Here’s some stuff I found while I was going through old files. These are quotes from the pastor at the church I was playing guitar at for a while.

“I’m a virgin, I’m sexually inexperienced! How am I going to have this great amazing son??” – Pastor Harry as the Virgin Mary

“... to single people trying to navigate the shoals of singlehood” – Pastor Harry in prayer

There’s this guy working at the front desk who’s really bad at using the radio. He’ll say things like “Housekeeping to Todd,” when he’s Todd*, and he’s trying to get a hold of Housekeeping. It makes it sound like he’s commanding them to answer.

Then he says stuff like “Can someone help the customer in the computer center with the printer?” or “Can someone open the door to the Princeton room?” Which is ridiculous, because it’s not like just anyone will do these things, there are specific responsibilities for specific people. So on the one hand, it sounds passive aggressive, like “Can someone fix the printer?” is really intended for Joe from engineering. On the other hand, if that specific person isn’t listening, everyone else just ignores it, and the customer gets screwed. The other day I found this guy standing in the hall, and I realized about 15 minutes before, Todd had radioed for someone to open the door to a meeting room. Now you know… the rest of the story.**

*He’s not really named Todd.

** rest of the pointless story

Hopefully late tomorrow I’m going to post a song that Kelly and I wrote. It’s not entirely sensical. We wrote the lyrics for one of the titles on songfight.org, but then we didn’t start recording until today. So it wasn’t ready for the songfight, but it also wasn’t ready today, which you’ll remember is my not kept deadline for creating something each week.

Update: here’s the song!
States That Mate – “Robot Candidate”

Hey guys, I was just listening to the album “If you’re feeling sinister” by a band called Belle & Sebastian. It’s really good! I think these guys could be big!!

A couple (few?) months ago my hard drive died. Being retarded I hadn’t backed up in a really long time. I lost a bunch of source files from recordings, email, pictures and a variety of documents. But, I just downloaded a bunch of pictures that I had previously uploaded to Flickr. I’m really happy about that because although I still lost a bunch of pictures, in a sense the “essential” pictures were the ones I had uploaded to Flickr, so I still have them. If I upgrade to a Pro account I could actually get the original files. So thanks Flickr, for existing.

P.S. If you want to send me any pictures from time we spent together, or recordings you made of me interviewing my grandparents about their childhood, please do.

I put up a new song on myspace and the website. You can go here to listen to it. (I also put up the other songs I’ve been doing for songfight) The new plan is to create something every week. We’ll see how that goes. I’ll do songs, but I was thinking about messing around with making videos or doing cartoons or whatever.

Sometimes when I’m bored and mindless I’ll type the first thing that comes to mind into my web browser, and see if it exists. Today I visited fightforyourrighttoparty.com. At first I thought it was just a stupid place holder website with random links on it. But then I read the title at the top of the browser, and saw I was in fact visiting “The Leading Legal Rights Site on the Net.” Awesome.

I call clients to check if they need AV. This guy I was just talking to seemed friendly enough, but he said we were too expensive.

Me: “Well what did you need?”
Customer: “We need a screen.”
M: “Oh, what price did they quote you?”
C: “I didn’t even find out. They just said we’d have to pay for it.”
M: “Well that’s true, it’s $35 to rent a screen.”
C: “$35! No, thanks! I’ll bring my own.”
M: “Oh well, ok…”
C: “Ha ha… $35! ...Yeah, right!...”

This really confuses me, because I don’t know where he’d get the idea that screens are free? Or where he could get them cheaper?         ????????????

This week I learned that if you want something, you should just take it. For example, if you’ve been sitting in an Office Chair for Kids™ for the duration of your employment, you should just wait until someone leaves the company, and take their chair. Or if you’re moved to a new office and you don’t have a trash can, you should just take one you find somewhere.

You’re not stealing from someone else, and you’re not stealing from the company. You are just bypassing the requisition process where you ask someone for something and it takes forever to happen.

In conclusion, if you see a person who looks rich you should mug them.

Girlfriend of friend just launched new website. I like it. Also, she’s pretty funny. Also, she told us how she took pictures for John Rueben once, and that was really funny.