This was a lot of fun! Thanks to Yelp and Cyan for a good recommendation on where to have it done (Body Manipulations, SF), and David for holding my hand.

I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend on my statistics lately. Specifically search engine keyword searches that lead people to my site.

cute gay boys	3	17.6 %
cute boys	2	11.7 %
facebook share wordpress	2	11.7 %
dirvish install client	2	11.7 %
guy tied	1	5.8 %
www.cutegayboys.com	1	5.8 %
american pie	1	5.8 %
folsom street fair gallery 2006	1	5.8 %
gay boys 18	1	5.8 %
targus register	1	5.8 %
cute gayboys	1	5.8 %
thefacebook book	1	5.8 %

I’m not sure where “guy tied” or “american pie” came from. Really I don’t know. But it seems like I should start to focus my blog on more information about cute gay boys than anything technical, although dirvish and the facebook book seem to score pretty high as well. Perhaps it’s time for a new theme “gay boy tech”. Makes it sound like borg porn, but whatever sells.

Sometimes I think that the bagel place down the street tries just a little too hard to put as much jelly and PB as they can on a single bagel. Not that I don’t appreciate the effort, but it’s difficult to navigate the quagmire of jelly and type on a keyboard.

I was reading “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories” by Chuck Palahniuk, and one had a series of questions by Juliette Lewes described as being “more telling about me than anything I could write in a diary”. There are no answers to these questions in the book so I figured I’d answer them. This will be the first and last time I consciously write something so stupid.

“Did you ever stab someone or cut them intentionally with a sharp object?”
No.

“Do you like asparagus?”
No!

“Do you have a middle name?”
Yes, it’s my father’s first name.

“Do cats frustrate you as pets, or do you admire their independence?”
Both.
“Did you ever break a guy’s nose?”
No.
“Would you say you won more fights than you’ve lost?”
Fighting is losing.

“Was there a time when you were mystified by the workings of your penis?”
I still am, and I hope it keeps working.

“Do you look more like your mother or father?”
Stupid question.

“Did you date an older woman that you’d consider an older woman, and what did she teach you?”
No.
“What’s the first image you have of the female body?”
I don’t want to talk about it.

“Does the respect factor drop when a woman has breast implants?”
Only if my respect for her was already going downhill.

“Did you go to sleep-away summer camp?”
No.

“Do you like roller coasters?”
No!

“What do you imagine happens to someone after the body dies? And do you believe that you are a spirit with a
body or just a brain?”
You’re body decomposes. wtf is a spirit?

“How do you explain Mozart writing symphonies at seven? (Because I think that’s a prime example of creative
ability being spirit-generated.)”
It’s different Mozart wasn’t a human.

“Did the female anatomy ever mystify and scare you? (because it did me, and I’m the owner.)”
Yes, it still does.

“Have you ever been caught in a natural disaster?”
Yes, it’s was called Earth.

“Did you ever own Birkenstocks?”
Absolutely not.

“What was your favorite expression growing up? Or what was it closer to: ”
That’s so fresh.
THat’s so bitchin’.
THat’s so wicked.
That’s so rad. -> childhood favorite
Or, that’s so hot. -> current favorite

“Did you ever fall in love with an animal in a way where you wished you could talk like human friends?”
Yes, I wish I could relate to some of my human friends like I did with that animal.

“Do you feel that we are all potentially Christlike?”
Yes, it if we where actually “Christlike” it would be hell.

“Do you have hope for humanity? And if not, how can you honestly keep on going in the face of that hopelessness?”

No, I don’t live my life for humanity.

I walked down my street, past the crowds of laynard people. Past the giant projection screen showing Oracle ads. Past the street closed with the giant Oracle tent. Past the three Buildings dedicated to Oracle OpenWorld. Past the Oracle buses and Oracle bus stops. Past the posters plastered on the sidwalk. To a sliver of a cofee shop on market, where I order a medium hot earl grey tea, and I find this:

SF is great because you always get to see the most interesting things. So Folsom Street Fair is one of these things.I really should have taken more pictures, like the two guys playing with themselves in the middle of the street…. or the guy tied to a tree with a jock around his face…. or maybe the on-stage riming show by porn stars…. well you get the idea….

For someone like me that knows very little about electronic music, this is a great resource:

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

Just finished reading “Before Night Falls” by Reinaldo Arenas, I felt compelled to read the book after seeing the movie of the same title. It’s the memoirs/autobiography of the Cuban author and poet Reinaldo Arenas. I thought the story was an excellent reading of what life was like during and after the rise to power of Fidel Castro (not that I have any idea about what it’s like). It’s especially clear how much of a threat artists and homosexuals are to any dictatorship, this will never cease to amaze me. While I would consider the book explicit both in it’s description of events and sexual encounters I never felt that it was written with the intent of getting a rise out of readers. It reads much more like the telling of one’s life without the self-censorship so many people are born into.

I dropped my Sony Ericson phone today for a new Blackberry Pearl 8100.  What a hot piece of hardware.  While some reviews describe it as a phone for the girls, I think any geek would be stupid not to snatch one of these up.  I’m not willing to carry around with me a giant blackberry or treo phone, it’s just too inconvenient.  But the pearl is the best of both worlds.  I’m able to dial-up on Caltrain with my MacBook and I can get email/IM/Text/web while I’m out and about away from my laptop.  Everyone I’ve shown it to so far has gone goo goo over it once it’s in their hand.  Hot Hot Hot…. now if I could only get it to work with iSync.

Review:
http://crunchgear.com/2006/09/18/blackberry-pearl-8100-hands-on-2/

How to dial-up with your Pearl on the Mac:
http://www.fibble.org/archives/000508.html