TV time…kinda

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As always, there have been a couple additions to my movie collection over the past few days. Rather than actual movies, though, I’m catching up on some of the watchable shows that I miss due to the fact that I don’t watch television.

At the recommendation of Adri, a good friend and co-worker of mine, I picked up the first season of HBO’s Sex and the City. Actually quite an entertaining little show — well written, the four main characters are all quite nice eye candy, and since it’s an HBO production, there’s even some gratuitous nudity every so often. Sure, the shows more along the lines of a “chick flick” style, I suppose, but that’s certainly never been a problem for me, and I trust Adri’s opinions — her tastes and mine, while not identical, do tend to mesh the majority of the time.

The one that’s going to keep me busy for a while, though, is today’s prize — The X-Files: Season Three. I’d never seen the X-Files before I picked up the first season box set, but am now quite hooked — and the cliffhanger end of the second season had me wishing I had the next set that day to keep watching. Well, I didn’t then, but I do now, and made it through the first four episodes tonight. Such fun stuff…should make it through the rest of this set within the next couple weeks — then it’ll just be counting the months until season four hits the shelves!

Told ya I’d get more in here

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I just didn’t figure I’d wait until this late to do it. Ah, well, at least I’m here, right?

Friday was fairly uneventful for the most part. Had a good evening dj’ing for the spring formal for the UAA Greek organizations, though, which was fun. Not much more than that for Friday night.

Saturday I ended up having a blast. After I got off work at Suncoast I headed out to Studio 99 — and funny, there was no one there. Hung out for a bit, then headed home, to find a message letting me know that they weren’t going to be opening that night, as they didn’t want to try and compete both with a rave out in Eagle River and the various Cinco De Mayo celebrations around town. Understandable enough, so instead I headed out to the Last Frontier to meet up with a bunch of the chatters that I talk to in the Yahoo! Chat Alaska room. One of the other regular chatters has her birthday on the 1st of May, and mine was the 3rd, so we had a pretty good sized birthday party going on there. Got myself fairly nicely buzzed, and only had to pay for one of the four drinks I had! I bought one, one of the chatters bought me one…then a couple girls I met (Barbie and Barb, believe it or not) bought me two because they liked the way I danced. Rock on…sat and talked with them for a while. Unfortunately, they disappeared before I was able to get any numbers from them…(sigh)…just my luck. Maybe next time. Anyway, switched from alcohol to soda and water in time to be sure that I was safe to drive home, gave one of the chatters a lift home, and came home and crashed — all in all, quite a nice night.

The last couple days have been pretty uneventful — pretty much just work and day-to-day life. Have had some good conversations with my friend Erika, who’s thinking it might be worthwhile to hook me up with her friend LouAnne before I leave state…I’ve only met LouAnne a few times, but she seems like a very nice girl, and she’s certainly attractive enough…who knows?

Had a meeting at Studio 99 tonight to discuss the future of the club…looks like things are going to be going through some changes there. I’m not sure I want to say much more than that just now, but hopefully things will be looking up there pretty soon.

Anyway, so that’s it for the past few days. Nothing too earth shattering, but there’s very little of that in my life these days anyway. Right now it’s mostly a matter of counting the days until I visit Fairbanks in a couple weeks (weekend of May 18th), and until I finally leave this state to see how things are living in the lower 48 (sometime in mid-August). Can’t happen soon enough for me.

Happy birthday, Kev!

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Can’t believe I almost forgot to say anything about this — my little brother turns 25 today! Wow…that’s kind of frightening. But cool, too.

Happy b-day, bro.

Memento

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Went out to see Memento last night. I’d been curious about this one ever since I started hearing about it, and even more curious once I saw the trailer. The main character has suffered a brain injury, and has a condition where he cannot form any new memories. The last thing he can actually remember is his wife’s murder — everything else that happens to him fades in a few minutes. He can’t remember anyone for more than just a couple minutes, if conversations last too long he won’t know how they got started…interesting enough on its own, but during the film, he’s actually trying to track down the man who raped and killed his wife. Notes all over the place, key clues tattooed onto his body…a man obsessed, but incapacitated by being completely limited to short term memory. In addition, the film is told in an extremely ‘dis-linear’ (the director’s term) style…in other words, it doesn’t start at the beginning and end at the end. Similar to Pulp Fiction, only more. Very, very cool — certainly the best film I’ve seen so far in 2001, and I’m so looking forward to it coming out for sale — I need to watch it quite a few more times just to make sure I’m seeing everything correctly!

Statistics

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I did a little work on my webserver last night, and was able to get the statistics page up and running again. Now, if you’re really bored, you can take a look at just how much (or, more accurately, how little) traffic my webserver actually gets. The page is generated automatically every day at midnight, so the numbers should always be up to date. Purdy nifty.

Well, hrmpf.

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Well…as far as birthdays go, yesterday wasn’t the worst — but I can’t honestly say it was the best, either. Outside of my parents, all of three people have remembered it without obvious prompting on my part, and only two of those were actually on the day. Ah, well, more reasons for me not to worry about missing living up here too much when I bail.

Not that I’m cynical or anything like that.

So, that was about it for yesterday. I’m off to DJ a dance for UAA tonight, then will be working at Suncoast tomorrow during the day and Studio 99 in the evening, so am looking pretty busy. Will babble more when I get the chance…and I’m sure you’re all anxiously awaiting that, too — right?

Heaven forbid that happen!

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Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name…without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

— Bill Gates, 1983 (New York Times, 25 Sep 1983, pg. F2)

The van is back!

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This just rocks — my parents van, which was stolen about two weeks ago, will be back in their hands sometime today! Here’s what dad just e-mailed me about it:

I was driving down Muldoon Road yesterday at 4:30 PM and I saw Berta’s car right in front of me. I had my cell phone, so I called the police. They had me follow the car at a distance. When it got “lost” in a housing development, they sent out several cars to search, and the car was recovered about 6 PM. They took it to the station to do forensics (fingerprints, etc.) and we get it back today. It looks perfect on the outside; they did not want me to disturb the inside until the forensics were done.

Very, very cool…most of the time, if you don’t recover a stolen car within 24 hours, you’re not going to recover it. This is a great little turn of events.

So far the day hasn’t been going too badly…on a nice sugar high at the moment from the cake that was brought into the office by my co-workers. Woohoo!

Happy birthday to me!

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Well, I’m 28. We’ll see how the day goes.

Other notable May 3rd birthdays: Steve Jones (1955) (guitarist for the Sex Pistols), Frankie Valli (1937), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), James Brown (1933), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Pete Seeger (1919), Mary Astor (1906) (actress, female lead in The Maltese Falcon), Bing Crosby (1903), Niccolo Machiavelli (1469), Constantine III (612).

‘toons and Tunes

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Happy May Day! Only two more days ’till I turn 28…not that I’m keeping track of this for any real reason or anything. Just thought I’d mention it.

My friend Kirsten introduced me to some web-based comic strips I hadn’t found yet, and I’ve added links to them under the “Places to go…” heading over in the right column. They’re both wonderfully twisted stuff — Drinky Drink and The Parking Lot is Full. Just a quick warning — the Parking Lot comic, while I find it funny, has a tendency to be one of the more bizarrely offensive strips I’ve found yet…be warned! And lastly, though I’m probably not going to add this as a permanent link, you really should go check out MC Hawking’s Crib and download the .mp3 file for “Entropy”. Just trust me. You should.