So, my submission to The Mirror Project was accepted. I’m really happy with the picture and how it turned out.
In other photographic news, Max’s birthday pics are up! We had a great time, and better yet, Max had a ball. We watched Monsters Inc., played around a lot and had a lot of fun. We let Max stay up late and he slept in until almost NINE this morning.
I’m still recovering…
In the spirit of documentation, here are even more pictures! As a little birthday treat, we took Max to Chuck E. Cheese. I’m not sure who had more fun.
I told you about it before, now I have photographic evidence to share. Today, my son turns three. Three years ago we were in the hospital, nervous, full of anticipation and ready to welcome him into the world. I love him more than I can say, and his mother more than I’ll ever be able to express. Happy birthday, little man!
Max got his hair cut today. Jen took him in, and in the heat of the moment had them cut off almost all his hair! He has a quarter of an inch left all around (or less). It’s really cute, but makes him look so much older! He already looks like he’s four, but the hair makes him look like he belongs in Kindergarten. Then, he opens his mouth and out comes his practically (Friday) three year-old babble and that makes it that much cuter!
Jen had a thing at church tonight, so Max and I played. We played rocketship on our bed. Max steered and provided the countdown while I provided the rumbly rocket noises, status updates and turbulence. It was hilarious. Then, we played Leap-Daddy, came downstairs and played Jak and Daxter, changed a diaper, read a story, tucked him in and came downstairs. He’s so much fun.
If you create a database, don’t expect it to live forever. Always keep a backup of at least your schema, and preferrably your data. After having experienced a total data loss, I’m at least reassured that I kept my schema on a system other than the one the database was running on. I had to recreate all my tables and indexes, but thankfully I’d saved them offline and it was as simple as cutting and pasting. Now, if only I had backed up my data…
We watched two new cop shows this weekend, Robbery Homicide Division and Boomtown. First, Robbery Homicide Division was ok. It’s better than CSi, but far worse than any of the Law & Order series or NYPD Blue. The weird part is it’s hard to nail down what’s wrong with it. LA is ripe for a good cop show. All the other good cop series on TV are in New York, and LA has enough crime to accomodate several shows, don’t you think? Tom Sizemore was good. The production quality was good. I think it was just a little too easy, even though the end tried to be all indy-film bad news, it didn’t quite live up. There was nothing that made me really care about what was going on. It was just OK.
Boomtown is another story. Written by Graham Yost, who adapted Band of Brothers for HBO, this is going to be a good show. The storytelling method isn’t as revolutionary as the reviewers have made it out to be, but it is an interesting way to introduce all the characters and give the whole picture of the crime. Again, this show is set in LA, and they did a good job of highlighting the fact they were in LA without relying on the landmarks everyone knows (the Hollywood sign, LAX, etc). It was very well acted, even Jason Gedrick, which surprised me. Definitely worth watching. Hopefully, the rest of the season will match up to the Pilot.
If I were rich, I’d get one of these for the office, one of these for upstairs to go along with my work provided Powerbook and abandon the PC World forever.
While I’m dreaming, I’d have 1.5mb/sec DSL, a wireless network and everything would have Airport cards so there aren’t wires strung all over the place. And because it’s OS X, everything would just work. I wouldn’t have to worry about Microsoft anymore, or the weirdness that is Windows XP. I might miss my games, but I have a PS2 now, and I don’t play games on my PC much anymore anyway.
It’s a nice dream, isn’t it? It’s a $6600 dream, but still nice (I actually thought it would be a lot more than that)
So, I took Jen to see Sweet Home Alabama last night. Oh my, what a crap movie. I’ll start with the two good things about the movie, and then go into the myriad sins it commits. There were three highlights: Candace Bergen, Ethan Embry and Fred Ward, all underused, but they managed to stand out like shiny bits of corn in this turd of a movie.
Ethan Embry played a closetted redneck, and did a decent job playing it evenly and without queening out. It was well done and subtle. Fred Ward was funny and showed why he should get more work than he does. Ms. Bergen was caustic and had some good lines as the mayor of New York, but she ends the movie being completely humiliated, and kind of ruins her character, through no fault of her own.
Now, on to the crap. This movie was equal to the horrible Serendipity in pure shmaltz and predictability. It was horrible. It’s an unspeakable abuse of the sacred romantic comedy formula. In a better movie, there would have been a twist or two, and something that sets it apart. This movie gave me nothing, nothing at all. There was no chemistry between Reese Witherspoon and her not-yet-divorced ex. There was no real drama either. Almost everyone involved slept through the movie, and nothing rises above the level of Lifetime Movie of the Week (alternate title, “Mother, May I Marry a Yankee?”).
If you’re stupid, you’ll like this movie. If you have an IQ higher than 70, and have ever seen any other romantic comedy (both of which are used for this movie as aspiration and hyperbole, not as an indication of the actual content of the film), skip it and go rent When Harry Met Sally, Prelude to a Kiss or even Sleepless in Seattle.
I love that I’m ahead of the curve on something. I used to use definition lists because they were easy to style (back in the wild days before CSS was widely supported). Now, unordered and ordered lists are easy to style. My favorite is to use margin-left:-15px to keep those bullets lined up with that that horrendous whitespace to the left of list items.
Yeah, I’m the ListGeek, bow before my orderly data!