Dirac Angestun Gesept

I have just passed the point of having 10,000 tracks in my iTunes library.

In honor of Napster’s “Do The Math” FUD, I bought my 10,000th track from the iTunes Music Store.

In honor of my series of blog posts on cover songs, it was not only a cover, but a Beatles cover.

Finally, in honor of both the Grammy awards and those still suffering the effects of December’s tsunami, it was the tsunami relief benefit version of Across The Universe.

Then I imported my latest CD, Here Come the ABCs by They Might Be Giants.

Dinner at Mary Chung’s with a good-sized (but not too large) group, celebrating a birthday, is a great way to spend part of an evening. You get to try a fair number of different dishes, congratulate the celebrant, and generally have a good time.

Less enjoyable news of the week was finding out that in the Kevin Bacon “trace your connections” game, that someone only two connections away from me was not only killed, but blown up in a rather extreme way. (One of Rafik Hariri’s sons was a classmate of mine at BU, and was in my group for the MG 422 group projects.)

I have the slow-but-cheap data connection working using my phone, the laptop, and the USB cable (no BlueTooth, it’s an old phone). 14.4kbps may suck, but when it uses your standard voice minutes and you have unlimited nights and weekends, it makes a useful emergency backup when traveling in situations where the airport or hotel charges insane amounts of money for faster access. It’s good enough for quick Web hits or ssh-ing in to fix something.

Boskone is rapidly approaching. I’m looking forward to it.