June 4 - 8: NYC with my boss. We're meeting with clients on Thursday and Friday and then staying for the weekend. It's my first time to New York proper so I'm psyched.

June 21-22: toobing in San Marcos.

July 4-6: NYC again. This trip was planned months ago; the one above was planned well afterward. I'm going to hang out with my friend who is interning at a law firm in NY. July 4th in New York! Woo hoo!

July 17-27: Israel. I haven't gone to visit my cousin in five years, so I figured it was time to suck it up and make the flight. I'm gonna plop down on the Tel Aviv beach and take in the scenery...

One of my favorite movies growing up was Short Circuit. Imagine my surprise when I saw a preview for Pixar's new movie Wall-E.

Meet Wall-E.

Now, meet (not for the first time, I can only hope), Johnny #5.

I rest my case.

That said, I still want to see the movie, I still think it's a great idea for Pixar's next film, and I'm sure Wall-E's creator is tired of people asking if he's seen Short Circuit.

Addendum: Actually, it looks like Short Circuit got its inspiration from another non-human sentient being. Eventually, I will find the first movie to feature an alien or robot with a head shaped like binoculars on top of a long neck and squarish body.

If you don't play an instrument, or you don't care about key changes and music composition, you may want to skip this one...

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs released a song called Kiss Kiss that I immediately liked. I couldn't figure out exactly why, but the progression in the verse section sounded like something else I knew, but I couldn't place where it came from.

I had Nirvana's Nevermind playing in the car for a couple of days. I'll sometimes listen to a song four or five times in a row because I focus on different parts of the song. On the way home from a friend's house last night, I listened to Drain You for the entire duration of a 20 minute drive.

Then this morning, something occurred to me. The reason Kiss Kiss sounded familiar and the reason I couldn't figure out where it came from is because the verse progression is a carbon copy of the verse section of Drain You, but in a different key. I recognized the intervals, but because the key was different, I didn't immediately pick up that it was essentially the same riff.

I verified this by checking the Kiss Kiss tab. There it was. Drain You is in A. Kiss Kiss is in D. But the progression is the same.

The Drain You verse section isn't exactly the most unique or ingenuitive progression, but it's strange to see it show up again.

See? This post is really not that interesting for people who aren't music nerds.

I didn't get to confirm that she was really Q T. Oh well.

Hey particlefans. Guess what. I moved. Again. In case you had forgotten, moving sucks. The owner of the duplex in which I lived sold the house and the owners have two sons who decided to occupy the duplex. After looking around for a suitable place to live, I finally signed a lease a whole five days before I had to be out of the duplex. Yes, I like to live on the edge. I spent Saturday and Sunday frantically packing and moving.

Because renting a moving truck would have been really expensive with that short of a notice, I ended up making 48 trips to and from the new place with my car filling it up as much as I could. Ok, maybe not 48 trips. But it was a lot. At least the new place was a whole two blocks away, so it wasn't so bad. And my friend with a pickup truck came to help too. And so did his fiance. Well, she mostly rode in the love seat in the truck bed talking on the phone, but, you know. That's how it goes. (She's from Oklahoma so she knows what she's doing) (Her words, not mine).

Oh, and did I tell you? I'm blogging from my new Macbook, which I got a while ago. It's sleek and black and awesome. And totally not Windows.