I wanted to get some work done this weekend so I went to the office at around 6PM Sunday night. It’s 4AM Monday morning, and I’m still here. I’ll be here until 5PM tonight. At least it’s been productive. I don’t know how productive it will be from here on out, as I’m starting to feel the lack of sleep.
For dinner, at around 10, I went to McDonalds and got two quarter pounders with cheese, and a six piece chicken. That’s gotta be good for me. Combined with the Penguin Mints I’ve been having, well, I’m really doing a number on my body. Nothing I didn’t do many times in college, though.
Alrighty, back to work. I wonder how early someone’s going to show up in the morning…
I finally went geocaching again yesterday. I went looking for the two new ones placed near my apartment. You can get more details here.
Unfortunately, I really don’t have that much else to say. I didn’t really do much else this weekend. I spent most of my time playing Ico, which I’ve finally gotten around to after a year of owning it. It’s a pretty good game.
Ah well, hopefully next time I’ll have something more interesting to say…
I’ve bitched about UPS enough lately, so I won’t do it anymore here. Let’s just say I finally have my camera, and leave it at that. The camera’s awesome, too. I love it.
Now that I have the camera, I’m gonna go geocaching again soon. This weekend, hopefully. There are two new caches less than a mile from my apartment. Should be fun, and it’ll get me outside.
I’ve kicked off Lessig’s Challenge early this month, by becoming an Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation.
Well, I guess that’s about it for now. I should just start making stuff up when I don’t have anything interesting that I’ve done to talk about.
It’s 2003. No idea how that happened. Doesn’t feel like it’s been a year since, well, last New Year’s.
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while. Brilliant idea, though I probably wouldn’t have the guts to use it.
Sorry, I’ve been slacking. I’ve been meaning to add a new entry, but just haven’t had the motivation to do it. Really, I just haven’t had much to say.
I’ve finally decided on a digital camera for myself. It was a really tough decision for me. In the end, I decided small size was more important than lots of pixels. I ended up getting the Canon Digital Elph S200. It’s a 2MP camera, but it’s tiny (3.4″x2.2″x1.1″) and will fit in my pocket. For another hundred dollars, I could have gotten the S230, a camera the same size, but 3.2MP. I spent a lot of time thinking about this, and finally came to the conclusion that I didn’t need that resolution, and it would only disappoint me. With only 2MP, print quality probably won’t be terribly good. I think with 3.2MP, it would get to the point where’d I really want to try to print, and then be disappointed with the results. Since I want this camera just for web related things, and didn’t want to be tempted at all to buy a printer, I decided the S200 was the way to go. The only 4MP+ (the minimum I’d want for printing) camera I’ve seen that’s small enough for me is a 5MP Contax, and it costs $1k. I’m sure it’s very nice, though.
As usual, UPS tried to deliver the camera today and I wasn’t home, so I don’t have it. It’s been redirected to work, and I should have it tomorrow.
I’m sure there’s probably other stuff I could talk about, but I can’t really think of anything at the moment. So that’s all for now.
Update (12/31/02): Damnit, UPS doesn’t deliver today or tomorrow. I hate them.
If Jack Valenti had been around at the time of Gutenberg he would have organized the monks to come and burn down the printing press.
–Harris Miller, President ITAA
I was sitting in my office working last night at around 6, when Roy comes in and asks me if I want to go see a midnight showing of The Two Towers. In Camarillo, 45 minutes away. It’s over 3 hours long. I have to work the next day. So, of course, I decide it would be a good idea. A big part of this decision was the fact that everyone else around here is planning to see it tonight at 7:45, and I can’t make it because of my bowling league. I call Andrew in LA and ask him if he wants to go too. Unsurprisingly, he agrees, and we buy three tickets online, and we make plans to meet at the theater at 11:20.
The drive down to Camarillo was awesome. It’s such a wonderful drive when there’s no one on the road. We got to the theater, and Andrew was already waiting in line, around the back. I’m glad I went home after dinner and grabbed a sweatshirt – it was cold. While waiting in line, I used my Treo to find the nearest Denny’s and get directions. For some reason, GPRS wasn’t working, so I had to resort to dialup, which worked fine. I even got a color map with the directions. Cool.
The movie was absolutely awesome. Everyone should go see it. If you haven’t seen the first one yet, rent or buy the extended edition of it and watch that first. Then go see this as soon as possible. I mean it. It’s that good. It was well worth getting home at 5am and having to be up for work that morning. Definitely.
So, I’ve now seen two movies this month, and also ordered the Back to the Future trilogy on DVD. I’m giving far too much money to the MPAA. I think I’m going to be taking up Lessig’s Challenge shortly. It’s going to be tough (and expensive), but I think it’s something I should do. I’ll probably work out the details this weekend, and post more about it here when I’m ready.
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