hey

hey im just checkin in just sayin whats up. gotta go to bed. gnite.

yo

yo i'm lovin it right now, a lot doin around town. still feel good about the bc game, looking forward to watching the game next weekend.

just found out that i'm going to be rowing in the head of the charles. this is my 6th (!) head of the charles. i'm a pretty lucky guy. i'm going to be in the dartmouth alumni boat if you want to root for us. i just erged today for the first time in a loooong time, and i'm gonna have to erg plenty of times between now and oct 17.

this year there's an alumni only event for the first time, which will be good because we wont be racing against other younger faster crews. now we just gotta get a couple ringers to fill out the boat.

the goal this year is to finish the race without being disqualified! haha. i think i'm in better shape than i was a couple years ago when i last rowed in it. and i'm gonna train harder better and smarter too.

i'm amped.

-Dave

hi

hi how's it going. it's too late and too busy to write anything substantial. had a fun day watching football and hanging out with friends. boston college beat northeastern 54-0. it was pretty awesome. and the us soccer team played well, from what i saw.

i like this photo of coach spaziani looking at the hourly weather forecast. i do that all the time!

yeah. been having fun hanging out and setting the place up and seeing people. went to the farmers markets today and had a feast which was nice. heirloom tomatoes were awesome. i got a local canteloupe which was delicious. made a salad with red lettuce and carrots and radishes and peaches. yum. good times.

oh yeah and all the beatles albums have finally been remastered. pretty cool. time to get beatles songs stuck in your head again!

aright ill ttys --Dave

hey

hey how's it going. i'm hanging out. listening to some good music. in my new place. you gotta check it out. i've gotta go out now and pick up the foam rug pad so i can have a huge relatively soft rug in my living room. yo this building is olllld. built in 1917. pretty cool though.

i just hope everything continues to kinda work, and that a couple more things get fixed up before the cold winter. wow its beautiful outside. if i hadnt moved i woulda been playing basketball and getting more sun, but instead ive just been running around. its cool tho.

its sooo quiet here. i cant even tell if i have my window open cause its so quiet outside! i'm coming from the city and living on main streets for almost four years. yeah. it's less crowded here and i feel less stressed out, yeehaw.

ok, im gonna use the excuse of being too busy to sign off. but ill ttys, later

times like these huh...

yo

yo i aint got no time but im still here will talk soon lata

here's a really crazy photo, city lights, i think it's from the 50s maybe

paying respects

"“I think everyone in Massachusetts feels like they’re their Kennedys,’’ Nagel said, after signing a condolence book placed in the steel-and-glass atrium at the Kennedy library. “There is something special about the Kennedys that makes them ours.’’"

to lighten the mood here are some ridiculous boston tats (check out the zakim bridge!)

distance between us

hey what's up. very sad about teddy kennedy. we'll miss him.

so i'm moving and packing. fun times. i went home and looked through my old stuff -- old papers and letters and photos. wow, it took me way back. i still feel like it's 2000 or 2003 or something. took me waaaaay back. i'm still coming back to the present.

had to drive home today from the cape. wellfleet is incredible. i really think it captured my heart this year. i didnt want to leave. that doesnt happen often with me -- im normally always happy to go home to my comfortable surroundings and routines.

but the beaches are way too beautiful and nice in wellfleet. i'm already looking forward to next year, but i guess i should just try to enjoy the rest of the summer as much as possible.

yeah. ok i'm gonna stuff some more junk in boxes. talk to ya.

Senator Teddy Kennedy

"Kennedy never spoke publicly about the help he gave them. ‘‘We talk about it,’’ said McGinty. ‘‘He downplayed it.’’

Every year that followed, the senator contacted her on the anniversary of the tragedy, and sometimes more often, to check on her and her children, said McGinty.

‘‘I really wondered how I would ever go on, and he’s been such a role model,’’ she said. ‘‘He taught me how to put one foot in front of the other, and do for other people ... I really think that he’s my hero.’’"

you will be remembered. thanks for your years of service. your legacy will live on.

roy reminded me

roy reminded me how effective italics are.

hi

hi how are you. i'm hanging out by the water. it's nice. played basketball today and swam and checked out the waves. very large waves knocking people over. guys surfing (i dono how they do it. must be experienced and very strong swimmers.)

the beaches are "closed", which pretty much means that you can only really walk in up to your knees, and that's it. but at least the weather is holding up, and the hurricane never really showed up.

so yeah. some good things have been happening. we should talk about them and catch up. it's the end of summer, and some of my friends have left, which is really too bad. at the same time though, i feel very lucky and blessed that i've been able to hang out with these folks.

so yeah, some changes are certainly coming. i'm leaving my city of 4 years and moving to the next town over. my roommate and i will be parking each other in during the winter (one garage spot and one behind it), so i don't know how that's gonna be, but i think it'll be fine. i'm very optimistic, and feel like things are going to work out.

i'm also finally not going to be living in an area where there are ambulances and fire trucks and police sirens going off all the time. it's going to be quieter and more peaceful. i'm on a side street by a country club, nothing fancy, but it's going to be nice to hang out on the porch and not be bothered by too much noise pollution.

i'm moving on saturday, and will have to pack and such between wednesday and friday.

then the cable guy is showing up saturday afternoon. that's right, i couldn't even last one night without cable tv and internet at my place. yikes, maybe i'm a little too connected.

anyway, all's well, i hope it's the same with you.

i'll talk to you soon.

here's the celtics schedule with mike and tommy that i know you've been dying to see.

keep on

bloggin

here's another one, whoa looks like those candy fruit slices

it's so hot. milk was a bad choice

nother little random doodle. good times! gonna try some more haha. ahhhh packing.

wuz happenin with ya homeboy

whats goin down.

you like this little exercise in graphic design? haha i was just messin around. i might try to do some more bad abstract graphic design art tho, its a good release.

wow is it hot and muggy outside! air so thick you have to wade through it like a hazy pea soup.

i'm goin outta town for a couple days, then when i come back im moving, so its gonna be busy! but busy is a good thing.

everything's good. stay in touch.

hugs

here that i stand

hey what's up. i've been taking some time off, which is a bummer, but im feeling rejuvenated. there's a bunch of things going on, but i'm doing a decent job of staying on top of everything.

it's very hot out, it's been hot this week. i've pretty much been cooped up in my room staying cool when i've been home, but no complaints. i went out and played basketball yesterday and it was hot and i got a lil overwhelmed but i had a good time. just took forever to cool down.

i watched the pats preseason game tonight and it was very boring and there wasnt much scoring. laaaame.

i'm hopefully going to be able to read some at the beach this week, which i am very excited about.

oh yeah and i saw the movie district 9 which was cool. i kinda wanna see it again and write an essay on it (studying scifi films is pretty sweet. like, there are whole books written on the matrix). sometimes theyre very subversive! and district 9 is definitely subversive).

and i wanna see the cove. but i dont really think its for everyone.

aright ill talk to you soon. many hugs

town meeting

a lot of people yelled at Senator Specter. tough crowd.

"Mr. Specter was met by protesters as he left the meeting. He said he thought some of the objectors were genuine grass-roots and some were organized, egged on by talk radio. He also said the meetings had shown him that 'there's more anger in America today than at any time than I can remember.'"

welcome to new england won't you stay awhile

well, so much for looking for shooting stars tonight. those pesky clouds of fog!

"The meteors can appear in any part of the sky, but the tails of the meteors will point back to the constellation Perseus -- the shower's namesake -- in the northeast corner of the sky.

Another potential roadblock to your meteor watching: The weather. The National Weather Service calls for a "mostly cloudy" evening, and a cloud of fog had settled over Boston at around 6 p.m. this evening, delaying flights at Logan International Airport."

yo

yo hey i really dont like letting this blog be a little dormant, but its for the best right now, i got a couple other priorities

went to nyc for the weekend. went to long island, queens, and manhattan, and got lost in brooklyn on the way home today. good times! saw citi field (huge!) and the nytimes building (rad!) from the highway today, so that was cool

otherwise, enjoying august. trying to play basketball, get sun, get vaguely a tiny bit tan. should be a couple fun parties coming up, im gonna try to squeeze out every last little drop of summer in every day

check it out -- it's dee brown. did you know that reebok still makes shoes that you can pump? haha pretty funny

k, we'll see. bye.

hey

hey sorry for the extended down time. but hey, its august now. arent you on vacation? :)

not sure when im gonna back on it. hope youre good.

here are a couple photos from the mp3 beatdown. truuue.

i need a bit

gimme a second

in the meantime, lets take a ride on the red line

mp3 beatdown

one of the most fun nights ive had. at the ica, one free complimentary drink courtesy of puma, great dj, great mc, 8 teams battling with 45 second mp3 punches in the ring for the heavyweight title belt.

showed up ontime and hung out looking over the harbor. what a nice setting. kicked it and gave props to the dj and said good luck to the lab crew and dapped up your boy c dubs. said whatup to your boy new from puma who produced the whole thing, gotta give thanks for that.

views of boston, tons of old school rap, many people having a good time, some incredible break dancing, some friends, it doesnt get much better. puma, you aint bad.

this rock was not here yesterday.

“Some of these things cannot be trained, obviously,” said Jennifer Murphy, a psychologist at the Army Research Institute and the principal author of the I.E.D. study. “But some may be; these are fighters who become very sensitive to small changes in the environment. They’ll clear the same road every day and notice ridiculously subtle things: this rock was not here yesterday.”

in support of all the troops and hoping you all come back home soon

inspired by another nytimes article -- In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable Assets

i'm going to go to the library tmrw and get joker one and read it.

collaborative filtering

wow what a phrase. my new favorite phrase. collaborative filtering. it's already how you experience the internet.

a group of people filter out bad information and identify and highlight the good information. this is how certain forums get their value.

looking for something? someone's found it for you and wants you to know.

-inspired by the nytimes article Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork

the truman, i mean the marbury show

stephon marbury is my new favorite person. because he's amazing.

"Going bald at 19 is not sexy. Its not the jump-off."

after the 24 hour ustream thing he then did a nother justin.tv thing.

he's at justin.tv/starburytv

it's like the truman show! except it's the marbury show!

it looks like he's gonna be on the web until he signs a new contract! and if he doesnt? well, i guess we have a lot to look forward to

here's the 24 hour transcript with some good quotes -- marbury 24hr transcript | nba musings

i'll let you find the other links. yeah stephon! taking the internet by storm.

have words will travel

must...play...basketball...outside...now

"take me somewhere"

-The Visioneers (2008)

and here are somerville farmers markets

yo

yo, this whole thing with Prof. Gates sucks. and it happened with my police department. what a mess. it's on front cover of nytimes? jeez.

nother cool album cover to lighten the mood.

pouring rain

raining pour

random cool album cover

hi

hi how are you? i can't really talk, so we'll have to catch each other sometime soon.

here's a funny photo that's joking about the boston college quarterback situation. haha very funny, but who's actually gonna be the quarterback? will bc win any games? time will tell.

yah. everything's good. weather hasn't been so bad, i havent dropped any air conditioners on anyones head, haven't gotten any parking tickets, so i cant really complain.

so yeah, task at hand. gotta focus on the task at hand.

bonjour!

boating fail

someone get this guy a bailer

hey

hey im busy running around and stuff. weve put air conditioners in, but, like a fool, i brought my roommates up. now that hes put his in we run the risk of tripping the breaker (the electric wiring in this old apt is horrible, and ive had to go reset the breaker box many times)

here are all the cambrige farmers markets. what an exciting screenshot. i got a dozen eggs in central sq today. im gonna try 3 of them tmrw. am very excited. cya

NS 8 Flow 2

i saw unmistaken child today. it blew me away. i cried like 15 times. what a beautiful, stunning, pretty much unfathomable movie. wow.

and i wanna go back and see the hurt locker tmrw.

went to soulelujah. now my legs hurt.

here's the link for the trailer for unmistaken child. i'd recommend you see it if it's playing in your area. otherwise it's at the kendall sq cinema for the rest of the week.

Unmistaken Child

i'm slowly getting my words back, allow me to collect the alphabet

swami

the idea is to make it to the farmers markets, then the pool

oh yeah and i finally put in the air conditioner. i think this is a record for the latest date that ive had an air conditioner in my room. ahhh it feels nice tho

hey

hey i was out of town for a day im still getting caught up lemme get back to ya

yo

yo in 30 seconds here's how it went down -- 4th of july weekend was great. busy and fun and such. this past weekend was also terrific. busy and fun and friends.

tonight i went and saw dj rupture and dj c at enormous room. totally impromptu show. thank god i get the enormous room emails, otherwise i wouldnt have known about it. went with some friends, bumped into a friend, good times.

i got a question as to where i got these strange photos from (i've posted a couple more)

here's the answer -- Carlo Van de Roer. just click on portfolio then the aura portrait machine. don't ask me how i found this, cause i don't really recall. but the photos are awesome

yeah. so i didnt do weekend recaps the past couple weekends. but everything has been pretty fantastic. and today i sat in the sun (lil sunburn) and played basketball (lil sore).

i had my first real introduction to cumbia tonight, and it was so cool. i had listened to it a bunch but for the first time tonight i got to hear it loud and live. i'll try to dig up some more information about it.

cumbia es en mi alma!

and here we are

right here

note to self

when you have a large party and you expect there to be a lot of people in your kitchen, temporarily remove the knobs for the burners on your gas stove

also -- guys in Massachusetts have no style. sad but true sometimes. i was told this tonight, and had to share it.

hope you had a good one

-D

"What are you going to do about it? What are you ever going to do about anything?"

-sag harbor, p. 96

a fair trade booster seat

“I went back and it freaked me out,’’ the 39-year-old Brooklyn resident wrote. “Davis Square used to be a seedy area but a decent place to get a slice and a coke, or catch a game over a beer, but now appears to be a terrific place to sip a latte and, I don’t know, shop for a fair trade booster seat?’’

from On tiles, a story of gentrification

ya know those tiles in the davis sq t station? just as you enter on the side upstairs? even i remember those from taking the t as a teenager. pretty cool.

i guess that the tiles were created at a school, the Powderhouse Community School. i lived on powderhouse blvd right by tufts til i was 5. haha good work globe.

you can can also look at the projects web site, but it's crashed right now, due to extra traffic? who knows, but at least you can look at some more of the tiles on the background

The Davis Square Tiles Project

deriving meaning from quotes

how about this one -- "Never write if you can speak. Never speak if you can nod. And never nod if you can wink."

here's my version, adapted for the 21st century -- "Never email if you can talk. Never talk if you can smile. Never smile if you can hug."

or how about -- "Never email if you can chat. Never chat if you can talk. Never talk if you can smile."

whoa, i managed to make my two similarly meaningless (or not?). i'll leave it up to you

what does it mean to you? all that i can think about is how i prefer talking on my cellphone to texting. as in, id rather that you just call me instead of text. ya know what i mean? not that there's anything wrong with either one.

another thing it means to me -- never email or chat online or talk on the phone if you can talk to someone in person. it's that simple. hmm.

did i already post this album cover? i'm diggin it...

the death race

terrific nytimes article and video. you should definitely watch the video first. or not. but just make sure you watch the video cause it's pretty good.

the death race is a ridiculous "race" set up in vermont where only a small percentage of people actually finish. there's a lot of barbed wire and problems and stuff. really entertaining.

i dont think i could ever do something like this. or maybe i could. but it looks really, really hard.

that being said, anyone wanna get in shape with me and try it next year? could be one of the biggest regrets of our lives! haha jk.

the two winners this year were marines, one american and one british. no way am i anywhere close to being as fit or tough or these guys. it's inspiring tho! you gotta be a little nuts to do this thing...

Pushing the Limit -- You Created It, Tough Guy. So Let’s See You Finish It.

PANIC - The Zebra mussel has arrived in massachusetts

the sky is falling. massachusetts will never be the same...

THE ZEBRA MUSSEL HAS ARRIVED

im only half kidding. these suckers are like kudzu. they've made lives miserable for a lotttttt of people

Invasive mussel found in Bay State lake

shoot. hopefully they can get rid of these buggers.

facebook status of the day

" In a few minutes, it'll be 12:34:56 07/08/09!"

makes me wanna listen to bruce willis

Nov 18th

lyrics from "Nov 18th" by Drake.

"I swear like everytime we find ourself in this situation
I just get that feeling like I mean Houston candy paint switching colors in the light it's about like 11 p.m.
And you just roaming through the city
Bumpin' that screw
Big Mo,UGK,Lil Keke"

yo dave where's the content

oops, let me, here it is, right...over...here

ahhh there it is i found it it was in the corner

hmmmmmm content content content content

the rain

does not go away

rain go away

“Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.” – Sir Terry Pratchett

where ya headed tonite...where you goin?