Geekery

Whatever I’m geeking out about at the time.

Geek code

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Here’s my geek code.

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GAT d+ s:-- a- C++ U*++++ P+ L- E--- W+++
N+ o K w--- O---- M++ V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5
X++ R-- tv-- b++ DI++ D+ G e h r+ y*
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

Blogsnob

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This is nice to know — I just signed up with BlogSnob to display little text ads (you should be able to see the ad on the right side, between “Books” and “blog rings/links”). I display links to other people’s blogs, and my link gets displayed on other people’s blogs. I just checked my stats, and since I signed up on the 7th — just four days ago — my ad has been displayed 208 times, and I’ve had 6 people visit my site from my BlogSnob ad on another site. This gives me a 2.88% click-through rate, which while it doesn’t sound very high, when ad banner click-through rates are commonly reported at somewhere around .25% or lower, it’s pretty good. I’ll be staying with these guys.

I was having some problems getting the code to validate, but just got a little help from ServMe (FriedKitten), and now everythings validating and displaying without a hitch. Woohoo!

Plans always change

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Well, I was going to go see Daniel Ash at the Crocodile tonight, but unfortunately, due to a car crash, that’s been postponed for a month and a half. Bummer. I’ll be looking forward to that show when it rolls around, though — Daniel has at various times been parts of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Tones on Tail, and has had his own solo career. Hopefully the crash wasn’t too bad — I’m guessing not, since they’ve already got a rescheduled date of April 22nd, should be a cool show.

So, rather than that, it looks like there’s a fair crew of people heading out to The Vogue. I’m going to meet up with Gail, a friend that I’ve met in Yahoo! Chat and meet and get some food (we were going to meet at the concert tonight, but since that’s been cancelled…). Then, off to the Vogue to meet up with Chad, Rick, and our friend Megan who’s another expatriate Alaskan now living and going to school in Portland. Candice should be showing up around midnight or so after she’s done with a babysitting job that she’s at right now. Should be a fun night!

More archive tweaks

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I spent some time this morning doing some more tweaking, trying to get the archives into a more useable and user-friendly format. The current layout has a calendar for the current month displayed, with any day that I’ve made a post as a clickable link that will take you to that day’s posts in the archive files. Underneath the calendar are links to the monthly archive pages dating back to Nov. 2000. The ‘full archives’ link underneath that links to a page listing every post I’ve made, split up into categories in a table. On that page, the header for each table will take you to the full category archive (these pages can be huge, though), and the individual post links will take you directly to each post on its own.

Hopefully this will make digging through my archives a bit easier (in case there’s anyone here quite crazy enough to bother).

A.I. (Absolutely Incredible)

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I really do think that AI is an astounding film. Luckily enough, I’m not the only one. If you’ve got some time to kill and have seen the film, it’s really worth checking out a couple discussions going on over at the HTF, there’s some amazingly intelligent analyses being posted.

Atlantis, AI, Jay and Silent Bob, Say Anything

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While my DVD purchases are nowhere near what they used to be now that I don’t have the extra income and employee discount from Suncoast, I do still occasionally pick one up here and there. I’ve picked up four over the past month (see? Four in a month!) — here’s the scoop….

Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Disney’s most recent animated flick. I thought this one was very under-appreciated when it came out in the theaters, which was a shame — though not entirely surprising. It’s Disney’s first PG-rated animated film since The Black Cauldron, and one of their few non-musicals. It’s also got a much more adult-oriented sense of humor running through it, which I very much enjoyed. Well worth seeing, though — I really like the fact that Disney has finally decided to stray from the standard formula that they held to for so long, and I hope that the fact that A:TLE didn’t perform as well as it could have in the box office doesn’t scare them away from experimenting in the future.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: Hey — it’s Kevin Smith! Sure, there’s not exactly much in the way of a plot, and many of the jokes won’t connect with people who haven’t seen the rest of his films. Being a Kevin Smith fan, though, I think it’s pretty funny. If nothing else, the news bulletin warning people to “stay away from the C.L.I.T” (Campaign for the Liberation of Itinerant Tree-dwellers), and watching Ben Affleck and Matt Damon rip on themselves by selling out to make Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season are worth watching. At least…I think so.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence: The single best film Spielberg has done, one of the best movies of last year (if not the best), and certiainly one of the few must-see “thinking person’s” sci-fi films to come out in recent years (the only others I can think off off the top of my head being Gattaca, Contact, and 2001). I watched the movie last night, and will probably be digging into the special features tonight…most likely with a seperate post to follow.

Say Anything: One of my favorite 80’s films, and the one to cement John Cusack in my brain as an actor to keep track of. This is the second in the unofficial ‘Cusack series’ that my friend Royce and I enjoy, where though they’re all seperate and unrelated films, we like to put them in a series simply because they star John Cusack, and he plays roughly the same character in each one. For the curious, here’s the series in full as it stands right now: Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer for his formative High School years, Say Anything for High School graduation, Grosse Pointe Blank for the 10-year reunion, and High Fidelity for the thirty-something years.