Archive for July, 2006
Day 3
30 July 2006Sorry for the delay. Day 3 was full of excitement! Read the rest of this entry »
Day 2
28 July 2006Not much to report on Day 2… Sorry for the delay, by the way. Went shopping, looked at movie times, went shopping some more, caught Dead Man’s Chest (ehh…), which makes my second time (double-ehh…). Came home and watched some more movies. Rented movies, actually, and they weren’t much to speak of. Kaleena picked out some weird movie that wound up being shot–badly–on a camcorder. My pick, “This Girl’s Life”, turned out to be 70% random drama, 30% soft-core porn. To my credit, the porn/drama was the better movie.
Oh, things I bought today:
- Blue classic-fitted Indians cap
- Blue/white classic Red Sox cap
- USB WiFi adapter
- Some tasty caramel stuff
Day 1
26 July 2006Alright, so I’m here in Ohio, the land of… nutty musicians and stand-up comedians.
Not much to report on. Flight got delayed an hour, but we were flyin’ smooth once we got in the air. Walked about twenty paces to get to the exit of the Cleveland airport… Well, not really, but it’s so tiny compared to Sky Harbor. Kaleena’s friend Kristen seems pretty cool, although I suspect she has yet to get a great read on me yet… No big surprise there, considering how I am around new people.
Her dog is great, too… Probably the friendliest dog I’ve ever known. Which reminds me, here are a few pictures:
All my bags are packed…
26 July 2006Im ready to go
Im standin’ here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin’
Its early morn
The taxis waitin’
Hes blowin’ his horn
Already Im so lonesome
I could dieSo kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me
Hold me like you’ll never let me go
cause I’m leavin’ on a jet plane
Don’t know when I’ll be back again…
Actually I’ll be back next Tuesday. And I expect to be online and blogging regularly, from the glorious… Buckeye State, a.k.a. Ohio. On the agenda: catch an Indians game; visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; scope out the Cleveland nightlife; take a mini-trip to Lexington, KY. For all you in-person friends and special someones, I’ll be thinking about you.
And Richie, if those servers come in while I’m gone, don’t have too much fun!
Absense Makes the Heart…
25 July 2006So a dating update. I got together with Naomi again last Tuesday for a “get together” game night… Pretty fun. We have hit it off so well. I’m honestly hoping things don’t get too serious too fast, but on the other hand, every time I get together with her it just feels so natural. I really wanted to see her again before I left for Ohio, and tonight we made it happen. So that’s sorta three dates… Not sure if this would count as an official “date” type outing, but eh, who’s counting?
She is just very cool. I’ve got a bad feeling I’m gonna be a moron at some point. I’ve had the feeling for quite some time that, the next relationship I found myself in, I was gonna wind up being a putz, sorta unpacking all the baggage from my last few dating experiences. So far it doesn’t seem to be the case, and I hope it does not become the case, as she doesn’t deserve that, and so far this is something I most certainly don’t want to screw up.
The few possible points of friction so far, I’ve tried to be up-front about. Like that I’m going on a date with Elisabeth during this trip. I let her know tonight that a date would be occurring, and I think she was receptive to my being forthcoming. I elaborated a bit on some feelings of “loose ends” with other people that I was expecting to tie up in the near future… and god, yeah that was awkward, because I really feel selfish about that. But again, she seemed receptive. I guess it’s not like we’re moving so quickly that these hypotheticals are absolutely taboo, but I do feel that by being honest, it should help spare any possible feelings of jealousy, right? Because if you’re secretive about things, there must be a reason to be, or so one would think?
But anyhow… That’s that, and all in all I’m very glad I got to see her again. I get the feeling the next week is going to feel so long & slow, if for no other reason, that it’ll be that much longer that I have to go without seeing her. Yeah, I’m a sap. :P
My Server is Gassy and Bloated
23 July 2006Haha, wow.
Richie (who runs my server) and I have been freaking out about disk usage the past week or so. Out of nowhere, our disk usage was jumping to 2-3 GB. Couldn’t figure it out… Thought our host was penalizing us for swap space, the part of the hard drives used for memory cache–think Virtual RAM.
Well, no, that wasn’t it. Turns out, my humble blog had magically generated 1.5 GB of error logs. 1.5 GB… To put this in perspective, all of SMART-POPCORN.com takes up only about 0.5 GB of space. Yeeeeeeah.
So… I still have nothing but praise for GoDaddy’s virtual dedicated server plans–good price, good control panel, plenty of freedom. But make sure to tweak log rotations so that log files don’t bloat up to 2 GB of space!
Critics with ‘Staches
20 July 2006So who read about Joel Siegel going all Terets-style during a screening of Clerks 2? Apparently, 40 minutes or so into the film, as the titular clerks are spectating a “donkey show” (apparently some lewd act referenced in Bachelor Party), Joel couldn’t take it any more. He leapt from his seat and made a mad dash for the door, but not before yelling: “Time to go! This is the first movie I’ve walked out of in 30 f***ing years!”
Now granted, despite being otherwise quite enthusiastic about the film, I’ve been more than discouraged by the notion of an act of beastiality–even an off-camera one. And to boot, despite running a fairly well to-do movie review website, I’m not a professional film critic, thus free to act like any other idiot moviegoer. Yet, even if I despised Kevin Smith, and if I abhorred Clerks 2 and insisted on walking out of it (I’m not opposed to walking out), I would have more decency than to interrupt the witty ass-banter playing out on screen.
Amelie Site
19 July 2006In efforts to separate business from pleasure, I’m taking my Amelie shrine off the SP server and hosting it here at Thom’s House. This is the new address:
I was thinking about expanding it a bit… I dunno. Maybe I’ll just clean it up, make it friendlier to visitors with high screen resolutions. Still pretty fond of it, though.
I’m a Mac… and so are you?
19 July 2006
Hmm… Interesting. I installed Google Analytics on here yesterday, and apparently, of the measly three visitors I received (not that I’m expecting much traffic), two of them were from Mac users. I figured, ok, they’re my own hits… but nope. They’re from Power PC users. One would appear to be on a Powerbook, judging by the screen resolution (close to the same as mine), and the other must be on an iMac or a G5–running somewhere around 1600×1000 resolution. One of them runs Firefox; the other… Netscape? That must be Safari being read incorrectly, right?
I know, kinda creepy, especially if you’re the one I’m writing about, sorry. I’m just intrigued to see Mac users composing 67% of my traffic, however meager it may be. I expect when and if Thom’s House grows more popular, that number will change dramatically… too bad.
Shuttle Bug
18 July 2006Ok, so let me get this straight…
Shuttle Colombia vaporizes, and it’s enough to keep the rest of the fleet more or less grounded for three years.
We have ONE successful outing, in which one of these things doesn’t blow up, lose gargantuan chunks of foam, or disintegrate… and all of the sudden, the green light is on to re-enter the space race? Am I missing something?
You know, I drove 100mph once. Didn’t crash; didn’t kill anyone. Using NASA’s logic, that means I’m safe to continue driving 100mph, right? Don’t get me wrong: I love the space program. Went to Space Camp as a kid, worked for two years to get a scholarship to go there, too. Certainly, the space program was one of our country’s most innovative of the 20th century, paving the way for the ubiquitous nature of satellite communications, weather tracking, etc. Problem is, there’s no innovation left in it. Ok, let’s duct-tape our 30-year-old glider to keep it in the sky for a few more years… Huh?
Granted, I understand there’s only so much NASA can do with limited funding, and there’s no way they’ll keep their funding (let alone get more) if they can’t keep these birds in the air. I just don’t like them playing a crapshoot with their crew members’ lives. Sigh.
Who are we racing into space at this point, anyway? Uncle Sam should have the sense to continue some funding, give NASA a few years to develop a next-gen craft, and then get back up there.