what's up

what's up folks how's it going. the storm is here. it's cold and windy outside. i'm warm and comfy inside, thankfully. i think my christmas shopping is almost done! what a relief. i've only gotten stuff for mom, dad, brother, and the kid i picked from the giving tree, but i'm still feeling pretty good about it. i went to the new balance store and tj maxx today and i think im pretty much done. those stops combined with an online order to fogdog.com have me in pretty good shape. i might just pick up one or two random more things but other than that im done! yayyyy.

i hear it's cold and snowy in many places. craaaazy out there. i went out last night with some folks, hit up cask n flagon and tequila rain lol, good times. very late night but it was fun. slept in today, i was gonna go to the apple store cause my screen is messed up, but im hoping that it goes away. ugh, stupid lcd screens

yup im just listening to a little dubstep.fm, gotta try to go to bed here in the next hour. let's see, the other day i watched the movie "the bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans" with nicolas cage directed by werner herzog. pretty ridiculous. good times.

oya and umass beat bc. it was awesome. i watched with rob b. then we played call of duty 2 obviously.

aright ill cya

whoa

whoaaaaa

yess

hey hows it goin.

here's a link

Scientists spot nearby 'super-Earth'

crazy! except if it's 40 light years away, we gotta get ourselves some hyperdrive technology or something. cause i ain't sitting in a spaceship for 40 years, i'll tell ya that much!

yo

yo how's it going i gotta go to sleep

but i went to the gym today. massive success. first time in a while. did cardio, weights, jumping exercises. huge play outta me.

gotta start holiday shopping soon. store lines intimidate me. TARGET intimidates me.

i gotta get a carwash. i cant really do much creative right now, i just wanted to keep the blogging ball rolling. looks like it's gonna be cold the next couple of days. oh boy! shouldn't be too bad tho. i'm used to it by now.

i wanna go skiing but it's probably gonna have to wait til january, unless i can somehow get all of my christmas shopping done in the next three days.

here's a photo i took in cali.

ok adios amigos.

hey

hey what's up. i wrote that little bit of creativeness on the airplane. i also wrote a journal entry for myself. 4180 words. i wrote it over the course of the long flight. i almost got the bends on landing this time too. luckily i chewed gum for every minute of the flight.

not sure if blogging makes me feel normal or weird now.

but i wrote an unbelieble amount on that plane ride. read a bunch too. i got this new vonnegut book called "armageddon in retrospect" and i really like it. wow i cant even get myself to capitalize a vonnegut title.

aright ill try to put up less sports photos, but right now i dont have enough of a selection

CREATIVE AIRPLANE WRITING

The transitions in pressure and altitude in an airplane over the desert expand and contract the craniums of seat-belted passengers. With packets of gum they combat the squeezing of eyesockets and the stiff vice which wedges temples. The available overhead controls simulate the breeze and the sun, allowing a climatic input to grace cheeks.

The bends lie in steerage, dormant until a half hour before landing, when they rev up their tornado bodies and crawl up to the lifejacket seat bottoms, where they infiltrate the arm rest. From here, they turn into vapor and ride a siphoning eddy to the ear.

extremely quick post before i get on the airplane

i'm on wireless here at the airport and gotta get something out before i get on the plane

i had a good trip, i just got an overpriced turkey baguette, i'm looking forward and not looking forward to getting home for various reasons, i'm enjoying blogging more, i wanna go skiing.

not 100% sure if im gonna make this trip again next year as i might need to start mixing it up.

ok i gotta go wait in line, later, Dave

not reading the d anymore

there are a lot other links i wanna put up and a lot of other stuff i should be talking about and i should be recapping my cali trip so far but i gotta get this outta the way first -- i'm going to be actively not reading the dartmouth anymore.

the d = The Dartmouth - America's oldest college newspaper

i don't think i'm fabricating when i say that i've read every issue of the d since arriving on campus in september 2001. seems a little ridiculous to say, but i'm a big reader of newspapers and online articles. both when i've been on campus and when i've been off campus, i've kept up with it. during each fall, winter, and spring semester, the d is published 5 times a week. during the summer semester its only published twice a week.

at campus i would always pick up a copy of it to read during lunch. after graduation i have always checked it online devotedly. i've read many, many, many issues of the dartmouth. mostly for the hanover police blotter (just kidding, i like reading the rowing recaps too. just kidding, i read the news and arts stuff, but avoid the op eds).

but i'm sick of reading the d and hearing about the latest screw up by current dartmouth undergradates. or budget cuts. both topics are horrible. so i'm going to try to force myself to not start typing t-h-e-d into the address menu of firefox during the weekdays. today's day 1.

come on dartmouth students (slash dartmouth guys) -- behave yourself. please. then i will start reading my beloved college newspaper again.

-Dave

live from orange county

hey what's up. so i left LA today and am down in orange county for a brief sojourn. the drive down here was pretty crazy -- it was raining (it never rains here) and we passed two (2!) turned over trucks on the road. bad scene. other accidents too. all sorts of bad traffic. we only hit a bit of it, but it was scary driving in the rain and ppl here aren't used to it at all.

i'm sitting on the couch with my amiga and her brothers and we're watching dan in real life and it's awesome. this weekend was pretty terrific -- we met up with C.M and my brother and saw the hotel room center of operations for the conference. yeah i'm not really divulging names or places right now, maybe i will later. but everything's really good and even though it rained today i'm having a fantastic time.

oh yeah and boston college is going to play the university of southern california in the emerald bowl on december 26th at 8pm eastern time. aright, get excited!

k later

-Dave

miracle mile

how's it goin. here i am in miracle mile near downtown. not bad. andy's got a sweet place. we're gonna try to set it up a little more today. i slept on a leather couch last night (reminds me of his place two years ago). but i feel fine.

the plane ride last night was interesting. it was the emptiest plane ive ever been on, maybe a third full. so i had three seats to myself. i read my book during take off then shut the lightoff and was in and out of consciousness the rest of the ride. the plane ride seemed like it only took a couple hours.

then eventually i woke up as we were beginning our descent. the last 20 minutes of the descent were excruciating. my ears hadnt been popping and i hadnt been adjusting to the pressure and i didnt have any gum and i got pressure sickness or whatever its called (i dont feel like googling it right now).

it was awful. it felt like my eyes were gonna pop out of my head or that my brain was gonna explode or that my cranium was about to be cracked. not an enjoyable sensation. i was freaking out. i nearly asked a flight attendant for some help. i realized that the lady next to me had some gum as we touched down, but it was too late. i took a couple aleve and drank some water and eventually felt better, but wow i do not want to experience that again. im having flashbacks.

unfortunately i left my book on the plane. its ok though, ive had it for like a year plus it feels like and its a cheap paperback so i think i'm gonna order a new one. here's a link to it though in, it's good critical reading, and i'm a sucker for coetzee.

Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005: J. M. Coetzee

ok im looking forward to today, hopefully meeting up with chris and jeff and getting some things done.

here's a cool comic stip i just stumbled upon (without using stumbleupon) --

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

yeeeah

check it out, bostonknucklehead.com, good stuff

Boston Urban Clothing Line | Boston T-shirts and Sweatshirts

to yall

hey whats up. below are some cool photos of the us womens olympic 8 that won a gold medal at the coin flip for a jaguars game. pretty sweet.

well yeah, how's it goin. mad warm here in beautiful new england today. actually, it's warmer than it is in los angeles! i'm hopping on a plane tmrw to go to LA for a week. i head out there every year and visit a couple friends.

this year im being ambitious, and trying to see several people. i'm not sure what's actually gonna happen and i probably could have done a better job of planning it out, but whatever happens happens. last year i hung out at my buddys place which was a converted garage, but now he lives somewhere better, so im looking forward to that.

im psyched for the plane ride and hope that i get a chance to nap or read a book or watch a movie on my computer or something. also, what are the chances that i actually get through security without accidentally bringing a water bottle or a swiss army knife or something? id say that they are slim to none given my track record of mistakes.

i watched the bc michigan game last night. of course i was screaming and getting amped and my roommate was like whoa. but yeah, good times. been looking forward to that game for a while. theres another one on sunday, hopefully i get to watch it and it goes well.

so supposedly one of my best friends is going to be in la at the same time that im there. were planning to rage during the weekend. also, my brother is going to be there at the same time, so hopefully i get to see him and a friend or two. ridiculous coincidences!

i'd also like to get some christmas shopping done. the only negative right now is that the weather channel says there's a 60 percent chance of rain all next week. oof, that kinda hurts. however, i visit there for the people and the places and the things, not for the weather. so we'll see how that goes.

and were planning on watching the pats game at 10am PST. THAT should be interesting. never watched a football game at 10am before haha. lets go pats...

aright ill talk to you later, peace.

aright

aright im gonna steal two minutes here while i have the chance.

it got cold outside. all of a sudden. though it looks like tmrw wont be so bad. still tho, i gotta think of new ways to winterize. im gonna get some more thermal curtains tomorrow, those guys are pretty cool.

i hadnt heard of thermal curtains til this winter. they also block out light and sound. almost too well. we have them in one room and the first morning i woke up and i had to turn the light on cause i was so surprised at how dark it was.

but i think i wanna get another 3 of them soon. theres not much else i can do. i am gonna have to put plastic on some of the windows.

and thats all i got -- i constantly think about winterizing and saving energy. we keep the thermostat low, but still, its good to be conscious.

here's a cool blurry photo of vegas that i found. ok gnite

let's go to enormous room monday night and listen to old school BOSTON hip hop!

Tale of the tapes:
Pacey Foster tells the story of Boston hip-hop

whoooooo's comin with me, should be fun to listen to some olllld tapes of rootsy boston rap.

i was listening to forward the bass on zbc and he played some sample tape from this collection. it was pretty scratchy and old and cool. i read the article and looked through the photo gallery, some cool photos! check em ouuuuut

Photos of Boston's hip-hop history

i also like the fact that the first boston hip hop show was on wmbr. i love wmbr and wzbc so much that im gonna put their links up.

oh yeah and so at enormous room monday night theyre gonna be playing all this stuff. i think itd be fun to check out. im gonna try to rally some people to come with.

oh wait i just remembered -- pats saints. hmmmm. well thats gonna work. still, good stuff!

Beat Research: experimental party music

monday nights at enormous room are always good anyway. one of my favs.

inspiration

inspiration comes in many forms. in this case, it came in the form of a comment and a letter. i'm feeling newly reenergized.

this photo of a lone basketball hoop in rural alaska sums up how i was feeling a couple nights ago -- alone in the wilderness, leaning to one side with no net to catch me. but let's see if i can make a transition here.

well, it was a good thanksgiving. nothing too exciting. a lot of food. i was so tired after the meal from the turkey and food and a lil beer and wine. i was drowsy for the whole rest of the day! in other years there would be a post meal nap or at least quiet time, but that ended up not happening this year.

honestly, if i had tried, i would have probably been able to walk right upstairs and fall asleep in a bed after that meal. but i decided against it.

just now i had to turn the tv off because there's so much college basketball and football on. at some point the tv's just been on too much and you gotta give it a rest. so yeah you can tell i've been taking it pretty easy.

i actually spontaneously decided to cook tonight. i'm cooking up some ribs, boiling them in bbq sauce actually. here's the recipe, i'll let you know how it comes out. i'm gonna have some rice pilaf and mashed sweet potatoes on the side.

Best Stovetop BBQ Ribs

yummmmmy. i added some hot banana peppers and some of the juice to spice it up a little. yeahhhhh

nasty weather out today. very grey and rainy. looks like tmrw might be a little nasty too, with some rain or snow.

oh well. i'm gonna eat dinner with some friends. for this i am thankful.

-Dave

empathy and trust

i need to understand these concepts. empathy. and trust. what do they mean to me?

i just saw them in the description of an nytimes most e-mailed articles article. apparently empathy and trust are the "the twin emotional pillars of civilized life". hmmm, interesting.

what are the twin emotional pillars of uncivilized life? haha.

hmmmm more to come on this topic. but i think i should be structuring my life around cultivating empathy and trust. in everything. somehow.

aright ive got a link

ive been watching basketball all night...

this is a GOOD link tho. i need to get some opinions on whether or not to stop the blog, its a big decision. its just disappointing that im not writing much. i really like writing but...im full of excuses.

At the First Obama State Dinner, the First State Dinner Crashers

hmmmm

havin a hard time keeping up with this blog. no motivation or energy. actually thinking about taking it down for the first time.

YES

"Nov. 18, 7:12 p.m. Lyme Road Hanover Police received a report of suspicious activity when an individual was observed in a sand pit beside his car. When police officers arrived, they learned that the individual was a Dartmouth professor performing research on crickets."

YES

hey

hey i went and saw times new viking tonight at great scott. it was awesome. except now its really late and my ears are ringing.

didnt leave the house today til late. finally made it out and went to a potluck. i brought a pumpkin pie but there was already a pumpkin pie there. but i did contribute whipped cream. otherwise i would have been empty handed.

the costco pumpkin pie was good.

times new viking was good.

what you say

wellll.....but of course you did....

i have songs from jamn 94.5 stuck in my head. ive started listening to it a little bit and of course all they do is play the same songs every hour so you can tune in 10 separate times a day and hear the same song every time.

yeahhh so whats up? i went to the celtics game with jeff a couple nights ago which was fun. i gotta go right now, but ill cya later

here's a genius halloween stume for ya.

links

these are really good links

Art Strikes Back: art inspired by Star Wars. some great pieces. Jeff went to the show today and told me i have to go. i definitely should.

Selling Bernie Madoff's belongings: gallery of all the houses and stuff and boats owned by Bernie Madoff. apparently he was obsessed with the image of a bull. even his boat was called "BULL"

yeah i'm hanging out in Brighton. watched football today, watching some celtics and bruins now, not sure if im gonna stay for boxing though.

everything's going pretty well. haven't gone to the gym in a couple weeks tho, so i gotta work on that.

rainy today. went to the bc dartmouth basketball game last night with jeff was a lot of fun, even if a couple of the bc players were suspended for it (grrr). but fun nonetheless, good student turnout too.

aright now im home. gonna watch some celtics and fool around with the ps3 (the netflix ps3 app disc arrived in the mail today, instant queue here we come...)

heyyy

howdy, whattttt's happenin. check out this weird photo with maybe russian writing? nice.

nice day outside today. went rowing with dad in the double this morning. been talking about doing it for forever, finally got around to doing it. very nice conditions for it. a good row too. except now i'm tired from not sleeping in once this weekend. i'll be alright tho.

also went to the bc basketball exhibition game today. good times! theyre really good and they schooled st michaels. clemson football won last night, we'll see how their next game goes

i went to new balance factory store too. love that place.

alright the roommate cooked up some pasta so i'm gonna run and go eat that. but ill post more. cya


howdy.

hey

hey how's it going im super tired which isnt impressive but i just wanted to say hey before i go to sleep

its getting cold. bob told me about planting garlic. apparently you plant it clove by clove in november? strange.

shivani took a great photo of me. you can find it at shivspix.

im completely exhausted. im out of excuses. good night :)

unclear

Here is a post composed in microsoft word. Notice that some of the words have capitals. It is actually easier to read this way, hence a very good reason to continue composing posts in microsoft word. See, we’re making progress here!

Also when I write a lot in microsoft word it doesn’t look like a lot, unlike when I am writing in blogger. So I’m motivated to type and write more. This could work…


Ok well I need to figure out how to be more creative. Honestly I can just ramble all day and type nonsense but I’m not really sure what the point of it is.

Lemme get back to you

a very spooky halloween

yo how's it going.

i'm going to try to be less boring.

it starts now. i have a recommendation for you. fogdog.com (that is all)

sun's going down pretty early now. daylight savings time was cool tho, getting a whole fresh hour in the middle of the night.

i should start composing quality posts in word then publishing them. i think im gonna go do that right now actually.

oh yeah i remembered that drew called me out for not posting any links. after, this is a blog about impressive things. what's impressive about talking about your day and what you did yesterday?

you want links?

i got links...

exploding dog (online comic where the guy makes comics based on what people write in to him)

Top 100 Essential Mac Applications (lot of good shareware ideas in here. good stuff)

LEXIA TO PERPLEXIA [Talan Memmott] (this was impressive maybe 10 years ago. now it just doesnt even work. shows how far the internet has come, as well as the post-modern)

aright i've had those links for a long time. i havent really been posting any new or exciting stuff that i've been finding recently. lemme try to get something.

how about just fark? im gonna add it to the internet. fark's great.

callin me ouuuut

sup yall. drew called me out last night for dropping the ball on the blog and i was like hey drew at least it's still on the train.

so i'm gonna try and rally. just sittin here eatin the daily banana and drinking water. i lost the top to my water bottle at chriss party a couple weekends ago, so im now im strictly a no-water-bottle-cap-drinking kinda guy.

dolphins jets is on tv. revs playoff game is on tv too. recording it. celtics game is on at 6pm. no pats game today (bye).

went to lukes halloween party last night. originally it was dangela/bens party, but then they moved. but it was fun. i was there super late. its really close by. one of my friends moved really close to me, so it was easy to carpool.

the bc central michigan game yesterday was pretty good. fun to watch. the rest of the season should be interesting.

ok, ill cya later.

i had to steal this photo cause i thought it was so cool. thanks Rebecca!

Happy Halloween!

sup readers. how's it going. just dropping in to say what's up. it's a shame i don't write more, but at least i'm aware of it! i probably shouldn't waste so much (of your) time talking about writing quantity, but it's honestly something that i think about.

ok, went to the dartmouth harvard football game today with my dad. we tailgated for about 20 minutes in the sweet budweiser camping chairs that i won (i entered some contest, won a chair, then changed my address and so they just sent one to both addresses). drank a little and ate a little and rolled in, sat in my awesome crazy creeks and cheered for dartmouth but left when the score got a little out of control

saw a dartmouth guy get thrown out by harvard police, what gives? haha. then we walked across the street and watched the last 5 minutes of the harvard dartmouth soccer game before bouncing. the drunk guy that had gotten thrown out showed up and proclaimed what had just happened and it was funny and we verified it. haha im rambling but whatevaaaa

it's warm outside, almost 70 degrees, humid. im chillin. partying tonight. yeahhhhh

k later

vexation of spirit

from ecclesiastes...

on sunday i finally got out of town. thank god for ambitious friends. went with some buddies apple picking in northboro at tougas farm. success. it was the last day of the season. we drove out there, picked a half bushel, ate a ton of apples, stuffed ourselves with apple cider donuts, kettle corn, and delicious apple cider, bought an apple crisp, watched the sunset, and drove home.

a lovely day and it was good to get away.

my own hibernation starts today -- its basketball season. already i am structuring my social life around celtics games. this is NOT good. it's happening too soon. i need to somehow meet in the middle.

so yeah, the next 6-7 months i just need to be aware of what i am doing and conscious of it and comfortable in it. see, its a big deal!

ok. have fun watching the celtics. i will be :) cya, go boston, D

hello

hi how's it going. i'm hanging out. it's kind of a grey day outside, but its cool. im watcing some football, rooting for uconn (such a sad story).

bc notre dame game is on in 25 minutes. that will be fun to watch. kane and chris and i are making squash soup with a parsnip and some potatoes and stuff. it looks like its gonna be good.

im feeling a little tired but alls well. oh yeah get this --

on tuesday i got on the highway to go somewhere. i realized that i hadnt been on the highway in a couple weeks, i really couldnt remember the last time i had been on the highway.

for the last couple weeks i had been in a routine where i wasnt going to many places and was always going to my folks place to get on the rowing machine and then just going home. and i guess i didnt really go on any trips outta town.

ive pretty much been staying in my own little triangle here, and havent needed to go many places far away. i do think i should start exploring the area a bit more tho, and go on some fun field trips.

not driving on highways made me realize how localized ive become. luckily ive scheduled a trip to los angeles from dec 4 - 11, so at least i have a good trip somewhere far away to look forward to.

i'm also planning on going up to vermont and new hampshire at some point in the next couple of months, maybe even a couple times.

basketball season starts tuesday. i will finally start hanging out in my room upstairs and make it the basketball haven. should be interesting, i hope its not too cold up there.

wow i wrote some. ok talk to you soon, D

hey

hey holding pattern over here

everything's good. weather was really nice today. lou holtz is ridiculous.

got things to do. ok ill be back.

good album name

Last Night When I Tried to Sleep I Felt The Ocean With My Fingertips

i'm sleepyyyyy i feel the ocean with my fingertipsssss

great head of the charles but look at this weather report

hey im home and tired and happy from a good weekend of rowing. we had a good row in the alumni eight yesterday, but only placed 18th out of 34 crews. this was my first time being in an age adjusted handicapped race, and now i understand the challenges.

still, a good race. ill blog more later.

today was somethin else, frrrrrreeezing out there

AN ANOMALOUS EARLY SEASON WINTER WEATHER EVENT IS UNDERWAY ACROSS A GOOD PORTION OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND AS A NOREASTER CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTHEAST OF NANTUCKET. LIGHT TO OCCASIONALLY MODERATE SLEET

hey

hey what's up man i wish i was making more time to write oh well. head of the charles is in two days. after that i will have more time.

the weather is supposed to be nasty this weekend. im hoping it isnt but im preparing for the worst. i've rowed in nearly unrowable conditions a couple times, so i think ill be alright. i just hope that people show up and that it's not too cold. or windy. or rainy.

i am listening to Quantic & His Combo Bárbaro. recommended!

yo

yo lemme just get in one here before the game starts. its a nice day outside and its warm! i hear birds chirping, alls well. so far ive vacuumed, cleaned the rug, and cleaning up the place. feeling pretty good about everything.

had to write a post that didnt have a bc photo, so here it is. i found this photo a while ago, thought it was pretty cool

i got a lil bit of a headache but i think itll go away, no big deal.

one week til head of the charles. im really excited. i dont think ive ever felt this way before a race -- just so amped. i guess i used to be nervous before races, but now i just wanna go out and have a good time.

aright i gotta eat some eggs and toast. later.

hey

hey im having a hard time updating this old blog here. im gonna keep at it. im pretty busy, still training for the head of the charles (did i mention?)

october 17th, 11am, come out and watch me!

its the best weekend of the year.

but yeah stuff is good. im just trying to be responsible, get sleep, be the man, be productive, etc. yeah. theres a lot going on. im going to california in december, pretty excited about that

ok ill talk to you soon.

hey

hey how's it going? boston college beat florida state today. it was a great game. except that bc only attempted two passes in the 3rd quarter. you need to stop playing not to lose! but it was a really good game and the coaches and players should be very happy. good times.

got a haircut today, went to whole foods, watched a ton of football. went to the 24 hour cvs, hung out, might play the ps3 a little bit.

sun's out...oh wait no it's not

malator...lol

i even did a load of laundry today. i've learned the strategy with me and laundry -- to ensure that i wash, dry and fold the same load of laundry in the same day i have to only do ONE load per day. but it works. yahhh

ive got my weight at 200 but im gonna try to lose a couple pounds of beer by head of the charles (two weeks). i'm feeling good and fit but i've been pretty reckless about eating so i gotta be a little more careful here these next two weeks

but it looks like it might be 70 and sunny tmrw. wha?!?!

aright i'm havin a good time ill talk to you soon

all types

hey boy it's getting harder and harder to keep on blogging!

but i guess i'll just keep on trying. here's a photo of ray allen.

i feel very QUOTIDIAN. and i feel like the things i am now saying on here are very QUOTIDIAN. but i am still going to say them. because, after all, what is life without the QUOTIDIAN?

been watching football and rowing and playing basketball. all good things. mostly getting enough sleep. trying to be productive, getting stuff done.

yeah. there's still not enough time to do everything that i'd like, but that's ok. i'm just trying to stay positive and take care of things. like laundry! always, freakin, laundry.

ate food from coast cafe last night, which was really good. fried chicken and pork chops, candied yams, rice, collared greens, mac + cheese. yummy.

man i can put away the food. plates and plates of the stuff. sheesh!

aright well i gotta get rollin, hopefully ill get back on here soon.

oh yeah and Drew -- we haven't hung out in a while. let's hang out soon. peace.