I watched a record spinning on a turntable that was reflecting a light from the wall. Because the record was slightly warped, it looked like a light being reflected on the gentle swell of the inner harbor (or any other body of water I suppose).

Bouncer: "five dollar cover tonight."
Me: "ok, sorry all I have is a twenty."
Bouncer: "it's cool man, I could break a thousand dollar bill."

I watched this DJ I know pull out a record to spin. He threw it on the table, put the needle on it, played with the pitch control, grabbed the record and found the beat, made a few more tweaks to the pitch, brought the record back to a suitable beginning point and hit the "stop" button. I actually know how to do all this, but the difference is he did it in 30 seconds and I could almost never pull it off before a song ended.

worst jobs in science: Congressional Science Fellow?

Well, I just had another oral surgery to get two wisdom teeth out. The catch is that I’ve already had four wisdom teeth pulled, so I have bonus wisdom teeth. Bonus.

The awesome thing is right now I’m on Vicodin. It’s like weeeee

Right, so with the four teeth they removed when I got braces, my four wisdom teeth, and these two - I have had ten adult teeth pulled to fit the teeth I have comfortably in my head. I’m a fucking throw-back.

I think I'm finally over the holiday time trauma 2004. Almost as bad as holiday time trauma of 2000!

I laughed my ass off at Sideways Saturday. I had drinks at The Club Charles on Charles Street across from The Charles Theater, where I saw Sideways. Their matchbooks have the motto: "Where Smart People Meet", making their matchbooks, and establishment by association, awesome!

The album Blazing Arrow by Blackalicous is excellent. Does anyone know other hip-hop albums on the same level as Blazing Arrow?

Did you ever say "so there" when making a point as a child? You can even do it when you've made no point. I'm going to start doing it again. So there.

I had this dream about a new game called "frisbee tennis." You play on a regular tennis court and the goal is to throw the frisbee into the back section of the tennis court of your opponent without them catching it. The reason you have to throw it into the back section is to ensure it is possible to catch it. You have to throw the frisbee regularly, no throwing it sideways. In the dream my trick move (makes me the first world champion of frisbee tennis) was to throw the frisbee such that it goes further than the court and then loops back to land in the court - sort of like the boomerang trick I've learned to do by throwing playing cards.

And then there's the future, what a wild wonderful concept.