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After the haircut

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:25:35 GMT

After the haircut
Originally uploaded by justpat

Just as the swine flu was making itself felt, I had the strength and presence of mind to take this picture of my new haircut.

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:30:37 GMT

10:09 Realization -- I didn't set foot on the mainland of North America between December 26 2008 and April 12, 2009 #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:30:38 GMT

04:19 thunder woke me up just as I had gotten to sleep. #
11:44 I'm more than halfway to Aspergers. Most people would think that's putting it mildly. www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html #
12:27 #youmayfindyourself heading for the F train #
12:58 #youmayfindyourself returning to your desk to research meat #
15:53 Not Monster porn: MUNSTER porn. www.aintthemunsters.com/videos.html (NSFW) #
01:01 If there is going to be a Rapture, is there any reason to believe that it will take anyone over the age of, say, seven? #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:30:37 GMT

13:26 #DavidByrne brought audience to feet with Once In A Lifetime! #
19:56 Why should I listen to you? #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:30:42 GMT

11:04 Off to get haircut #
13:25 If you've got a real crush on someone, that person becomes your personal kryptonite. #
17:38 DAVID BYRNE tonight at Prospect Park bandshell 630 PM. IAm heading up there early. #
17:54 Line for Byrne stretches from 9th st to 15th st AND BACK!! I am camping out on the knoll just to the SW about 100 ft from the big screen. #
18:10 I am outside the fence at the DByrne concert with about 150 others in front of the big video screen to the SW. #
18:12 The wind is picking up the way it does just before a thunderstorm. #
18:38 If you are a friend and at the David Byrne concert, direct message me if youre looking for a place to sit outside the fence. #
19:10 Cellular networks in the vicinity of the David Byrne concert Prospect Park bandshell are hopelessly overloaded. #
19:21 Getting crowded here. #
19:36 Getting WAY too crowded at the David Byrne concert. #
19:38 #DavidByrne Band tuning up. #
21:02 #DavidByrne show is great! Sound system is awful. #
21:47 #DavidByrne At appropriate part of the song, entire audience shouted "MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?" #
22:04 #DavidByrne At appropriate part of another song, entire audience shouted "BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE !!!" #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:30:37 GMT

14:17 At the Egg Rolls and Egg Cream festival on Eldritch street! #
15:31 Now at Mulberry St fair. All these old Italian people look like my uncles. Even the women. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:30:35 GMT

15:30 I have no net service on my phone. Please D me if Coney Island bound F train skips 15th st this weekend? #
15:45 Never mind. Subway routes all screwed up. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:30:45 GMT

10:34 My dream self leads a much more exciting life than I do, I'll say that for him. #
11:32 #robotpickuplines That chassis would look good on my workbench! #
11:37 #robotpickuplines Socket to me, baby! #
11:41 #robotpickuplines Can I byte your bits? #
11:45 #robotpickuplines Is that your thermal extruder, or are you just glad to see me? #
11:50 #robotpickuplines Do fries come with that lateral instability? #
11:56 #robotpickuplines Wingman: "You've overrun the circuits in my counterpart!" #
11:58 #robotpickuplines Plug and play, baby, that's me!! #
12:02 #robotpickuplines hey, nice knobs! #
12:15 #robotpickuplines You make my flange want to get up and dance! #
12:18 #robotpickuplines yes, this is my pushrod, and I *am* glad to see you. #
12:22 #robotpickuplines Have you got something jammed in there real good? Would you like to? #
12:24 #robotpickuplines You must have seen a lot of action, with that carbon scoring. #
12:24 #robotpickuplines Hey, baby, I *am* the droid you're looking for! #
12:29 #robotpickuplines That's what SHE broadcast via Xbee protocol! #
12:34 #robotpickuplines roses are red, violets are blue, my protocol's RS-232 #
12:46 #robotpickuplines By YOUR Command! #
12:47 #robotpickuplines I'll be back. And FORTH. And back. And FORTH. #
12:52 #robotpickuplines Push, push, in the bushing. #
12:53 #robotpickuplines Is that a ferromagnetic chassis? Cause I'm sure attracted to you! #
12:56 #robotpickuplines Were you designed without proper radiative capacity, or are you always this hot? #
13:17 Well, that was a thoroughly wasted morning. But fun! #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:30:40 GMT

12:06 Mission to get death certificate put on indefinite hold. #
15:23 Buzz Aldrin's mother killed herself before Apollo11 rather than deal with the fame of being a moonwalker's mother. #
00:11 David Byrne unexpectedly on the colbert report! #
01:27 As of midnight EDT, I'm receiving tweets from yesterday. Do I have to live Thursday all over again? #groundhogday #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:30:36 GMT

15:55 Writing story pitches while Eraserhead plays on the television. In heaven, everything is fine. #
17:58 about to throw up. watching logos and promos. no connection. I hope. #
19:29 might have to go out in the rain. i dislike the rain. #
21:12 Holy crap!! Everyone in the turn on Mythbusters right now!!! (If you're on Pacific time, watch Mythbusters tonight!) #
23:42 If two 17 year olds get married in NY, then move to a state where the marriage age is 21, are they still married? #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:30:37 GMT

13:18 Does anyone one reading this work in a movie theater? Or worked in one within the past year? I have a quick question I'd like to ask. #
19:04 sauteeing vegetibles for soup base. It's the same as making stir-fry. hard to skip the soup and just eat the veggies #
21:01 watching Earth 2100 on ABC #
21:26 Speculation: James Burke is watching "Earth: 2100" and saying"I did this exact same show 20 years ago!" : tinyurl.com/r78c9d #
22:33 "Earth: 2100" is internally inconsistent. I hate that. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:30:38 GMT

20:41 Anti-abortion terrorists: enter your contact info for a chance to live rent free for the next 8 to 25 years! tips.fbi.gov/ #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Sun, 31 May 2009 06:30:37 GMT

09:59 Heading across the park to the Grand Army Plaza Farmer's Market. #
10:40 prospect park packed -- people pursuing pleasure #
10:51 ProspectPark: 20 people - 2 rows of 10 - playing Frisbee catch back and forth, back and forth. #
10:57 ProspectPark: 9 senior citizens - 3 men, 9 women - doing slow, careful yoga in the shade of a huge tree. #
11:05 ProspectPark: Rugby and softball games pause in awed contemplation as woman spreads blanket, strips down to microbikini. #
11:24 Bandeau dresses all the rage at the Grand Army Plaza greenmarket. #
11:36 Grand Army Plaza - Six piece klezmer band accidentally drowns out crying lost child. #
11:49 Returning from greenmarket with spinach, tomatoes, carrots, fruit, and a lentil burrito. #
12:13 ProspectPark: Like Pied Piper, digeridoo player collects semi-circle of enchanted children. #
12:15 twitpic.com/69htb - Prospect Park prospectors #
12:16 twitpic.com/69hw7 - there was once a great bonfire here #
19:55 Turkey burger for dinner, followed by a walk through the park. Another walk through the park. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Sat, 30 May 2009 06:30:36 GMT

14:13 I realize that this humidity is as nothing compared to what we'll have in August. But it'll do. #
16:37 TSOBSG Publication date moved to December 2, 2009. #
19:19 Head = ache. #
19:36 Dear GOP: If gays marry and have kids, they may become more receptive to your fear mongering about threats to the children. Just a thought. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Fri, 29 May 2009 06:30:35 GMT

10:25 Just signed up for Notify NYC; bit.ly/YVvTq
We'll see how well it works. #
11:27 Is there KY Peanut Butter to go with KY Jelly? #
13:28 One of my tweets will be available as a tshirt -- IF YOU VOTE NOW! Score this @Threadless #twittertee submission! thrdl.es/~/6jB #
15:54 Seem like everywhere I go The more I see the less I know But I know one thing That I love you! #
16:37 Mars might have diamonds at the bottom of some craters. Might also have rubies and emeralds. Probably no opals. Surely gold and silver. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Wed, 27 May 2009 06:30:41 GMT

14:31 How did the Third Reich handle the dissolution of Jewish marriages re: property, custody, inheritance, etc? The CA Supremes need to know. #
19:09 Where did Jim Kirk get fossil fuel in the year 2230? #
20:19 How long before some tabloid calls Judge Sonia Sotomayor "So-So"?? #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Tue, 26 May 2009 06:30:38 GMT

14:23 Watched #StarTrek, thinking I've seen this before. And I had: every scene was stolen from some other movie! Was there ONE original thought? #
18:38 Facebook Fun: figuring out how two people from different parts of your life, who "should" not know each other, happen to know each other. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Mon, 25 May 2009 06:30:34 GMT

12:21 Still rocking the Meyers-Briggs INTJ float! #
21:14 Anyone have the NON SPECIAL EDITION of Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope? Could I ask you to check something for me, please? #
23:27 Everyone calm thy asses! NK's first "nuclear" test was 1/10 the Hiroshima bomb -- easily fakeable! Wait and see if this is, too. #northkorea #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Sat, 23 May 2009 06:30:48 GMT

14:06 I made gazpacho! To eat with nachos! I am macho! #
20:41 Started to make stuffed artichokes. The artichokes were rotten at the core. Used the stuffing to make stuffed peppers instead. And stuff. #
22:10 400 glass negatives, portraits of WWI British Empire soldiers, found in a French barn. tinyurl.com/pe3jsv #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Fri, 22 May 2009 06:31:40 GMT

11:47 Twitter and email shut off for the rest of the day -- I need to fix something and I need to concentrate. #
18:33 Twitter has been turned off for most of the day, and as a result I have gotten more done, in a more relaxed manner, than I have in ages. #
19:32 Democrat:"It's late.We'd like to get going." Republican:"It's late.We'd like to get going, catch a plane, perhaps have a drink or supper." #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Thu, 21 May 2009 06:31:56 GMT

21:12 Watching mythbusters demolish a small child #
00:07 the recipe says I have to start a yeast culture. Do yeast have music, art, literature, and their own language and calendar? #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Wed, 20 May 2009 06:30:53 GMT

12:13 on the way to lunch at the Conde Nast cafeteria #
13:00 Train stuck in the tunnel every station from West 4th to 42nd Street! #
00:49 A few years ago, Newt Gingrich wouldn't let go of his dick as I interviewed him about nanotechnology. I ambushed him in the men's room. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Tue, 19 May 2009 06:30:52 GMT

11:04 Just added myself to the wefollow.com twitter directory under: #journalism #humor #science #
12:46 Theyre coming to take my car away. With my permission this time. #
13:01 twitpic.com/5fmjv - Car farewell #
15:48 On line at the DMV, reading The Communist Manifesto. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Mon, 18 May 2009 06:31:01 GMT

13:35 Making bagels at home. #
13:42 putting the bagels into the water bath #
14:12 bagels are baking #
14:28 the bagels are out of the oven and they're ... bialys!!! #
19:12 Somewhere there's music. Moon. Stars. Oh, the planets flying through the skies. Right before your eyes. #
19:13 You can see everything that's happening through the skies. Music! Somewhere. How high the moon? Everybody's wondering, hey! #
19:15 Everybody's wondering how high the moon. The moon never wonder how low you are. How far. Somewhere there's music! How high the moon? #
19:17 Hey, the stars. Every bird is flying through the stars, through the sky, to the moon, to the sun. And round and round to Jupiter, Pluto! #
19:19 Mars! Stars! Every planet around through the skies. Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! They will be orbiting you! Let's orbit the moon! Moon, Moon, Moon! #
19:20 I'll orbit, going round and round, through the stars, skies! Zoom! Here they come! There they go! #
19:21 We are flying, speeding at nine hundred eighty two thousand million miles an hour! Man, they're really flying!! #
19:24 Say, everybody's wondering, oh, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, high the moon? We know. #
19:25 Because we were sailing by the moon. We looked at the stars down below. Say, you know we're sailing. Sailing round and round. #
19:27 We're going to orbit. Orbit the moon! The Sun! The stars! Pluto! Jupiter! Mars! All the planets! #
19:28 What they gonna do when the planets all meet together and say "Hello, there, how are you?" BANGO! EXPLOSION! #
19:30 That's really gonna really have a wailing time! When they have those Sunday afternoon jam sessions, #
19:32 they have five hundred eighty two million three hundred twenty two billion saxophones all wailing at one time! Must be really crazy! #
19:32 Real, really wowthy! #
19:34 Say, do you know what they have on the moon? Listen, now. They raise potatoes, tomatoes, potatoes and tomatoes. Potatoes. #
19:36 Potatoeses the size of, the Hollywood bowl! How do they peel them? They peel them with a bulldozer! #
19:36 Oh, just imagine a nice big bowl of potato salad.... ON THE MOON!!!! #
19:37 Hey, we're approaching the moon now! Here they come! There they go! #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

Sun, 17 May 2009 06:30:46 GMT

04:55 my phone has been turned off all night. No one noticed, least of all me. #
11:35 I have two belts. Do I know where either one is? No. #
12:26 Wine tasting at the Grand Army Plaza farmers market! Hic! #
12:58 Why, exactly, does Curtis Blow want me to know that these are the breaks? #
14:00 Body asymmetries: left breast larger = 75% of the time; left testicle lower = 65%; left foot larger = 80%; left leg longer =~50%. #
00:17 With all this fraking rain you'd think NYC's reservoirs would be overflowing, but they're actually 3.3% low: tinyurl.com/cy7fby #