okay seriously, you came back here, check it out, links (to the left) and blurbs (here on the right). the general idea is that blurbs tend to be longer and typically don't contain links, but whatever, this is the old stuff, really old stuff
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miramax is closing
here is a list of all the movies they made http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/Miramax.php
here are the miramax movies i saw
reservoir dogs
the piano
the crow
pulp fiction
clerks
il postino
four rooms
jane eyre
trainspotting
the crow: city of angels
swingers
sling blade
scream
chasing amy
mimic
good will hunting
scream 2
jackie brown
sliding doors
54
rounders
little voice
shakespeare in love
the faculty
she's all that
office space
existenz
outside providence
scream 3
reindeer games
hamlet
le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain
les invasions barbares
kill bill vol 1
kill bill vol 2
zatoichi
hero
finding neverland
no country for old men
adventureland
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Oh! Now I get it! They think corporations are people. No wonder they think a fetus is a person.
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there is a big fuss over what nbc did to conan
i agree that nbc's shafting of mr o'brien sucks, but nbc is a big corporation and big corporations are built to do one thing, churn out large amounts of profit. big corporations (and some of the little ones) do many awful things that suck so that they can continue to churn out even larger amounts of profit (or in the case of certain dying large corporations-- any profit at all).
what i'm wondering is why so many people are up in arms, how often do you actually watch one of those conan, leno, letterman, kimmel, etc shows? i never do. adult swim has generally ruled my late night viewing since its inception on the rare occasion that i find myself actually sitting (or more appropriately lying) down to watch a bit of tv after 11pm. if i don't happen to like what is on adult swim there are other channels that consistently play other favored cartoons. i'll look for family guy, south park, king of the hill or the simpsons. barring finding any of those playing, i'll hit up the area of the tv with the history channel, animal planet, discovery.
sometimes, just maybe i'll hit up comedy central for colbert or stewart but i never check out the standard late night shows. there is just too much suck in them. i just wait for the internet to point out the good clips for me, and typically unless you mention another celebrity that i really like in the title, i skip it until other people i know are practically begging me to watch, then i give it a chance.
well everyone has been making a big fuss over a big company making an unpopular decision and i've seen several clips of conan recently, and i think he is pretty funny in those clips, i might watch a few more, sometime, like, if i'm pretty bored
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been listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Nirvana a lot lately
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my outdoor trash can is currently playing the dual role of mouse grave, rest in peace little guy, i found greta gently licking the dead mouse in the backyard, as if she wanted it to get up and play with her, i'm guessing the cat killed it
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i wake up this morning to check the aws health dashboard (having been affected by their "connectivity issues" last night) and see updates
1:08 AM PST We are investigating connectivity issues for instances in the US-EAST-1 region.
1:26 AM PST We are experiencing power issues for a subset of instances in a single availability zone in the US-EAST-1 region.
1:51 AM PST The underlying power issue has been addressed. Instances have begun to recover.
2:11 AM PST Most affected instances have regained power and are operating normally. We are working to recover a small number of instances that have not yet recovered.
3:33 AM PST We are continuing to work on recovering the remaining affected instances.
5:31 AM PST We are continuing to work on recovering the small number of remaining affected instances.
i'm just glad my affected instances recovered rather quickly
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saw this movies i'm excited for and movies i'm not list for 2009 that i wrote a while ago, and figured i'd annotate it with what actually happened since most of them have come out already
movies i'm excited about for 2009:
the wrestler - saw it, was pretty good
watchmen - awesome! got it and the black freighter on blu ray
xmen origins: wolverine - saw this on demand on my tv, didn't really enjoy it, but as a guy who reads a ton of dc comics and not really many marvel ones i guess that is to be expected
terminator salvation - it was okay, first two are some of my favorite movies of all time, so it had a lot to live up to
sherlock holmes - not out yet
public enemies - never actually saw this, but would totally rent it one day
year one - got it from the redbox for a dollar, worth the dollar
adventureland - great job
i love you man - absolutely wonderful
where the wild things are - s'okay, its kind of a crying festival, so if you want to be sad for a few days, go see it
harry potter - liked it, ending up reading the whole book series the next month (since i'd never read them before)
movies i'm not:
star trek - saw, loved, and bought the blu ray
transformers 2 - did not see
fast and the furious 4 - did not see
angels and demons - did not see
knowing - did not see
dragonball - did not see
unsure:
gi joe - did not see
land of the lost - did not see
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just got the doktor sleepless volume 1 trade paperback and the other single issues to catch up to current. really excited to be breaking into another warren ellis storyline.
transmetroplitan first caught my eye 6-8 months ago and since then i've managed to collect the first 5 trades, its a great read and very interesting for the sci-fi fun of the comic's future setting
since then i've read black summer, no hero, black gas, and started on his new series supergod
i think black summer is my favorite story by warren ellis that i've read so far
off to start doktor sleepless on my lunch break
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wow, the characters from true blood are ALL on twitter, or at least a bunch of 'em are. here are the ones i've found so far
http://twitter.com/SookieBonTemps
http://twitter.com/vampirebill
http://twitter.com/kitchenbitch - lafayette
http://twitter.com/JessicaHamby
http://twitter.com/HoytFortenberry
http://twitter.com/ericnorthman
http://twitter.com/Pam_atFangtasia
http://twitter.com/TaraMaeThornton
http://twitter.com/jasonBT
http://twitter.com/TerryB_fleur
http://twitter.com/arlenefowler
http://twitter.com/MerlottesBar
http://twitter.com/WaitressDaphne
http://twitter.com/VampHadley
http://twitter.com/VampireStan
http://twitter.com/Kat_Sinclair
http://twitter.com/SteveNewlinJr
http://twitter.com/sarahNewlin
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the tweetstream of my NW trip
MCO -> IAH -> PDX
5:47 AM Jun 17th
ponzi vineyards in beaverton, amazing reserve chardonnay with a buttery finish http://yfrog.com/0qv10tj
1:51 PM Jun 17th
at torii mor, grabbed one of the last 18 bottles of their first wine, 1993 pinot noir #wine
3:33 PM Jun 17th
driving beautiful gravel roads through oregon wine country, amazing evergreens in the mountains on this cool overcast day #wine
3:43 PM Jun 17th
rounding out the day with tastings at erath and penner-ash #wine
4:54 PM Jun 17th
it's whole hog wednesday at dundee bistro, all you can eat mesquite smoked pig with collards, peppers, and beans - sold!
7:06 PM Jun 17th
round 2 is completely delicious
7:40 PM Jun 17th
pic of the aforementioned tasties http://yfrog.com/0u80zj
7:46 PM Jun 17th
lazy river 2006 pinot noir from the yamhill carlton district is a great complement to the pork #wine http://yfrog.com/0azm5zj
7:51 PM Jun 17th
dessert menu here has three different types of bacon plus cheeses and traditional desserts http://yfrog.com/0ul6pj
8:04 PM Jun 17th
Reading on a deck in the valley of some mountains at abbey road farm, perfect end to the first day of vacation
9:23 PM Jun 17th
as the sun sets and I can no longer read clearly I sit in awe of the beauty of this world
9:42 PM Jun 17th
anna and I both just "helped" with the goat milking, we were able to get milk to come out but were not that great at it
7:48 AM Jun 18th
nature hike spottings: beetle, rabbit, bees, snails, giant blueish squirrels, skink, butterfly, dragonfly, snake
1:13 PM Jun 18th
tasting at stoller, their oak barrelled chardonnay is wonderful
1:27 PM Jun 18th
white rose wines has some seriously smooth pinot noirs #wine
1:54 PM Jun 18th
tasting at domaine drouhin, yum #wine
2:08 PM Jun 18th
the super dirty winery cat that really liked to be pet http://yfrog.com/0aviilqkj
2:35 PM Jun 18th
bonus goat milking pic http://yfrog.com/6pq7rj
2:37 PM Jun 18th
grabbing a late lunch at blah blah blah twitter this is anna now hi
3:04 PM Jun 18th
anna has been drinking a bit eh
3:05 PM Jun 18th
into Carlton for tastings at utopia, folin, and cliff creek <3 #wine
5:34 PM Jun 18th
barking frog 2006 syrah with an Italian dinner #wine http://yfrog.com/65vd5j
7:24 PM Jun 18th
there is such a thing as too much garlic, the Italian place in Carlton is a good example, seriously it's garlic overload, I can't eat this
7:41 PM Jun 18th
just checked in at the jupiter hotel in portland, this whole area is hipsterlicious
12:04 PM Jun 19th
@coreyr think so, papercuts is tonight at the doug fir, right now we are wandering downtown, just went to powell's city of books, it's huge!
1:50 PM Jun 19th in reply to coreyr
coreyr: @imbiat are you seeing a show?
trapped at a bar in downtown portland by the rain #makersmark
3:02 PM Jun 19th
happy hour specials at the doug fir lounge are awesome
5:25 PM Jun 19th
walking into the doug fir lounge to see papercuts and port o'brien
9:59 PM Jun 19th
the spring sipper at the doug fir - buffalo trace bourbon, dash of peach bitters, orange & cherry muddled together on the rocks #delicious
10:32 PM Jun 19th
port o'brien passed out pots and pans and spoons and such to the crowd to bang on during their last song, so great
11:23 PM Jun 19th
papercuts was ... meh - port o'brien should have been the headliner, great night though, opener leonard mynx rocked, grabbed his cd
12:04 AM Jun 20th
also got both cds from port o'brien and one of their tshirts
12:05 AM Jun 20th
at the Oregon zoo, I hope I am better at controlling my future kids than all the people that are here today, stop screaming at the animals
12:46 PM Jun 20th
Got to pet pygora goats and a guinea hogs, fed some hay to a dexter cow but it was a bit skittish when I tried to pet it
12:58 PM Jun 20th
thanks @jhstrauss for the schwarma intro when I was in SF, just found an amazing street vendor with it at south park blocks in portland
2:21 PM Jun 20th
As the south park blocks farmers market closes up, saw a leftovers trade between two vendors, berries for artichokes
2:26 PM Jun 20th
we walked all over Portland today, great day, now at oba! for dinner, tomorrow columbia river gorge
7:11 PM Jun 20th
dinner at oba! comes out beautiful http://yfrog.com/595y2j
7:37 PM Jun 20th
drivng the historic columbia river highway and listening to port o'brien
10:45 AM Jun 21st
stopping in hood river fir lunch at the 6th street bistro and a wine tasting at the pines tasting room, great zin
2:20 PM Jun 21st
entering the mt hood national forest
4:57 PM Jun 21st
Elevation ~4000 feet, finally found a spot where mt hood is not obscured by clouds, 41 degrees brr http://yfrog.com/ekfz2j
5:02 PM Jun 21st
Bye bye Oregon, hello Washington
7:16 PM Jun 21st
@coreyr s'okay we are having a blast, I drank out of a mountain stream at white river canyon
7:19 PM Jun 21st in reply to coreyr
coreyr: @imbiat you totally got cheated, sorry for the clouds. :(
our rental car has XM radio, we've been listening to lithium & the coffee house, any station recommendations?
7:42 PM Jun 21st
not seeing much to eat off I-5 in middle of nowhere Washington but finally found a 'kit carson' seems bob evans-ish, we'll see how this goes
8:24 PM Jun 21st
stopped in mccleary and had a great breakfast at rain country restaurant
11:04 AM Jun 22nd
the welcome sign to Aberdeen says 'come as you are', i wonder how long it has said that, before kurt wrote the song perhaps
11:38 AM Jun 22nd
exploring a bit of the quinault rain forest at the SW edge of the olympic national forest and then heading over to the coast
2:33 PM Jun 22nd
tide pools! starfish and urchins
5:13 PM Jun 22nd
we've arrived in forks, chamber of commerce has a twilight poster filling the window in the door
5:45 PM Jun 22nd
forks welcomes anna http://yfrog.com/5kifij
5:56 PM Jun 22nd
it's light rather late up here in Washington and it seems strange that most things are closed by 9pm and yet it'll be light out for a while
8:50 PM Jun 22nd
cruising the 101 to the olympic game farm, hope I get to feed a buffalo
8:25 AM Jun 23rd
starting the drive with our favorite song for the trip - port o'brien 'i woke up today'
8:29 AM Jun 23rd
I just fed this bear some bread, he used to be in the movies http://yfrog.com/0yhgsrj
10:59 AM Jun 23rd
The Olympic game farm has old movie star animals and siezed animals, most you can feed, I just fed a yak, elk are next
11:04 AM Jun 23rd
I fed kodiak, grizzly & black bears; yaks; llamas; bison, elk, deer, peacocks, prarie dogs, seriously best day ever
11:29 AM Jun 23rd
taking the ferry over to seattle
2:28 PM Jun 23rd
walked all around seattle, now off to find a bar or other nightlife
9:11 AM Jun 23rd
Where the bars at Seattle? Walked 9 blocks & found a few places serving drinks none what we wanted, finally found kells by the waterfront
10:00 PM Jun 23rd
an on to the whiskey bar at 2nd and Virginia, I'm having a Jameson flight
10:42 PM Jun 23rd
apparently we just walked the wrong way, walking up Virginia towards the paramount we saw tons of bars, eh what can you do?
11:21 PM Jun 23rd
first up, the Nordic Heritage museum for my Nordic baby
10:09 AM Jun 24th
just got back in our car and the bison/yak/etc slobber has dried into some serious grossness on the sides
10:11 AM Jun 24th
lunch from vendors at pike place market, a visit to the aquarium, and now we're going on the underground tour
3:56 PM Jun 24th
heading to the pink door for italian
7:25 PM Jun 24th
ordered a bottle of bradisismo veneto rosso 2005 #wine from verona italia
7:33 PM Jun 24th
breakfast then to Canada
8:26 AM Jun 25th
O Canada (border crossing) http://yfrog.com/3yha2j
12:41 PM Jun 25th
now I get why Douglas Coupland called Vancouver the 'city of glass', every building seems made of only windows, beautiful reflections
7:54 PM Jun 25th
drinking a wonderful 2005 chateau sainte-eulalie 'la cantiléne' named fir the 1st French poem (c. 881) http://yfrog.com/9h2j5j
8:01 PM Jun 25th
walking around granville island about to go on a whale watching adventure
10:49 AM Jun 26th
saw the whales, some seals and bald eagles, also got a little burnt
8:23 PM Jun 26th
Listening to port o'brien and driving to the Vancouver airport, then it's YVR -> IAH -> MCO
8:16 AM Jun 27th
sweet! they have US customs at the vancouver airport so we don't have to deal with it after the flight http://yfrog.com/1198ggj
11:16 AM Jun 27th
uploaded a video from my trip - Port O'Brien - I Woke Up Today - live at the doug fir lounge in portland, oregon http://awe.sm/NWu
12:41 PM Jun 28th
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sometimes it is actually fun getting up at 430 to do work
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latest anti-gay hate psa is out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haVqcPfeqKI
it is infuriating watching this, even more so knowing it changes hearts and minds
it's a thinly veiled retelling of the 'adam and eve not adam and steve' brain-dead chant wrapped in the innocent guise of children saying contrived things to pull at your heartstrings
tell the first child: yes thats okay, any two people who love each other should be able to get married
tell the second child: whatever you want, kids say a lot of weird things, i kinda agree with her, it is an old fashioned idea, and it is true that a child may choose to reject a religion in the face of its stance on gay marriage
tell the third kid: actually you're missing the point entirely, its not about what god created or its about accepting how things are, you don't need to connect every modern relationship back to the way "god created the first men and women"
tell the fourth kid: you wouldn't have a mom, not everyone has a mom but you do have a mom because this is how you were born, some people are born in different situations, the most important thing is not which sex your parents are but that you are loved
tell the fifth kid: it is okay to be confused, you will often be confused by the many horrible things in the world, the most confusing of which is the human capacity for hating other humans
fear mongering backwards idiots really piss me off
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on the plane back from railsconf in vegas i saw someone with a new sookie stackhouse novel in hardback, i wish i had seen it in the airport before i got on the plane, i havent had the time to pick it up yet, but i want to so badly, then again, i haven't had the time to read it anyway, but i will read it, and soon
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between one super late night last week and one marathon reading session late into last night i just read another of the sookie stackhouse novels, "definitely dead"
it was okay, i mean i love the characters and the storylines are just fine but it still felt like the whole thing was handled somewhat carelessly, like charlaine just let the story fall out of her, it just didn't seem to go far enough, i think i love the characters so much that i just want so much more, i want epics
i'm 50 pages into the next one "all together dead"
also i just used debit card points to get an amazon gift certificate which i used to pre-order the true blood bluray
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read a comic on lunch and what fun! today, oracle - the cure started its three issue run. the series is batman "battle for the cowl" related.
oracle, daughter of commissioner gordon, the first batgirl, crippled by the joker, now super hacker is searching for the remains of the anit-life equation following the final crisis storyline.
[SPOILERS] in this issue we meet cheese-fiend (or at least i do having not been a regular birds of prey reader) and the character has the greatest death. her head explodes due to events that happen in a second life type computer game. (and yes i understand comics are fantasy and all kinds of stuff happen in them that couldn't in real life, that is why i love them so much and also why i said "wonderful death", i completely enjoyed it)
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just read the sandman: the dream hunters run by neil gaiman and p craig russell and it was really awesome, it had the tone of a sandman story, the deterministic indifference. the art and core of the story were wrapped in japanese packaging. as a fan of and reader of almost all of the other neil gaiman sandman related work, it was a pure delight to read. they find ways to fit the three sisters and cain and abel into the story line.
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i heard about a few more movies that were coming out and wanted to update my 2009 excited/not excited lists, i've also added unsure and 2010
(still non exhaustive lists)
movies i'm excited about for 2009:
the wrestler - saw it, was pretty good
watchmen - can't wait
xmen origins: wolverine
terminator salvation - new trailer is a win!
sherlock holmes
public enemies - depp and bale do good work
year one
adventureland
i love you man
where the wild things are - spike jonze is always amazing
harry potter - might as well see how this plays out
movies i'm not:
star trek
transformers 2
fast and the furious 4
angels and demons
knowing
dragonball
unsure:
gi joe
land of the lost
2010:
alice in wonderland from tim burton
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updating firefox extensions, woohoohoo, just spent a few hours after work making them for one of our clients and then made a version for me to use for this site. i'm leaving the null link, it goes to a cool rails thing, so if you are into that, go click it, or if it isn't in the last 13 links over there or whatever, just use the search, i mean how many times can i have actually said null
time for LOST!
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finished seasons 1 and 2 of how i met your mother, don't really like the lead character all that much, but i love all the others and thus the show. anna's sister is bringing us season 3 this weekend, then to hulu/itunes so i can catch up, i'm getting sick of seeing it listed on the cable guide and not getting to watch it. anna's been watching the big bang theory show and himym comes on right after it, so i get teased by commercials.
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WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN?
I am going to watch the watchmen on 03.06.09
(I bet I'm so not the first person to say that)
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hey, the site got some updates! woohoo!
they aren't too big, but i like them. the first change that i made was to make the link column have the last 13 links instead of the last 13 days of links. this way it never gets empty or overrun. You can follow by RSS or check the archive if you want to see every single one.
Then I added a random link, at first I added it at the bottom of the link column, but it felt too much like an easter egg, so I put it at the top of the blurbs column. This variable height creates a few weirdnesses but I kinda like them, they match with my overflowing title bars.
Modern browsers can handle it, older IE browsers used to choke but that's okay, we all know IE sucks.
I also renamed the blurbs section, yeah right up there, now it says "really random and irregular musings (blurbs)"
neato!
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Today I got the most awesome birthday present. Anna and I shadowed the big cat keeper at the Central Florida Zoo. It was amazing.
We cleaned out animal habitats and got to feed some animals. We cleaned the public habitats for the caracal and the coatis. I even scooped up some poop. Then we cleaned the clouded leopards' and cheetah's night dens. To clean an area we'd remove poop and any leftover food parts and then spray down all of the props and the floor, cleaning out all the loose debris.
All of the cats at the zoo are too dangerous to get to pet, but we did get to interact with several other animals.
I got to hold a baby sloth. She tried to bite me a few times, but very slowly and I was able to easily avoid her. I also got to pet a kankajou.
I was able to help feed a few animals as well. We fed ants on a log to the elephants. The elephants would take the celery out of our hands with their trunks. A few times I put the food directly into the elephants mouth and even got a little slobber on myself. The elephant was able to pick up individual raisins with its trunk.
The keeper talked to us a lot about enrichment. Enrichment is what the call stimulating the animals to keep the lives interesting. We tied a bunch of palm fronds into the coati habitat and hung kebabs of grapes and honeydew melon for them to eat.
It was awesome, check out the pics at http://awe.sm/2G
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movies i'm excited about for 2009
(a non exhaustive list)
the wrestler (still not playing near orlando)
watchmen
xmen origins: wolverine
terminator salvation
sherlock holmes
movies i'm not:
star trek
transformers
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I AM SO PISSED AT FOX RIGHT NOW
I can't believe a judge has sided with them on the Watchmen deal. I mean come on, I've known that this movie was being made forever. You'd think that they would have brought this up a bit earlier if they had any genuine desire to make the movie. This is just corporate greed, a sneaky plan to take money from work they didn't do.
Shame on you Fox, I hope there is a very quick appeal and that you lose because a smart judge is able to see the greed just dripping off your hungry snout.
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you know what the stupidest vampire thing of 2008 was? it wasn't true blood. it wasn't twilight. it was the "real" ones.
i watched and loved true blood. i even read most of the books (they are okay, but definitely more firmly rooted in the horror romance genre than even anne rice vampire novels [and those were some sexy books])
i even saw twilight with my wife (i didn't read the books but she did). it really wasn't that bad, a little cheesy but it was a love story for little girls so i guess it was to be expected.
the real embarrassment to the vampire world were the shows on the history channel where "psychic" vampires talked about their real lives.
i read a lot of comics and a lot of stuff like that happens, energy stealing, soul sucking, etc... but really when I saw actual people talking about how they feed off of the lifeforce of other people I was very very sad.
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THIS IS WHY RUBY
[found in a reddit comment]
Eg. Instead of:
$tmp = array();
foreach ($foo as $x) {
if ($x->bar()) {
$tmp[] = $x;
}
}
echo join(",", $tmp);
You can do stuff like:
puts foo.select { |x| x.bar }.join(",")
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i've decided to wait on the rest of the books in the series, i'll wait for season 2 of true blood to unfold as alan ball envisions it. i think it'll have more impact if i don't read ahead
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just finished reading Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris. i recently fell in love with the True Blood series on HBO (having been a devout Alan Ball fan after watching Six Feet Under for five years) so now that season one of True Blood is over i just felt that i had to read the books to fill the void... not bad, i liked some parts of the book better and some parts of the series better, i dont know if i am going to read the next book
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woohoo, so many great things in edge rails lately
:only and :except routing is probably my favorite new feature
default_scope is nice too
object.try also just simply rules
(thanks to corey for pointing me to ryan daigle's blog where i learn about all of these cool edge things)
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java is like legos, lots of little bricks you can stack together and create fairly cool things
ruby is like playdough and you can use your very own easy bake oven to create lego bricks out of ruby
ruby win
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git is very efficient storage
- rails checkout is 11M
- entire rails history is only 16M
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just about everyone projects: obama, next president of the united states of america
now just waiting for him to speak
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FLORIDA VOTERS! NO on 2! Support fairness to others. Being fair, its a good thing.
OBAMA! VOTE!
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woot
Intel Core2 Duo Processor E8300 (6MB L2 Cache,2.83GHz,1333FSB)
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 4DIMMs
750GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
24 inch E248WFP Entry Widescreen Digital Flat Panel Monitor
16X DVD+/-RW Drive
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Internal PCI 802.11g Wireless Network Card
Dell 19 in 1 Media Card Reader
Logitech Cordless Desktop S 510 Keyboard and Mouse
Dell A525 30 Watt 2.1 Stereo Speakers with Subwoofer
Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1
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heading to the dark knight imax experience, its a big screen, just not a full imax screen, not like the one at the space center
watched gotham knight last night, so i'm all kindsa amped
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must see the dark knight again, it was brilliant, paced just like a comic book, loved the quick wrap-up because it just leads to the story going on and on and on
i keep almost going to the regular theater and then saying, no must wait until we can make the journey to the imax, once on a crappy screen was enough
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batman begins bluray special edition is awesome. i'm loving the popup menu feature though i was confused at first when it just started playing and menu button said "operation not supported"... though an accidental press of the square button on the ps3 remote and i was all better.
the commentary track with pop in video balloons showing talking heads and behind the scenes shots was spectacular and the first 6 minutes of dark knight in hd really gets me jazzed, just 10 more days!
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we totally use xml files to load all our data into our flash sites... waiting on you google, are you just gonna grab 'em? are you going to figure out how to play nice? are you going to give away everybody's media files just because they load them somewhere in their flash file? strange business is afoot...
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when oh when can we really end support for IE6, i envy you 37signals!
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i'm wondering about obama now that he's letting fisa go without a fight on the immunity part... but then he made that very definitive i will end this war statement... still light years better than mccain in my opinion
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the new jiffy firebug firefox extension is awesome for debugging execution hangups
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I AM VOTING FOR BARACK OBAMA AND YOU SHOULD TOO!
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we went to buffalo wild wings last night
and they had $3 long islands
we ordered them and they came in full size soda glasses
and were like 3/4 sour mix
and maybe a little liquor
we sent them back, saying we really didn't want them, that long islands were supposed to be like 95% liquor
they came back like 5 minutes later with 'the bartender wants to see if you'll like these better', shorter glasses,
seemed okay-ish maybe but i just decided i'd drink it and never order a liquor drink from there again, but they were still kinda overly sweet
anna didn't drink hers, but i had mine and then hers cause i had the wild sauce which is very nicely spicy
also of course right then, we made the joke that they prolly put something in the drink
today i am feeling seriously sick
haha
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oh yeah, and i just hooked myself up with a little right click on a link or a page and save it to the site firefox extension, so look for more frequent updates in the link column because now i can just grab 'em without having to come to this form and fill it in
still need an improvement so that i can add my own descriptions for commentary, but the things is i don't want to have to go to a pre-filled web form and fill in a password (and there will not be a hidden posting form that has no password), i want the extension to pop up a modal dialgue box and have me make any edits i want, so that way, everytime i don't want to make an edit i can just press enter, eh, we'll do that later
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MUSIC
went to the chris cornell show at the hard rock live, it was awesome, they played some of everything-- pretty noose, the day i tried to live, black hole sun, spoonman, jesus christ pose, hungry, sunshower, a bunch of audioslave, blah blah, they seemed to be having so much fun up there, tons of energy and the set was forever long, ?two and a half hours?, the show was pretty empty though, we had seats but we went down on the floor part of the way, the crowd sounded huge though, they roared and it was a good time
picked up a cd at the show from the opener, earl greyhound, they really rocked the stage and the double vocals (one guy and one girl) made it very interesting, i think they were better live than the cd shows, its just seemed so much more in your face, but doesn't live music always?..., i also haven't been able to really give it a full listen yet because...
i just bought three other albums on itunes, first i grabbed the new puscifer album, i figured it had to be good since its some maynard side project, i made it to track 4 or 5 and it was the first one that really grabbed me as very cool, it was the slower one, i'm sure i'll know the song's name next week, but then the cd that i had burned skipped in the 12 year old cd player that has the strangely best sound of any method of playing music in the house, so i gave up and put in otep's new album 'the ascension' and i made it through one track and annas kinda getting sleepy so i figured it wasn't the time to play something that rocks that hard, and the first song does indeed rock your face off, if every song is as good as the first i'll be very happy, it sounded bigger and harder than their old stuff but also exactly the same, which is really all you can ever ask for out of a band in their genre
and i got the new serj tankian album, 'elect the dead' and i haven't heard it much, like it was on at work, but then i was all over the place while it was on, seems cool, i think i'll prolly ending up loving a few songs as much if not more than i love a few certain system of a down songs but i'm not sure how many times i'm going to listen to the whole album
tori concert coming up !
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i just finished reading "the witling" by vernor vinge, it was awesome, i really love his stories, this book was from 1976 and it mentions ramscoops, which are a type of spaceship, heavily detailed in later books, this book was touching, it was exciting, it was everything i want out of sci-fi books, please keep writing vernor, i can't wait for the next story
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media roundup:
the resident evil movies were just so so, the newest one was the best, but maybe thats just because we saw it in the theater
eastern promises was awesome, cronenberg rules, the movie was just so raw
finally saw close encounters of the third kind, i was very impressed with the special effects considering when it was made
new donnas and new foo fighters albums just aren't grabbing me, might not listen to them too many more times, at least not specifically, its not so bad that i'd skip them if they came up on shuffle
i've been reading the hell out of the anne rice vampire books (again), i've read the vampire lestat, memnoch the devil, blood and gold, and pandora and i'm currently reading queen of the damned
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sago palms, onions, and chocolate are all also very bad for your dog
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DO NOT GIVE GRAPES TO DOGS -- it will kill them (same goes for raisins)
just learned this and grapes seem like such an innocuous little treat
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watched the strangers with candy movie, it was good, if you like that sort of thing, and i totally love that sort of thing
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i really want a plugin for iphoto to let me upload to youtube. when i import my photos, my videos come with them and end up in iphoto, grouped nicely with the pictures i took them with but i can't find a good plugin to allow me to upload them to youtube, so hook me up internet, please?
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movie roundup:
havoc - umm, s'okay, sure anne hathaway gets naked and so does bijou phillips but the story just didn't grab me, i really didn't care what happened to any of the characters, maybe i just wasn't in the mood to be sad
the invasion - again, s'okay, had it moments with really good "scary movie tense moments", but it was so heavy handed, at least we saw it for free
little children - absolutely excellent, quirky, entertaining, a little disturbing, and the narration worked very well, i really liked this movie
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picked up a couple of used movies at blockbuster when we went to rent talladega nights, we got the departed, reno 911, and pans labyrinth -- pretty sweet
we went to see superbad this weekend and it was pretty awesome
we watched reno 911 and some of the extras, the extended scenes are really great
we also watched parts of the documentary rize about krumping and right now i am watching a version of fahrenheit 451 made in 1966 (the only version?) and it is really kinda boring
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don't you hate it when you go to the dentist and you are supposed to get a filling but then your tooth just falls apart and you have to get a post and crown, yeah i hate that too and thats how i spent friday
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and i've just removed snapshots, i didn't particularly like it, it got old real fast, i think i just liked thinking about the technology behind it
and it was buggy in camino on the mac at home, the scroll bars of the worship column go over their pop over preview
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the wonderful thing about reading a russell banks book is the number of times you stop and re-read a section, stop and think about what little or large observations he teases out through the hearts and minds of his characters
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i just added Snap Shots from snap.com to my site. if you hover over any external link a preview window should pop up, it even does special things for wikipedia, imdb, flickr, youtube, amazon and many other sites ... seemed useful to let users see what they are about to click on
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big spaced out fonts, trendy and readable-- delicious
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i've got this little programming project going for work that i'm mostly working on at home after everything client-wise is taken care and i'm loving it... hopefully everyone can see it pretty soon.
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recent media encounters
music
yeah yeah yeahs "is is" - absolutely awesome, track 2 "down boy" is my favorite, though i love them all. when will there be more? i want more!
movies
simpsons - loved it, i mean it wasn't amazing but it did a great job of not sucking, and most movies that come from tv shows suck, it was a veritable laugh riot for the first twenty minutes and really pretty great for the rest of the time, it was like an episode of the tv show, only longer, bigger, a bit better graphics... really, go see it
epic movie - funny, sometimes, sorta, don't bother
ghostrider - really pretty bad, but i've like nicholas cage ever since i saw leaving las vegas so i watched it
stranger than fiction - great for the first 30-45 minutes, so-so after that, make sure you are in the mood for not just a comedy but a bit of sappiness and you'll do just fine
transporter 2 - straight up action, good as long as you don't need realism, the scene where the plane is tumbling out of the sky for minutes is hilarious, also after it crashes, the underwater scenes, wow, enjoyable, mindless
my super ex-girlfriend - eh, funny, til they broke up, which is suprisingly far in, didn't really keep my interest in the second half
books
"rant: an oral biography of buster casey" by chuck palahnuik -- great, same ole deal, a story filled with wonderfully obscene twists. time travel gets thrown in near the end, delightful to read, loved the way it he constructed the story by intertwining snatches of conversationally toned "interviews"
"stardust" by neil gaiman - delightfully fun, cute, magical and all those other words people use for absolutely perfect little fantasy novels, now i'm excited to see the movie
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most web workers are sci-fi geeks at heart, optimistic for the future and what technology can bring to our society. i think that is why i became a web designer. the open nature of the internet feels like it has the potential to turn our society into something greater.
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how do you build something to connect it all, to build the truly personalizable online life station that bring its all together?
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douglas coupland's the gum theif captures the human spirit so artfully.
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the new harry potter was good but anti climactic, which i guess makes sense considering its movie 5 of 7
live free or die hard was awesome except for the obvious overdubs
transformers did its job for me although i don't really remember watching it as a kid so there were no expectations to spoil for me
watched the fountain again and all of the dvd extras, i really hope a deluxe edition is eventually released with a commentary track
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i wonder if sometime well after the oil runs out if they'll ever be able to go back and say, "there, that was when we hit the peak oil moment"
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google, yahoo, microsoft, and others have all adopted that new sitemap standard to help search engines crawl your sites and it just adds one more thing to do to make a really complete and good website.
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i'm so into nano technology these days but not like keeping up with current developments, just dreaming about the future it can create
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safari has a really cool new inspector, its very useful for optimizing your site load times
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its bad when the ping time for most of your servers is somewhere between 40 and 60 ms but one of your servers is at 300 ms, and if your processor and ram are not being overly taxed then you just might just be using the whole 10 mb connection and its time for a 100 mb connection
the ping time is back down to 60 ms on that server now
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what will safari for windows mean to me once it is out of beta? i mean i see the problems with fonts but have any other major bug or rendering differences been found? is there a site tracking this stuff somewhere?
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i received and read the comic book/graphic novel, a history of violence, today after work. it was way more brutal that the movie and really good, the black and white ink sketchy type drawings were refreshingly different (this is actually one of the few really long comic books that deserves the title graphic novel, err at least the book is sized and shaped a lot like a regular paper back book)
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cryptonomicon was a great book, really really long but an amazing far reaching story
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is google gears really the next coolest thing on (and off!) the internet...hmmmm...what to build with that, whats the most useful...webpage like frontend to a collabrative document editing program with subversion like controls? there are so many good apps for which a web version or a desktop version exists...what one or two would really benefit from being portable in an offline manner...you need something that people are gonna wanna do out in the world on a laptop or from lots of different locations and the thing better have a major advantage to its browser interface over its software interface or at least not be hindered by it
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anna and i watched a bunch of movies this weekend.
knocked up - A+, 5 stars, great, etc etc
for your consideration - not bad, not great, not as great as best in show but better than spinal tap in my opinion
art school confidential - okayish, funny for its wonderful ensemble cast of stereotypes
we also watched a good portion of the early 90s rollerblading classic "airborn" and it had some cool skating scenese but overall was fantastically bad and filled with montages
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possibilities is a strange word, i think it just feels weird typing that many i's like that, my brain must be thinking "what are you doing? words don't have letters in an order like that, i, other letter, i, other letter, i, other letter, i, other letter... stop making up words"
then i have to look closely and convince myself that i am spelling it right
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