one thing left; the 285 piece Magnetix set I bought for my husband. Contemplating pain of going to store to buy a gift bag and fighting crowds vs. pain of attempting to wrap something really awkward. Hmmmmmm.

If your sister makes you wrap things, you should do it badly so that she doesn't dump things on you anymore...

John's is my first choice, because while no employer cares if you have one, the Visa people do, and on the off chance someone asks me what my favorite philosopher is, I can just say Wittgestein and then BS my way though the conversation(No one understands him, and a big part of his thing is philosophy is a big waste of energy, so if I side with that...).
However, I'll take anything.

They don't call the schools or anything, which is hilarious, but convenient. People do it all the time.

I will find the irony delicious when my USA 1.24 high school GPA ass is teaching in Japan and doing a good job. Yeah.
Putting spite to good use for the good of mankind...orsomething.

He's since thrown it away, because it had nothing to do with any of the money he's made.
If only I'd known I'd have had use for it... but then does a degree from River Falls count anywhere in the world? ;)

http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_ss_b/503-1029950-2763157?__mk_ja_JP=%83J%83%5E%83J%83i&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=%95%FA%98Q%91%A7%8Eq&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go
I'd have ordered this by now, but why pay the insane shipping when I can stuff it in my luggage.
I'm probably going to come back with twice as much as I came with.Hell, I might leave some clothes!(if i come back....)

Maer Xmess.

You rock.

I overate today and also discovered for sure that my husband is an unbelievably brilliant plotter. In a good way. :)

gettin drunk at home.

I wish I knew how to get surround-sound ot like...work properly. I have six mono wave files and 9.2 WMA file, which isn't something I know what to do with. i can't even TEST this shit without more speakers.
Anyone have reciever with 5.1 analog inputs/the ability to play surround-sound music files? All I ask is I send you big files and you tell me what happens when you play it.

All I have as yet is an intro file. I have to devote a whole day to creating the rest of the song. mess of wires, hours conscructing a drumbeat from samples created in a purely digital environment...
I'm not looking forward to this, but I have the song stuck in my head and I must spit it out...

Thank you for allowing the preliminary rant that this song shall become the sequel to.

Before the digital speed-up it sounded like a conglomeration of samples from Severed Heads/Fantomas Sessions.
I had to do it twice because apparantly I had an echo bus set up in Reaper without knowing it so when I hit 'Render' the result was the weirdest thing I've ever heard(not really).

After listening to alot of Kottke commentaries during his shows, I think the insane descritpions of his songs are true on some level.
After playing Busted Bicycle: "I saw that bicycle... I was with*insert musician's name* on the roof of his apartment building. He was...rather proud of the new bicycle he'd just bought, and pointed down at it, chained to a lightpost. At that moment, a car came down the street and ran straight into it. Utterly destroying it." Paraphrased, but yeah.
He's awesome.
Write a song about being pissed off at girl scouts who tanted him for being bad at canoeing....ok....