1. I think it’s time to move to typepad. i’ve been way behind on upgrading my MT installs, and the comment spamming is starting to get a wee bit annoying. Plus my site looks really boring with this current design, and I don’t really have time to pretty it all up. So maybe it’s time to make yet another jump?
2. Called about 25 Michelin shops for work today to do a mini technology survey. I introduced myself, told them we were thinking of sending some product materials to the shop and wanted to know whether they had a VCR, DVD player, and/or Internet access at the shop. At least two of them asked me whether I was calling to sell them porn. Porn?? No! The Internet is for porn! Even Avenue Q says so.
3. There are some extremely yummy places to eat in Torrance. I discovered Torrance Bakery in Torrance’s old downtown area today. Hands down, the best cookies I’ve ever had, even better than Diddy Riese. Now that’s a hard act to follow!! If you ever happen to go, make sure you have a chocolate chewy cookie. mmmmmmm. in fact, i’m going to grab one from the cookie sack i took home today right this moment!
[ wipes cookie crumbs off hands sips some milk. ]
4. i think i already told everyone about the new car…
5. yes, you heard right: that is a modest mouse song in that nissan minivan commercial. it’s called “gravity rides everything” and it’s off “the moon and anarctica.” i rewound my tivo to see that commercial again because i couldn’t believe my ears.
6. Fahrenheit 9/11 was very very good. Seeing the 9/11 footage and hearing those awful sounds again made me cry. Seeing Lila Lipscombe grieving for her son did that too. Michael Moore did a good job keeping the film focused on his argument and not being too self-aggrandizing. Critics may say that Moore is lying by taking things out of context, or juxtaposing things unfairly, but the sad truth is that Bush really did say a lot of those stupid things, in as stupid a manner as he did. And those excuses for his non-reaction after Andrew Scott Card gave him the news of the planes crashing into the WTC? Maybe you or I might have continued reading to that classroom of kids, but in this case, as PRESIDENT, his job was to take action. Priorities are really screwed up when the President it is more important for him or her to have a perfect sex life instead of decent leadership skills. But that’s another rant, for another day.
7. I’m actually kind of sad I missed Bill Clinton’s book signing. He was even at Brentano’s! It’s not a huge loss… i’m not really sure i’d wait in line for 4 hours to meet the big guy anyway. now 3….. (just kidding.)
8. Dodgeball was one fscking funny movie. =) Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and half the cast from Office Space. how can you lose?
1. Comment spamming?
2. Heh. People have dirty minds. DVD==porn. VCR == Porn. Internet access == porn.
3. Nothing is better than Diddy.
4. Car?
5. eh?
6. I should get around to watching that.
7. Just give him a call and have him come over.
8. Heh. Item number 8. “The Ocho”
1. still haven’t installed mt-blacklist? its a relatively quick and pinless install if you’re up to it. my friend Alex’s blog (over at http://www.lightsoutfilm.com) is on typepad and he loves it.
2. keep in mind, these are tire shops. i wouldn’t expect more than porn out of them. rmeind me to tell you about my wal-mart tire shop incident in los banos sometime.
3. mmmmm….forbidden donut (i know, nothing to do with cookies, but its the first thing that came to mind)
4. car? do tell.
5. i can’t say i’ve heard modest mouse. i feel left out.
6. haven’t seen it yet. see #5 for left out feeling.
7. i’d be wary of shaking his hand (if you know what i mean)
8. pearl! you are NOT a pirate!!
If you’re not going to install MT-Blacklist, and would rather switch, look at WordPress and Serendipity.
Given the pain in the butt that is, I’d look at MT-Blacklist first.
Ok, let’s do a real answer, since I have the time.
1) Eh. I’m not big on central-server publishing based stuff. I actually want to get away from MT’s flat file/SQL format and to a continously live “community” format for my blog, using WordPress or Serendipity with PHP/SQL. No more publishing, everything is 100% DB driven and changes are instantaneous.
Site design is a different animal entirely. I’m just lazy and not artistically creative myself. =P
2) People still get phone calls that try to sell them pr0n? WTF? I thought that was what the internet was for!
3) You suck. I still haven’t found good sandwiches out here in San Gabriel Valley. Plenty of good asian food, but I’m not even going to look for cookies. Too depressing!
Diddy Reese… mmm…
4) Yes, you did. Now be good and go trade it in for the manual transmission version. **evil grin**
5) Cool!
6) Haven’t seen it yet. Need to drag some friends to go see it. Unfortunately most of the intensely political ones are not in Los Angeles anymore.
7) Weirdo. =P
8) I went in with zero ideas and zero expectations, and it was damned good. The cameos kicked ass. I can imagine it completely sucking if I did have any expectations at all, though.