Last weekend's Star Wars Celebration III was a blast. I went with my brother, Dan, and Sara. We had to move the trip up 12 hours because of how full the flights were, but everything seemed to work out great. It was the complete opposite of the Santa Monica trip, in that everything that could have gone wrong, went unexpectedly in our favor. Friday morning, 99.5 The Mountain called Dan to ask him to do a phone interview for them. I ended up doing the interview because Dan wanted me to, and also he was in the shower. It turned out pretty funny, despite me telling them I wouldn't answer a question about if by "girlfriend", I meant "my porcelain stature of Princess Leia". (but yes, I do have a girlfriend and she is awesome) When we went to the convention center, within 15 minutes, Dan, who didn't have a pass for the event, was able to somehow get a press pass for the whole weekend which came in very handy. On Friday, we saw a makeup presentation, and the costume show. I was actually surprised at the quality of some of the costumes. Some of them were pretty cool. We also saw a presentation by the sound designer and voice of Grievous, Matthew Wood. That night, we watched Return of the Jedi in a big ballroom on the best looking screen I have ever seen a movie on. The sound in the room was so amazing, my pants would shake any time anything happened. It was great. The next morning, We got to the convention center early, about 8:30, only to see an hour wait in the line to get into the building. It was also just above 30 degrees outside and drizziling cold, cold rain. Within about five minutes, not only did Dan get us in the building, but he also got us wrist bands to see George Lucas give a talk. Later, I would hear reports of people showing up at 5am and finding lines of over 1,000 people outside waiting to see Lucas. We waited inside about 20 minutes. Lucas was great, he came out wearing plaid like we had hoped for, and did a lot of Q&A. He said that he was going to read a new Indiana Jones script later that weekend, and that there would in fact be a Star Wars TV show (I don't know how I feel about that yet). That day, we also saw Jake Lloyd, and an awesome set of clips from the new film, presented by Rick McCallum which just blew me away. So the entire trip turned out to be awesome, and I am so glad I went. I think the best quote of the weekend came from Sara. on our way home, she said to be, "Mark, I know that I came just to laugh at all the people who went to this thing, but I really did have a lot of fun there". Boo-Ya-Ca-Sha!
A little over a week ago, I went to Santa Monica with Sara. The trip, overall was really great, and very enjoyable. However, everything went wrong while we were there. Here is a list of the things that went wrong with our trip:
So that is the list. All these little things went wrong, but luckily, like I said, it was a good trip overall. Should we be flying this close to the mountains?
This weekend I was (and still am) in Santa Monica. The trip has been really great except for everything that went wrong. Currently, I am in the the Airport (LAX) on a super advanced airport internet terminal. I feel like a dork. Anyhow, I didn't get on my flight and I am killing some time. I will give the full list of disasters when I get home, but I really did have fun. I should probably stop typing, as this piece of miraclous technology that I am on costs money, so I will see everyone soon.
This morning was a little strange. First, on my way to work, I had a lady pull up next to me and motion for me to roll down my window. I thought she was going to tell me that my tire was flat or that my break light was out or something. I rolled down the window, and she said "Where do I get a ribbon like yours?" She was of course referring to my awesome Ribbon Magnet proudly displayed on the back of my car. About a minute later, I was at a stop light. When the light turned green, some woman behind me made the decision to step on her gas pedal with out first taking into consideration that no one in front of her had started going yet. She hit my rear bumper. We pulled over, and she insisted that anything that looked dented or bent on my bumper had already been there (thanks to the infamous Chili's hit-and-run in October). I couldn't really argue that, and didn't feel like having yet another insurance claim hang over my head, so I shook her hand and drove off. My neck hurts a little bit, but at least that lady liked my ribbon magnet. Also, I'm going to Santa Monica tonight. I'll ba back Monday. "Inez is holding a clay pot, of which she seems to be very proud. She has decorated it with lots of paint and glaze. " or "Nobody hipped me to that, dude"
This will be a quick post. If you are a huge nerd, read on, if not, skip to the MovieQuoteoftheDay. Tonight I created my first ever greasemonkey script. What is greasemonkey /mark? Greasemonkey is a Firefox Extension that allows users to install user-written javascript functions to specific websites they visit. What does that mean? It means you can make a website do something that it wasn't intended to do. I decided to start off with an easy one. My script was to bring back the reset button to flickr. You see, flickr used to have a reset button when you had new comments. It would say "NEW comments", and then you would click that and go read them, and then when you went back to your page, it would still say "NEW comments". You'd say "No way, Jose" and hit the Reset button (maybe hit it twice) and *poof*, it wouldn't say NEW anymore. Well, they took that button away. So I brought it back, but mine's a little different. With mine, you mouse-over where it says "NEW" and it turns into a reset button. You click it (maybe twice) and it resets your comments notification. It also adds a reset button to your "Recent Comments" page at the top. Without further ado, if you already have greasemonkey installed, right-click this link and hit "Install User Script", then hit okay. Go to flickr.com. See it work. Give me feedback. "I don't like parents"
Last night, the Hyena Hockey Regular Season came to a close. Going into the game, our team had a 0-9 season. We are playing in a league that is slightly above our skill level, but we've been trying our best to keep up and have fun. However, last night, we were able to win the last game of the season. And we won it 11 to 3 to boot! I was able to get 4 goals in the game as well, a personal best. The first was a hack job in front of the goalie that finally went in, but the next 3 were perfectly fed top-shelf one timers, one of which came from my brother. So it was a great game and it felt really good to not be winless this season. "You're a walking lie Helen, and I can see right through you."
Exactly one week from now, I will be in Now, my question to you is, what question should I ask them? I know that a lot of you like, nay, love the Family Guy. Is there any questions you would have for the cast? If you give me a good enough question, I will ask it. Here is an example question to get you started: "This question is for Seth. Seth, I hear you talk in the commentary a lot about how attractive you think Lois is. Don't you think that maybe, just maybe you're actually attracted to Alex Borstein and you mask that love by associating it with the character of Lois? Sub-question: Do you think Alex's Husband would be okay with this transparent obsession you have for his wife?" "Why where I come from in the north, we used to have exquisite gourmet rocks... only now... now, they're all gone."
The other day I came across a link on del.icio.us to a website called w.bloggar. Curious, I clicked the link. Their website welcomed me with a message saying the site had been hacked into on Easter, and that it won't be back online for a while, but you can still download the software. After researching it for a few minutes, I found out that wbloggar is a desktop application that lets you write posts in an application that posts to your favorite blogging tool (in my case, blogger). The benefits of this I'm sure are plentiful and it will be a nice program to use. I literally started using the program less than 2 minutes ago and did a test post. Like magic, I hit publish and it was on the /mark. Advantages to the program I can see right away are Save locally (in a file to your computer). This would have been awesome if I had used this all along, then switching to a different blogging tool (wordpress) would probably be effortless. Easy easy buttons for links, images, font-styles, and colored html tags to make things easier. Looks like it has customizeable class names, which will make things like the MovieQuoteoftheDay easier, spell check, and a bunch of other crap. So, first impressions, I am a big fan. I just realized this post was kind of boring unless you blog a lot, so I will now write a more widely entertaining post. But if you are a blogger, seriously, check out wbloggar.
Now, I'm paraphrasing here, but a while back, my brother said to me "I wish real life conversations were like work conversations, and you could just walk away from someone when you ran out of stuff to say to them." At the time, I smiled and nodded at his assumed wisdom, but now I have to say I completely agree. At work, etiquette says that you don't have to say a damn thing before you walk away from someone, but in life, you have to say such meaningless things with no conviction at all before you walk away from someone, like "Yeeeep. Well... Okay then, I'll talk to you later? Alright. See ya!", or "Well that's all I know, heh.", or "Alright, I'll talk to you later." These are all very pointless. Next time you're done talking, just walk away. [Quote provided by: hugeguy] "You took away my future. I'm simply returning the favor. Oh, don't worry, I'll be a good mentor. Supportive, encouraging. Everything you weren't."
 
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