{"id":99,"date":"2005-02-12T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=99"},"modified":"2005-02-13T19:01:53","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T03:01:53","slug":"woohoo-manray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Woohoo, Manray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manrayclub.com\/\">Manray<\/a> with J. R. + (No* + Ke*).  Before this, some yummy Indian food, and before that, the hunt for fashionable attire. J.R. brought along a fairly convincing wig of long black hair and coerced me to wear it (haha, like I ever need coercing to do stuff). I looked eeevil! Or, just generally cool and studly. Speaking of coercing, J. R. was required to cover her shoes in black duct tape upon entering, because they weren&#8217;t natively black enough. (Considering the culture promoted here, this attention to detail seemed a little <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soup_Nazi\" title=\"Requirements: be as unique as everybody else\">unusual<\/a>.) Got in just in time to catch <a href=\"http:\/\/maliceinleatherland.com\/\">Malice In Leatherland<\/a> (band one of No*&#8217;s friends is in) cranking it in the center room. J.R. convinced me to dance in the blinky room to the right (on the basis that bad dancing doesn&#8217;t look so bad at 3FPS&#8230;yay strobelights). Both of us tried throughout the night not to snicker each time we saw the guy wearing a small (marble bag?) over his hoo-hah, and little else. (What, this meets spec, but nonblack shoes don&#8217;t? &#8220;Sorry sir, you&#8217;re wearing way too much pasty white for a goth club&#8230;here&#8217;s your ducttape&#8230;&#8221;) At some point someone whipped out (no pun intended) purple LED whips, which got me spending a large percentage of available brain-time on novel, power harvesting clothing-embeddable blinky things. Maybe in sporadic, nondeterministic ways, just to mess with people (&#8220;did I just see that guy&#8217;s shirt flash out of the corner of my eye, or am I seeing things?&#8221;), or maybe synchronized with the actual beat (easy), or capable of displaying a realtime spectrum analysis (not as easy; juice hungry). Was mentally working out an addressable 2-wire interface for individual nodes (LEDs) on a chain or belt, when closing time was announced. Closing at 2:09am, wtf? She&#8217;s right, nightlifey stuff in Boston closes too early. But did manage to snag free demo CDs of the band before being <a href=\"http:\/\/bittershack.typepad.com\/bitter\/2003\/10\/allegory_for_th.html\" title=\"Please disperse, the scoops are on the way, the scoops are on the way!\">scooped<\/a> out the door.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/images\/fsmeevil.jpg\" title=\"mwa-ha-ha\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/images\/tnmeevil.jpg\" alt=\"Me looking devious\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMe looking devious<\/p>\n<p>\nQOTDs:<br \/>\n&#8220;Cycling isn&#8217;t a sport&#8230; it&#8217;s more like a leisure activity.&#8221; -Ke*<br \/>\n&#8220;You&#8217;re a leisure activity.&#8221; -No*<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fine, I&#8217;ll just have to go and lick them myself.&#8221; &#8211; J. R., on the<br \/>\nquestion of whether licking a tennis ball would leave your tongue<br \/>\ncovered in fuzz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dancing&#8230;It&#8217;s a vertical expression of a horizontal desire&#8221; &#8211; J. R.<br \/>\nquoting her mom quoting who knows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out to Manray with J. R. + (No* + Ke*). Before this, some yummy Indian food, and before that, the hunt for fashionable attire. J.R. brought along a fairly convincing wig of long black hair and coerced me to wear it (haha, like I ever need coercing to do stuff). I looked eeevil! 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