Lady Susan's Journal

Wow--I have to get this game.



About Audiosurf (from IGN):

Now you can ride your music -- Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose. You earn points for clustering together blocks of the same color on the highway, and compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs.
Genre: Music Action
Exclusively on PC
Release Date: February 15, 2008
MSRP: $9.95

I just found out about David Foster Wallace. It makes me very sad--he was one of my favorite essayists ever. I've linked to this before, but, in his memory, here again is the David Foster Wallace cartoon.

From Stuff

Ha ha...so true!

Curran and I are back in Ithaca after a lovely Christmas in France.

( cut for length )

I've visited the counties in yellow. Which counties have you visited? made by marnanel map reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey. © Crown copyright 2001.

create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

Ewok Celebration Song: "Celebrate the love. Celebrate the love"
Me: What are they saying? "Celebrate the law?"
Curran: Yes, I'm afraid so. You see, they're Pharisees.

Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play.
Step 2: Write down the first few lines from the first 20 songs that play or close to it.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from.
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

After editing out the massive amounts of opera I got the following:

1. If you were gay that'd be ok If You Were Gay--Avenue Q soundtrack
2. In a vine-covered shack in the mountains, bravely fighting the battle of time
3. Bright college days, O carefree days that fly
4. The time has come to say goodbye, I'm asking you to please don't cry
5. Ah, Belinda! I am press'd with torment "Ah, Belinda! I am press'd with torment" from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
6. Wandering properties of death, arresting moons within our eyes and smiles
7. The man of shadows thinks in clay, dreamed trapped thoughts of suffocation day
8. Hello operator, can you give me number nine, can I see you later, will you give me back my dime? Hello Operator--the White Stripes
9. The island it is silent now but the ghosts still haunt the waves Thousands Are Sailing--Pogues
10. I feel empty, I feel deceived. You shouldn't have done that to me.
11. Bright lights and promises, a pocket full of dreams, that's what they pay me to be
12. Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Scarborough Fair (Simon and Garfunkel version in this case)
13. Clap for the Wolfman! He gonna rate your record high.
14. Young Emily was a fair lady bright, she loved her diver boy
15. I like to watch you sleep at night, to hear you breathe by my side Dido, ?
16. Howard, the strangest thing has happened lately, when I take a good swing
17. Well, if you want to sing out, sing out If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out--Cat Stevens
18. You make me satisfied, you only want to ride, but that's all right by me, we happen to be free Falling from Grace--The Gentle Waves (Isobel Campbell)
19. Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be Come as You Are--Nirvana
20. Crossroads seem to come and go, the gypsy flies from coast to coast, knowing many, loving none, bearing sorrow, having fun

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C. and I, coming out of Barnes & Noble:

C: I really want a cookie.

Me: And I want a drink.

Me: *thinking long and hard*

Me: *deciding to go ahead and say it anyway*

Me: We're like Buster and Lucille

This journal will most likely go friends-only before Fall semester starts. Just so you know.