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Should have seen this one coming
Yesterday: Coworkers discussing a big client coming to the office, who is excited to see what kind of creative halloween costumes a web design firm comes up with. It is strongly implied that we should all dress up. Lots of talk about costumes. After work, I travel around the mall for a couple of hours and manage to piece together a pretty solid costume.
Today: I’m the only one wearing a costume. Figures.
Anyways, I’m wearing the tank-top kind of workout gear that they wear on Galactica. The hardest part was finding a black tank top and a gray sleeveless shirt, but after hitting just about every store in the mall, and then Freddies, I managed to find both. Of course, I’m a little nervous about wearing a tight shirt with my er… physique, but I’m saying that I’m an out-of-shape Viper pilot. After all, I just spent a year on New Caprica getting fat. The old man would totally yell at me and make me go to sit-ups with Lee.
To-Do List for Labor Day Weekend 2006
Updated/redesign front page of spaceninja.com to display more content from external sites like flicr, del.icio.us, and last.fm.Post more photos from my archives to my flickr account.Post photos from our third annual group anniversary trip.Post funny movie of Oskar watching his dad cut up a mango.Put up a whole bunch of funny t-shirt designs on cafepress.Put up promotions for those shirts on all my sites.Rework our budget.- Get sick, throw out previous list and follow revised list instead:
- Go through two boxes of kleenex: check.
- Watch lots of TV, including a VanDamme movie, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and several episodes of Deadwood: check.
Akismet Stops Comment Spam
I’ve been seeing more and more of the blogs I read lately complaining about comment spam attacks. Having had a bit of experience with this myself, I can sympathize.
The single best thing I can recommend is to get Akismet running on your blog. Since installing it several months ago, I have had zero comment spams. I check my filtered comments pretty regularly, and as far as I can tell, it’s never prevented a real user from commenting, or gotten any false positives. Comment spam has simply stopped being a factor in my life, and it’s nice. Akismet was originally written for WordPress in PHP, but versions have been released for just about everything, including Movable Type and even other platforms and libraries, like Ruby and Perl.
Sadly, the two examples I linked to won’t be able to use this, because Urn rolled his own blog in .NET, and Walkerings is hosted on TypePad (which doesn’t allow plugins, as far as I know).
You Have Died of Dysentary
Normally, I don’t like these “Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile, I was hunting wolverines in Alaska” kind of posts, but given the amount of things that have happened lately, it’s the best way to catch up, and let me get back into posting regularly.
Missed a week of work
After getting BBQ for lunch at work a couple of weeks ago, I got really ill and had to go home early. Without getting into all the gory details, I was out sick for an entire week and saw the doctor twice. He ran some tests, but didn’t find anything abnormal. So either it was a crazy case of food poisoning, or I had some sort of oddly specific stomach flu. On the plus side, since I wasn’t up for doing anything other than lying in front of the TV, I managed to watch the entire first season of Deadwood.
Weekly Delicious Posts
You have probably noticed the “Weekly Delicious Links” posts that have been popping up here. Delicious is a bookmarking service, and you can display your most recent delicious links on the sidebar, which I’ve done. In addition, I wanted to archive the links that I posted here on the blog, so I got a program that creates a blog post once a week with all the links I posted that week. I’m playing catch-up right now, so the weekly posts are pretty big, but they’ll settle down to a more reasonable size once I’ve cleared out my bookmarks file.
World of Warcraft
Last week I attended a family gathering and watched my cousins play World of Warcraft all day. It reminded me of just how much I enjoyed the game, and I decided to start playing again. To avoid the problems I had last time, where I felt like I was spending all my time trying to keep up with my guildmates instead of just having fun, I’m intentionally not joining a guild, and spending most of my time soloing. As a result, I don’t feel obligated to play at certain times or for a lot of time in any one sitting, and I’m really enjoying the world again.
Movies
- District B13: This movie kicks ass the same way that early Jackie Chan did – not because of a great plot or special effects, but because your jaw is on the ground the whole time watching what these guys are capable of doing.
- X-Men 3: Largly disappointing, but if you go in with low expectations, you’ll be able to appreciate the good bits. It wouldn’t have been so bad if they hadn’t tried to cram two movies’ worth of material into one.
- Inside Man: I love a good heist flick, and Clive Owen is a great criminal mastermind here. If you’re a fan of the genre at all, you owe it to yourself to check this out.
- Highlander 1, 2, & 3: Wow. Just wow. Here’s a tip: When both the director and leading man try to remove their names from your sequel, something has gone wrong somewhere.
- Nacho Libre: Not as funny as the trailers make it look, and nowhere near the quality of Napoleon Dynamite. Still, all the actual wrestling scenes are great, and the training montage is brilliant.
DVDs
- The Venture Brothers, season one: This cartoon is easily the funniest thing to come out of Adult Swim, and I say that as a devoted fan of Aqua Teen and Sealab. The Monarch is the best villian ever, and the Boston accents just add to the craziness. Plus: Patrick Warburton.
- Dr. Katz, season one: Very very dry humor, but when it’s good, it’s genius. All the bits with Ray Romano are great, and the commentary tracks are funny too.
- Red vs. Blue, season one: The whole season is good, but nothing beats the part where they’re talking about the Warthog with Sarge.
- Strong Bad Emails, discs 1-4: Not only are all the email here, but so are all the easter eggs. The only problem here is that there’s so much stuff to watch that I’ll probably never get through it all.
- Deadwood, season one: I watched the whole first season while I was sick, and I’m completely hooked now. Calamity Jane and the Doctor are my favorite characters.