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You know, I wasn’t going to blog Rate My Tattoo (Not Safe for Work). The first couple of times I saw the link to it, I wasn’t even going to click through it.

But you know, I know me, and I know that eventually, I’m going to be in conversation with somebody, and for some reason, I don’t know why - it’s going to come up that I once saw a picture of some guy that had tattooed a dragon onto his pierced unit, and like a master whose waiting for the right moment to play a card he’s been sitting on, I’m going to want to be able to whip out the link. Now, I’ll be able to find it. I’m just telling you in advance - not safe for anyone — Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Seen.

I upgraded to Moveable Type 2.6. One welcome change already - I see that text entry boxes are now reasonably sized in Moz for the Mac. They used to be these teeny, tiny little bits of a thing.

I think I may have upgraded to run this off of MySQL as well. I’m not sure though. The upgrade process errored out because of a file permission problem on one of the template files I link to.

I fixed the permissions, but then when I tried to run the upgrade script again it errored out telling me that one of the tables had already been created. As a side effect, all of my templates were trashed. I recreated them, and now everything seems to be OK. At least the site rebuilt OK, and if you’re reading this then posting must work.

Let me know if you run into any problems. Also, please let me know if you know of a way that I can verify that I’m running off MySQL instead of the Berkeley DB.

OK - I know it’s a little weird that this is going to be the third entry in as many days mentioning Chris Butler. I swear I’m not cyber stalking the guy or anything, but here’s the thing. He just sent me an e-mail to thank me for buying his CD.

Of course it was a template, and it might have even been automated. It was personalized though, so if it was automated, that’s a pretty slick little ap that strips my first name out of whatever notification e-mail CD Baby sends to artists whose music you buy.

Either way, it shows a nice commitment to the fans. I think that’s just unspeakably cool. None of the other artist I’ve purchased music from have ever sent me a thank you note. Now, I want to go buy everything else the guy has put out.

Update: Amanda Thorpe just sent me a thank you e-mail as well.

I’ve always kind of wanted to read through Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo. Van Gogh’s Letters Unabridged & Annotated looks like a fantastic resource. Excuse me while I go lose myself for hours.

Strong Bad’s E-mail is funny. That’s funny with a capital F.U. N. Truthfully, a bunch most of them are lame, but every 10th one or so you find one that just kills you it’s so good.

Koala Bear Poo Earrings

Picked up a bunch of new CDs tonight including: Bishop Allen, Charm School (really outstanding judging by the preview tracks); Deb Talan, Sincerely (all that listening to “Tell Your Story Walking” had me wanting to hear more); Chris Butler, I Feel a Bit Normal Today (natch - see post below this one); Tracy Spuehler, Six Three One (seems a little thin, but she’s local, and I wanted to round out six to get free shipping); Elgin Park; Elgin Park and Amanda Thorpe, Mass.

Problem is that after ripping these, I think I’m going to go below 500 Megs on my PowerBook’s Drive. I may be to the point where I’m not going to be able to keep my entire collection on my PowerBook. That sucks. It’s almost enough to make me want to pick up one of those new PowerBooks with the 60 gig drives - almost.

It seems the sum total of my internal dialog is being scripted by Chris Butler today. Sure, it’s all out of context, but still - I don’t think I’m quite ready to “X” my “BFD-ing”, so I’d like it all to stop please:

Stop! Damn!
Reverse the wires
Switch the ground!
Something’s crazy here
We’re twisted around…
What got into us anyway’?
Who threw the rules away?

…….

I’ve got a zillion facts
That can help you out
But they just make you nervous
I’m not so sure
The decisions you’re making
Are really in my best interest

…….

I don’t want to talk about that now. Why do you keep asking me?

…….

I’m sorry you’ll never
Risk living such a pretty lie

Would you have tried that?
Think you could’ve pulled it off?
OK start with something simple like…

Go make the weather
Go pull the stars closer in
Go make the weather
Go race light
Go build the wind

…….

It can’t be good when you start identifying too closely with The Waitresses lyrics.

Are you really going to listen to the song, “Tell Your Story Walking”, by Deb Talan again for the 873rd time today?

Yes. Yes I am. Do you have a problem with that?

10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World - The future is going to be so cool. I can’t wait for it. I have to admit, I nurture a core of extropian values down under my layers of jaded, world-weary cynicism. I just wish all that magic would hurry up and get here so that I can relax, self-assured in the knowledge of my own immortality. In the mean time knees we can grow in the body, wireless sensors the size of dust mites. How cool is that. The future looks so bright. Sure, it can look pretty dark at times too, but sometimes - it just gleams with promise.