DJ Humor

Two DJs were talking. One of them says “Hey, you should see this movie I saw the other day! It’s GREAT!”

The other one replies, “Oh, I don’t know…Who’s the projectionist?”

(via underbunny and wirehead)

Kumquat Mania

‘Kumquat’ has long been one of my favorite words. It’s rather silly, fun to say, and sounds like it might be something slightly perverse, but it’s nothing more than a little orange fruit.

I just stumbled across this Fark Photoshop competition:

Theme: Replace a word in a song or movie title with the word “kumquat” and photoshop the result

I generally skip most of Fark’s photoshop threads, as they’re generally only of fair-to-middling quality, and the level of humor is often lower than I generally get a kick out of. This one I had to check out though…and I’m glad I did.

As it turned out, there were lots of good gags. As images posted to Fark tend to be transitory, I’ve snagged the best of them here. One to start with, then the rest behind the cut (it’ll be a bit image-heavy, modem users beware)…

Dark Side of the Kumquat

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March of the Penguins

This is rather horrendously teen-girl-Livejournal-y, but for once, I’m actually tempted to let lose with an “EEEEEEEEEE! PENGUINS!

Penguins

(ahem)

Now that my inner thirteen-year-old (who’s apparently female…but we won’t discuss that) has had her say, I’m just going to have to find a way to see this. Apparently it has two shows in Seattle next weekend, out at the Harvard Exit: Saturday the 11th at 6:30pm, and Sunday the 12th at 11:30am.

Penguins

Must be seen.

They’re so cute!!!!

Penguins

(ahem)

Okay, I think I’m done now.

(Thanks to Julie for this!)

Virtual Moving

I’ve been getting word from a few people recently that my website is responding unusually slowly as of late. I generally don’t notice this much myself (as when I’m at home everything goes over the local network), but I have been noticing that the traffic indicator light on my DSL modem has been very active lately.

There’s a few things that could account for that amount of activity and the speed issues, but my guess is that it’s simply that while my DSL line and aging webserver were fine for my needs a while ago, I’m outgrowing them.

Right now, I’ve got a 1.5 Mb/sec incoming, 768 kbps/sec outgoing DSL line, and an old 350Mhz G3 as webserver. I’ve set my server up to host two domains for myself (djwudi.com, which is currently essentially unused, and michaelhanscom.com), one for my dad (hanscomfamily.com), two for friends (Kirsten at geekmuffin.com and Phil at interalia.org), and I found out a while ago that Phil has set someone else up on my server as well (patreesha.com).

A few months ago, none of those site were getting enough traffic for that to be a major issue. As the sites grow, though, and as Google finds more and more pages to send people to, I’ve simply run out of server horsepower and bandwidth.

So, I think it’s time for me to pare things down a little bit and look into external hosting options. Mike‘s given his hosting provider, LivingDot, a good recommendation, and their packages look better than both Laughing Squid (BoingBoing‘s host) and Logjamming (Wil Wheaton‘s host), but I’m open to suggestions if anyone else might have any.

This won’t be an “overnight” thing, so there’s no danger of me suddenly pulling the plug on any of the sites I host. I already knew that I’d have to be disconnecting my server for an as yet unspecified amount of time when I move in with Prairie in a few months, so the end of August is something of a “drop dead” date for me to get all of this taken care of. My sites may move over before then, depending on affordability and how much of a PROJECT the transition becomes, but I’m not about to just drop my friends’ sites into the great bit bucket in the sky. :)

It’s a bit of a bummer, as I’ve enjoyed having the ability to host things on my own, without having to worry about storage space (I’ve got around 100Gb of drive space on my server) or bandwidth caps (as long as I pay my bills, Speakeasy doesn’t care how much data I pump in or out over my DSL line, or limit what I can or cannot do with my server)…but after a while, even I have to succumb to the reality of the situation.

iTunesUnder the Milky Way” by Church, The from the album Never Mind the Mainstream (1988, 5:00).

Blade: Trinity

I just got finished watching Blade: Trinity. While I’m certainly not going to make any claims about it being a good movie, it ended up being far more entertaining than I expected it to be (and probably more than it had any real right to be).

I can chalk this up to two simple things:

  1. Parker Posey as a vampire. Parker’s long been one of my favorite actresses, inevitably taking oddball roles in quirky movies and absolutely going to town with them. She’s always a joy to watch, and this was certainly no exception.

    Parker Posey

  2. ‘Pac-Man’, the vampire pomeranian. Hands-down, one of the most bizarrely funny things I’d seen in a long time.

    Vampire Pomeranian

From here on out, I think every movie should have a vampire pom in it. I don’t really care if it makes sense, or fits into the film at all. I just want more vampire pomeranians in my movies.

Catch up? You’re kidding, right?

3528 Unread ItemsSee this?

This is what happens when I spend an entire weekend out running around and having fun, stopping by the computer just long enough to import, prepare, and upload photos.

Three thousand, five hundred, and twenty-eight unread items in my newsreader.

I’ve got a hunch I’m going to be doing a lot of skimming over the next few days.

Given that there’s more coming in every four hours when NetNewsWire refreshes, I figure I’ll get it knocked back down to zero just in time to go out and find something else to do that keeps me away for a few days…and it’ll all start over again.

iTunesStories” by Big Hat from the album Inamorata (1992, 3:38).

Folklife 2005

As anyone who’s been watching my Flickr photostream is (painfully?) aware of by now, this entire weekend was spent primarily wandering around this year’s Northwest Folklife Festival. Prairie and I both had a lot of fun people watching and picture taking (well, I did the picture taking, we both did the people watching bit), we got to hang out with Laura for a while on Saturday and Sunday, and a good time was had by all.

As always, the full avalanche of pictures are in a Flickr photoset. Here’s one of my favorites…

Folklife 2005, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA

iTunesCalling All Angels” by Lang, K.D./Siberry, Jane from the album Until the End of the World (1991, 5:11).