bustermcleod: 8:36pm Nap break between cleaning and an evening movie. Maybe Wall-E?

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bustermcleod: The University Village Apple store is being "redesigned" and is at about 1/4 normal size for the iPhone launch next week.

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The McLeod Residence photobooth in Seattle, WA.

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Thanks for all the email reports regarding performance issues with Lists of Bests in the last couple days. We’re making some tweaks now that should stabilize performance—and we’ll continue to work on getting the site healthy again.

Sorry for the hassle but thanks for your detailed feedback. It’s helpful to us.

Another lunch at Ballet results in the following fortune cookie distribution …

”Success and happiness will come your way.” – Ivan
”You will be admired for internal beauty.” – Todd
”You will meet someone famous.” – Eric
”Good health is in your future.” – Josh
”You will soon meet a helpful person.” – Bob
”Your popularity will increase.” – Daniel

My predictions:
Ivan will move to Slovakia.
Todd will get engaged.
Eric will meet Gerald Sussman.
Josh will bike to work more often.
Bob will soon meet a helpful person.
Someone will subscribe to me today.

Erik is still on a vipassana meditation retreat and appropriately did not collect a fortune today.

Yesterday during lunch we talked about exploiting the occasion of a major move to radically reduce one’s possessions. Pretty much everyone at the Co-op has gone through some transformative event in their lives, be it a major geographical move, a divorce, a career change, or what have you. And we’ve all decided to simplify at the same time. We suggested that Bob get rid of everything before he goes to Scotland. The jury’s out on whether he’ll go for it. We joked about buying his fancy, barely driven Mini and sharing it as the company Flexcar.

We also took another pass at the “how much blah do you need to be happy” discussion. Josh proposed that asking for a monetary value is no more sensical than asking how much air, or how many calories, or how many friends. I think what he means is that there’s no correct answer, not because each person has their own scale, but because the idea of reaching happiness quantitatively is absurd.

Apparently they're recording an album with some members of the Arcade Fire. Woo!

I realize I have a tagging problem. I tag web pages on del.icious, goals on 43 Things, pictures on flickr, places on 43 Places, consumables on All Consuming, and meals and shows on Space Tag. There's a problem though, and I need your advice... what should I do with the "lunch" tag? (Which, by the way, is one of my favorites... and to exhibit the levels of the mania, at the co-op we now ask, rather than the obvious, "How do you want to tag lunch today?")

In short, should I tag the food I eat on All Consuming or the places I eat the food on Space Tag? Help?

A truly un-Seattle experience, laying in the sun, swimming, playing bocci ball

Tagged: curry dinner

Tagged: fell asleep, goofy, shirley maclaine

Erik Benson adopted this goal

Erik Benson added an entry regarding go on a monthly pub crawl with friends:

At least, not officially. Will there be one in July? I heard Angela whispering something about a crawl through Queen Anne or Pioneer Square. Any proposals for a good night (or week)?