If you read this site, wish that it was updated more, and wonder why I don't post much anymore, you are not alone. I wonder those same things too. I think that at least once a day for the past two weeks straight I have thought about this site, wanted to write a post, but just have nothing to write about. I feel like I haven't been creative for a long time now. I haven't drawn, painted, photoshopped, coded for fun, anything like that since probably last year. And it's June. I feel like I used to do that kind of stuff all the time. I have been able to relax quite a bit now that the wedding is over, and all the thank-you notes are all sent out and everything, but maybe I have been relaxing too much. I've thought about redesigning this site, but with no good content, it seems like a waste. I tried to revive some old greasemonkey scripts I wrote but the changes made to greasemonkey since I stopped following it's development make it difficult to work with. I'm glad Nick has got internet access in his condo now, it will be good to be able to chat with him in the morning and evening. Sara, Nick, and I have started trying to figure out the weekly Filmwise Invisible quizzes over email and we actually got all of them this week. That's all for now, I'll get back to working on how to make this site interesting again. "How can a train be lost? It's on rails." Labels: life
Being an iPhone 1.0 owner (thanks again, Nick) and hearing today's iPhone announcement I have to say I think I am coming out ahead in this deal. I will get every single feature of the new iPhone. The only difference is that my "over the network" internet speeds won't be as fast and my location (GPS) information won't be quite as accurate. The nice thing is that I rarely use my internet connection "over the network" as I am almost always on a wi-fi network and the location-based look-up in the current iPhone is amazingly fast and accurate. It's funny how we'll be able to do over the air iPhone updates, music and video downloads, and software purchases, but not over the air podcast updates. That's the feature I want. For all the people that waited for a 3G iPhone, I'll bet they're glad they waited, they are getting an awesome device at an amazing price (it is a third the price of the original iPhone at launch), but to those who already have one I think we are getting all of the benifits with none of the obseletion regret.
Friday night I drove down to my friend Todd's apartment in Parker to see Tyler who was in town from Durango for a friend's wedding. It was actually south of Parker, roughly the last turn before you get to New Mexico. Todd, Tyler, Jeff, Jason and Dean were all there when I arrived and so was an old dorm-mate from CU, Aleks. Aleks is a Russian kid I met my sophomore year at CU. He was 21 at the time and could therefore buy alcohol, a vital role in the college dorms. He was a Junior that year. I ended up living on campus my sophomore year because I didn't have that many close friends after my freshman year and not being a huge fan of Boulder at the time, I didn't want to live by myself. I hadn't seen Aleks since probably a year or two after I left CU, so that was pretty cool to get to hang out. Late into the night, after some thimble sized jello shots and metal puzzle games, Aleks and his cousin went to the store and bought some Tostinos pizzas. The problem was Jeff and Todd's oven doesn't work. The broiler did though. And so did the microwave, the toaster, and the bar-b-que. The first pizza, they decided to cook in the turned-on-it's-side toaster. It was pretty burnt, I didn't have any. The second pizza from the broiler was burnt with some gooey dough, I didn't have any of that either. The third pizza, however, that was cooked on the grill, thrown in the broiler, and finished up in the microwave. I had some of that and despite the burnt cardboard and charcoal taste of the rock hard undercoat of the crust, it was pretty good. It was a pretty fun night hanging out with everyone, telling old jokes, listening to Tyler put down other's career decisions in order to defend his married life, waiting an hour for Jeff to mysteriously come out of his bedroom, watching Jason finally separate two pieces of a metal puzzle, and finally seeing Todd's place. I just hope this isn't the last time I see Tyler for three years. Labels: life
With apologies to Mark Reeder, my first attempt at using the Napster store wasn't a pleasant one. I went to buy the new Islands album from Napster and was presented with this message: Sorry, at the copyright owners' request, the following [2] track(s) are not currently available for purchase. Click "Continue" to view available tracks and proceed with your purchase.Yeah, I really dont want to buy 10/12ths of an album. To Mark's and Napster's credit, the homepage is way better than when I reviewed it (it no longer looks like a gigantic banner ad) and the UI of the web application has tightened up quite a bit. I also heard you can't view available tracks without an account and can't use Safari at all on it, both of which aren't good features. The album I bought this morning from Amazon Mp3 was $8 and Napster had it for $10 (with all tracks included this time). For now I will still be using the Amazon Mp3 store as my first destination, iTunes Plus tracks as my second and then I will check Napster. Labels: music, musicsearch
If you ever decide to visit Scotland, namely Edinburgh Scotland, I have one piece of rock-solid advice for your trip: do not go to the "Scotch Whisky Experience." The Scotch Whisky Experience is a tourist attraction, right outside Edinburgh Castle on the Royal Mile. Let me give you the highlights. You go in, pay like £9 ($18 USD) per person and then wait in a room for the tour to start. After a while, a nice Scottish lady comes in and gives you a shot of Scotch, in our case it was the exquisite and rare Dewars (yes, this was Jon Favreau's drink in Swingers). Then you watch a video produced in 1994 of an American "tourist" (you know he's a tourist because he keeps taking pictures of crap with a gigantic camera with oversized strap) who takes a sip of scotch to be transported back in time to see how whisky is made. That goes on for a while. The second part is the tour guide pointing out parts of a diorama with a wand. The third part is another hokie video of a "ghost bartender" who floats out of a bottle of whisky projected onto a piece of glass to give the ghost effect. But the finale... the finale is a theme park style ride where you sit in a whisky-barrel-mobile cart that goes on a track at 0.25mph through "the history of whisky." It was like It's a Small World but with whisky. The whole thing was like it was made for a 7 year old, but you had to be 18 to drink any whisky, it was just awful and lasted forever. So there's my Edinburgh advice: don't go to the Scotch Whisky Experience.
We're in Edinburgh, Scottland Airport right now about to fly to Dublin to finish up the last part of our honeymoon. We started in London and stayed there for a few days. Everything has been pretty awesome so far, including a drunk Brit on the London Underground, and a crazy hotel manager that was also our server and receptionist. Look forward to writing when we're back! Bye!
Just a quick post to say that I am getting married today to the most amazing woman in the world and I am incredibly excited. I'd better get ready for the wedding tho. And not forget the rings. Can't forget the rings. Labels: life
 
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