$disanpoter

ban does best but...

it's not my underarms that need freshening up; it's my familiarity with these...

Web Technologies I need to cozy up with:

• .Net
• SOAP
• XML
• AJAX
• DOM, yes the dom. (dom da dom dom DaaaaaaOM)

Platforms, Projects, Concepts I need to fool around with more often:

• the Wikis, not to be confused with the Wookies, young master.
• Movable Type
• Proto/ mash-ups
• there's another somewhere - oh write, that storytelling scripting language

Companies I need to get familiar with:

• Coghead
• outside.in
• ThinkMap
• hmmm...one that will hire me, perhaps.

I'm feeling a bit swamped
...and my battery's running out.

i'm going to pull a classic avoidance move here and not work on any of these. instead i'm going to return to the Hadley story and get her out of that post-party breakfast she's currently in the midst of.

look, ma! no hands...

mmm...i'm not entirely sure what about that title goes with this, except that simply, it's that exact esprit that sharing this morning's random find inspires in me.

beyond that it's been an odd morning. no, it's been a nice morning, but my heads been messed with by the book i was reading on the subway. maybe it's the third person stream of consciousness. it's an odd thing to internalize, that. though i think now it is disapating a bit. For instance, this was me getting off the train this morning:

OH YES OH YES OH YES!!

mmm...i got a new toy today. a very nice new toy. and i didn't even have to pay for it...

nope not that kind of toy (though i did successfully defend my designation of that as a tool in scategories saturday. all the girls backed me up on that one.) i got a new laptop -a thinkpad laptop - it's shiny it's fast and it forces me to ask the question 'have i done the undoable? have i sold my soul for gadgets?' it is going to lead to me doing a lot more work at home, so perhaps i have. but then i love my work.

but speaking of my work as i passed BofA today my mind asked itself 'maybe you only think you have vivid but sound and accurate concepts of structure and organization in your head, maybe you really have such vivid concepts because your crazy, down-right insane, certifiably batty'

maybe. but i still have to get to work.

oh YES!

I completely forgot my space heater was on - why? because my noise cancelling headphones are in and they did what they're meant to! mmmmm....simple pleasures.

new toys

I got new toys last night. That's the problem with going to the pharmacy - i always remember the things i've been meaning to check out.

Neutrogena Micro-abrasion System
I'm not sure i care so much about my skin looking phenomenally better than it does right now. I think it looks alright, but the promise of smoother, silkier skin, now that's hard to resist. I've thought about it for a few months, and i want the skin on my face to feel just as lovely as the skin on my belly which is already wonderfully soft. i remember when i first started shaving, the feel of the sheet against my skin at night felt so good, i shaved my forearms the very next day (not such a smart thing, no...). my point, i guess, is that i justify the expense and the preoccupation with a 'beauty product' because it's only for my enjoyment. yeah.

VEET bladeless razor and cream
i care about the bunnies. i really do, but shaving is just so much easier and faster than waxing or using one of those depillators. finally, i can shave with out visions of those horrific bleeding bunnies popping into my head.

What do you call these things, anyway?
it brushes my teeth for me. and has some 'cross action' enhancement too! i thought maybe the rotating brush could smooth out the surface of my fillings faster than my normal toothbrush. the way they are, my tongue always thinks there's still food in my teeth and tries to get it out.

sometimes small things can make you so enjoy your evening...