Tag Archives: Personal Blather

I’ve got the iTunes music library clicking away at work right now, and for some reason it seems to like a whole lot of 80’s tunes. That’s fine by me. I kind of like them too, otherwise they wouldn’t be in there…
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No, I’m not dead yet.

Yes, I know that’s part of a Monty Python skit, but I’m not going to link to it.

Ok, ok. Here. Happy now?

Geez, the things I do to keep up my geek cred…
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I’m at a filmmaking seminar. It’s a work thing, so they’re footing the bill for the weekend. Meals and all sundries. They gave me a cash advance and I just have to make sure to get a receipt for everything I use and return the rest. I’m trying to figure out how best to handle the tips I’ve paid, but I’m sure there’ll be a line item or something on the inevitable paperwork when I get back.

The seminar is from Action/Cut, and is being run by Guy Magar. He’s an interesting guy to listen to, with lots of handy tips on shooting for TV and for movies… As well as lots of information on how to get yourself into the industry. Kind of a primer on Hollywood schmoozing.
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What on Earth is Six Flags thinking?

The parks’ management, I mean. I’m sure the theme parks don’t do any actual thinking on their own.

Unless there’s something very strange going on.

Actually, I could kind of see a sort of emulated thinking machine, transmitting information with the park patrons as neurons. The rides and gates are circuits within a strange and occult system which has achieved a sort of slow sentience because of the way that the rides and walkways are organized…

But I digress. I was trying to rant about their advertisements.
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I’ve been learning more CSS stuff for some work sites and I’m contemplating doing a redesign of the ‘blog to incorporate some of what I’ve learned.

Not that I think a new design would be better or anything. I just want to use some toys I found.

Ok, for the first time in an age and a half, I’m using a Campus computing cluster machine. It’s kinda freaky.
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“So how much would a website cost?”

Uh oh.

I hate when a client comes in and asks something like that. Mostly because there isn’t an answer.
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Time for a bit of a brain swap here at the blog homestead. It’s not the big transition to the house server yet (mostly because I haven’t gotten the new gear), so no need to update bookmarks or anything. Things’ll be going away at roughly 4pm today and should be back online sometime around 5:30 – 6.

“Should”, of course, being the word that computer types use whenever they know that what they’re doing is a relatively trivial task that could still fail in a spectacular fashion for unforeseen reasons.
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A fun entry, totally yanked from MrBarret.com. It’s kind of reminiscent of my own composite 419 scam letter. Normally I’d just link to it but the host site has a combination of font & color that made it tough to read…
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So, last night my Wife and I took Dirge and Shar out for a Happy Conbirgrathtudaladaytions Dinner (a combination of Happy Birthday and Congratulations on the new job) last night. There’d been some discussion on heading to Sichuan West, but that didn’t exactly thrill. So we decided to check out an odd little place across town called the Zal Gaz Grotto Club.
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