So I saw the Crystal Method last night in Asheville at the Orange Peel.

DJ Bowie performing the opening act. He mostly just mixed a bunch of dubstep and drum n bass, which I don’t care for, but he wasn’t too terrible.

Hey, it’s Ken Jordan! He looks farther away in this picture than he really was. I was about 2 feet away from him at this point, but actually got to see him face to face later on in the show. Sorry about the terrible quality; it was really dark.

The visuals were pretty lame, but fun.

I’ve never seen anybody twiddle knobs as fast as this guy.

Ken answering a phone call on stage.

And my tasty linguine soup with hot sake.

Oh, I stopped at Wonderland before the show and found a vortex bowl. I’m excited to try it tonight because I hear the plumes it creates are crazy thick.

I’ve been meaning to redesign the layout for this site, but I just haven’t had the time (or desire). I’ve been working quite a bit lately, so I’ve really not had much time to do anything. It’s been about a week and a half since I’ve had time to spend just checking SomethingAwful and my other slew of sites. I did go to Asheville yesterday and picked up some grape shisha from HookaH-HookaH, and I had a chance to try it out. It was better than I expected, although it looked pretty disgusting. I’ve never actually tried any that used honey instead of molasses, so it was pretty different. It certainly was easier to separate and there weren’t as many twigs as I usually find in Starbuzz flavors.

I finally bought a new server. Yes, Alice has been laid to rest and has been superseded by my new server, mogwai. Mogwai is an Acer Revo R1600 running Debian stable 64bit. I bit the bullet and built a kernel for it without CIFS support and I’m not even going to transfer files to it using SSH (I know, right?). Instead, I’ve found that NFS4 provides throughput speeds way faster than either of those two (why I even used CIFS before, I don’t know?), not to mention it no longer takes an hour to build a kernel.

This afternoon, I ordered a Bodum Santos.

I’m pretty excited because I’ve heard the coffee it makes is really good – not bitter at all, and there are no grounds left behind. Unfortunately, I’m just not manly enough to use it with a butane burner, BUT I’m going to be daring and bring a hot plate to school with me in the fall. If you look up a demo of one in action, you’ll be jealous. And you’ll want one. Amazon sells them for $50 and they retail at $120.

Also: of Montreal sounds like Phoenix. And I don’t have to work tomorrow. Sa-weet.

I’ve been looking forever for these and I finally found them. I did nothing but spend all day in Asheville looking for them and a phone battery. It took me a few hours to find them in the mall and I never did find a phone battery for a decent price. I ended up seeing Alice in Wonderland, which wasn’t that good, actually. I never had the desire to see it in the first place, but I had some money and my sister and I had nothing else to do so we saw it. It’s basically a regular Disney story with characters who share names from Lewis Carroll’s version. I did get to see the trailer for Tron: Legacy, which was actually more exciting than Alice in Wonderland itself.

I wish it would get warmer outside so I could go for a walk. I’m tired of it being cold and/or windy. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with winter before, except for this year. It’s just been depressing, super cold, and annoying. I’ve also been thinking of having my lobes stretched and may have them pierced this week so I can do so. I don’t think I’d stretch them any bigger than a hole the size of a pea, otherwise I may have problems with future job prospects. Oh, this is disgusting.

Grape juice is pretty good. At least I think that’s what Rob’s drinking.

I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed last Thursday. To my surprise, the whole thing has gone well so far. I took a Valium an hour before the procedure and I remember my arms and legs feeling heavy. When I got to the office I was taken in immediately and sat in a chair. An oxygen mask was placed over my face and an IV was put in my arm. I actually dreaded that part, but it wasn’t so bad. One of the assistants told me to clench my fist while she inserted the IV. She said it would feel like a bee sting and it did, but it didn’t hurt. Then she told me to relax and the last thing I heard was “he weighs 107 pounds…” and I was out like a light.
I don’t even remember waking up or getting into the car, but I do remember sitting in the car and talking to my mom about what I was seeing. The road was like a kaleidoscope and there were multiple copies of everything I saw; it was pretty neat actually. I haven’t had any major pain and I’ve been living off of chicken broth and Lortab. The Lortab makes me feel good, but I try not to rely on it because it’s bad for my liver. I also look like I’ve been punched in the face a few times, but there’s not any bruising and the swelling has gone down a lot. I miss eating regular food, though, and eating lunch at school this week is going to be a pain in the ass.

After a night of sifting through hundreds of lines of PHP, cleaning up careless CSS mistakes, and eating a bowl of burned rice, I have a bad case of heartburn. Oh look, WordPress 2.7.1 is out.

Yakiniku with fried rice and carrots. Tasty.