Sunday, September 26, 2004
Pting!
I am a destroyer of all that is good. I only destroy what I intend to fix.
I wrecked internet for my home network multiple times in the past week. I'll destroy it later this next week. Probably after the Presidents of the USA show, because I'm waiting on a new, fancy external DSL modem.
And I'll also hook up my Airport Express, to do something fun in the apartment, eventually.
On a sad note, I don't think I can fit a billiards table in a space of 13' x 19'. It's about a foot too narrow. Despondency, loss.
I wrecked internet for my home network multiple times in the past week. I'll destroy it later this next week. Probably after the Presidents of the USA show, because I'm waiting on a new, fancy external DSL modem.
And I'll also hook up my Airport Express, to do something fun in the apartment, eventually.
On a sad note, I don't think I can fit a billiards table in a space of 13' x 19'. It's about a foot too narrow. Despondency, loss.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Weekend Success! Mostly
Background music: Party Shuffle, iTunes
Sky Captain diverted to Sunday matinee - fun flick.
Neumo's was crowded a little more than usual - upstairs was roped off. One of the opening bands had four instruments playing at a time...too bad they only had 3 musicians. Tsk.
Played in the Magic prerelease in Seattle on Saturday...well-organized. Came home, fell asleep.
Sunday, Sky Captain. I picked up a wireless router for my home network. Doesn't quite work with the current ad-hoc system I have, plan on upgrading next week.
Rock Against Bush tour was a little disjointed - the first band started at 7:30pm, but they didn't start letting people in until about 7:10, 7:15. Fortunately, I had friends who picked up tickets earlier, and they saved me a seat up and away. Ah.
In unrelated news, it looks like Presidents are picking up a fund raiser for Kerry, at the Premier, on Wednesday the 29th...probably.
Sky Captain diverted to Sunday matinee - fun flick.
Neumo's was crowded a little more than usual - upstairs was roped off. One of the opening bands had four instruments playing at a time...too bad they only had 3 musicians. Tsk.
Played in the Magic prerelease in Seattle on Saturday...well-organized. Came home, fell asleep.
Sunday, Sky Captain. I picked up a wireless router for my home network. Doesn't quite work with the current ad-hoc system I have, plan on upgrading next week.
Rock Against Bush tour was a little disjointed - the first band started at 7:30pm, but they didn't start letting people in until about 7:10, 7:15. Fortunately, I had friends who picked up tickets earlier, and they saved me a seat up and away. Ah.
In unrelated news, it looks like Presidents are picking up a fund raiser for Kerry, at the Premier, on Wednesday the 29th...probably.
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Weekend Plans - Music, Movie
Background music: Flogging Molly, Within a Mile of Home
Friday
5pm: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
8pm: Mountain Con CD release party - Neumo's
Sunday
Rock Against Bush Tour - Showbox
Friday
5pm: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
8pm: Mountain Con CD release party - Neumo's
Sunday
Rock Against Bush Tour - Showbox
Upgrade the dead!
I ditched Mozilla for Thunderbird (mail client) and Firefox today on my primary home machine. Thunderbird, I haven't played with too much - Firefox is just so good.
I found remnants of WildTangent on my machine - I think I ripped it out when AIM installed it, but I was pissed. I was still irked, so I removed AIM and installed Trillian (an old love). I finally have Messenger (of sorts) on my home machine. Messenger as its own, required IE, which is just a vulnerable ho. Oh, and MS - you suck. You'ev tried to make manual patching the biggest bitch ever, just to force the usage of updates through IE.
What's more, uh, only offering updates through *automatic* update? I realize by now that you've opened it up to manual approval of patches, but geez. SP2 was such a wreck, that I wasn't allowed to put it in at work, until the work-arounds became more public. Yeah, that's work-arounds to get around the OS.
I'm not grumpy.
I found remnants of WildTangent on my machine - I think I ripped it out when AIM installed it, but I was pissed. I was still irked, so I removed AIM and installed Trillian (an old love). I finally have Messenger (of sorts) on my home machine. Messenger as its own, required IE, which is just a vulnerable ho. Oh, and MS - you suck. You'ev tried to make manual patching the biggest bitch ever, just to force the usage of updates through IE.
What's more, uh, only offering updates through *automatic* update? I realize by now that you've opened it up to manual approval of patches, but geez. SP2 was such a wreck, that I wasn't allowed to put it in at work, until the work-arounds became more public. Yeah, that's work-arounds to get around the OS.
I'm not grumpy.
Monday, September 13, 2004
Past Weekend
My friends from Japan were late in calling me for stuff this weekend. Silliness.
I saw Johnny Come Latelies on Saturday night, after a long afternoon of board gaming. (I won at Ticket to Ride, Power Grid, and Einfach Genial...hrm...strangely, each of the three we played.) The middle game took too long, by the by.
I saw the first half of the JCLs on Sunday night, after the Mariners-Red Sox game. My first ball game, since I was age 8 with my godfather. I caught up with my friends from Japan at the next bar, where it's apparently half-off everything on Sundays. Crazy.
End marks - I'll give JCL a 3.5 out of 5. They performed just fine, but I didn't get a good feel for the style of music - kind of all over the board.
I saw Johnny Come Latelies on Saturday night, after a long afternoon of board gaming. (I won at Ticket to Ride, Power Grid, and Einfach Genial...hrm...strangely, each of the three we played.) The middle game took too long, by the by.
I saw the first half of the JCLs on Sunday night, after the Mariners-Red Sox game. My first ball game, since I was age 8 with my godfather. I caught up with my friends from Japan at the next bar, where it's apparently half-off everything on Sundays. Crazy.
End marks - I'll give JCL a 3.5 out of 5. They performed just fine, but I didn't get a good feel for the style of music - kind of all over the board.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
No PDA, just GBA
I just got a couple of GBA games to play. Uh....for work purposes. I just got done playing about 6-7 hours once I got home, putting it into the GB Player.
I did cook dinner - steak & potatos. It allowed me to keep playing on the wireless controller from 40+ feet away, while I was doing dinnerish things. It'll someday become a question of what I do for tricks, once I move the TV into the soon-to-be spare bedroom. Hopefully it means I put a pool table in the main room, if it will fit.
Last night I attended an ad hoc BBQ. It was kind of funny, in a sad way. I didn't know most of the people there, and the three bridging friends weren't hanging out with the people I didn't know. The gf of one of the bridging friends hung out, and we talked about stalking the bees that were attempting to interfere with the cookout. I did random topics later on, discovering that one of the MS junkies used to work in the same industry that I've been in for awhile...while we didn't know each other, we knew the circumstances about respective products, companies, and a couple of people which made for an entertaining 30 minutes.
Sleep!
I did cook dinner - steak & potatos. It allowed me to keep playing on the wireless controller from 40+ feet away, while I was doing dinnerish things. It'll someday become a question of what I do for tricks, once I move the TV into the soon-to-be spare bedroom. Hopefully it means I put a pool table in the main room, if it will fit.
Last night I attended an ad hoc BBQ. It was kind of funny, in a sad way. I didn't know most of the people there, and the three bridging friends weren't hanging out with the people I didn't know. The gf of one of the bridging friends hung out, and we talked about stalking the bees that were attempting to interfere with the cookout. I did random topics later on, discovering that one of the MS junkies used to work in the same industry that I've been in for awhile...while we didn't know each other, we knew the circumstances about respective products, companies, and a couple of people which made for an entertaining 30 minutes.
Sleep!
Sunday, September 05, 2004
Sins Against Productivity
Game Cube.
Mario Golf
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
All of these games I've finished, but...still....must....play.
My co-workers gave me a lot of grief on Thursday & Friday - my mind couldn't grasp the idea of Labor Day. "What do you mean, see you on Tuesday - why is everyone saying that?" I even had it blocked off on my Outlook calendar. I also have a similar problem of zero. (I know why, but it's just something I fail to remember how to grasp.)
A quick demonstration: what's the distance between -2 and 2? Mathematically, it's 4. Lessee...-2, -1 , 0, 1, 2. That's five numbers. I have less of a problem when it's natural numbers. (And the sad part is, I've tutored about 50-60 high school/college students in math.)
Mario Golf
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
All of these games I've finished, but...still....must....play.
My co-workers gave me a lot of grief on Thursday & Friday - my mind couldn't grasp the idea of Labor Day. "What do you mean, see you on Tuesday - why is everyone saying that?" I even had it blocked off on my Outlook calendar. I also have a similar problem of zero. (I know why, but it's just something I fail to remember how to grasp.)
A quick demonstration: what's the distance between -2 and 2? Mathematically, it's 4. Lessee...-2, -1 , 0, 1, 2. That's five numbers. I have less of a problem when it's natural numbers. (And the sad part is, I've tutored about 50-60 high school/college students in math.)
Saturday, September 04, 2004
Lo-cal Musak
A couple of weaker shows recently...
Thursday night, I went to a venue called "The Funhouse". Small bar - maybe maximum space of 100 people. They have a small bar, a pool table, a Star Wars Episode 1 pinball, 7-8 four-person booths, and an outside.
The band I came to see, opened - Rum Runner from Calgary. I hadn't heard them before, but reports were good. The show started about 10pm, with maybe 25 people in the bar (10 people in front of the stage). I was crashed out in a booth - long day at work...sorry guys.
They had good guitar work, but I couldn't hear any of the lyrics - the only songs I did hear lyrics for were a couple of covers...Do or Die (which I'd heard by Dropkick Murphys) and Streams of Whiskey (a popular cover of Pogues). I bought a CD (yeah you, I gave you $20 for it...I tip my bartenders, why not the musicians).
Their CD is solid - good stuff. (It's called Association.) If I could have heard the vocals during the show, it would have been a much better show. I'll still see them next time in town, and hope for better speakers.
I went a little overboard at work on Friday, staying too late. I was planning on hitting Bumbershoot for 1 of 2 shows starting around 9:30. It turned out the band I had hoped to see started at 9:15 not 9:45. Presidents of the USA started at 9:30 - I didn't see either...it was still $25 to get in, and that's too much for just one show.
I almost went home, and then found a flyer that Six Foot Savage was playing downtown Seattle. A long story short, I skipped out on the first two openers, paid a second cover at the Owl & Thistle, listened to the house band for a bit, came back to Savage. I used to like SFS a bit, especially during the Mystery Circus days, but...I couldn't like the first 3 new songs they played, so I called it a night.
Thursday night, I went to a venue called "The Funhouse". Small bar - maybe maximum space of 100 people. They have a small bar, a pool table, a Star Wars Episode 1 pinball, 7-8 four-person booths, and an outside.
The band I came to see, opened - Rum Runner from Calgary. I hadn't heard them before, but reports were good. The show started about 10pm, with maybe 25 people in the bar (10 people in front of the stage). I was crashed out in a booth - long day at work...sorry guys.
They had good guitar work, but I couldn't hear any of the lyrics - the only songs I did hear lyrics for were a couple of covers...Do or Die (which I'd heard by Dropkick Murphys) and Streams of Whiskey (a popular cover of Pogues). I bought a CD (yeah you, I gave you $20 for it...I tip my bartenders, why not the musicians).
Their CD is solid - good stuff. (It's called Association.) If I could have heard the vocals during the show, it would have been a much better show. I'll still see them next time in town, and hope for better speakers.
I went a little overboard at work on Friday, staying too late. I was planning on hitting Bumbershoot for 1 of 2 shows starting around 9:30. It turned out the band I had hoped to see started at 9:15 not 9:45. Presidents of the USA started at 9:30 - I didn't see either...it was still $25 to get in, and that's too much for just one show.
I almost went home, and then found a flyer that Six Foot Savage was playing downtown Seattle. A long story short, I skipped out on the first two openers, paid a second cover at the Owl & Thistle, listened to the house band for a bit, came back to Savage. I used to like SFS a bit, especially during the Mystery Circus days, but...I couldn't like the first 3 new songs they played, so I called it a night.
