http://www.ivanlo.com/blog Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:04:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FINALLY! more than a month after it was unhappily sandwiched between a GMC Sierra and a Scion tC, my car is finally back in working order! i've lost power locking in the driver's door, the fresh paint is slightly more saturated, the new rear doors' lock stalks are a different color ... http://www.ivanlo.com/blog/2008/10/07/loud-acoustic-cues do to list: - refill antimalarial prescription - look for mosquito repellent in airline-friendly dispensers - pick up car from the shop (finally!) - catch and ride a wild zebra - find happiness http://www.ivanlo.com/blog/2008/10/04/a-heartbreaking-crash well, it's that time of year again. the temperature has been dropping steadily, daylight hours have been dwindling, and leaves are beginning to fall by the thousands. good thing i'm going to be out of town most of this month. http://www.ivanlo.com/blog/2008/10/04/one-and-a-half-million-dollars Yaya: bye ivan ivan: what the ivan: you never stay on long enough for us to actually chat! Yaya: byebye!!! ivan: gah! ivan: bye Yaya: i'll IM you and sign off next time Yaya has signed off. ivan: thanks! http://www.ivanlo.com/blog/2008/10/03/an-early-shuttle-home well, here it is: the Asus Eee PC 1000H, my new travel companion. for the curious, it's got a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor with a 160GB hard drive and a gig of RAM. it weighs about 3.2 pounds, has a 10" widescreen monitor and, most importantly, runs Windows XP. ... http://www.ivanlo.com/blog/2008/10/02/just-a-little-heavier-than-my-camera i ordered an Asus Eee PC 1000H and it came in this morning. so exciting! more to come later. http://www.ivanlo.com/blog/2008/10/01/its-such-an-ugly-logo i http://www.ivanlo.com/blog/2008/09/30/i-wish-i-had-one-in-real-life-though for over the past six years, a lot of random people have called my cellphone number looking for people that aren't me. i'm not sure why this is, maybe i just have one of those numbers that are easy to dial on accident or perhaps some 'lines' are 'crossed' somewhere. ... http://www.ivanlo.com/blog/2008/09/29/i-want-me-some-cow-tongue so i had another vivid anxiety dream last night, courtesy of my weekly night terror pill. i was in a posh hotel in Hong Kong and they were hosting some sort of Olympic swimming competition in Victoria Harbour nearby when all of a sudden, a group of player haters began ... http://www.ivanlo.com/blog/2008/09/28/into-the-soy-sauce-sea i bumped into a friend who works at Cook County Hospital on the street yesterday and she mentioned that someone came in recently with ten gunshot wounds. TEN. fortunately, the bullets were all in his extremities (mostly arms and legs with a few in his butt) so the doctors were ... http://www.ivanlo.com/blog/2008/09/27/blast-bucket