Greater Satellites

I might use this picture to masturbate to later. I know you were all thinking it, I just said it out loud.

I’ve been watching quite a bit of Studio 60 recently. In case you don’t know, it’s a show written by Aaron Sorkin (also the creator of The West Wing, Sports Night, and A Few Good Men) that’s basically a behind the scenes look at a sketch-comedy show of the SNL ilk. Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford, and Amanda Peet ride on the back of this mighty beast and their performances are incredible. Amanda Peet’s character is the president of the fictional network. She’s an A-Type female who’s ambitious, driven, and tightly wound. I don’t know what it is exactly about her character, but she’s incredibly attractive to me. Something about a female who’s large and in charge gets my motor revving*.

So my dad kind of bailed on me today. He was supposed to meet with me at his office in the afternoon and he bounced out before I arrived. I’m a little disappointed with him as of late. Haven’t actually spoken with him in close to two weeks, and haven’t seen him in even longer than that. I’m sure that he knows I’m in need of some help, I just hope that his knowing is not that reason why he’s been avoiding me. We’ll see when I try again tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after…

Looking forward to AC tomorrow, if for nothing else than just getting away from home. Things have been a little crazy around here as of late and it would be really nice to just get away and screw my head on properly. With a bit of luck, all will be right in my world after this weekend.

I leave you with yet another picture of Miss Amanda Gorm, errr, Peet…

* - my “motor revving” could easily be confused with my “fist pumping” near my “crotch region”. I assure you that I’ve built a working prototype of an engine that actually revs when something aesthetically or intellectually pleasing occurs in my life.

I know it’s been a bit since I last posted, but now I have interesting things to say. So buckle the fuck up and listen.

I’ve been doing some reading about internet trends and came across something I thought was pretty neat, a brand new web browser called Flock. Here’s a little snippet from their website:

Well, we’re pretty much a bunch of regular folks trying to shake things up.

We started Flock to build tools that empower people and smooth out some of the more hairy parts of living and working online. As it is, we live and breathe this stuff everyday and wanted better tools to do the things that we love doing online.

It’s built on the Mozilla code base so it has everything you’re used to in Firefox, but has some very interesting new features like: Integrated blogging with very popular services like Blogger, Deadjournal, Livejournal, Wordpress, etc, integrated photo sharing with Flikr, and integrated bookmark sharing on del.icio.us, and speaking of bookmarks, it allows you to tag each bookmark for easy sorting and filing. It also has an innovative little device called the Shelf that allows you to drag and drop little snippets of code, text, or images for later use on a research project, photo share, or (you guessed it) blog. I checked it out and for being barely past the concept stage, it looks very promising. I recommend giving it a glance: Flock. My rating: 4 out of 5 seagulls.

All that techie-talk aside, life has been pretty good with the exception of all these god damn thunderstorms Philly has been having. The only thing I hate more than terrible weather is having to travel in it. /bitching. School is going well, and I have a mid term I should be studying for on Wednesday, but I’m fairly confident in my Art History knowledge. I also have a few other school projects that need completing this evening but they are easy enough, just a drawing or two. It’s my hope to keep a digital copy of all my design work, and eventually publish most of it on this very blog. So look out for that. Finally, I’m happy to announce that I have downloaded every episode of My Name Is Earl, every episode of The Office, the first season of Arrested Development, and the first season of Family Guy. Andrew: 1. Government: 0.

“I know one day, all our scars will disappear like the stars at dawn…”