I know I know , I’m still really neglecting 77percent.
more importantly though, a bunch of us are going to the cat empire at barrymore’s on the oct6. it’s going to be very cool. if you don’t know them, they’re a jazzy-reggae aussie band and they’re a whole lot of fun even on their album, better still live. we also saw the Edukators (a german socialist film) at the bytowne last wednesday, it was very clever and pretty nicely done : well worth your while if you get the chance.
We’ve spent a couple days now at carleton (working on our extended essays) and they’ve involved some valuable working and a lot of relaxing not to mention cider-drinking at mike’s place. I think we (my bunch and I, relative to the rest of the IB kids there) did a near-decent job balancing the two, most of everyone else was probably one polar extreme or the other. probably the best example of this was yesterday after hours with nick and dave in room 411 (the room that we’ve laid claim to) we had great music playing (specifically, strangegeometry by clientele and all the cat empire stuff we had) and we were all working on the more interesting parts of our e/e; occasionally, someone would mention something interesting and we’d all talk for a bit but at the same time we were pretty productive and very chilled out .. it actually made me think of the scenes in american splendor where harvey and crumb are just laying on a couple of sofas at harvey’s place listening to rare jazz records and reading comics.
we also had a pretty great time last friday night in the rain and later dining at zak’s, that was a true summer night.
i’ve been playing a lot with twttr.com it’s pretty cool you can find me on it at twttr.com/jeeves. I might talk about it sometime but for the meanwhile I’m sure you can figure it out.
also this year’s wikib is stu.dicio.us and it’s very nicely done, you’re welcome to add me, I’m jeeves. they’re working on a notes importer which will make it easy to make good on all the stuff we digitized for wikib last year.
one last thing : we actually used (and needed to use) billmonk. I always thought it was a very useful and cleverly done web-app (it’s all about social money and splitting bills /etc) so I can officially vouch for it now, having used it at a restaurant in real social context. what took us (nick, dave and I) a ridiculoulsy long time to figure out, it did in seconds .. definitely a useful sms-capable web-based social application, give it a try if you feel the need ever
i’m slowly working to catch up on my flickr photostream in small batches so keep your eyes on it
cheers
