{"id":3453,"date":"2005-08-05T08:41:17","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/05\/girl-talk-mt32b3-and-alan-moore\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:50:42","slug":"girl-talk-mt32b3-and-alan-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/05\/girl-talk-mt32b3-and-alan-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl talk, MT32b3, and Alan Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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a pleasant evening after work yesterday, when I headed up the hill to Charlie&#8217;s and got together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/gracesine\/\" title=\"I'm not going to call the hospital because you won't learn anything\">Melissa<\/a>, her daughter (whose name I either didn&#8217;t catch or, more likely, have forgotten), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/sauciestwench\/\" title=\"Starting Over\">Christa<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/anzu\/\" title=\"Musings of the Mighty Ankaa\">Erin<\/a>. Quite fun, actually, being as I ended up in a situation I&#8217;ve stumbled into quite a few times before in my life and always enjoy when it happens &#8212; being the only guy in something of a &#8216;girl talk&#8217; session. Laughter, rants about current and former lovers and friends, ongoing drama&#8230;all that fun stuff.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when I really enjoy not being the &#8220;typical male&#8221;&#8230;or at least far enough removed from that stereotype that I can occasionally be around for such things. I may have worked over the years at decreasing the amount of drama in my life, but I must admit, I do enjoy being a <em>spectator<\/em>! ;) Quite enjoyable, in any case, and it seems that this may become something of a weekly event.<\/p>\n<p>After coming home and chatting with Prairie for a while until she wandered off to bed, I upgraded my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhanscom.com\/mtbeta\/\" title=\"MT Beta Blog\">Movable Type beta installation<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/movabletype\/beta\/2005\/08\/mt32_beta_3.html\" title=\"Movable Type 3.2 Beta: Release: Movable Type 3.2 Beta 3\">v3.2b3<\/a>, which is essentially the final candidate build. Ran into one small oddity during the upgrade process, but after filing a bug report and having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradchoate.com\/\" title=\"Brad Choate: Welcome\">Brad Choate<\/a> pop up in iChat to talk about it, I&#8217;m leaning towards it being a caching issue and nothing major with the system.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to upgrading my main site to v3.2 once it&#8217;s finalized and I&#8217;ve had a chance to go over the new documentation. This may end up meaning that I do a full redesign &#8212; there are a <em>lot<\/em> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/movabletype\/beta\/2005\/07\/barebones_indiv.html\" title=\"Movable Type 3.2 Beta: Barebones Individual Archive Template\">changes in the new templates<\/a>, and it may take me some time to wrap my head around all of them. I&#8217;m not sure yet if I&#8217;ll upgrade the backend and keep the current design and then work on a new one in the background, or just go whole-hog and start over with the new basic designs&#8230;more to ponder.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also just finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Moore\" title=\"Wikipedia: Alan Moore\">Alan Moore<\/a>&#8216;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0930289528%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0930289528%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" title=\"Alan Moore, David Lloyd: V for Vendetta\">V for Vendetta<\/a>&#8216; graphic novel after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/wb\/v_for_vendetta\/\" title=\"Apple: Trailers: V for Vendetta\">movie trailer<\/a> peaked my curiosity about the original movie, and am currently working my way through Moore&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0930289234%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0930289234%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" title=\"Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore: Watchmen\">The Watchmen<\/a>&#8216;. While Prairie (a confessed &#8216;book snob&#8217;) may giggle at me for reading &#8220;comic books&#8221;, I&#8217;m enjoying both of these, and &#8216;V for Vendetta&#8217; in many ways seems <em>very<\/em> topical in todays world &#8212; which, given its <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/V_for_Vendetta\" title=\"Wikipedia: V for Vendetta\">subject matter<\/a>, is actually a little disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>And that pretty much sums up life in the world of me at the moment. Not quite sure what my plans for the weekend are, though there&#8217;s a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seafair.com\/\" title=\"Seafair 2005\">Seafair<\/a> stuff going on around town right now that I may see if I can find a way to check out at one point or another. As is usual for me, though, I&#8217;m not planning much of anything more than about 20 minutes in advance&#8230;except for running off to work, which (insert overly melodramatic sigh here) I must go do. Off with me, then!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLock Up%2526albumTerm=Something Bitchin' This Way Comes%2526songTerm=24 Hour Man%26 partnerId%3D30\">24 Hour Man<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1= itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLock Up%26partnerId%3D30\">Lock Up<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLock Up%2526albumTerm=Something Bitchin' This Way Comes%26partnerId%3D30\">Something Bitchin&#8217; This Way Comes<\/a><\/em> (1990, 4:46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that pretty much sums up life in the world of me at the moment. 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