I just got my new computer in the mail. I’ve started this post about three times, but fell asleep each time, while talking about how excited I am about it, how it’s a worthy upgrade to a great computer, how there was nothing wrong with my old computer but I had some friends in need that… uh…. zzzzzzzz… hrmfh…

WHa?? …whoops! Did it again. OK. I’m going to try again. Here are some great things about my new computer:

1. It is definitely not portable. I can’t keep myself awake all night by watching downloaded TV shows or DVDs or youtube videos featuring Monchichis anymore, which might make me a little bit more boring as a person but is completely fantastic for my sleep cycle.
2. It’s enormous. The upgrade to my old desktop, Kathryn, adds 4 inches to the screen, and it’s kind of freaking me out. (Insert tried-and-true cliche about how “size matters”… zzzz… snort. Oh! What?)
3. It’s bright. It’s so bright that when I went to take my nightly [unapologetically] narcissistic photo of myself using Apple’s Photobooth, I actually had to turn off the fake flash the program uses because the screen is so freaking bright.
4. I love the new keyboard. I have never been a fan of the rinky-dink white keyboards Apple has been using for the past several years, difficult to type on and so easy to besmirch, but these new-fangled jobbies are sleek, sexy, and typing on it is like slipping down a candy-colored waterslide at Carowinds, circa 1989.
5. It matches my iPhone, which means that everything in my office that isn’t made of brushed aluminum and glass has to go. Sorry, sofa, rug, and toilet!

Whew, made it! That’s all I can take right now. Thanks for hanging on that long, yourself!

…Hello? Are you asleep?

Damn.

I’ve been playing around with upgrades and templates and blogging software all day for a re-make of the Terpsicorps website, and chose to use my own site as a guinea pig. I hate reading posts in blogs that say something like “check out the new look of the site” because people that find this forty years in the future won’t be able to read and so I think that kind of grandstanding is just plain rude.

To the geeks that are interested I am trying out ecto first. If I like it, I might buy it, but there are others to try. And blogging is so…2005-08, you know?

I know what you’re thinking: “Oh, Matt. Please put the keyboard away and show us more pictures of dogs.”

Lately, since I’ve been working for myself more (and needing to stay MUCH more organized than usual… always a daunting task), I’ve been carrying around so much more paper to do the job. The iPhone I have fills in so many of the blanks, but! there are holes in my system that writing things down seems handle so well. While searching for examples of how other people did it, I came across this video. I like it because it seems to be both pro hi-and lo-tech. Mr. Wesch isn’t saying that we’re all going to Hell because we’re losing “the shelves”; he’s just stating a fact, and letting us all choose whether this brings us down or cheers us up.

Me? I love my phone. It’s helped me so much, and updates make it better and better, almost monthly. But nothing seems to calm me down when panicking about all my tasks than just writing them down. I can ride that fence!

1:03 AM me: Hey
papalegba: hey!
me: How are you?
1:04 AM papalegba: good! tired, too.
i summon thee!
30 minutes
1:34 AM me: you summon me?
26 minutes
2:00 AM papalegba: is there even a non-christian concept?
christians invented heaven and hell,
2:01 AM as we know it.
now.
so…it’s all weird.
2:04 AM me: venial sin or mortal sin?
papalegba: depends on the word.
cunt?
fuck.
god damnit.
jesus fucking christ on a stick.
on a raft.
19 minutes
2:24 AM papalegba: killer wombats

The Phone

Originally uploaded by macnab.

For being such a good little IT go-to boy here at the offices of Lane and Smythe Real Estate, I was gifted one of these fancy phones. I have said this before and will say again: if, as an artist, one must find other means to live by beyond income created from his or her art, one should only dream of being as fortunate to find people to work with that are as lovely and supportive as those that I do, currently. I know that I’m a lucky guy, and have L&S to thank, in part, for my survival over the last few years. Kiki’s survival, for that matter! If you ever need real estate in Charleston, these are the ladies (and gentleman) you want to contact to be your agents. And I’m not just saying this because they’ve funded me a $600 fringe benefit. I love them dearly.

Oh! and the phone’s great, too! But more on it later.