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I was disturbed yesterday to find out that the band ‘!!!’ prefers its name to be pronounced ‘Chik Chik Chik.’ Losers. Ask any linux geek how that’s supposed to be pronounced, and (s)he’ll say ‘bang bang bang.’

I mean, well. In keyboard order:
! @ # $ %, Bang At Hash Bash Cen.

Duh.

Also, yesterday, I finished school. Nice to be done. Pretty sure I scored that 4.0. I had my show tonight, and it went well. Almost no one was listening, but it was fun playing a lot of new underground jazz. I saw The Hulk tonight. It kicked Spiderman’s ass. So, time to work some more for WiFiLand. And I need to cash this nice security deposit refund sitting on my desk, so I can be not broke again.

In my barefoot summer laze today, I stumbled upon this shrine of glory. It made me really happy, actually.

We agree with the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking is addictive.

That’s an actual quote from Philip Morris USA. Amazing. I also saw the Truth spot that they filmed next to Tommy on TV the other day. Yay. I didn’t see myself in the background, though. I should’ve gotten off my bike and identified myself as a brother and started protesting. Victory has found its first foothold on Mt. Everest, I guess.

Oh. Now that the metaphorical NDA of academic integrity has been lifted for Summer 2003, you can read my portfolio for my Broadway musicals class. If you’re into that sort of thing. It’s mostly just me complaining about bad singing and stuff.

I am completely excited about the prospect of this new music database thingie I’m making for KSCR. It’s going to the crowning masterwork of my PHP and database skills. There’s templates, and proper database structure, and proper authentication, and you name it. I’m doing the entire thing with objects, which is not beginner’s fare in any language, to say the least. It’s all like

“Hello, I’m an album, I have some tracks. Here, let me return you an array of track objects so that you may print their titles, oh glorious template output class!”

I think, after I make the new KSCR site, and the music database, and round up WiFiLand, I might be done with PHP for a while. I am now for all intents and purposes an expert. The only way I could really learn more about the language would be to work at Zend or something. Time to move on.

I got into Booth for the first time since my audition on Tuesday, and they have an amazing 5-octave marimba. I have never played on such a nice instrument. I would have kissed it, but then I remembered it’s bad to touch the bars. I want to play it for everybody.

Careful what I wish for… I suppose I’ll be having a nice solo recital in Newman any semester now. #