Watched Blast from the Past on the dubious recommendation of a friend; my only comment was along the lines of “Hey, Venice Beach really does look like the Tony Hawk 2 level!” The New York level vaguely resembles New York, I suppose, but not that closely.

Today the heat finally broke and it’s cool enough to wear clothing, at least for the next few days. As my productivity goes completely down the drain when the temperature approaches 100, I’m doing a lot of catching up at the moment. I owe many, many, many of you email: I’m getting to it, I swear. I’ve gotten quite bogged down the past couple of weeks but I’m slowly making my way through my inbox.

Finally submitted something to one of waferbaby’s projects. Check out my desk here. I realized I never finished taking photos of NYU, either; If the rest of the weekend is cooler than the past few days have been, maybe I’ll do that. A couple people have requested Coney Island photos, too, since I live so close. I haven’t been down there since my parents came to visit last summer, but there’s no reason I couldn’t go.

I know this started happening to other weblogs months ago, but I’ve finally joined the club - certain news and gaming sites have actually started pitching me via email to post about their articles and features. It’s one thing if you read caoine anyway and you happen to have written an article relating to something I would be interested in, but these are the same form letters other webloggers have been getting and they don’t really have anything to do with my content. A whole new breed of spam, I suppose.