I feel like I want to write here. I've wanted to many times in the past several days, and just haven't gotten the chance. The car accident, rear-ender incident, was not fun, but is at last nearing some kind of conclusion. From the beginning of today through now we've been able to bring the value of the car (in the eyes of the insurance company) up a few hundred dollars. It's still totaled, which is terrible, but it's not as bad now as at 9:30 this morning.
I'm looking forward to forgetting about this, pushing a new site out the door, and being able to set up some kind of routine again. I haven't had the chance to practice lately, and that's just bad.
However, there are many good things in this life. She is one of the big ones. Having been visited by so many people in the past several days was also very good. It added to the hecticness, but it was worth it. Good to see you, guys. Can't wait for more.
Movable Type hit 2.0 today, and I’ve installed it. It looks quite nice—someday I may avail myself of some of it’s very powerful features. Maybe.
In honor of the occasion, I want to post this Trivial Pursuit question that Lisa and I encountered this evening:
“What’s the name of Luke Skywalker’s troll-like advisor in The Empire Strikes Back?”
Troll-like. I love it.
Back to work.
I’m just starting to catch up on a bunch of work, which is allowing me to do many things. One of them is think about calling people, which I did today. I spoke to my friend Josh, whom we were planning on visiting in Colorado when we make a drive eastward later on. We won’t be doing that because he’s moving in a few weeks. Good to know.
Josh is one of the friends who I can go for months without speaking to, and then when we meet up or talk, it doesn’t matter. I have many friends like that. That, to me, is the sign of everlasting friendship. One of them, anyway.
Now to get in touch with all those other people. Sigh. You know you’re out there, even if you never see this bit of text. I’m coming after you.
Lisa and I will be releasing the “corporate” site for our burgeoning web design company, if you can call it that. That should be released shortly, which will become important as we seek out more work.
One more thing: This site map is done using 100% pure CSS and XHTML, no images. I don’t know how this works, but I will figure it out. Note two things: 1. He is the guy who wrote the layout engine used in IE5 for the Mac, and 2. It’s only going to look right into modern browsers that do CSS correctly.
Oh yes, and 3. some of you won’t have the slightest idea what that means. And maybe you’re better off for it.
Joe made me a user so I can bitch online all I like until, perhaps, I graduate to having my own web site!
Bitch of the Day: Bra shopping is one of the worst routine experiences in a woman’s life. In my life, anyway. At least 50 times worse than going to the gynecologist, and even slightly worse than having your bicycle wheel stolen while you are at the gynecologist.
I tried on 14 bras. 8 of them were the size that I have been wearing since early high school — in other words, about 7 years. None of those 8 fit; they were all too small. I then tried on 6 more of various larger sizes. 1, and only 1, fit, and it is 2 band sizes larger and 1 cup size larger.
I am 23 years old. Breast development is supposed to be over for me! At least, until I get pregnant or something. This is ridiculous. I am convinced that the bra companies have conspired against me to secretly change all the bra sizes sometime during the past year and a half. That or they have a completely different system of measurement in Honduras, which is where these bras were made.
If only it were this easy.
Lisa now has the power to post things here. Bwahahaha!
All we have to do now is that she should just buckle down and make a site of her own. I’m more than happy to have her here, but I think she should just do it. Don’t you?
At one point while I was gloating to myself over how many 640x480 photos my camera can hold at once (over 600), I got to wondering what one would ever use so many photos for. When Isaac was visiting, we got to make up one answer: stop-motion movies!
We filmed nine shorts, two to fifty seconds, two of them on Saturday (in 20 minutes), and the others on Sunday. My friends Dave, Craig, and Ross were involved as well as me, Lisa, and Isaac. It was great fun, and some of them are really funny.
These are big downloads, between 1.5 and 6.5MB each. For a five to ten second film, that’s a lot, I know. I’ll release some more web-friendly versions later on, hopefully.
A tip for those of you making quicktime on a mac: you must “flatten” the movie so it will playable online. Otherwise you’ll end up with a bunch of bandwidth wasted by movies with munged resource forks.
Now, without any further ado, I present the debut works of the film collective Stop-N-Go Theatre.