Bunch of random shit incoming. Excuse the brain dump.

• Started a new gig at Oracle. Very cool so far.
• Saw Henry V last night. Neat new experience. Hard to follow language. Play group was excellent.
• A bunch of updates on squarism.com. Getting Tetris write-up polished and working on Elevator Simulator. More there.
• Quit WoW (for NoW). In productivity kick.
• Got a Axiom 49 usb controller. Works so great. Perfect for ableton.
• Ableton 8 is out. Waiting to buy it in retail. With job switch, not so ready to spend de dough.
• Running quite a bit. Ran a 100m sprint in 13.5 sec. Not great, but not bad after the winter break. Ran a 1:15 1/4mi. On pace for 6mi mile but I’m not even close to having the stamina to run 4 laps like that.
• Did a youtube video about playing a Beatles tune “She’s So Heavy”.
• Played with Ubuntu 9.0.4 daily ISO and final. Ext4 is amazingly fast.

Went to a car meetup with TL. He brought his Z06. There were good and bad cars there. It was fun, never been to a car meet up before.. I took some casual pictures but there were far finer cars than my pictures let on. Ford GT, different things from shelby. Old guys with old muscle cars.

I didn’t care about the GT-R until I saw it in person. I’ve got a summer crush.

Also, I’m reading this book called Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. It sounds boring as all hell but it reads very easily. It goes beyond the left-brain & right-brain perspective and discusses a wide variety of techniques and strategies to thinking better. One of my favorite bits of the book so far is a part where he explains the wiring of your right hand and leg. Try this:

Sit at a table. Dangle your right leg off the floor slightly. Start moving your right leg clockwise in a circle. Now at the same time draw a number six with your finger on the table. Your leg will reverse directions when you draw the circle part of “6″.

The author explains that this is ok. It’s how you are wired. There are techniques not to solve this particular problem but other wiring problems. It’s a good read.