Saturday February 1st 2003 01:24 AM PST
I must just start by saying i've had a whole lot to drink tonight.
I just was thinking about my last trip to europe. jen and I moved around a little in london, paris and a few other places. i don't know what made me think of it, but i just started thinkin about a dinner we had in paris. we were out by notre dame and after we had done the tourist shit, we started to look around a little. We went to dinner at a nice little place just south of the cathedral where we had a very good meal. While we were eating we listened to a group of 4 brits that DID NOT like americans at all. Their entire conversation consisted of, "fuckin piece of shit yanks don't drive bloody good cars, they could have electric cars years ago, but they fuck all". They sat there all night and bitched about how bad WE are. And fuck, i have to agree with them on a lot of points, but GAWD DAMN, there's a little too much PISSED OFF there. So i sat there and listened to EVERYTHING they had to say. I didn't say a thing back to them. I was VERY polite. I just tried to suck it all in and think about it. There were certain points they had. We do contribute to a SHITLOAD of the world garbage. There's just too fuckin many of us. We make a dumpload (literally) of trash. But here's the funny part. I sat there after i had finished my meal and lit up a smoke. I did feed the habit at the time. One of the guys that was sitting at the table next to us. The same table that had complained about americans the entire meal says, "pardon me, do you have a fag i could blow?" ... I respond, (in my very VERY characteristic California dialect) "Dude,... no problem.... I've got a smoke for ya" and pulled out my pack of Camel Lights. The guy looked at the smokes and realized that they were in fact IMPORT smokes. He pulled on out and lit it up. He looked at me almost like he wanted to apologize. I just sat there and was as polite as i could be. I remember his looks for the rest of the night. He could not figure me out. He thought that i would live up to his expectations of being a DUMBASS and try to yell at him. We i happen to agree with him on most of his points. I wasn't about to defend a bunch of stupid fucks that happend to live in the same country as me. So i think i sent a message. We're not ALL STUPID. There is a large number of americans that don't believe in the bullshit that Bush trys to dish out.
Ok now this leads to another rant.
I used to really like Tony Blair. But i dont know what happened. He's a labor party leager right? Where the fuck does he get off kissing George W's ass? That's just not right. I don't think that there is any motivation behind the UPCOMING war other than opportunity to tap into a HUGE oil supply. I just thought that Tony Blair had a little more integrity. Now some people are going to think that i'm being anti-UK, but that's not the case. I have NO respect for a single member of politics in the US. I can't name a single one of them who has shown their HONESTY. For a long time i respected Blair for they way he said things. A no bullshit attitude. But now it seems that Bush has fucked everything up. Bush has bought out Blair. Well you know the "endgame". The US bombs the shit out of (insert small country name here) and gets (insert valuable commodity here) to sell to the rest of the world. did you actually think that the government of the US was doing it to keep people safe? thats funny.
Saturday February 1st 2003 05:21 PM PST
I got the
COSMOS box set for XMAS. I've been watching an episode every time i get a chance. If you get a chance to watch any of these i do recommend it. Carl Sagan approaches the exploration of the known universe from a point of history. He goes into great detail while he talks about man's exploration of the earth. Segan makes the point that exploration is dangerous, but it seems that man always has to take the risk. The explorers of the earth have gone down in history as some of the most important people that have ever lived. Those who explore space are no different. We must realize that as humans we have a need to understand and explore, and we will not stop. The humans that gave their lives today did so for the greatest reason of all. To Explore, to Understand, and to Expand the Knowledge of all other Humans. I extend to them my deepest respect for doing the job for all human kind.
Rick D. Husband
William C. McCool
Michael P. Anderson
David M. Brown
Kalpana Chawla
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon
Sunday February 2nd 2003 12:44 PM PST
Ok, only good news recently is the Lakers are WINNING. After a great little trip on the road defeating Pheonix and Sacramento, the Lakers won again last night over Uath. So there might actually be a chance that they make it to the playoffs this year.
Everything else is shit as always. Well i can't really say that. I've been happy for once because i actually have something to keep me busy. Yup, i actually have been working my ass off, and if you hadn't noticed already i'm using macromedia Flash a whole fuckin lot. Well that part drives me fuckin nuts, but just doing SOMETHING is so much better than sitting around and being a deadbeat.
Jen's feeling better, she's got the meds, so she should be. Anyway, i am trying to keep from working, and i've got a lot to do before tomorrow.
Tuesday February 4th 2003 10:33 AM PST
I guess GREGG EASTERBROOK of Time Magazine
missed the point. I don't want to go on a huge rant here, cause it really defeats the purpose. But i will just say this. Read this article. While you read, every time he makes ANY reference to Columbia, metally replace Columbia with one of the following. Any early Exploration Ship sent across the Atlanitc, The Titanic, or any other ocean Liner that was really expensive( but the leading technology of the time), or finally a Covered Wagon with a group of settlers that wanted something more. Then think about the similarities. I know it's not EXACTLY the same, but these things never stopped, they just evolved. The early wooden ships got better and safer as the technology developed.
But we have to realize one thing. After we've sat here and talked so much about the technology and the budgets and the safety. WE'RE BEING STUPID. None of our bullshit talk changes the fact that the people who risked their lives were doing the things that they loved. All the things i mentioned above contained one thing BEYOND the technology... The people who wanted to find something more, build something better, and explore the unknown. Gregg missed the point. It doesn't matter if you stop the shuttle, the people will still be there. They'll find a way to side-step the people who say it can't be done.
Tuesday February 4th 2003 05:13 PM PST
With all the talk of the shuttle and space i thought it might be time to pull out a little page that i found a little while back. This is for the true geek.
Rockets and Space Transportation. I found this one night when i was building a few little physics problems in director. i needed some basic figures for the amount of energy needed to achieve earth orbit and then lunar orbit. This stuff is really really interesting. The best part is at the bottom of the page where it describes some of the possible future rocket fuels.
Tuesday February 4th 2003 05:16 PM PST
This is scary
Carl Friedrich Gauss : quadrature of regular heptadecagon :: Britney Spears :
A. "Oops I Did It Again"
B. "I Love Rock and Roll"
C. "Crazy"
D. "Baby One More Time"
E. "I'm a Slave 4 U"
Tuesday February 4th 2003 10:46 PM PST
Who ever said local TV is that bad? Lakers Game was on KCAL 9, then Buffy on KCOP 13, then NOVA on PBS.
Lakers now 4 in a row. That's the best run they've had all season right? Good game, but they could have been playing a little better. Shaq got into foul trouble and the Lakers had to play a lot of the game without him.
Buffy had a really good episode, but it was strange. It was almost a flashback episode. The "secret military" guys show up again to help out Buffy and Pull the chip out of Spike's head. Willow goes les again, and then turns into the fucker she killed last season. Then to get help she goes back to college and sees the girl they had as a pet rat for a few years. Very strange. AND it was funny, cause with all the old characters showing up in this episode, you could tell that they didn't have the budget to have all the "potential" slayer girls in the episode as well. So they only part they played was "out waiting in the car" You heard the car horn once in the background. LOL easy way to save a little cash.
Then i flipped on NOVA on PBS. This episode was being pumped for a few weeks now and i wish i has seen it from the start. It started at the same time as Buffy so i only saw the last hour from 9 to 10 of it. It was a full documentary on the battle Lockheed and Boeing had over the contract to build the next new fighter jet. It was damn good. Just looking at the teams of guys coming up with these designs was amazing. Test flights were all over the airspace of Edwards AFB just north of here. It makes me want to go see another air show out there. Anyway, i know the way PBS repeats things this one will be on again and i'll try to catch the start of it.
Wednesday February 5th 2003 03:33 PM PST
Well i found another article that
Gregg Easterbrook wrote. It's actually on daypop's top 40 today.
Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty I guess this guy has been pissing and moaning about the expense of the space shuttle program from the start.
Thursday February 6th 2003 09:20 PM PST
Lakers won again, but it was a little strange at the end. They led the Knicks by 30 after the 3rd and then they fell apart in the 4th. Final Score was 114 to 109.
Jen took the day off from work today to catch up on a lot of work she could not do while she was sick. Her report cards were due, and she's finishing them up now. I was ready to sleep in today after a full day of work yesterday, but nope. Jen answered the phone in the morning and passed it to me in bed. I got a little job that needed some serious work today. Good thing is that it was fun. Hard part about it is that it's due tomorrow, and i'm still working a little on it right now. back to the grind.
Friday February 7th 2003 07:08 PM PST
didnt do a whole lot today, but did drive up to la canada to drop some stuff of with Jen at her classroom. on the way back drove by JPL
Saturday February 8th 2003 10:23 AM PST
If this in not disinformation i don't know what is.
from ananova
"Meanwhile, the New York Post reports hundreds of FBI agents are scouring the town of Bronson, Texas, searching for a top-secret communications device which could be valuable to foreign intelligence services."
Sure, i bet they think this communications device is in Bronson. And i'm sure they were happy to tell the media that they were looking for something VERY VERY TOP SECRET and VALUABLE. All you spies out there that are planning to make a trip to Bronson to try to find it first... we'll i'd suggest you look somewhere really far from Bronson. But wait a minute... it might not even be a secret communications device. It could be NOTHING. You know what i really think. I think this is a ploy by the city of commerce in Bronson to increase tourism. Have you ever been to Bronson? Well no shit you havent! Its probably a fuckin hole in the ground. They need this story to attract people! (i bet the New York Post got a really nice little pay off)
Saturday February 8th 2003 10:30 AM PST
Super Black
I think this is just one step away from being as USELESS as SETI.
Sunday February 9th 2003 11:06 PM PST
well, it was a weekend of work. Jen took off for most of the weekend and i got a shitload of stuff done. Jen went down to Newport Beach to hang out with Anne. While she was there i just dug into a bunch of web promotion stuff i needed to do this weekend. Again i had to use Flash the entire damn time, and i think i know a little more about what makes it crash NON-STOP. I got a lot of other stuff done too. Jason pointed out a number of little things about my blog that needed fixing, so i got to work on a few of them. So you should start to see a few improvements in the comments and links etc. blah blah blah back to work.
Monday February 10th 2003 10:17 AM PST
We Like The Moon
I have to thank nomisnoj for sending me this one today.
Monday February 10th 2003 08:11 PM PST
Just like everybody else out there i have a HUGE collection of MP3s. I've rip'ed all of the CD's i ever bought and put them on a file server where i can hit random and play music all day long. So everything is great. I have my MP3 player that i can plug into my USB port and move files around. I then take it in the car with me. So whats the problem? I have a great system in my living room that is just a little out of reach. Well it's not out of reach, but i'm just sick of the old method. I used to hook up my powerbook out in the living room and then run all my music there via my WiFi network. That's just a pain in the ass. I want a solution that's a little more easy. And i think i've got it. I've got a Playstation 2 in the livingroom. It's got all the power and network capabilities that i need. So here's the catch... who out there knows of a way to build a mp3 player for PS2? Assume that you have got a network connection to a LAN on which there is another server with all the MP3's. I'd like to be able to push a playlist to the PS2 from a remote location and i'd like to be able to control playback from both the console and from other client applications on the LAN. i know it can be done, but i also know that there have to be a load of hoops that you have to jump through. Well just a thought.
Tuesday February 11th 2003 08:46 AM PST
Just when you thought things were good, you get one little thing that fuckin SUCKS. Today Martha came to clean the house, and the first thing she shows me is water on the floor around the toilette. So i think its the pipe that i replaced a few months ago that just might be leaking. Nope. Its the fuckin base of the toilette. I mopped up all the water and it's seeping from the base. Well that's gonna be a bitch. Calling the landlord...
Tuesday February 11th 2003 12:38 PM PST
I've been trying to figure out a way to describe the US Government. I think i might be onto something. The entire federal government is really just like a large corporation. There are different divisions and groups that don't get along with each other. The company as a whole really doesn't have much vision for the future. The share holders in the company rarely care about elections as long as everything just runs as normal. The company has been running itself into the ground for decades, but since they're the largest, they just keep doing what they're doing.
Its very ironic. People in this country think that Democracy and Capitalism are the same thing, or they just don't know the difference. I think if our own US Government was held up to the light of pure Capitalism, we'd see a bankruptcy. Well maybe a hostile takeover.
Tuesday February 11th 2003 09:59 PM PST
work work work work. Gawd damn i have been so busy. Flash and flash and more flash. I talked to Jared today and talked about Flash for about 2 minutes. He's changed over to windows! WHY? Cause flash runs better on windows. Well i'll give it that. It runs LIKE ASS on a mac. When is somebody at macromedia gonna fix their shit. Well anyway, back to the shit. Still gotta get some changes done to a project before tomorrow morning.
Good news is that the Lakers won again tonight. If tomorrow nights game is as good as this one (and its against the same team) they should be 3 games over 500 and have their largest winning streak of the season with 7 wins in a row. (back to work)
Tuesday February 11th 2003 10:14 PM PST
Another
Great Video that was sent to me by Brian Chang.
Wednesday February 12th 2003 10:50 AM PST
Sorry there's no webcam, but i killed my G3 last night. Its the only system that i can hook my scanner to and last night i was screwing around with it. So i think i might have pissed the system off when i hot swapped the scsi scanner. So there's a little upgrade going on with the G3. brb soon.
Wednesday February 12th 2003 11:58 AM PST
Well the upgrade was painless. I didn't even touch the computer. I just let it sit for 30 minutes and then when it restarted i remembered that i was doing the install. i had totally forgotten about it with the work i'm doing. So that has to be the most simple install i've done yet. I didn't even watch it. All i gotta do now it edit the httpd.conf and startup mysql. that will take all of 30 seconds.
Wednesday February 12th 2003 01:13 PM PST
HOW EVIL ARE YOU?
Yes another waste of time quiz. If you are at work, drop everything you are doing, and do this now. If you are doing something fun, keep doing what you are doing. This is really not worth the time.
I got neutral anyway, it must be flawed.
Wednesday February 12th 2003 01:19 PM PST
Ok, i like Buffy. but cmon guys it's a show. Its not like star trek, not like real life. (hehehe Will's gonna have a field day with this) So i guess what i'm trying to say is... I knew people could be FANS of the show. I knew they could do some crazy shit, but...
The Sunnydale Socks
Don't you think this is going a little too far?
Wednesday February 12th 2003 02:59 PM PST
So what do you do when you've finished work and you're stuck in the house while it's raining? You take pictures INSIDE! (well that and run outside to clear the rain gutters out on your house so that the flood stops coming down on your back door) I just love how damn easy it is to do a photo mosaic with a digital camera.
Thursday February 13th 2003 05:37 PM PST
Ok, this is damn funny.
Goths like Vivaldi Try playing some top 40 pop next time. That will piss em off. I just don't agree with the term Goth and it use with Marilyn Manson and Slipknot. I'd say the Cure, Peter Murphy or Bauhaus. But who really cares. Its fuckin funny. AND the last thing they need to be doing is bringing the kids in for "workshops". You don't need to encourage goths to do art. They already write enough really bad poetry.
Friday February 14th 2003 10:45 AM PST
I have not had a job for awhile now. And as a result i have no money. This is not rocket science guys. So i used to have a life insurance policy (when i had money), but recently i have not been able to shell out the big $$$ every month. So the guy that sold me the policy calls every once in awhile to just check in and talk and BS around. He just called to check up and ask me about the notice he just got about my policy. I told him about the unemployment thing and i told him how much trouble jen and I are having with all the shit that's going on. Basically i told him i was letting it lapse because i don't have the money. Suddenly the conversation went from a "insurance salesperson conversation" to GOD. I didn't see this one coming. He started talking about the master plan that God has for all of his children, and that we only have to accept him into our hearts. I was very polite and (fuck i had nothing better to do) i just kept on going like i was not shocked. I think this guys missed his calling. He actually said a little prayer for me there on the phone and said the great line from the bible, 'whenever two or more are gathered in my name...' I really do think he missed his calling. He's well charismatic and from years of being and insurance salesperson he's a fast talker. So i think that makes him a prime candidate for being a minister or priest. Well all in all it was not a bad experience at all. I have to admit that it did bring a smile to my face even though i don't believe in god.
and just for those of you who are wondering what i believe. I believe that people can do good things if they try, but most of the time they just do stupid things.
Try to find the people that do the good things.
Friday February 14th 2003 11:32 AM PST
Nooooooooo!
Cmon guys Ocean's 11 was great. But it was alreay a remake. Don't make a follow up to a remake!
Friday February 14th 2003 08:50 PM PST
Ok, so i upgrade OS X and it blows my httpd.conf file? WTF is the deal with that!?!? I just assume that apple would be a little more polite about it and tell me that they are going to FUCK my system!
Sunday February 16th 2003 03:11 PM PST
Lakers lost the other night to San Antonio. At that point San Antonio set a new NBA record for most consecutive wins on the road. I don't feel AS bad as i did the other night when they beat the lakers, cause they just increased the record by beating Sacramento. Webber is not too happy. :)
Monday February 17th 2003 11:42 AM PST
after the little supreme court ruling about the Xmen action figures i have lost a lot of faith in the country's ability to deal with toys and real life. Realistic toys are just great, but there's a fine line. I think having police toys and fireman toys and even army toys are just fine, but this...
Jen thinks hazmat Legos (or it might be Duplo) are just fine. I think it's right on the border. I think the toy makers are just making anything that they think will sell. They're right. People will buy these because they look cool and i bet they are fun to play with. I was just wondering if they would make these:
Bomb Squad Set
Domestic Hostage Negotiation Set
High School Rampage Set
Coroner / Morgue Set
Celebrity Paparazzi
Historical Assassination Sets:
JFK Set
---(comes with mini zapruder and camera, as well as 3 possible shooters)
Reagan (attempted)
Lincoln
ok, there's so many more, but i run the risk of getting really sick. I'll leave this up to you.
Wednesday February 19th 2003 01:02 PM PST
Oh, this is just too damn funny. This is where reality TV crosses over to Sci-Fi.
Woman is Scared By Aliens; now she's going to sue
Thursday February 20th 2003 10:54 AM PST
HAHAHAHAH I just got some spam for
This lowratemortgage Web Site and on the email it has a link to remove, so i click on it assuming that its gonna send me somewhere else and try to sell me something more. Well these guys are a little dumber than i thought. They send me to a remove script on FreeSexontheWeb.net. LOL dipshits. So i take a closer look at what they are sellling and look at their site for 2 seconds. lowratemortgage.info actually has a BMP on the front page. AND i'm not talking about a little 2Kb BMP... it's fuckin 644Kb. So not only are these guys fuckin DUMB, but they're killing the bandwidth on their server. Well it gets worse. this is what's at the bottom of their page
function noRightClick(evnt) { var userAGENT = window.navigator.userAgent; if (userAGENT.indexOf("MSIE") > 0) { if (event.button == 2) { alert("Not enough system memory to display source."); return false; } } else { if (evnt.which == 3) { alert("Not enough system memory to display source."); return false; } } } document.onmousedown = noRightClick;
They actually have a right click script to say NOT ENOUGH SYSTEM MEMORY TO DISPLAY SCOURCE! That's damn funny. Well i'm asking everybody out there to go to this site and load the BMP a few hundred times. Maybe we can get their overage charges so high that the go out of business.
Friday February 21st 2003 02:48 PM PST
So jen says lastt night. We haven't been in the snow in 7 years. I can't believe it's been that long. So... we're going up to big bear this weekend to hang out with EVERYBODY. I was actually thinking about bringing the web cam and putting it out on Steve's balcony, but i think i would get laughed off the mountain. I talked to Steve yesterday and wished him a happy B-Day, and while i was on the phone i got the shopping list for the weekend. One bottle of each, 151, Malibu Rum, Bailey's, Apple Pucker, Sloe Gin, Sweet/Sour, Southern Comfort, Quervo Gold, Tia Maria, kahlua , and a quart of cream. That's the makings for a good weekend. Steve says they got a couple inches of snow up there so it should be a great time. John Bell is dropping Will here tonight after work and Jon and Heather are coming in from their side of town. We're all gonna go out to dinner and then hit the road after traffic has gone bye bye. Brian and Wendy are coming up on Saturday, and we'll see if we can make it through a weekend without Pierre dislocating his shoulder. more to come...
Sunday February 23rd 2003 10:51 PM PST
Ok, so we went to Big Bear this weekend to hang out at Steve's house. There is a lot of stuff that went on, but i will start with the simple shit. We get up there, we get drunk, then we try to go to sleep. Just as we're finally getting some good zzzzzz's the fuckin house jumps like it's been hit by a bomb. Not a nice little rumble that we're used to in LA. Usually they're a little further away, and they're not as rough. This one was right under us and hit like a train wreck.
I'll say a little more about the weekend later after i've gotten some sleep, but i will say that the weekend was sprinkled with little quakes.
Monday February 24th 2003 10:30 AM PST
ok, enough about the earthquake. We drove up to Big Bear Friday night, but the weekend didn't start there. Jon Simon was going to get out of work on time, but he got sucked into a Friday night fuck up. So he hung out at work. Meanwhile John Bell dropped Will off at my house. We all decided that we'd go grab dinner while Jon Simon was workin. We went up to Hamburger Hamlet and watched half of the Lakers Game in the Bar while we were waiting for a table. When we got back to my house we listened to the rest of the game on the radio. Jon Simon arrived shortly after and we piled in the car to go up the mountain. So i think when we left it was about 11:00. Road was clear and Jon drives fast. Jen and I hold on in the back. Heather laughs at us cause we're such wimps. We get up to the house, unload our shit, and drink a few drinks. Everybody was tired from the week so we end up crashing around 2 or 3. I don't really remember at this point. //INSERT EARTHQUAKE HERE// So we pile out of bed cause we knew it was big. We all were thinking that if that was NOT in big bear, then somebody else really got FUCKED. So we pile downstairs to the bottom floor of the house where the computer is. Sorry, but this was also where Jon and Heather were trying to sleep. Heather is from NY and only been out here 5 years, so that puts her in the category of Earthquake Virgin. We didn't see Heather cause she was hiding under the bed covers. Jon could not get out of bed cause Heather was clamped onto his arm digging her fingernails in. So we fire up the computer and hit
www.usgs.gov and go to their earthquake maps. So when we see that its right under our feet we all breathe a little easier cause we know we got hit the hardest and we're still standing. //INSERT AFTERSHOCK HERE// So we tried to go to bed. For me i was so damn tired that i just passed out. For a lot of other people it was really damn hard to sleep after being woken up like that. //INSERT A FEW MORE AFTERSHOCKS// So Jen and I woke up around 9 and started running around the kitchen trying to find something to eat. We attempted to make coffee there, but it did not come out exactly the way Jen liked it. So she blamed me. We sit around and eat a little and get a few phone calls from various relatives of the Kesslers. All of them just checking to see that everything is alright. Jon and Steve are already out on the slopes by this time. Jen and I decide that we better just get out and try snowboarding so we start to get ready. //INSERT AFTERSHOCK HERE// Heather wakes up in this one, and Jon is already gone, so she bounces upstairs and says something along the lines of, "FUCK THIS!" So Emmy, Heather, Jen and I all get ready and walk down to the base of Bear Mountain to do whatever. Jen and I promptly get rental boards and sign up for a beginning group lesson at 1PM. (big mistake) They group us with about 30 people and we're off. We start in the parking lot on astroturf. This is already a little hard for me. I am not that flexible so i already can tell i am having a lot of trouble getting up from my ass. We hope into the cattle truck and they drive us up the mountain. The instructors SUCK. They first tell us to get in a circle and then start giving instructions in ONE direction. Hmmm how the fuck are the other half of us going to know WTF to do. Anyway, this is not exactly fun. It takes us way too long between exercises and then amount of attention that we get is so low that we don't even know if we're doing the shit right. I never really feel like i'm in control of the board. I don't fall as much as i expect, but i do not fell comfortable standing up. We i do go down, i go down HARD. But the most painful part is just marching up the slope with one foot in the board. Anyway, after the last "station" they're going to put us on the chair-lift and take us up to the top for one run where the cut us loose. Jen is already fed-up at this point and just pops out of the board and walks down. I'm ready to go up, but Jen's right, Fuck this. I'll have a chance to try this later when i don't have to deal with 5000 people on the fuckin beginner hill and a shitty team of instructors. I think i would have had a better time just going out on the hill alone in the morning and fall on my ass A WHOLE LOT just trying to figure the shit out myself. Anyway, Just as jen and I are marching off the mountain Jon calls on the radio and says he's in the truck. Jen and I run to our locker grab our shoes and grab a ride up to the house in the truck. We take a little time to relax then run out to get some food quick with Steve. Then for the fun. We run over to VONS and load some of Steve's mom's groceries in Steve's car cause they won't all fit in hers. She's already done the shopping for dinner, but we need to do the shopping for drinking. We run into the store and grab about $100 in booze and go back to the house. We fuck around for awhile, play cards, i jump on my computer and drop all my pictures down to my hard drive. Then Brian and Wendy show up. So there's now, Jon Heather Will Pierre Emmy Brian Wendy Jen Me Vicky Mrs Kessler Vicky and Steve. Dinner was GREAT. More vegetarians means more Meat for the Meat eaters. So we stuff ourselves at the dinner table. After dinner we have some birthday cake and open a few presents. At this point Will is almost asleep, so we let him retire while the rest of us bounce upstairs to the BAR. Steve pulls out the book of drinks and away we go. I can't remember all the drinks that were made, but i do remember the Key Lime martinis that Brian made. He brought his own home-made pineapple infused vodka that was fuckin great just by itself. But when he used it to make these martinis... GAWD DAMN. Everybody eneded up drinkin AT LEAST one of these. So the full bottle of vodka was all used by the end of the night. Steve make a few other drinks, but i think the most notable was the "Brain Hemorrhage". Jen and I finally crashed cause we were in so much pain and so tired. //INSERT AFTERSHOCK HERE// I got up to go to the bathroom at 7AM and Brian and Wendy were already packed and out the door. After saying goodbye i was back in bed until about noon. jen got up during this time and drank cofee that was made by somebody who knows how to make coffee and read a little in her book. The rest of Sunday was spent just relaxing and screwig around. Heather took Jen's rental snowboard and boots and did a few runs with Jon and Pierre. jen and i went and walked up the fire road a little and jumped around in the snow. We grabbed some lunch at BLTs down in the "city". It didn't agree with Jen at all so she popped some Alka Seltzer and took a nap. i ran the rental gear back down the hill when Heather got back and then we all just sat around and relaxed. We got in the truck to come back home around 7. Jen got a little car sick on the way down, and I held on as usual. We stopped at Outback Steakhouse in arcadia and had dinner. Then Jon dropped Jen and I off at home where we promptly went to sleep.
Monday February 24th 2003 01:58 PM PST
So i ran out to the Apple Store to get my FULL version of Flash MX. I've been using the trial version up til now and i finally bought the upgrade. SO... after spending $200 on the software i was very suprised that a few of the bugs have actually been fixed. It looks like macromedia fixed a large number of window management issues with the production release of the program. Well, thank fuckin god. I was really getting sick of a few issues. anyway, back to work.
Friday February 28th 2003 02:41 PM PST
So i've been burried in work for the last week. Its great to be workin again, and i even like working in flash for once. Its such a simple program, i just wish macromedia would fix the obvious bugs. I got enough time last night to go out to dinner with John and Kate Bell and Will. We all went to crown city (again) to watch the lakers game. Which reminds me. I need to get cable. Jen said when i get a job... So i guess i should make the call.
i do have to say my uncle would be proud. I've been workin so long in the web/movie industry and i have never really worked on a project that he could relate to. he loves old films from the real "golden age" of cinema. So now WB is bringing out a full set of Charlie Chaplin films with fully digitally remastered picture and sound. Well it's not much to talk about but i'm actually going to get a copy of all these when they come out.
