international house of DUH

After an optimistic evening of sending mail to people with room-needed ads, I now find myself tossing and turning with second thoughts about the whole matter. It took awhile to realize that the relaxed vacancy rate applies to me, too; and lo, a quick check of the rental listings on bostonapartments.com shows lots of hits for this area, many of which are $1,000 or less. There is a lot of "available: now". Suddenly, looking for a 1BR with less than two months to go doesn't seem so insane anymore.

Maybe what put two and two together for me was a sushi dindin with M tonight wherein she off-handedly mentioned her intentions to get a 1BR in metro Boston somewhere by June, but hasn't started looking yet. M is one of the most responsible, do-no-wrong people I know when it comes to home management, so if she's not worried, then I wonder what I'm doing here... (I think I'll mail her, coz I don't think she reads this, yok yok)

My current landlords are coming over to inspect the place tomorrow (just to make sure we haven't trashed the joint), and I'll ask if I can have maybe another week before making a final-final decision. And I'll make some calls first thing in the morning, just to confirm that things are as they seem.

My Chinese astrological sign is the waffle.

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Har har. Actually it took me a while to visiually parse this photo, and not see the soldier as an effeminate man (or maybe a tall boy who had lied about his age at the recruiting office). I certainly knew we had women serving on the front (as does everyone, if only due to Pfc. Lynch's rescue), but understood they mainly served in support roles, and somehow I don't think I've encountered -- nor envisioned -- an image of a U.S. military woman suited for battle like this. That's pretty cool, and I suppose kind of sexy, in a democracy-whisky sort of way.

Ewwwwww.

NYT on token-suckers under New York City, and how that city's phasing out of subway tokens in favor of a magcard-only system will make them go away.

I have to wonder: do we have these guys in Boston? (More than half of all subway fares in this city are still redeemed with tokens, if I understand correctly; we have magcards too, but only in the form of expensive monthly passes, not the temporary vending-machine cards I've bought for rides under SF and DC, and which I presume New York is getting too. (We allegedly have daily and weekly passes as well, but I've never actually seen one, so.))

Here comes the rain again

"Huh... I have this on vinyl, actually," said the CD Spins guy, looking at the jewel case of the used Eurythmics - Touch album I am buying. Someone had put it on display, and it reminded me of the nicer (and rarer) bits of my life back in fifth grade back in Hingham, so I picked it up.

I smile. "I have some good memories attached to these songs, and figured I may as well own them," I say.

"Yeah," he says, conversationally. Then he pauses, looks really distant for a moment, and says, "...yeah," nodding once, more to himself than to me.

I wonder where I sent him!

Movies

Welcome to the IMDb guide to Adult movies. There are 15366 titles listed here and the search box below restricts your query solely to the Adult genre. If you can't remember who played "Helpful Repairman #2" perhaps these filmographies can be of some assistance.

This I found while looking up the credits for Vice City on a lark, and was surprised to find that lots of famous actors contribute their voices to it. Among them was Jenna Jameson, and I had to see what her IMDB page looked like, and lo, there seem to be an appropriate number of titles. Why did this surprise me? I don't know. But anyway, yeah, IMDB has a whole "Adult" section, which seems to include both porn and what the kids call erotica.

An old joke says that the difference between the two is all in the lighting. I would like to propose another: You can rent erotica through Netflix. (It's usually filed under the "Foreign" genre.)

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Lame joke from RL OTD:

She: As the sole beneficiary, I have to do all this administrative stuff with the estate. Hmm... I'm an administratrix!

I: Isn't that the third Matrix movie?

But really, can't you see it? By the close of the second movie Neo has successfully subdued and tamed the Matrix through his omnipotent programming skills and also beating people up, so it's only right that the final movie deals with Trinity taking over as the Matrix's first human sysadmin, dealing with the challenges that can only arise from transitioning the most complex piece of software ever written (not to mention an operating system with several billion UIDs) from one set of owners to another, and also beating people up. I'd pay nine bucks to see it.