Just because I can, here's the last ten hours of music iTunes has played me.  

#	Artist	Song	Time
1	Garnet Crow	忘れ咲き	4:58
2	スピッツ	ほのほ	4:18
3	Feel So Bad	KALLO-KALLO-KALLO	3:39
4	Trans Am	Outmoder	3:42
5	Miller, Scott	Fairest of the Seasons	3:38
6	Zeppet Store	エヴリィ	4:36
7	Darling, Julia	Blue	4:03
8	Feel So Bad	今日はクリスマス	3:20
9	Breeders	Cannonball	3:33
10	Stretch Princess	Angels	5:00
11	Whitley, Chris	Cool Wooden Crosses	2:44
12	Amos, Tori	Concertina	3:56
13	Amos, Tori	Lust	3:53
14	Feel So Bad	ENDORPHINE	4:00
15	My Bloody Valentine	Nothing Much To Lose	3:17
16	Production Club	Man on the Scene (feat. the Incredible Moses Leroy)	3:30
17	Runrig	Day Of Days	3:37
18	Fake?	Drip	4:56
19	Feel So Bad	愛しているのに	3:42
20	HIM	Love You Like I Do	5:14
21	Siam Shade	1/3 の純情な感情	3:44
22	Suran Song in Stag	No Don't Stop	3:52
23	Siam Shade	アドレナリン	4:28
24	Amos, Tori	Cloud on My Tongue	4:43
25	Field Mice	Clearer	3:54
26	Fredriksson, Marie	Vidare igen	3:28
27	Moore, Abra	I Win	4:22
28	Garnet Crow	夕月夜	4:15
29	Sarge	Stall (Live)	3:26
30	New Pornographers	Chump Change	4:18
31	Amos, Tori	Cruel	4:07
32	Utada Hikaru	Animato	4:31
33	Fiona	In My Blood	4:09
34	Gackt	Lust for blood	5:11
35	Feel So Bad	グレチャウゾ	4:56
36	Radiohead	A Wolf At The Door -It Girl, Rag Doll-	3:21
37	HIM	Rebel Yell (Live)	5:13
38	元ちとせ	凛とする -strings version-	4:51
39	Glay	アイ	3:56
40	Do As Infinity	菜ノ花畑	3:36
41	Feel So Bad	今夜はおしゃれをして	3:59
42	BUMP OF CHICKEN	夢の飼い主	4:49
43	Douglas Fir	At the Hotel	2:59
44	Leo, Ted / Pharmacists	The One Who Got Us Out	3:04
45	Low	I Started A Joke	4:28
46	Twigs	Slumber	2:44
47	Feel So Bad	Deeper	2:42
48	Feel So Bad	オーブントースター	3:17
49	矢井田瞳	明日からの手紙	4:50
50	Frames	Sickbeds	4:12
51	Corrs	Summer Sunshine	2:53
52	pillows	Plastic Flower	4:11
53	Big Country	Perfect World	3:16
54	brilliant green	Wishing You	3:02
55	Supercar	Love Forever	4:11
56	Ladysmith Black Mambazo	Wangibambezela	4:59
57	Martin, Charlotte	Parade On	4:15
58	HIM	In Joy And Sorrow	3:35
59	Siam Shade	Love Vampire	4:39
60	Sarge	Detroit Star-Lite	3:33
61	Feel So Bad	今日は今日、気ままに	3:00
62	Mandalay	You Forget	5:04
63	Sarge	Dear Josie, Love Robyn	3:01
64	Primitons	City People	3:32
65	Amos, Tori	Parasol	3:54
66	Amos, Tori	Sweet The Sting	4:16
67	Amos, Tori	The Power of Orange Knickers	3:36
68	Amos, Tori	Jamaica Inn	4:03
69	Amos, Tori	Barons of Suburbia	5:21
70	Amos, Tori	Sleeps with Butterflies	3:36
71	Amos, Tori	General Joy	4:13
72	Amos, Tori	Mother Revolution	3:58
73	Amos, Tori	Ribbons Undone	4:30
74	Amos, Tori	Cars and Guitars	3:45
75	Amos, Tori	Witness	6:06
76	Amos, Tori	Original Sinsuality	2:02
77	Amos, Tori	Ireland	3:49
78	Amos, Tori	The Beekeeper	6:50
79	Amos, Tori	Martha's Foolish Ginger	4:22
80	Amos, Tori	Hoochie Woman	2:34
81	Amos, Tori	Goodbye Pisces	3:36
82	Amos, Tori	Marys of the Sea	5:11
83	Amos, Tori	Toast	3:42
84	New Model Army	Brother	5:58
85	New Model Army	Higher Wall	4:22
86	New Model Army	Flying Through the Smoke	3:13
87	New Model Army	You Weren't There	3:36
88	New Model Army	Orange Tree Roads	3:56
89	New Model Army	Someone Like Jesus	6:36
90	New Model Army	Stranger	3:35
91	New Model Army	R&R	3:37
92	New Model Army	Snelsmore Wood	4:14
93	New Model Army	Paekakariki Beach	4:43
94	New Model Army	Christian Militia	3:25
95	New Model Army	Notice Me	2:38
96	New Model Army	Smalltown England	3:21
97	New Model Army	Vengeance	4:06
98	Ida	Laurel Blues	4:50
99	Ida	599	5:29
100	Ida	Late Blues	5:24
101	Ida	Mine	5:31
102	Ida	What Can I Do	2:57
103	Ida	The Details	4:38
104	Ida	Sundown	6:42
105	Ida	Written On My Face	3:50
106	Ida	The Morning	7:30
107	Ida	Forgive	7:31
108	Garnet Crow	夏の幻	3:55
109	Tullycraft	Wild Bikini	2:34
110	Trembling Blue Stars	Helen Reddy	4:25
111	Springfield, Rick	Hole In My Heart	3:12
112	September When	When I Drive	2:18
113	Lucksmiths	Moving	2:51
114	Lucksmiths	Transportine	4:11
115	Frames	Revelate	4:33
116	Zeppet Store	INNOCENCE	3:55
117	HIM	Wicked Game (666-Remix)	3:54
118	Amos, Tori	Hey Jupiter	5:11
119	Manic Street Preachers	Solitude Sometimes Is	3:21
120	Siam Shade	素顔のままで	4:26
121	mcdonald, glenn	Confetti Beams	3:03
122	Keene, Tommy	Disarray	3:07
123	Aberdeen	Emma's House	3:56
124	New Pornographers	The Laws Have Changed	3:26
125	Into Eternity	Beginning Of The End	4:39
126	スピッツ	みそか	4:37
127	Utada Hikaru	Exdous '04	4:32
128	Frames	Fake	3:59
129	Manda and the Marbles	Upside Down	3:18
130	Low	California	3:23
131	Blue Nile	I Love This Life	4:04
132	Manic Street Preachers	No Jubilees	3:44
133	Wedding Present	Ringway to SEATAC	2:43
134	Ida	Honeyslide	3:37
135	Gackt	精一杯のサヨナラ	4:44
136	Gackt	Tea Cup	5:28
137	Gackt	Etude	6:24
138	Gackt	ありったけの愛で〜Llv〜	5:36
139	Gackt	ピース	4:12
140	Gackt	この夜が終わる前に	4:58
141	Gackt	君に逢いたくて	5:33
142	Gackt	Dears〜LLV〜	6:58
143	Gackt	サクラソウ	2:42
144	Gackt	Love Letter	4:55

Spitz: Misoka (3.2M mp3)  

This week this seems like the quintessential rock song to me. And it's only more quintessential if you don't speak the language.

If nothing occurs to you, open the tiniest window to somewhere else.

Stochastic in our causes, patriots in a republic of disingenuity, discarders of our angels, prophets of the silently unwound, we cede imbalance to inertia and the slow wind to the quickening hours. Give us reticence to the measure of our tolled waiting, and open ways that we may be escaped by the enchantments we helped tether. And we kneel in parted seas, shelter us with black clouds and the sinuous disenfranchisement of sand. When we stray from the islands of your tenuous grace, lead us to half-hatched disarray and limn our scars in the exhalations of convulsive repose. Give us panic for wakefulness, and tiny hatreds for eyes. Place our souls in the thick throats of lost doves, and our doubts in the deepest vaults of your sightless candor. Lead us to webs of dread and the shut exits of last year's mice, and let their thinset tremors smooth us as we diminish. We are the unmoved and the yet to know; we are the hollows of the bled and the disintegrated confidence of our practice. We are always here, and we are nowhere found.  

So we are undone.

I periodically find myself with small amounts of tabular data that I want to share, and hand-building HTML tables each time is tedious in repetition and awkward to instrument. I have finally amused myself by writing a simple server-side perl script that renders data from a csv file into an HTML table, and you are welcome to it if you have similar needs.

Dublin/Pleasanton BART platform

1. This terrible town in which my employer is sub-headquartered has the tedious contours of a Sim City game played with dogged consistency in place of any shred of imagination. Numbingly uniform tiles snap together with cultivatedly anonymous diligence. The streets have individual names, but absolute characterlessness, and preferring one over another would be like having a favorite ounce of hypoallergenic hand lotion. If the question of whether there should be a picture-framing outlet every 2.79 miles or every 2.83 fascinates you, you'd love it here.  

2. The wishful insistence that two numbers constitute a trend or an anomaly based on whether the second one is more or less desirable than the first.  

And I'm still allowed to hate a third thing today, so the service at dinner better be good.

I have decided to limit myself to disapproving of no more than three things each day. Today's are:  

1. The pointless hubris of claiming superlative excellence in activities which should not be done at all.  

2. Any article of clothing which appears to have been made from the pelts of characters in the original Planet of the Apes.  

3. Coffee which is neither palatable without sugar, nor appreciably improved by it.  

For the remainder of the day, I am at peace with all other folly.