Personal

The stuff about me and my life. The “diary” side of blogging.

Gay men get all the chicks

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This looks like it’s shaping up to be an interesting weekend. I’ve been so caught up with the day-to-day trials and tribulations of life in general (lots of stress lately — mostly work and pay [what little there is] related), that I’d almost entirely spaced out on the fact that Casey is getting married this weekend — and I’m DJ’ing his wedding reception!

So last night he stopped by to drop off some CDs for me to use that aren’t club music (which after 8 years of DJ’ing is most of my collection) so that I won’t scare his extended family too much, and I ended up heading off with Casey, Chad, Tim, Patrick, and Karl for a little while as they bounced around downtown on a semi-mini-bachelor-party. We started out having a couple drinks and talking at Marcus’ Martini Heaven in Pioneer Square, then walked up a few blocks to the Deja Vu strip club on 1st Ave.

It was an interesting experience, that’s for sure. While I’m not much for hanging out at strip clubs (this was my first time setting foot in one since I moved to Seattle), I don’t mind stopping by from time to time with a group of friends. Since the one I hit the most in Anchorage was the Showboat (Brian, one of the gents that owned Gig’s Music Theater where I DJ’d was a doorman for the Showboat, and I often stopped by to talk to him, and would generally stop in long enough to buy a drink and watch a few dances), it was interesting to compare the two. Better music at the Deja Vu, but the songs are cut off after 3 minutes instead of playing for their full length as they do at the Showboat.

Other than that, though — a strip club’s a strip club — bored girls get onstage, get naked, and wiggle. I’d be more entertained if any of the girls could actually dance decently, or do an actual strip tease (rather than one song ‘clothed’ and one song naked). However…that just doesn’t seem to be the case. Ah, well. Guess I’ll just stick to the dance clubs where people stay dressed…at least in those, I can dance too!

Oh — and as for the title of the post — just about every dancer that came by trying to get table dances from us made a beeline for Chad. Watching the expressions on their faces when he explained that his boyfriend probably wouldn’t appreciate his getting table dances was all sorts of entertaining!

More Amazon goodies

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I’m about to be heading to bed, but I spent a little time tonight playing around with Amazon‘s recommendation features. As you bounce through Amazon you can tell them what you own and assign ratings to items, which they then use to create recommendation pages. So far, it’s actually be fairly impressive — the more I put in, the more accurate they get. At the moment, off the top of my head, I’d say that for every 5 items they recommend, I’m likely to already own 3 of them (at least with music — the ratio for DVDs and books is somewhat less). Quite interesting.

I’ve also created an Amazon wishlist so that should anyone ever feel like spending money on me, they’ll have some suggestions. Woohoo!

New element discovered

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The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by investigators at a major U.S. research university. The element, tentatively named administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have one neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons and 111 assistant vice neutrons, which gives it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons.

Since it has no electrons, administratium is inert. However, it can be detected chemically as it impedes every reaction it comes in contact with.

According to the discoverers, a minute amount of administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would have normally occurred in less than a second.

Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years, at which time it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. Some studies have shown that the atomic mass actually increases after each reorganization.

Research at other laboratories indicates that administratium occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate at certain points such as government agencies, large corporations, and universities. It can usually be found in the newest, best appointed, and best maintained buildings.

Scientists point out that administratium is known to be toxic at any level of concentration and can easily destroy any productive reaction where it is allowed to accumulate. Attempts are being made to determine how administratium can be controlled to prevent irreversible damage, but results to date are not promising.

(Source unknown)

Check out my (messy) apartment!

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This is too cool! I was playing around at work with printing out some of the panoramic shots I’d clumsily put together using Photoshop, and one of the guys I work with pointed me to a really cool little PC program called Panorama Factory. After taking a series of shots, you feed them into the program, and it does all the work of warping and assembling the pictures into a finished panorama!

The coolest thing about this program, though, is that if you have a full 360-degree set of shots, it can create a Quicktime VR movie file! QtVR files allow you to click and drag around a photograph as if you were standing at the point where the photo was taken — they can be pretty cool to play with. So, on that note, check the rest of this post for a QtVR file I just made of my apartment! It’s a little messy, but that’s about the norm — it’s not too bad, or I wouldn’t put this up! You will, of course, need QuickTime installed on your system to view the file. You’ll also want to give it a moment to load if you’re on a dial-up modem, it’s a 1.1Mb file, so won’t be super-quick.

I’m alive!

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I do exist! Really, I do…

I’ve just been more or less ignoring things here for a little while. No real reason — it’s just that there hasn’t been a whole lot going on. I’ve been spending a lot of time playing with music and hanging out in the chatrooms, which — unfortunately — means some of my other pet projects have been getting short shrift. This should be changing, though….

Political compass

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Here’s an interesting online test — a Political Compass that adds a vertical Authoritarian/Libertarian line to the traditional horizontal Left/Right line and uses a series of questions to map out your political position. I ended up with a score of -6.12/-5.90, which puts me in the same rough area as Ghandi, from the looks of it. Here’s the analysis, though they recommend that you take the test before reading it.

(via Rebecca Blood)

I’m back! Really! I’m here!

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I got back in Monday night, I’ve just been too caught up in either resting or getting life as usual going again down here to have tossed anything up on the page for the past couple days.

I’ll get a more detailed post up soon — in the meantime, I’ve uploaded some pictures of the trip: James and Stacy’s wedding, the post-wedding relaxation, the Pride parade, and having fun at The Last Frontier with some of my friends from the Alaska chatroom in Yahoo! Chat the pictures that used to be on my .mac server have since come down.

Enjoy!

Off to Anchorage

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Well, Laura’s here, and we’ll be heading off to take me to the airport in the near future here. Then it’s off to Anchorage, to visit friends and see James and Stacy get married — woohoo!

If I manage to get any further posts up over the weekend, they’ll be from way up north somewhere….