June 29 - No, I'm not Anderson Silva. Sure do seem to be a lot of people coming here looking
for the other dude of Brazilian descent lately... Speaking of Brazil, have we won the World Cup yet?
;) Well, no. In the meantime, I've added even more music to the
iPod...
June 20 - And I've finally updated the list of music on my
iPod, too. There's still more room available on it, and I still have more CDs to rip...
Jim Kukral is running an interesting experiment: set up three
computers, one running Windows, one running Linux, and one running OS X, and see which one can hold out the
longest against malware and spam. I'll be keeping an eye on
DiaryofDestruction.com.
June 18 - OK, finally, some new pictures in the Gallery. ...Hey, what's with all the World Cup
draws?
June 13 - Oooh, my ears are still ringing... but the Damnwells played... damn well last night. No other way
to say it, really. Blondie and the New Cars also rocked on Saturday night. Shake it up!
June 6 - Hmmm, I'll have to put on my vinyl copy of Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" this evening after
I go vote in the senatorial primary. Yes, vinyl. Well, I had a nice time at Mike's graduation party in Nutley
Saturday night; Michael is the younger brother of my old roommate, Kim. The Nutley Pub afterwards was a
little disconcerting, though; maybe it was an off night, or maybe I'm just too old for that kind of thing
anymore, but there were a lot of scary people there, and not in a good way. Walking into a bar and seeing a
priest should be taken as an omen, I guess...
June 2 - Boy, it's hot. New Being..., and maybe the
last.
May 29 - Happy birthday, dad! I'll be heading down to my parents' place in a little while...
My friend Dawn and I had a great time Saturday, since the weather proved the prognosticators wrong and it didn't
rain. We rollerbladed around Central Park, had lunch at Hallo Berlin (and both got carded when we ordered drinks!),
saw the filming of a scene for "Spider-Man 3," visited the new Apple Store on Fifth Avenue (verrry cool) as
well as FAO Schwarz next door, and stopped at Ben & Jerry's before heading back to Jersey. Yesterday, Rhonda
and I went to Yesika's daughter Kayla's second birthday party, which was nice. Tonight, I'm going to try
some of Ben & Jerry's new Vermonty Python ice cream. Seriously.
May 22 - I'm still tired. And sore. I saw the Go-Go's Friday night, and in honor of the 25th anniversary
of Beauty and the Beat being released, they performed the entire album, pausing long enough for
Belinda to comment, "Not bad for a bunch of old broads, huh?" before launching into "Head Over Heels" and
a number of their other hits. We all sang "Happy Birthday" to Jane, since her big day was Saturday... My
Saturday was spent helping Barbara do some planting in the back yard and some painting in the living room,
then enjoying some pastitsio and a Mythos at the Greek festival. My left calf has been complaining since
Saturday afternoon, and yesterday I didn't do much other than play some games, do some reading, and watch
"The Simpsons" (loved Homer's remark on his marriage to Marge, "We've gone through more hardships than the
Jews and Charlie Brown put together") and "Family Guy." Ah, well, back to work...
May 18 - I think I've finally figured out why those new-fangled monstrosities women are wearing as sunglasses
offend me so much; I saw a woman wearing a pair today, and I immediately thought, "It's Dame Edna!" Not
that I have anything against Dame Edna, it's just that there shouldn't be a connection in my mind between
a young woman and an old man in drag. Oh, and I realize that I should've made that last entry a little
clearer; I don't have anything against Creationists, either, I just have a problem with Creationism being
taught as science. It's a belief, as valid as any other, but it doesn't belong in a science classroom,
but rather a religion classroom. In other news, Theresa, Microwize Technology's channel manager
at Per-Sé Technologies, took us out to Blend in Ridgewood for dinner and drinks tonight, and we had
a very pleasant time. She even insisted on buying a copy of my CD, though I tried to just give it to her.
May 15 - I hadn't seen "Malcolm in the Middle" in a long time, but last night I caught the season finale,
along with the finale of "American Dad" (the "Cheney/Quayle '08" bumper sticker was as scary as it was
funny) and new episodes of "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy," both of which took a few fun shots at the
Creationists. All four shows were quite funny and entertaining. I wasn't so amused by Jon Lovitz saying,
"The blond boy's a loser!" in the Subway commercial...
May 14 - Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers I know, but especially my own mom, my sister Grace, and
Gina. Maybe I'll play Pink Floyd's "Mother" later as a tribute. Maybe I'll even try to figure out the chords
to the Police song "Mother."
May 10 - I love it when BBspot uses one of my
BBloopers; check the latest one out and see how Dubya is planning on saving money during the next
military occupation... Congratulations to Jon and Karin! My friend 'n former roommate called
me last night and told me he'd proposed on Friday. :)
May 8 - OK, OK, there's a new Being... and
a new Word of the Month available. I've put a new
video clip up on the front page of JoyInTheNew.com, too.
May 5 - Happy birthday, Gina, and happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone else. I'm sure I'll be needing some
tequila by the end of the day.
April 28 - Urgh. My throat's still not doing too well. Is it Friday yet? ...If you're using
Internet Explorer, you'll notice Skinny the Foo above nagging you to switch to Firefox. The good people
at Explorer Destroyer have started a campaign to get
IE users to switch, and since I'm in whole-hearted agreement with them, I'm joining them. You can still
view my site with IE, but Skinny's going to bug ya about it...
April 26 - Feeling a bit unwell this morning. Actually, several people at the office seem to be feeling
a bit unwell lately. Maybe there's a bout of bird flu going around... I've been enjoying the Paprika
Pringles Barbara brought me back from the U.K. Why in the world don't they sell them here?!? They're
sooo good.
April 21 - My friends Barbara, Yesika, Freddy, and yes, even Steven came to the Dayglow show at Siberia
with me last night, and while it was sparsely attended, it was still good to see the band again. Lindsay
even introduced me to the other girls. Kinda makes me feel dirty to be so interested in a group of young
women in their early 20s... Heh-heh. But, what can I say: I dig their music. On my way home, I helped get
a few other young women aboard a PATH train after one of them jammed herself into the doorway so her friends
could make it onto the same train. Fun, fun, fun...
April 15 - While all the other kids are outside playing, I'm stuck indoors doing work. Stupid data
repair... Heh-heh. Well, it shouldn't take me more than another hour or two, and then maybe I can get
outdoors myself. I did get to do something Thursday night that I'd not been sure I'd ever do again: enjoy
sushi at Daruma across a table from Gina. :) We had a nice meal and a nice time.
April 11 - I saw Dayglow again last night, at Fat Baby on the Lower East Side, and enjoyed a great show
with some new tunes from the girls. I even got to meet and chat with Lindsay briefly on my way out! I
took a few pics; they were dark and grainy, but you can check out what I managed to do with them
(courtesy of the GIMP) in the Gallery.
April 10 - Kinda felt bad when Mayor West killed the Noid during last night's "Family Guy," but I guess
the little pest had it comin'. I was a bit put off by the Doctor making Rose choose between adventures with
him or tea with her mom, too, on Friday's "Doctor Who." The cold and dampness on Saturday took a toll on my
injured knee, and I opted not to go out for Mike's birthday. Seems a bit better today. I put up a new
pic of myself playing guitar. Why not? The Portal has been updated a tad, too; makes a great home
page... ;)
April 8 - Happy birthday, Lindsey! And happy belated birthday, Michael...! Ugh, I can't believe I was
basking in 70+ weather last weekend, and now I have to settle for temperatures approaching 60, and rain.
April 4 - Been meanin' to play around with iPhoto, as I'm probably going to archive all my pics with it
eventually, so I used it to go through my D.C. photos and published them to the Web site with iWeb. Apple
is too cool.
April 3 - I've been letting quite a bit of time go by between entries here, haven't I? Fortunately, no
one seems to have noticed (or cared enough to say anything about it). :-P Heh. Got
back from a short trip to Washington, D.C. late last night; I had a nice time, but I walked way too much
over too short a period and I've injured my left knee, not the one that generally acts up. It's really
only bothering me if I'm on a slope. Maybe I should move to the Midwest... I owe ya some pics from the
trip, but at this point they're probably going to wait until tomorrow.
March 27 - What a crazy couple of days... Work last week was mostly insane, I played a brief
game of "empty water bottle tag" on the PATH train with two cute girls, Mark and I spent 10 1/2 hours
at a client's office in Manhattan on Friday (we git 'er done), I just barely made the bus to Newark, and
just barely made the train to New Brunswick where I engaged in some catsitting at my friend Barbara's
house over the weekend. Experienced vertigo while disabling a smoke alarm (I think it had more to do
with the fact that I hadn't eaten anything in twelve hours), saw a blue jay and a cardinal about
two feet from one another, watched "Signs," came home and saw really good episodes of "The Simpsons"
and "Family Guy..." And I found some time to create a
Web portal on my Google Page, and to take a pic in my new
Dayglow T-shirt.
March 20 - Happy spring. Brrr... Saw my family over the weekend, and I've got a new picture of my
nephew Shawn with my mom in the Gallery. I
watched "Doctor Who" on Sci Fi over the weekend, too, and while Christopher Eccleston has to grow on
me still, I did really enjoy the first two episodes of the 2005 season. More stuff added to the
iPod...
March 15 - Wow, I'd gotten more than three-quarters through the day before I realized it was the Ides
of March. Damn, I'd planned on having a Caesar salad... Eh, I'm feelin' kinda blue today anyway, even
though I've gotten fortune-cookie fortunes in the past few days that tell me "everyone agrees you are
the best" and "you are the crispy noodle in the vegetarian salad of life." I kid you not... Anyway, I've
finally gotten around to cleaning up the Links page a bit, and I've added a couple of miscellaneous pics to the
Gallery, as well as putting in a few new Other People's Cats.
March 9 - Happy birthday, Claudia! In honor of my former co-worker, I've ripped her (and my) beloved
Monkees to the iPod. Body Count and Kraftwerk are
just for me, though... I've rigged the guestbook
to get around the idiot spammer(s) plaguing me lately, so you can post in it now; I have to approve posts
before they'll show up. Yes, even you, Benjamin Stove...
March 8 - Managed to watch the first six "Animatrix" shorts last evening on my
iPod while at the laundromat... good stuff. It was a looong day, and today is likely to be another.
I realized last night that "Frendy Tucker"
wasn't downloadable, and it turns out to have been my fault. It's fixed now; sorry to the legions who
have been trying to download it for weeks... ;)
March 6 - The 69 Eyes show at the Theatre of Living Arts in Philly Saturday night was quite good,
though I could've done without the two openers. It was good to hang with Jon and Dave again, been a
long time since we've been to a rock show together. The two Guinnesses I had at the Blarney Bar &
Grill before the show each had a shamrock carved into the foam, which was pretty cool.
March 3 - Happy birthday, Miranda! Several of my co-workers and I went with her to Tommy Fox's last
night and had a nice time, though I definitely shouldn't have had four Guinnesses. Whoa.
March 2 - Andersen Silva the iconoclast, meet Andersen Silva the icon. I commissioned
Paul Sahner to iconize me, and so he did. I like
the way it turned out... New Being... is
up, and I've updated the iPod page for those who
absolutely must know what I'm listening to these days...
February 26 - Bleh. Woke up with the same headache I went to bed with last night, and I'm feeling
generally lousy, though it's nothing you could put your finger on; maybe I'm coming down with H5N1.
I did have some chicken soup last night... Well, back to my bacon, hash browns, 'n eggs, and
a big mug of Ginger Twist tea, and ripping Blondie tunes for use on my iPod.
February 24 - Happy birthday, Kelly! Miranda and Mark, two of my co-workers, joined me for a night
of Steve Hofstetter's comedy at Standup NY, and we had a really good time. I could tell Miranda was
getting a little drunk when she slipped me a note that said, "I'm drunk." Heh. I also won a dollar
from her after the show when I bet that, if she went up to Steve and claimed she'd met him earlier,
he'd claim to remember. He did.
February 22 - :::yawn::: I was up way too late last night, cleaning up the OS X
installation on my PowerBook, installing and configuring OS X and Ubuntu Linux on the iBook, and
struggling with issues on the main Windows 2000 Server partition on the Dell. Y'know, if it weren't
for work, I wouldn't bother with Windows at all; I'd be much happier making the Dell a dual-boot
with Solaris 10 and BeOS.
February 21 - Watching "The Day After Tomorrow" the other night made the Jersey climate seem that
much nicer... I always poke around my Web statistics to see where people are coming from 'n stuff; I
got a kick this morning when I noticed that someone visited the site yesterday after doing a search
for the term "angry toys r us employees." Who, me? Naaah... I've been loading more music onto the
iPod lately. Might as well utilize that 30
gigabytes of space, right?
February 16 - Dayglow rocked again last night; the music
was great, the venue (the Continental) has been blessed
by many punk legends, and I was particularly tickled that the bouncer carded me at 35 years old.
February 14 - I've seen fire and I've seen rain... and I've seen a lot of snow. Not enough to get me
an extra day off from work, though. I had a great time at the Aimee Mann concert last Thursday night,
and I finally heard from my no-show companion today. I might go see Dayglow again tomorrow night, at
the Continental... Happy birthday, Dave, and happy Valentine's to the rest of ya. I was going to have
Cupid take a shot at'cha,
but here's a little vole song for you
instead. That's right, I've recorded
"Frendy Tucker." :-D As for me, I intend to spend this evening making (and
eating) pão de queijo and polishing off that bottle of tequila in the freezer, and maybe having
a Newcastle Brown Ale or two. And working on a data repair. Not nearly as nice as last year, but...
February 9 - It seems that I'm being stood up. I'm on my way to midtown Manhattan for the Aimee Mann
concert tonight, alone instead of with accompaniment. Ah, well. Found out today that one of my favorite
lunch places, Juice Zone in Hackensack, is out of business. :::sigh::: No more
smoothies, no more wheatgrass shots... Aimee, take me away! Guess she'll be my early Valentine this
year.
February 5 - Super what? Oh, yeah, that. Whatever. I'm going to watch "Alexander" myself in
a little bit; it's three hours long, and I've been waiting for a night when I had some time and there
was nothing worth watching on TV... I've put up a wee little tidbit of video on the entrance page to
JoyInTheNew.com, but I didn't have the cash to get that
30-second spot to air during halftime.
February 4 - Holy crap. Lyndhurst's Staples store, built from the wreckage of Frank's Nursery, had a
grand opening today, and I decided to head over and maybe pick up some ultra-cheap blank DVDs 'n stuff.
I probably should have queued up an hour or two before opening, though, because when I got there, about
an hour after opening, there were possibly more people in the store than reside in the township
of Lyndhurst. It took me at least three or four minutes to maneuver my way back out after
deciding that nothing there was worth standing on a line for half an hour or more.
February 1 - Probably shouldn't have had that third Guinness last night, but... oh, well. It was truly
a pleasure to see Marty Rivas last night and chat with him between sets. I've posted the lyrics to a new
song, "Frendy Tucker," which should get recorded
shortly. In the spirit of my old Nomad page, there's also an
iPod page now, where you can peruse the contents of my portable digital music/video machine. And of
course there's a new Being... up, this being
the start of a new month 'n all... Whoa. A Catholic schoolgirl almost flew into me on the bus this morning.
January 25 - Wow, it was so nice to go see a band play and not have to inhale any smoke at all. Dayglow
was awesome last night; I love seeing live rock music, and when it's performed by attractive young women,
so much the better. ;) I especially like "Congratulations" and "Pale Roses," and
they did a rockin' cover of "Eleanor Rigby..." Thanks, Stephanie, for getting my hands on a CD! I've put
the seven tracks on my iPod already... Pianos is a small venue on the Lower East Side, and any place that
has Guinness on tap is all right by me.
January 24 - I've got another Amiga 3000, and this one actually works. Took a picture last night for proof...
Now, to get it on the Internet... I'm heading to Pianos this evening
to see Dayglow, a band I came across on MySpace.
Haven't been to a show in quite a while, so it should be fun.
January 23 - I had a nice weekend, visiting my parents with my friend Barbara on Saturday for my mom's
birthday, and spending some time with Dawn and Dave yesterday. I got to meet the Greens' new Samoyed,
Claire, a sweet dog who can't understand that their cat, Emma, doesn't want to play with her. Heh...
January 15 - My attorneys have advised me to state for the record that, unlike James Frey's stories in
his "A Million Little Pieces," the Anecdotes on
this Web site are all true. :-D I have to be really, really tired to fall asleep on
the bus or train. So, apparently, I was; I dozed off on the train to New Brunswick Friday night, sleeping
right through the Rahway stop even though I had the Offspring blaring in my ears. I couldn't have slept
more than a few minutes, however... and I didn't sleep at all on the way home this evening after being
deposited at the station by James Springer, a new convert to the music of Andersen Silva. Heh-heh... Wow,
that was a great "Battlestar Galactica" this weekend!
January 13 - Happy Friday the 13th! I'm beat, having gone to Friday's with Michael and the new guys in
support, Nick and Freddy, after three hours of evening training. Going back there tonight with some former
co-workers from AA World Class, before heading to New Brunswick to catsit for the weekend. I've been feeling
nostalgic lately (maybe getting E-mails from two old friends had something to do with it), and so I've added
some stories to the Anecdotes page; I've also made
it possible for those of you with discerning ears to hear
the differences among my guitars. If you're into music in general, take a look at
MusicFreedom.com, a good place to
check out independent artists of every genre.
January 8 - Yes, Bart Simpson, you are smarter than the President... and who doesn't love a
nicely shaven leg? OK, "Souls Broken" is
finished and posted. In the process of creating its 'cover art,' I updated my hacker cred (and no, it's
not spelled with numbers, except by kiddies) by changing GarageBand's program and document icons and some
of the guitar picture labels using my own guitars; I also changed the wood panels so that they're
more of an ash color. Maybe not a major overhaul, but certainly an improvement.
January 5 - Hmmm. Should I be concerned that T-Mobile sent out a mailing proudly proclaiming that "we're
committed to growing our network in 2005?" Wait, maybe they're trying to tell us that their technology is
so advanced, they can travel back in time to seamlessly expand coverage now. Yeah, that's it. Well,
I've almost finished the music to "Souls Broken," but I've got to write the lyrics, otherwise recording the
vocals will be tedious. Hopefully, it'll all be done this weekend.
January 1 - My New Year's Eve consisted of straightening up and cleaning around the apartment while listening
to '80s new wave and pop, watching the snow fall through the windows, working on a new song to be called "Souls
Broken," and watching "Evil Dead 2." Instead of champagne or other alcoholic beverages, I rang in the New Year
with a raspberry parfait hot cocoa (the kind you find in a second-hand store). I did manage to have a Samichlaus
over my parents' house this afternoon, however. Yum...
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