…even when you’re not having fun. Hmm, well, not exactly not having fun, just super busy (which isn’t the unfun part). The unfun part is all the rest of the crap that’s still waiting to be done.

I’ve been so busy in fact that things have started slipping my mind rather regularly. For example, I totally forgot about the Phantom Planet concert in the middle of the campus despite telling people to marking my calendar. Oops. I decided to catch them at Aron’s Records. They played a good set, and despite having no doubt signed their souls away I was going to pick up their album (having already invested over an hour in travel and wait time anyway) and be a good sport about it, but the crowds and the lines and the handstamping and the yayas was just too much.

Also, the crowd was mucho trendy, reminding me about Hollywood and LA in general, in how the music industry promotes and popularizes in general, and also in why I don’t go out more (besides being lazy, that is). In any case, and this has nothing to do with being anti-success, but IP issues have been at the top of my mind recently, and that whole thing has left an intellectual aftertaste.

Speaking of which, /. provides the daily IP ulcer: MPAA Wants Copy-Controlled PCs. This has long since crossed over the realm of ridiculousness, with distribution-based media companies once again trying to undo disruptive technology with laws so that they won’t have to shift their economic model because of short term turmoil despite that everyone will benefit in the long run. Fundamental problem? Self-interest is too short-sighted. It will always prefer the safe, local maxima. Never the forest, only the trees.