On the last airing of “The OC” the character Summer mentioned that she could not be interrupted by the person knocking at the door because Thursday was “must watch TV night” and that she had to watch the fictional show “The Valley”.
“The Valley” being one of California’s strange regional provinces like “Marin County”, “The City”, and “Orange County”.
Ha ha - you may be writing teeny soaps, but you’re savvy about your role in the pop culture ecosystem.
….now has a trailer.
I checked it out and it looks like a real honest to dog indie movie trailer replete with the courier font for the title cards (to get the extra Indie seal of approval).
I’m mighty excited about this development, the feature is taking its final form but a stone’s throw from my residence in the fair city of Palo Alto.
Here’s the trailer
Clint Eastwood (even in a brown suit)
Detective Lantana and Detective Green on “Law and Order”
They have great chemistry as partners on Law and Order. Sometimes the lineup of L&O is more prosecutor-oriented (Waterston & Harmon) these guys bring back some old school hard-boiled enforcement to the show.
I really like Lantana (Dennis Farina), his character has salt and pepper shades of wiseguy (fancy clothes, nicer than cop salary car) to match his hair color. I dig his presentation and his busting out of some serious Italian with the mobsters nona was a real treat.
Thank you for saving it for me, Tivo.
sfiga : The negation of possibility, used to describe “bad luck”, Murphy’s Law to the extreme
It’s 1035 and i’m exhausted.
I stayed up late sunday night cleaning house, getting the laundry done (bed, bath, ktichen, and hall all look great).
I’m trying to make a dint in all my projects (they are the things that clutter my living room) - hard drives, filing, assembling movies, notes for a CCNA exam, my fat 60GB iPod/Photo…
But tonight I am too tired.
I went to the gym after a 6 hour class on Report design for Microsoft applications. It’s interesting, the technology has changed little since a decade ago, it feels like the drop down plug and chug of the MS-access days.
Although there have been a few UI improvements.
Anyway.
Tomorrow is the last day of training, then a day of work and then off to Northern CA (more north than the bay) for Thanksgiving with my relatives there. It should be fun, we will eat, talk, bemoan the Jesuslanding of the US, drink wine, eat grapes and cheese, and maybe go to the Mendocino shores.
But right now.
Thanks to that glass of Syrah.
I am going to bed.
I am a total office products snob. More on each and every one of these later.
One of the best office products that I got to use while living in Europe when reading formal drafts was the A4 paper standard.
I love the A4 size. I like longer folders versus thicker binders. With A4 it feels like you have a proper expanse upon which to write notes and margins. On A4 you feel like your thought exists in a bigger world versus the parochial US “Letter” standard.
Dagggh. It’ like the envy i have for people converting liters to kiloleters simply by adding zeroes versus my addled multiplications af 4s and 6s to get to something comprable in the antiquated Imperial system.
Go metric Go ISO216 paper standards
This may be yet another hipsterism for James Dedman to harvest.
If anyone can answer the question - why Americans shun A4 - I would be thankful.
Do Canadians use A4?
I think that most creative people, or sensitive people, or people who have faced tragedy contemplate suicide at some point.
Some contemplate it more deeply, earlier, and some only have a passing glimpse of it, seeing it like a pretty girl in the driver’s seat of a German luxury car speeding into sun-flare leaving you with only a vague impression of “good looking”.
I personally think that anyone who would ever hope to be great must make a certain about of peace with this matter, and that involves a lot of careful consideration, it’s sort of a required contemplation for certain life aspirations.
In any case, I should like to note to anyone considering this ill-advised course of action that no matter how bad you think things suck right now - such that suicide seems like a good idea - imagine how much worse it would be if your attempt messes up? I mean, you could go from being mopey to being immobilized, you could go from being bored to being brain-dead.
It strikes me that any potential benefit is simply not worth the risk.
There are lots of other good existential reasons presented by Camus in L’homme revolt? (The Rebel) and there plenty of moralistic or sentimental reasons (Religious text says not to, how could you be so cruel to your loved ones, how can you be so self-absorbed, etc.) .
I’m not here to judge, I just want to give a pragmatic reason to not make this fatal error of perspective (although I don’t believe it should be a criminal act, it’s not the government’s business).
Just spreading the meme - add a 30 second skip to Tivo Remote.
Okay, here’s what you do; grab your Tivo remote, and while it is playing a recorded program enter:
SELECT PLAY SELECT 3 0 SELECT
Tivo “advance” button. If all goes well you’ll hear three beeps from your Tivo. At this point you have activated 30 second skip. Now whenever you hit the “advance” button (see picture at right), you’ll get a 30 second skip ahead. Once you’ve tried this I promise you will never go back to fast forwarding.
Stolen blatently from w-uh.
In short order I can say that I basically have had a pretty good week. I’ve been to the gym according to schedule, I’ve worked hard in the evenings to keep a clean home and hearth. I’ve been productive at work. I’ve been good.
An interesting development is that I am now using the on-the-fly document editing system, TWiki” as a Personal Information Manager (PIM). Once upon a time I had a Palm V — which is good, but I hate lugging more electronic gear in my pocket. With a TWiki the PIM is online and I am rarely anyplace where I can’t get net access (or if I can’t, I shouldn’t be getting net access).
I also firmed up some plans for my visit to Austin for my sister’s graduation (Go ‘Horns class of 04!).
I’m also stewing up some ideas for my next Cocoa app — although I’m a bit loath to dig in just yet. I’m not sure I’ve gotten enough distance from my last go round just yet.
Tomorrow I am going to run le grande clean-out in my cubicle. It’s time to get more organized there and get rid of some more clutter. Label maker is ready and primed. I’m going to get an early jump on the morrow and do that.
As part of the GTD methodolgy, you have to clean out your other inboxes, well a few that I’m really not looking forward to organizing are my Powerbook’s directories, the desktop of my work pee-cee, and my work unix home directory. 4 years of total laziness have made these virtual inboxen total messes. I’m going to see this thing through.
At work I’ve been busy reading through a bunch of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) drafts and RFCs. I’ve been reading up on the latest round of sender identification protocols (Cisco’s IIM, Yahoo’s DK, and Microsoft’s Secure Sender).
Anyway, tonight I’m actually starting to dig into the CCNA prep book and I might get a few pages of Quicksilver read — that is the book, not the outstanding MacOSX productivity tool.
I have also edited my MoveableType back end (the software that runs this blog) so that all comments older than 5 days are now closed. I’m sorry to curtail any discussion, but I want to cut down on blog-spam.
You must understand the power of a creative workplace and basing your workplace in a creative epicentre (hint, most of them were blue shaded in the last election…)