I’ve created an account of our Risk game on Sunday… probably only interesting to the fam. You’re welcome to look at it though, if only to get a glimpse of my amazing photographic talents.
My favorite non-uncle uncle is
My favorite non-uncle uncle is retiring from his column @ Salon.com. This saddens me, as it was always well written, funny, and provided some more insight into a man I only knew through the radio. As I said before, he’s the kind of man I want as an uncle. He sounds like a guy you could call with problems you can’t talk to your parents about. He sounds like a guy you’d want to have dinner with, or have along on a campout. I’ll miss his column.
In happy news, I played Risk for the first time in many many years on Sunday night with the fam (well, Dad, H and S… Jen and Mom bowed out to discuss fabric). I documented the carnage with the digital camera, and will post a report later today (unless things get busy).
Interesting Google tip: If you
Interesting Google tip: If you type in link:http://www.somesite.com, it will find pages that link to the url you enter. How cool is that? I remember AltaVista being able to do it too, but I can’t remember how. I wish we did that… Oh well, here’s how cool my sister is. She has 5 pages of sites that link to her, and I have 4 sites total, two of which are comments I’ve posted to other sites, one is a site I’m a member of, and one is real. She’s won awards, you know.
Three Post Night
It was weekly, couple-with-a-toddler weekend movie night. We had one hit, one miss this time. We’ll start with the miss.
15 Minutes: Avoid this piece of crap like the plague. If you have to watch it, watch the first 45 minutes, stop the movie, and finish the movie in your head. It will be a million times better than the crap that follows in the second half of this lame movie. The concept of the movie is great and full of possibilities, but the director has no idea how to pull off the ending, so he goes back to his Die Hard: How to Make a Movie manual, written by Michael Bay and Jan de Bont. Aside from implausible, it was just stupid. Ok, enough, it’s almost Sunday and I don’t want to start swearing. Last word: a terrible waste of a good concept and a great cast.
And now the good…
The Gift: Sam Raimi strikes again. I loved A Simple Plan. This movie was great. Unlike the stinker, this movie has a great concept, cast and pulls it off in a way that stays true to the premise. This is an excellent supernatural thriller without relying on gore or crap sarcasm to pull it off. It’s serious psychological horror, and is just excellent. 4 stars, definitely.
Happy Happy Happy Part 2
Oh yeah… The Underpants Gnome episode of South Park is on Comedy Central RIGHT NOW! It was the first episode I ever watched all the way through. I still don’t watch it all the time, but Saturday night @ 10 is the perfect time to watch, and it’s the best episode ever! Remember: Step 1 – Steal Underpants. Step 3 – Profit!
I got my first link
I got my first link on another blogger’s site!!! This is soooo cool. Jodi over at iwilldare.com put me in her Good Taste Club. Not sure how I gained membership to such an elusive-sounding body, but hey, I’ll take it! Thanks, Jodi!
Are you ready for some vicarious football?
It’s fantasy football time! We had our draft yesterday (which was cool, you could draft if you were there, and it turned to auto if you left – nice). I haven’t been impressed so far with nfl.com‘s ui for their fantasy stuff. It’s confusing, and things aren’t where you expect them to be. IE: It’s too hard to get to your lineup. You have to go to Transations -> Set Lineup. It’s the most important part of the game, and should be very close to the homepage, like Yahoo does.
But, UI aside, I’m pretty happy with my team. I made the first three picks in person before Jen and I went to dinner (Cheng’s: If you live in Sterling, or close, it’s a great place for Chinese Food). So, here’s my starting lineup:
- QA: Kurt Warner
- RB: LaDainian Tomlinson
- WR: Sean Dawkins
- WR: Keyshawn Johnson
- TE: Ken Dilger
- K: David Akers
- Defense: Raiders
It should be an interesting season, to say the least. Will Keyshawn break out with Brad Johnson throwing him the ball? Is Kurt Warner fully recovered from the concussions? Is Tomlinson the real thing? We’ll see. I love football!!!!
Some genius from Zeldman’s latest
Some genius from Zeldman’s latest Glamorous Life:
Faith is a feeling that tells you it’s okay to trust a feeling.
Hope is a feeling that some day you’ll find faith.
Sometimes I see everyone I’ve ever loved filling the rooms of a great house. And me sneaking out the back.
The man’s a genius, really he is.
I can’t tell you how
I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying the current storyline over @ The Norm. It’s just classic, and very well done. I can’t get over how much it reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes. Norm is Calvin grown up, and I think that’s perfect.
So, I got my annual
So, I got my annual review this morning at work, and I must say, I’m very happy. I’ve worked for some pretty good managers in my career (yeah, I’m 26 and I have a ‘career’), but my current one is the best yet. He gets it. He knows what it’s like to write code, and knows when someone does it well. You can’t BS him, and that’s cool. You don’t see people on the team who slack or try to get away with writing crap code getting recognized, and I love it.
Oh, so you want to know what I did yesterday on my second sanity day? Oh, it was exciting! I cleaned the rust stains off the stairs leading up to the house. I used CLR, which if you’ve never seen it, is amazing stuff. It bubbles like hydrogen peroxide and takes that rust right off. And if you call now… oh, wait. Then, on top of that, I painted the railings on the stairs a nice flat black enamel. It all went well, and wore me out. I think I need to start working out or something.
I think that’s it for today – no big thoughts, just back at work working – now for more money than before! Woo-hoo!