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Archive for November, 2007
Yes, here’s another movie of mine. It’s not a lego movie, just a 1 minute short parody film of the Casino Royale trailer (which is where the music is from). If you think it looks cheesy… it’s supposed to be. It’s parody. And yes, I filmed this before I got my haircut, like in September. As usual, I highly recommend you watch the hi-res Quicktime version if you can. Tell me what you think in the comments. Enjoy.
(Thanks to Mr. Bennett for the prototype props)
Just a little over three years ago, on November 21st, 2004 I made my first blog post! And it was almost a year before that that I originally created the site “Netsua” (although I’ll admit it was very different back then.)
Since orginally creating the blog on blogspot, I’ve switched to Wordpress, gone through a couple different themes, eventually ending up at TripleK2 (for now.) On the other hand, Netsua in general. Well, first it was on Freeserves, then FreeWebs then FreeWebs using HTML, then here. Yeah, long story.
I realized while writing this post that I’ve actually been blogging longer than a lot of the semi-famous people in the tech world. Lorelle on Wordpress: August 2005. JohnTP: November 2005. It’s pretty cool. Although I admit my first posts were not of the most serious nature.
That’s all for now. Thanksgiving was lots of fun, post later!
I think that Michelle at Best Week Ever sums it up pretty well at the end of her Office post…
ONLY ONE MORE EPISODE LEFT! Good sweet lord, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? And yes, I HAVE EVERY REASON TO USE CAPS! THE SITUATION IS DIRE! DIIIIREEE! Ima go skip around the room for a few hours and think about how empty my life is about to become.
Just for the record, yes, this is a big deal! Damon Lindelof, the head writer of Lost says in a NY Times editorial:
If this strike lasts longer than three months, an entire season of television will end this December. No dramas. No comedies. No “Daily Show.” The strike will also prevent any pilots from being shot in the spring, so even if the strike is settled by then, you won’t see any new shows until the following January. As in 2009. Both the guild and the studios we are negotiating with do agree on one thing: this situation would be brutal.
I wasn’t planning to CAPS for this post, but I think I will now. NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t get it. How can they do this? It’s a lose-lose-lose situation! The TV network loses ad revenue and viewers because of the upcoming long hiatus, the writers lose their jobs and become poor, and I DON’T GET MY WEEKLY OFFICE FIX!!!
I’m gonna have to start watch the Season 3 deleted scenes from the DVD every Thursday now. Yes, ‘m that desperate. And it’s not just The Office. All other shows: Heroes, Journeyman, Chuck, 24, it’s all ending!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m not blaming the writers, I’m sure they deserve the money. Or maybe they don’t. But the still do deserve the internet revenue. But whatever, I don’t care. Just get the shows back on air! It’s with great sadness that I will close this computer lid in a few seconds and watch the last new episode of The Office for who knows how long. It’s a sad day.
On the bright side, maybe this will imprpove my grades. No! Wait… That’s what they want me to think. They’re manipulating me, trying to make me get better grades! It’s a conspiracy!!!
I’ve just implemented a combined RSS and Web 2.0 sidebar thing onto the site. Why? Because I can. But really, I saw these beautiful iPhone-esque icons at Fasticon.com and had to use them somehow. So I threw out the default RSS “Subscribe” module, and replaced it with a large and pretty icon. Then I used arne’s Delicious (and other services) Bookmark this! plugin for Wordpress to allow all 18 of you to quickly add one of my exciting blog posts to Digg, Delicious, Newsvine, or Furl.
But that’s not all! If you click one of the four smaller icons from a specific blog post, it will take you directly to a page on the service of your choice, with that specific post already filled in! I know, amazing. Not that anyone here would use that very often. But I might… And it looks cool anyway. You can even do it below for this post!
PHP does some really cool things. I really should’ve taken that class as my elective this year… but when it’s up against Film there’s just no way that I’ll choose it.
When I first got my Mac I (of course) began to subscribe to all the major Mac websites and blogs: TUAW, MacRumors, Macworld, etc.
One gem of a website that I found was MacApper. MacApper is a collaborative blog about applications for the Mac. They have reviews of apps, news on new releases, interviews with developers in addition to regular Mac-related news. The website is a great way to find out about shiny new apps you can download to your computer, as long as it’s a Mac.
Now that I’ve got that out of the way, let me get to the good stuff: The other day they made a post asking for some “talented Mac writers” to write for their blog. I figured I’d give it a try, so I shot them an email with some example writing. They replied and said that it was terrible and that I should go look someplace else, somewhere like Dumboland, because my writing looked like it was done by a 5-year-old.
The New York City marathon is today, and it’s always a cool day to live in New York, because they’re running in our backyard (or the ciy equivalent of it; central park.) Gothamist has a post about the death of a runner during the Olympic trials (completely different races) yesterday. Ironically, the winner of the trials was a close friend of Ryan Shay, whose death is still unclear.
On a happier note, there was a marathon “kick-off” last night in Central Park (I believe that it’s a 2 mile run to “warm up” for the next day) and there were fireworks! I got some good pictures of the fireworks behind a water tower in my Flickr photostream.
This video is genius.
