Happy birthday to me... tomorrow. Happy birthday also to Jason, Zac's lil' brother Colby, and Kofi Annan. It's going to be a big weekend - tomorrow I'm going to see Garbage w/ roommate Caireny, followed by Karaoke Madness on Saturday. Annnnd, next Friday (to be confirmed) I'm going to Teatro Zinzanni w/ Andrea! That's really what I'm most excited about. I hear it's much like being at the Moulin Rouge! I'm going to fall in love with Nicole Kidman, or at least a prostitute.

Other big news is that I now have a digital camera (thanks Mom and Dad!). I'm really stoked. This thing does so much - for a 'point and shoot' you can change the exposure, store images in RAW format, all sorts of manual stuff... I'm going to take so many pictures! 7.1 megapixels too - so big! Now I need to make a photo gallery for this site, doggonit. Check out He-Man's hand at 100%:



It records audio notes for images too! Like this one!

Last night while doing some... research... I came across this link: Armchair Hawk. In the words of TLC, this site is Crazy/Sexy/Cool. I was not aware that one could buy R/C Mario Karts.

From the makers of Threadless comes 15MegsOfFame. It's full of free music from different artists - open to anybody - and you can listen to their music, rate it, download it, etc. Fantastic idea. More things should be this way.

It's really bizarre for me to see all this old-time tradition going on in this temporarily post-Pope world. All those people in red and their outfits... I heard on NPR that to appoint a new Pope, all these Cardinals get together in a building, stay there for ten days, and when a decision has been made white smoke will come through the roof of the building... very Harry Potter/LOTRish. I feel like I don't know all the rules. I hope I spelled Cardinal right.

I did indeed watch The Eyes of Nye on Tuesday - it was a great show! They played two episodes - one on astrobiology and another on nuclear energy. Really cool stuff. I feel so smart! It's funny to watch too... there are so many local 'celebrities' on there. My homeboy Zack once photographed John Kiester, assistant writer to Eyes of Nye and host of Almost Live. Bill Nye and his guests are so passionate about their scientific work, it's very wonderful.

You know, I read somewhere that some person thought the word 'passionate' wasn't the right word to use when describing one's strongly liked hobbies and ideas. I think that's a bunch of crap! I love being around and seeing people who are passionate about something - their music, art, film, science, computers, whatever. I know they are passionate because they turn into another person and light up when talking about it. I know they are passionate because given the chance they would gladly make love to whatever it is they are passionate about. These people are Roberto Benigni inside! I can't even begin to tell you how many functions and subroutines I've shared passions with.

This is my cue to stop typing... did I mention I've been getting up at 6:00 the last couple of days? My body can't handle that and it is affecting my noggin. Time for a nap, bye.