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Monday, November 07, 2005

da caseeno

Friday Night, Thalisha and I ran into Clint's dad at Seven Sisters at the BOC (we were treated to a lavish dinner by one of my clients.) He and his wife were there having some drinks and appetisers before coming down to watch Brother. Which convinced me that we should check it out too. I had wanted not to stay very long, but Thalisha was really into hearing them, and Ted and Cheryl invited us to stay at their house for the evening, so we stayed for the whole show.

Brother was enjoyable. They are sort of like a hippy Tool, capitalizing on their aussieness, feigning strong empathic emotion to get into your panties. Leather kilts bagpipes and didgeridoos, you get the picture. They did have an expert sense of sound sesign, and they could play really well, and sing to boot. I simply had a good deal of doubt about to their sincerity and motives, leaving me feeling that they were a bit creepy.

There is a certain look to a manipulative male who passes off as benevolent to many trusting women. The problem is that there is no way to convince an enamoured woman that you are right about them. This doesn't apply to Thalisha, I'm just describing a personality.

I've recently seen a friend of mine fall in with this dude who basically left no outlet to say no. He was so aggressively passive aggressive about hooking up with her that the relationship was de facto. As a result her friends stopped spending any time with her because this guy was always around and nobody else wanted to open a channel to him. relating your reaction to her came across as being judgemental.

ANYWAY... I was talking about the casino.

We also saw several women from belly-dance class, on of my graphic-designer friends, and Neil's mom.

So we stayed a Clint's dad's house, and saw Neils mom, while 2 weeks ago in Hollywood we stayed at Clint's apartment, and saw Neil.

I thought that was funny.

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Friday, November 04, 2005

Get Ready

My birthday is in three days. I'll be twenty-five. I guess that's a big deal, so you better start shopping for me right now.

Amazon Gift certificates are always appreciated, and I can accumulate them to buy Photoshop CS2. If you just want to buy Photoshop CS2 for me that's nice too, but make it the PC version, unless you are coordinating with somebody who is acquiring a G5 for me.

You can assemble a G5 in your shopping cart at the apple store online and quickly spend over $20,000 on one computer. Quad-Core, a terabyte of HD space, 8gigs of ram, and two 30" flatpanels. OMG.

If you prefer to spend less, I assembled a PC in a shopping cart on newegg.com and got a very good machine with photoshop and windows XP pro, for less than $2,000 Pentium D dual-core with 2 gigs of ram, and and 200gig HD and a Matrox dual DVI video card. some (all) assembly required, keyboard, mouse and monitor, not included. Figure I can just use the ones I have laying around.

*sigh. Someday... Someday.
(a Prius would be nice too. or maybe some land. or maybe....)

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