Y’know, I’m just sayin…
Y’know, I’m just sayin…
Month: October 2006
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
I was trying to temporarily replace my current blog layout with something halloweeny (weenish? something like that), you know, black and orange with silly-scary lettering. I figured, you’re home sick on halloween rather than out putting the trick in trick or treat, you might as well at least tart up your blog in halloween finery […]
I was trying to temporarily replace my current blog layout with something halloweeny (weenish? something like that), you know, black and orange with silly-scary lettering.
I figured, you’re home sick on halloween rather than out putting the trick in trick or treat, you might as well at least tart up your blog in halloween finery (cheapery?).
But i ran into some trivial technical problem and with grouchy-sick-guy patience, i said fuck this and gave up. What’s the point in decorating when you’re not even blogging, sez I.
Still. I think i need to change the look of this place. Out with teh piracy, in with the tattoo flash, or something.
saving my daylight
i did the usual fall back thing this morning and went out with my watch wrong, and got myself confused because the place i went opened at nine and my watch said nine. Though of course here in the real world it was only 8. It’s only an hour, yet a disagreement between internal and […]
i did the usual fall back thing this morning and went out with my watch wrong, and got myself confused because the place i went opened at nine and my watch said nine. Though of course here in the real world it was only 8.
It’s only an hour, yet a disagreement between internal and external clock somehow tilts the axis of the universe just slightly, so that everything looks the same but feels in a fundamental way wrong. Like everything in your house – walls, floors, roof, and everything your house contains – has just been moved an inch to the left. It all looks exactly the same; yet in some fundamental sub-sensory way, we feel it to be wrong.
It isn’t, though, the satisfying temporal displacement of travel and jet lag. Because that means we’re somewhere, somewhen, and have a reason to be out of sync with the air around us. We have the thrill of difference, and a different sun rising and setting at a different time, the fatigue of travel, soon solves the problem for us, for good or ill.
Here, home, we’re simply knocked out of balance, like a tire hitting a pot-hole. We spin a bit off-center for a time until we again find equilibrium.
But you know, at least now the clock in my Jeep – a clock that requires some elaborate vulcan-neck-pinch of buttons to set, and for which I last saw the manual around the turn of the century – is once again correct as it is half the year. So that’s something.
Firefox 2
Firefox 2 was just released, and I have to strongly suggest that anyone not running Safari move to this new Firefox right now, particularly if you’re still running Internet Explorer. I’ve been running the FF2 beta for several weeks and it’s a seriously cool browser, even without a lot of tweaks and plugins installed. They’ve […]
Firefox 2 was just released, and I have to strongly suggest that anyone not running Safari move to this new Firefox right now, particularly if you’re still running Internet Explorer.
I’ve been running the FF2 beta for several weeks and it’s a seriously cool browser, even without a lot of tweaks and plugins installed. They’ve fixed bugs, plugged security holes, and made leaps and bounds in terms of improved performance.
Go get it. God, please, get the hell away from Internet Explorer, all of you!
I just found a page of cool, simple firefox hacks you can do with no plugins. I love this kinda shit.
How to eat…
Ok, so the ‘how to eat sushi’ part is all well n’ good. But how fucking cute is the girl? I’m tellin’ ya. Only, why don’t they show me more of the sushi actually goin’ in to her sweet little mouth? That’s what I wanna see*. (props to R for the find – you know […]
Ok, so the ‘how to eat sushi’ part is all well n’ good.
But how fucking cute is the girl?
I’m tellin’ ya. Only, why don’t they show me more of the sushi actually goin’ in to her sweet little mouth? That’s what I wanna see*.
(props to R for the find – you know what i like)
* ok, i admit it, that’s not quite what i wanna see.
Nightmare in Three-D
I just saw the new Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D. And lemmee tellya, this ain’t your mamma’s 3D. 3D movies have come a LONG way in the past few years, as you’ll know if you saw Monster House in it’s 3D version, or if you’ve seen the latest 3D attractions at Disneyland or Universal or […]
I just saw the new Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D.
And lemmee tellya, this ain’t your mamma’s 3D. 3D movies have come a LONG way in the past few years, as you’ll know if you saw Monster House in it’s 3D version, or if you’ve seen the latest 3D attractions at Disneyland or Universal or other theme parks.
Now, i’m already a huge fan of this movie. So they only have to not fuck it up to be ok with me. Just a chance to see it on the big screen was cool, i listened to the people who didn’t like it when it came out and didn’t go see it in a theater. Luckily I later discovered they were wrong.
Well, they didn’t fuck it up; they made it even cooler. The 3D is a perfect compliment to the very physical stop-motion animation, adding even more depth and life to a visually rich and complex movie. They also totally re-mastered the sound, which is awesome. I saw, and heard, things I’d never noticed before.
You know 3D has made it when you stop noticing a film is in 3D. And like in Monster house, which i saw at Mann’s Chinese in los angeles a couple months ago, halfway through I stopped being aware of the glasses and the effect, and just watched the movie, marveling at how cool it looked but not thinking about it. That is when 3D is working, and in this film, it utterly does work.
Originally I’d heard this was going to be in very limited release, only playing in L.A., SF, and a couple other cities. But it looks like it’s gone into national release, so go see it while it’s still in the theaters. I bet it doesn’t play for long, and if you’re a fan, this is so completely a must-see.
Oh, and cute goth/emo girls love this movie, so there’s another sort of eye-candy involved. I wound up deep in conversation with a girl next to me about Lemony Snicket and Daniel Handler‘s adult novels (which feature murder, absinth, incest, golems, and more clever literary references than you can shake a stick at.) So that’s the kinda quality people this attracts, if, you know, you like that sort of thing.
rabbit
This is a sort of artistic brilliance that defies my ability to describe. It left me utterly speechless. Rabbit by Run Wrake: It’s longish (8 minutes) but watch the whole thing. It’s utterly hypnotic. (Props to Dauber for the find)
This is a sort of artistic brilliance that defies my ability to describe.
It left me utterly speechless.
It’s longish (8 minutes) but watch the whole thing. It’s utterly hypnotic.
(Props to Dauber for the find)
I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out
(Wrote this a couple days ago but could not post it due to some server trouble) Mmm, i love me some hockey. My first game of the season – solid success, close enough to be thrilling, but never close enough that i was worried. Final score, Sharks 2, Dallas 0. I love a good shutout. […]
(Wrote this a couple days ago but could not post it due to some server trouble)
Mmm, i love me some hockey.
My first game of the season – solid success, close enough to be thrilling, but never close enough that i was worried. Final score, Sharks 2, Dallas 0. I love a good shutout. I love a good hockey game. I love it best when they fight.
And the Sharks are off to their best start ever, in the whole history of the franchise.
Damn, I wish I could get season tickets, and, you know, a cool jersey:
Self Review
Every year, around this time of year, it winds up being review time at my place of gainful employment, and I have to do the dreaded Self-evaluation-form. And every year i try to write a clever piece about it, to the effect that instead of this crap, i should get reviewed on what I’m I’m […]
Every year, around this time of year, it winds up being review time at my place of gainful employment, and I have to do the dreaded Self-evaluation-form.
And every year i try to write a clever piece about it, to the effect that instead of this crap, i should get reviewed on what I’m I’m actually good at.
Hilarity would then ensue.
Only every year, I wind up pissed off and time-short and never get it done. I’ve two or three partially completed pieces like that.
Fuck it. You people do it. Write me my performance review. I’m going to go gnash my teeth.
Shaken and Stirred
Well, the whole Moronosphere and everything it contains went down like a cheap hooker last night. This wasn’t unplanned, but we’d rather expected a short and simple downtime. Best Laid Plans, wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie. Due to some bad luck and just-ok support from the people who provide us physical hosting, getting the new-and-improved […]
Well, the whole Moronosphere and everything it contains went down like a cheap hooker last night. This wasn’t unplanned, but we’d rather expected a short and simple downtime. Best Laid Plans, wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie.
Due to some bad luck and just-ok support from the people who provide us physical hosting, getting the new-and-improved system back on line took very much longer than expected, and now, we’re finding all the things we need to hand-fix as we rebuild.
All is well. Remain Calm.
The Host with the Most, Brandon has slept maybe an hour in the last two days while he works on this, and we all owe him a case of red-bull and maybe something stronger later on. Thanks brutha man. You rule.
Things might be glitchy in the m’sphereian blogs listed in my side bar for another couple days. Patience, jackass, patience.