Category: Books/Music/Movies

I just got BBD’s “Poison” from The Best Of Bell Biv Devoe 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection. Damn, I love 99 cent MP3s. Now ya know. Yo, Slick: Blow.

Last night I finished reading JPod, Douglas Coupland’s “sequel” to Microserfs. Very entertaining and a quick read. I haven’t laughed out loud reading a book in months. JPod has been described as “Microserfs for the Google generation”, but perhaps “Microserfs for the EA generation” would be more appropriate, given the setting of a bunch of […]

Here are a handful of books hanging out in my Amazon shopping cart waiting to be purchased: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain The Open Society Paradox: Why The 21st Century Calls For More Openness–Not Less – Dennis Bailey The Know-It-All : One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person […]

Last night I went out with Badi and Swaroop to see Yuva. The movie was in Hindi so naturally I couldn’t understand a word, but during the intermission I got a recap of the first couple of hours. Turns out I followed about 30% of what was going on. I guess the language of love […]

Too bad they don’t carry Milli Vanilli on the iTunes Music store. I’ve got $3.96 burning a hole in my pocket and just thought of what I’d most like to spend it on. Girl You Know It’s True Baby Don’t Forget My Number Blame It On The Rain I’m Gonna Miss You

I’ve been in more of a reading mood than a writing one recently. Just finished reading Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Apache Cookbook by Ken Coar and Rich Bowen In the middle of reading The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond Just starting to read Refactoring by Martin Fowler (of the original […]

Stuck in bed this weekend with a cold, Ariella bought me a copy of Introducing Chomsky, 2nd Edition. Between naps and feeling sorry for myself, I managed to read the entire book. Since I’ve already read a few of Steven Pinker’s books, the first half of this book (Chomsky’s theories on linguistics) seemed a little […]

I want the equivalent of Fetch Art for iTunes for Windows. I’m not sure how easy it would be to write my own. Apple seems to provide a iTunes Visual Plug-ins SDK for Windows but it’s not clear if there is a generic plug-in architecture for things other than visualizations (i.e. audio formats or generic […]

I recently “read” Steve Martin’s most recent novel The Pleasure of My Company. It’s an excellent book. I use “read” in quotes, because I purchased the audio book instead of the written book. I’ve listened to only one audio book before (the first Harry Potter book which I snagged from KaZaA before the RIAA flooded […]

Avital is visiting from Boston this weekend. We went to Amoeba Music in Hollywood and got a handful of used CDs. Here’s what I got: Loveboat – Erasure Other People’s Songs – Erasure Acoustic – Everything But The Girl Sleepyhead – The Brothers Creegan Stop All The World Now – Howie Day I looked for […]