i’m sitting in this crappyass netcafe in times square; gundam and i are going to see lord of the rings in a few hours and we’re mad early to meet mrtails to pick up our tickets, so we’re killing time here.

worked on my dad’s site a bit today; i’m redesigning the whole thing in general but in the meantime i’m making a few changes based on some sales he made at a recent show. also working on some stuff for penny arcade, which is as always way more fun than it is work.

finished all tomorrow’s parties this morning, which was great although i have a sort of confused sense of the trilogy as a whole since i read them out of order. i started with idoru, then virtual light, then parties. still, they’re all really good books. i’m going to reread them, in order this time.

this netcafe is not as bad as it could be i guess, but it does make me miss cybersmith, which is out of business now. there used to be one in harvard square and i’d kill time there when i was bumming around the city. great gaming, decent connection speed, a much more coffehouse-like atmosphere than this place. this place feels like sears with webcams, or something. row upon row of identical crappy little win boxes with identical crappy little quickcams perched on the monitors, bright overhead lighting and no privacy at all. the ‘cafe’ part consists of an overpriced movie theatre style concession stand near the entrance. but still. net accesss is net access when you have nothing better to do.