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Three pieces of awesome news.  Also, I visited my sister in Davis today and had an awesome time with her.  Love ya, Sarah!
Awesome piece of news #1: Curtis is coming to town
My apartment-mate from undergrad, Curtis, is moving to SF.  Not only that, but he's moving a couple blocks from me.  The street is named Beulah, and we got into a conversation about how to pronounce it.  I instinctively pronounced it "B'oolah."  Curtis' new landlady said it should be pronounced "Byoolah."  Here's the actual deal:

Edit: I meant to post this on 4/20 at 4:20, but then I forgot.  Which is somehow appropriate.
Someone on the radio today was wondering if it had something to do with Hitler's birthday, since he was apparently an environmentalist. (Although I'm not sure how many environmental impact studies they did on the blitzkreig strategy, and in any case I'm not sure what environmentalism has to do with smoking pot.) Good news: it doesn't.

So I tried to upgrade my linux last night so it would do some really cool stuff.  And I ended up fucking up the entire thing, so I started to download the new CD.  (No, they haven't come out with a new version of Ubuntu, and they won't until June 1st, but they already have a pre-release version available.  Because I like playing with fire.)

So I walk into the living room this morning, and discover that the damn thing downloaded for about five minutes after I left the room, then it gave up.  Fucker.  That means I can't reinstall linux now, I have to wait another 5 hours.  Which means I'm stuck using Windoze.  "Khhhhaaaaannnnnnnn!!!!!!!!"

That's an awesome quote from a neat movie, the Big Lebowski. Which is playing at the Red Vic tonight. I'm gonna go see it with some friends. Speaking of the Red Vic, the Haight Ashbury Beat says that the Red Vic is gonna start selling alcohol. A movie house with tons of personality that plays indy films and cult classics, and sells booze. Hell yeah.

Thumbs down.  Way down.  Don't buy Netgear.

This is a product most people will never buy (although a friend of mine, Stephanie Lessman, bought one once).  It's a wireless internet card for your desktop computer.  Most people have ethernet in their desktops and a built-in wireless card in their laptop (or a PC-MCIA card in their laptop).