Artificial Intelligence

Just watched The Wrestler

Thoughts:

Was that really the pope of greenwich village? Unbelievable where life can lead you.

Arronofsky. If redemption was a theme then arronofsky was the invisible axis. No jump cuts, snorcam, or samples. Everything in camera. Back to natural story telling.

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I haven't updated in a while primarily because the function of this LJ has been replaced by my wife, Habiba. I guess you could call her my "living journal."

I'm at the LOA show now waiting for the main event. Feeling old. Mildly amused by the opening acts. What deity must LOA have offended to be playing such a dump in their hometown?

Anyways I've got a damned iPhone now and I'm more "connected" than ever so hopefully I will update more. And Habiba's out of town for a month.

Still the coolest band live.

howie mandel just made the funniest joke i've ever heard, on jay leno.   i choked on laughter  for five minutes straight.


he suggested to a very pregnant minnie driver to get naked, stick a feather duster up her ass, and walk around her house doing a foghorn leghorn impersonation....


.... howie mandel just went from zero to hero. 

 psssst listen http://www.myspace.com/diacritical

I don't understand all this hullabaloo about contractors in Iraq . 

Let's just trust in the invisible hand of the market to run this war.  The contractors that kill the most civilians are inevitably going to see the least growth in their revenue over the next few fiscal cycles.  Their customers (the US government) will realize their substandard performance and grant them less contracts.  More regulation cannot possibly be more effective than the free market.  Their "same store sales" will drop, analysts will downgrade their stock, and all will be well.

Oh boy, their next 10-Q will be a day of reckoning.



Trust the market.

Ting-a-ling you sonofabitch!

Habiba's doc:
http://69.41.226.67:8080/forbidden.html

If I was an Anthropology/Social Work/Political Science student, I would do my dissertation about "Indiana Jones and Orientalism: George Lucas the antithesis of Gene Roddenberry"

Woohoo! Just got my first car service after a 13 hour work day.

I was just about to leave the house on Saturday to go to Boston to visit some family when the buzzer rang. I asked who it was, and there was a muffled response. I thought it was a delivery person and I'm expecting a delivery so I pushed the buzzer. I stood out in the hall and waited. A minute later an elderly black man who was blind in one eye appeared at the top of the stairs. A young girl, I would guess 12 years old, stood behind him. The man said something about "The Watchtower", and I knew who they were. I asked them to leave saying I had accidentally buzzed them in, but I must ask them to leave the building. I didn't want to be "that guy" who let the Jehovah's witnesses into the building, like Elaine. The young girl turned to leave, but the old man persisted. I had to walk them out to the front door, apologizing the whole time. Then after we exited the front door, they stood at the stoop, looking as if they were going to just keep buzzing other apartments, so I stared at them, incredulously, and asked them to get off the stoop and I apologized to them.

Site of the day: http://www.vicefund.com/

Reuters headline: Mississippi man charged in 1964 killings of blacks

There are two ways to read that.

A fire in the master's house is set...

Thus we enter the last days of MLS. David Beckham comes to America to conquer the New World, but he'll end up bankrupting it instead. After the fan fare and sold out Home Depot appearances wears off a couple years from now, MLS will be stuck with a Los Angeles Galaxy bankrupt from it's $50 million obligation to Beckham.

One of the side effects of quitting my job is that I have to get a laptop. I am using my work laptop for everything, but I have to give that back, possibly next week. I'm stumped as to which one to get.

Objects in mirror may appear closer than when they were farther.

Overheard at JFK

Guy: Excuse me... are you security? There's a bag over there unattended.
Security: I'm on my break.
Guy: So a bomb can't go off on your break?

Both Lautenberg and Menendez voted for the torture bill.

I would rather throw away my vote than vote for that Menendez Bozo. I wonder if he would have voted for it if he hadn't had that scandal last week.

I kind of expect Menendez to be a Bozo at this point, but the Lautenberg's vote is more hurtful.

I feel like listening to Rage Against the Machine and voting for the Green Party.

Those that have never travelled on business for long periods have envy of my travels. Two weeks in Portugal, what a boon! But what you don't realize is that this isn't a vacation. I end up working more than usual and then going to dinner with a book and then an empty hotel room. It's more like a 2 week long commute rather than a vacation. Imagine being stuck on the Long Island Expressway on your way home for two weeks straight. OK, the views are better than the LIE, but the feeling is the same. Two weeks of stop and go traffic, motion sickness, longing for a famliar face and my own bed.

Tonight I will try to go out into the city to see something. Don't know what. But we are getting off work early at 6:30PM so I have some time. We don't start work until 10AM. I wish I could find something like a Dave & Busters so I could put my entertainment on the same bill as my food and expense the whole thing.