Today is my sister’s 37th birthday. Happy Birthday, Trish!
I just got Morrissey‘s Who Put the ‘M’ in Manchester? DVD. I’m a huge Morrissey fan… I realized how much recently. I loved The Smiths, of course, but if I were to name my ten favorite artists, I doubt Morrissey would appear on it. Yet every new CD he comes out with I buy and I like them. I don’t even have all The Smiths CDs but I have every Morrissey solo CD. And it wasn’t intentional, so I must really like his music. (I wonder what else I like 
)
But the highlight of the DVD for me is a Smiths song, There is a Light That Never Goes Out. I haven’t listened to The Queen Is Dead in years so had forgotten how great this song is. The crowd singing the morbidly romantic chorus is what does it:
And if a double-decker bus
crashes into us,
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die.
And if a 10-ton truck
kills the both of us,
To die by your side,
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine.
His latest CD, You Are The Quarry, is one of his best yet, so it’s great to see him continue to do well in his career.
Our friends, Steve and Joseph, are in Buenos Aires and are sending us photos. Since he doesn’t have a blog either, I’m posting his most recent photo here. I don’t know what these things are (possums?) but there they are.
Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing The Chasm, says Linux, Apache and MySQL made the leap across the chasm from early-adopters to mainstream users. He also said that Firefox hasn’t yet crossed the chasm. On Recipezaar, Firefox already has 7.8% of the market, just 2.2% short of their 2005 goal of 10%.
Armstrong: Retirement is a possibility after Tour de France. Good thing we’re going to go see him win his 7th this year!
Our friends Mike and Kiernan have a blog, “for friends and family”. But where’s the RSS feed?! I wish more friends had blogs. For friends and family…. yeah, that’s what we thought ours was for too.
There’s only two ways I Heart Huckabees can be a positive: 1) you save time by not watching it or 2) you watch it to convince others to save time by not to watching it. Roger Ebert said it well:
This may be the first movie that can exist without an audience between the projector and the screen. It falls in its own forest, and hears itself. It’s the kind of movie that would inspire a Charlie Kaufman screenplay about how it couldn’t be made.
Continuing my training for the marathon, I ran 20 miles today. For the first time after a long run, I actually felt like it was possible to go farther at the end. I am uncertain how much father, because the last 2 miles were not so fun — especially after a huge blister on the bottom of my right big toe popped with a mile left. Very startling. I had been more uptight than usual before starting — I didn’t eat very well last night, I was trying out new shorts, my socks didn’t match. These things are very worrisome when you are about to run for 3 hours or so, and my superstition about the socks was proven with the blister. I think the biggest factor, in what I thought was a great performance, was having something to eat along the way. My running partner, Laura, has reintroduced me to the wonders of gummybears (what is the flavor of the clear one anyways?), and I tried one of those goo packets at mile 10. The sensation of eating something without chewing is completely alien, and not recommended. My mouth really wanted to reject it, but in the end I think the extra energy was really crucial. I’m feeling pretty tapped out now, and it just started hailing, so I’m pretty glad to be done.
We also played a very sucessful April Fool’s Day joke on the site today too.
