At this point, due to people exiting the train and seat shuffling, the seat three to the left of the man was vacant and I took it, so now it was left to right: woman, me, Aimée (another friend), vacant seat, and then the drawing man. I was talking to (still-standing) Kenny, trying not to draw obvious attention to myself, but also knowing it would be cool to be chosen as a subject of the man’s next drawing. I soon became aware that I was in fact chosen and tried to act normal, failing only every so often as the man would catch me glancing at him and both of us would grin sheepishly.

Eventually, the man finished and handed me the very nice drawing. I was prepared and gave him ten bucks in return. He then gave me a blank sheet of paper to cover it so it didn’t get messed up on the rest of the way home. He then drew Aimée before she got off. Then he packed up his things and got off at Houston St.

I’ve included appropriate photos below, including a reference photo I took when I got home so you’d know what he was trying to capture in the sketch. And there’s nothing I could have done about it, but I’m a little bit angry that I got my hair cut that very morning, otherwise we’d be looking at a bit cooler and poofier sketch.

I made the pattern myself using KXStitch. It’s inspired by patterns from Julie Jackson’s amazing Subversive Cross Stitch. The font is Jason Kottke’s always useful Silkscreen.

See? I’m cool.

Written and performed by alpinekat, aka Katherine McAlpine. Beats by Will Barras.

Best rap ever.

They were very well received.

Facebook used to have a feature that listed on each profile a “Last Update” date. So for a long time, I had the furthest back date of all the people I knew. In March 2006, they had some problems with their “Recently Updated Profiles” list, so they were forced to reset everyone’s “Last Update” to March 23, 2006. Shortly thereafter, Facebook did away with listing the date at all, taking away from me what I saw as a cool little bit of status.

Since the outward sign that I hadn’t updated my profile in a really long time was removed, I had to resort to telling people in conversation. Not as cool, let me tell you.

Now, not updating has pretty much just become a personal weird thing. I would say things to myself like “I haven’t done it in such a long time, let’s see how long I can go.” However, I’ve recently come to the conclusion that I’d need to update something or other eventually, so I should probably figure out a significant day to make that update.

So today, three years seven months and twenty-nine days after my last edit, I updated my Facebook profile. Don’t look for any significant change in the data there, it’s the update itself that’s significant.

Left to right, top to bottom (stacks ordered reverse-chronologically by date of laundry load):

First stack

1. Pace University Wellness Week 2007 #1
2. The River Project green
3. V-Day Until the Violence Stops
4. L.L.Bean Visa Credit Card Outdoor Advantage
5. Pace University white
6. Pace University Women’s and Gender Studies
7. The River Project blue
8. ShopRite Ronetco Supermarkets Walk America 2002
9. Pace University PaceOne Card

Second stack

10. Homestar Runner Coach Z
11. Jake and Amir So Ace
12. Current TV
13. Español TalkingT
14. Dr. McNinja
15. The Office Dwight Schrute Do you have your tickets to the gun show?
16. New Hampshire Wildcats
17. Clarkson University Clarkson Union Board
18. Educational Housing Services
19. Pace University Pace Preview Day 2008 2 #1
20. Department for Persons with Disabilities Bike-a-thon 1999
21. Homestar Runner Trogdor
22. Questionable Content Coffee of Doom
23. Arkansas Razorbacks Football #1
24. Guam
25. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Welcome Wagon 2003 #1
26. Homestar Runner Pistols for Pandas
27. Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.
28. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Take Back the Night 2006 #1
29. Pope John XXIII Regional High School gym shirt, dyed pink
30. Marked Graphic Novel

Third stack

31. Pace University Pace Preview Day 2008 2 #2
32. Hanes gray shirt with breast pocket
33. Arkansas Razorbacks Football #2
34. Homestar Runner Senor Cardgage
35. Homestar Runner Eh! Steve!
36. Homestar Runner Cool Tapes
37. New York Yankees
38. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Welcome Wagon 2004 #1
39. Pace University Pace Preview Day 2008 1 #1
40. Homestar Runner Homestar’s 10th Birthday #1
41. Wile E. Coyote
42. PvP Han Shot First
43. Pace University Work Toward Greatness
44. Obey Gravity It’s the Law
45. Homestar Runner The Cheat blue
46. The Susan G. Kormen Breast Cancer Foundation Race for the Cure New York City 2005
47. Pace University Pace Board First Annual 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament
48. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Welcome Wagon 2006/2007 #1
49. Homestar Runner Teen Girl Squad
50. Firefox

Fourth stack

51. ROFLCon 2008 #1
52. Snakes on a Motherfuckin’ Plane
53. ROFLCon 2008 #2
54. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Welcome Wagon 2005
55. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Welcome Wagon 2003 #2
56. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Welcome Wagon 2006/2007 #2
57. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Maria’s Tower RA on Duty 2005
58. Pace University Housing and Residential Life CORE 2007
59. Homestar Runner Marzipan
60. Homestar Runner Homestar’s 10th Birthday #2
61. Pace University University Fest 2005

Fifth stack

62. Vancouver Canada
63. Let Me Drop Everything
64. Pace University Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
65. Brooklyn Brewery
66. Protect Your Nuts
67. Dr. McNinja What Would Batman Do?
68. Pace University Pace Preview Day 2008 1 #2
69. Nike gray swoosh
70. Questionable Content Evolution Kills
71. St. Xavier High School
72. Homestar Runner Crazy Go Nuts University Dumples
73. New York Cares Hands on New York Day 2006 Volunteer
74. Pace University Forensic Science Student Organization
75. Pace University Wellness Week 2007 #2
76. Decorah Hatchery I Love Quality Chicks
77. Homestar Runner Homestar Running blue
78. Penny Arcade Merch
79. Homestar Runner Videlectrix
80. That’s What She Said
81. Homestar Runner You Reek-A!

Sixth stack

82. Slashdot Soothing Green Light
83. xkcd Science It Works, Bitches
84. Pace University Pace Preview Day 2008 1 #3
85. Pace University Pace Press Fairly Objective
86. New York Yankees World Series Champs 1998
87. Pace University gray
88. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Room Selection Daze 2006 #1
89. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Welcome Wagon 2006/2007 #3
90. soce The Elemental Wizard
91. Homestar Runner Star
92. Pope John XXIII Regional High School Baseball
93. Pace University Wellness Week 2007 #3
94. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Take Back the Night 2005
95. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Room Selection Daze 2006 #2
96. Homestar Runner Homestar Running white
97. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Room Selection Daze 2005
98. Questionable Content Teh
99. Questionable Content Math is Delicious
100. Homestar Runner Pom Pom
101. New York Cares Hands on New York Day 2008

Seventh stack

102. Questionable Content Dashing Hat
103. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Welcome Wagon 2004 #2
104. Microsoft Dell IT The Business Desktop 2000
105. Homestar Runner Homsar
106. xkcd Sudo Make Me A Sandwich
107. Homestar Runner The Cheat red
108. Homestar Runner Get Ye Flask
109. Pace University Wellness Week 2007 #4
110. Pace University Housing and Residential Life Take Back the Night 2006 #2
111. New York Yankees Interlocking NY Manhattan Skyline
112. Homestar Runner Windup Homestar

Eighth stack

113. Homestar Runner Duck
114. Homestar Runner Support the Municipality!
115. Homestar Runner Bubs
116. Homestar Runner Strong Sad
117. RTFM
118. Homestar Runner Bear Holding a Shark
119. xkcd Not Antisocial
120. Clarkson University Solar Nights Sunrayce
121. xkcd No Raptors
122. Boy Scout Troop 54
123. Pace University Pace Preview Day 2008 2 #3
124. Penny Arcade Jesus Says Don’t be a Dick
125. Penny Arcade Child’s Play
126. Superbad I am McLovin
127. Vibram Five Fingers

(Not shown, 128. Pace University Wellness Week 2007 #5)

Some select statistics: thirty-seven Pace University shirts and twenty-seven Homestar Runner shirts together comprise exactly half (sixty-four) of the total number of shirts (one hundred twenty-eight). Also, seven shirts have a double, three shirts have a triple, and one shirt has a quintuple.

Here’s some video my father put together of me and him:

He’s a cute little guy.

See Apatosaurus and Normal human body temperature for more info.

Here are some photos and videos of the setup and his reaction: