strange dream

  • jake got in a fight with some idiot, but was on his way to losing.. this was at some mega version of denny’s
  • jake didn’t have a blackbelt in karate for some reason, and looked like he was well on his way to losing so we backed him up and got him out of there.
  • went home
  • ria was going to come over
  • it was twilight
  • the immense wind, enough that when ria arrived on my doorstep, the wind was cracking the glass, still at twilight
  • going out on some adventure with ria in the night
  • there was sudden alternations between night and day
  • we or i saw the phantom floating in the tree, chasing someone and then promptly disappearing
  • there were kids running around in the trees, kind of crouching tiger, hidden dragon style — i scolded them afterwards
  • i went inside the house
  • my dad told me the legend of the phantom type person
  • the phantom’s mask was in my bedroom when i came back
  • i couldn’t or didn’t leave my bedroom

and then i woke up. i went on here to talk to krishen about it but he wasn’t online (look at the time). i started drawing the mask (above) and finished, just as he came online. then we got to talking. this is kind of david lynchy. got interpretations?
if you’ve seen ‘spirited away’, this dream had a similar feeling. very spooky — the immense wind in particular stood out. i remember looking through the glass door and seeing the twilight glow and then the glass cracking as i looked through and saw ria arrive a few minutes later. everything was normal except for the glass door (my front door is only partly glass) and the immense wind. plus ria barely ever comes over any more. just sometimes.
so, i think my dream is over.
but i can’t leave my bedroom.
and i am staring at the mask — on my screen now. i am going to go back to sleep. please leave your ideas in the comments area!

mt-blacklist.cgi

today, in the matter of only an hour, this website got hit by spam comments. probably over a thousand.
if you don’t have this installed yet, and you run moveable type, i recommend you do. it filtered through my site and deleted over a thousand spam comments in a matter of minutes. this blacklist is maintained through community and you can update it yourself as needed. jay allen made it, and i highly recommend it. die, spammers.
this will be your bane.
http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/

tub thumping

i wrote a letter of recommendation for ben last night. it’s not grammatically perfect but it isn’t bad for ~15 minutes. i am mailing it off today to him, signed, sealed and approved for distribution. good luck ben!
over the next few nights i will be writing addresses on envelopes and burning CD’s. actually that will probably be tomorrow night because tonight looks a bit busy. i was going to go to toastmasters tonight but now that looks doubtful because i have another priority ahead of that. later on tonight dj bedlam is playing at hush from 10:30 – 12:30 — i gotta go reprahzent — it’s chewy’s birthday.
there is a lot to fit in to the next two weeks, perhaps more than is possible. with it being the new year, a lot of people are talking about goals and whatnot. that’s generally good, but making goals once a year kind of sets you up to do things that either take a year, or take a few months and then you have eight or nine months without any goals. i make goals year-round and i am getting pretty good at attaining them, though i could work a bit on my metrics.
it’s 9 am, i’ve done pushups, showered, shaved, eaten breakfast, and now i’ve finished my (almost daily) blog post. enjoy your day everybody!

progress


it’s snowing again!
this shot was taken a day and a half ago on blenkinsop towards mt. doug.
and i am ready to go for work and it’s only 8 a.m. leet. i’ll eat breakfast and go in early i think.
progress: january 15th — braeden, myself and kenzie are DJing at hush for an evening. come down and enjoy teh sexay beats!
update: working from home just got approved for the day! woohoo!!

radium 61 working!

i got my radium 61 working! no thanks to the people at m-audio who still don’t understand that their drivers conflict with e-magic’s. i trashed an old e-magic usb midi driver and voila, it came alive. me and neil had some fun tweaking with it and reason 2.5.. oh boy, this is going to be rad!!
the m-audio tech support is so notably bad. so far as that they include this message in tech support emails:
“*No part of this e-mail may be copied for any use without the expressed written permission of M-audio. It’s contents are confidential and
intended for the addressed recipient only. If you are not the intended receipt, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including and reliance thereon) or any other unauthorized use is strictly prohibited.*”
wtf does that mean? by the way, if you work for m-audio —
no part of this blog may be copied for any use without the expressed written permission of davin. its contents are confidential and intended for the blogaddicts only. if you are not the intended receipt, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including and reliance thereon) or any other unauthorized use is strictly prohibited.
including and reliance thereon. so there. biatch. thanks for nothing!