windshield, 7.26

Starting tonight, Jen and I are on a long-needed vacation up to my folks’ house, so I probably won’t be posting here too much in the next week. But I will come back with a ton of pictures, a relaxed demeanor, a killer tan, and hopefully some more freelance work. Stay tuned.

It’s pretty wet out there today, but it’s supposed to get up into the 90’s next week. I worked out all the kinks (hopefully) in my irrigation system in the backyard, so during our vacation the plants will be watered.

Song of the day: Mongrel, DJ Shadow.

Speaking of, I will offer an opinion on the ‘Bonus Track’ offered with the CD I wrote about yesterday: Big deal. I used my Windows machine, and went through all manner of steps just to bring up a Windows Media Player to play a streamed remix of ‘Giving up the Ghost’. So every time I might want to hear this ‘Bonus Track’, i have to insert the disc, jump through the hoops (enter my personal information) and then I have to use WMP to hear the song. WMP sucks. And from a marketing perspective, it seems pretty worthless to not advertise the ‘Bonus Track’, as well as make the customer go through all the hoops to hear the song, just so they can collect info on my marketing demographic.

I found this link via kottke.org today: True Porn Clerk Stories. apparently it’s had some exposure on NPR lately as well.