avoision: February 2003 Archives

Fuck it

February 28, 2003

Alright. Just spent a long while trying to fix whatever the hell is wrong with the nav. No luck. I'm giving up for the night. I've been breaking shit all day, so why shoud now be any different...... (read more)

Holy Jacket

The arm keypad controls the iPod in the chest pocket, eliminating the need for unruly, tangled wires. Just touch the control pad on the jacket sleeve to change songs or volume levels and you√≠re off and running.... (read more)

awesome

So great (and so geeky), it hurts...... (read more)

Oh For God's Sake

I just noticed that February (in the nav) is showing 29 days. For the love of...... (read more)

Overall, Disappointing

I woke up this morning with such energy and such good intentions. I was up late last night, working away on a cool flash-based project that could utilize many of our radio stations' interviews with musicians. Mp3 and XML and flexible and easy to maintain... a lot of fun trying... (read more)

Smells Like Peanut Action

February 27, 2003

This one's for Grumpy. And make sure to click on the peanut at the end.... (read more)

Australia: Ablaze

Seventh sent me some pics he took, back when Australia (Canberra in particular) was hit with all those fires. Some really great images in there.... (read more)

Love/Hate

My parents called me up tonight, and we chatted for a while. Got caught up on my grandmother's condition and, though she's still going through some tests, things seem to have settled down more. She's eating regularly and still coughing a bit, but from the sounds of it is improved... (read more)

Flexibility

Justin and I got into this great talk about how we should design Flash-based projects for the whole network. Until I got to Emmis, I was good at making one-off solutions. Each time someone wanted something, I'd be able to build it. But since working with Ben and Justin,... (read more)

Blind Spot

February 26, 2003

Tonight, I went to see a movie with Justin and Emma, and met up with Alex, Sonja and Hennie (spelling?). We all went to go see Blind Spot, a documentary focusing on Hitler's secretary, which was showing at the Music Box. My oh my, what a gorgeous place. And we... (read more)

404 Doodoo Error

The system is down, yo.... (read more)

Information Manipulation

Stayed and worked a bit late tonight. Trying to play around with a lot of arrays, and figuring out ways to "sort" information. I'm not sure yet whether I need to work with multidimensional arrays or not... but it's been fun trying to figure this stuff out. Discovered the Array.sort... (read more)

Good Talks

February 25, 2003

Chatting with Grumpy, seventh and Juliet all at the same time. Some good, good conversations tonight. Funny, insightful and comforting... all at once. I've got some cool ass friends. :)... (read more)

Nostalgia, 1.0

After this thread on twelvestone, I got into this really hysterical IM conversation with rypunked. We started posting links to old television shows and movies we remembered, and it sort of went like that for a good long while. Anything from Pinwheel to Captain Caveman to The Shirt Tales to... (read more)

No Studying, Yes Drinking

Yeah. Did I call it, or what? :)... (read more)

Zaireeka, Revisited

February 24, 2003

I saw Dave yesterday, and he brought me the recording he made when we all listened to Zaireeka at Stu's house, some three months ago. Been a little while! As a summary, Zaireeka is a four CD album made by The Flaming Lips, and it's designed to be played using... (read more)

Psychobilly

This is the thing about having cool Internet friends... they make fun shit like this without even blinking: Tiger Army: Cupid's Victim... (read more)

How These Things Start

(Mr. Grumpy) has joined the conversation. Mr. Grumpy: me and rypunked are into psychobilly :P Portnoy: psychobilly? Mr. Grumpy: (Link) Mr. Grumpy: hey i can mock this video up in a cool retro jukebox surround if you want to link to it on your blog :P Mr. Grumpy: get ppl... (read more)

You Bastards!

So a long, long time ago I got a copy of The Chemical Brothers' Loops of Fury as an mp3 file. Loved it. It's one of the songs I play whenever I've got to get a lot of shit done quickly, a good song to play if I'm meaning to... (read more)

One Of These Days I Need To Make Hard And Fast Rules About What Does and What Doesn't Get Capitalized In These Titles

Walking home, I ran into one of the guys that work at Sam's Liquor's. He was just standing outside, smoking a cigarette. I think his name is Scott - I'm not sure. I'm going to call him Scott here, until I find out otherwise. Anyhow, I saw Scott playing chess... (read more)

Knife Goes In, Guts Come Out. That's What Osaka Food Concern is All About!

^--- If you know where this reference is from, you and I need to do some serious drinking. An article was shared on twelvestone that talked about North Korea's revolutionary singing. It reminded me of a link that I came across a long, long time ago about corporate anthems. That... (read more)

Study Buddy

Justin mentioned taking a day out of the week to just hunker down somewhere and study. He's been doing this off and on for a while now, and we talked about making it a set weekly thing. God knows there's tons of stuff I could read up on, and I... (read more)

All I Really Wanted to Do Today...

is just get a few things sussed out in ActionScript. I was really looking forward to that.... (read more)

Bleh

I was in a pretty shitty mood all day today, and it didn't end until around 4:00 PM. Morning involved lots of little things and, before I knew it, I was in a company-wide benefits meeting to discuss Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment. A good thing to know... (read more)

Picking Up Emma

February 23, 2003

We swung by Justin's place (where Emma was taking a nap). We decompressed a bit before heading out for dinner as a group. While we were at Justin's, we ended up splitting a beer, and digging in to some homemade applesauce and part of that chocolate cake I got. Dave... (read more)

Picture of Dave, While Looking For Justin's Car

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Nick Drake, Revisited

Meh. The documentary was alright. Our concensus was that the filmmakers did a good job with what little information they had. There were a few moments that were, in my opinion, spectacular... but there were equally the same number of times when the film just got a bit too artsy... (read more)

En Route

As I walked to the Division stop to meet up with Dave, I noticed a Chinese restaurant on Milwaukee that I hadn't seen before. I actually stopped walking and looked at the sign for a good long while. This reminded me of Invader Zim, a cartoon that I got introduced... (read more)

Partytime!

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David Foster Wallace

I saw this Onion article on Friday, and also got an e-mail from Dustin about it yesterday. I'm glad he reminded me, as I forgot to post this link here. This is something all fans of David Foster Wallace should appreciate. And if you don't know his work, check out... (read more)

Doh!

I just saw that Donnie Darko was showing there earlier this month! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT!... (read more)

Nick Drake

Justin mentioned a documentary he was going to see, and I decided I wanted to go. A few of us are going to meet in about two hours to go to the Gene Siskel Film Center. There's a documentary showing there about Nick Drake that's called A Skin Too Few.... (read more)

A Rather Uneventful Session

I went back to Filter today, had some coffee there and tried to write a bit more. Nothing productive unfortunately. I tried reading a bit of Weldon Kees. I know some folks who like him a lot, but I had tremendous difficulty getting into his work. I keep meaning to... (read more)

*gasp*

Holy crap! I woke up early this morning, and slapped on my sneakers and went for a brief jog around the neighborhood. I wasn't really prepared for the cold, so that cut the run short (I was shivering the whole time). I'm far from being in shape, but getting started... (read more)

Onions

February 22, 2003

Man oh man. There are several small things that really make you happy to be alive. Personally, the smell of onions sizzling away in a small splash of butter is one of those things.... (read more)

Twenty Nine

On March 9, I turn 29. This thought struck me the other day, and I'm feeling old. One year shy of the big three oh. All the guys I used to live with in undergrad are married now. I know many folks younger than me who are married, have children... (read more)

Indecisio... Indecisiv... Not Sure What To Do

Sit down at the computer. Refresh twelvestone. Try to write a poem. Get Up. Walk to the television. Watch television, but remain standing. Get bored. Flip through the channels, still standing up this whole time. Return to the original movie that was on when entering the living room. Walk back... (read more)

Matt

February 21, 2003

Sorry man. No poem tonight. That's two I owe now.... (read more)

Apologies

Haven't really been in a blog mood lately. After work last night, I was talking with Justin and had planned for a movie/video game night at my house. Which is rare, because I haven't really had people over to my place in... well, ever. I've never been one to really... (read more)

Bleh

February 20, 2003

Sorry. Just don't feeling like posting anything tonight.... (read more)

Lo Siento, Pero No Hay Nadie Con el Nombre Arturo Aqui

This morning, I woke up at 6:00 AM. I mean, right on the dot 6:00 AM. As I was falling back asleep, the phone rang. Worried, I jumped out of bed and grabbed it on the third ring. This is what I love about living in Chicago. Every once in... (read more)

Cleaning

February 19, 2003

Going through a fit of shameful cleaning, trying to hide how truly messy I am. My sister is visiting tomorrow with her boyfriend Shane, and they're staying the night. They're stopping in to Chicago for a Phish concert, and I offered to watch after their dog, Pele, for the night.... (read more)

Sleep-Working

This morning, when the alarm went off at 7, I kept thinking the whole clock was the interface to WS_FTP. I swear, everytime I hit the snooze button, I thought I was transferring files. Hm... this should probably scare me, right?... (read more)

Mmmmmm... Beer...

Yeah, I know. I should probably go to sleep now.... (read more)

Feels Like I Was Just Here...

February 18, 2003

Oh, wait. That's right. :) Playing Jerry Reid's "East Bound and Down" pretty damn loud. Yeah, baby!... (read more)

Aaaaaaaand Back to Work!

The never ending excitement of working with the Internet continues.... (read more)

Shichinin No Samurai

Just finished up Seven Samurai tonight. Started it yesterday evening and decided to hit the sack when the "Intermission" came on. Believe me... I was really tempted to try to finish it, but as it was already midnight, better judgement won. What a great movie. I've been wanting to see... (read more)

Even Better News

Grandma is doing well, and back in high spirits. Talked to my sister today, and the tests didn't turn up anything. No surgery required so far, which is what we all thought would be the case. According to my sister, whenever grandma had visitors today... she kept trying to get... (read more)

Yeah yeah yeah. But Did I Mention the Gods Are Kind?

WOOHOO!!!!... (read more)

The Gods Are Cruel...

I need to go back to work around midnight and get a newer version of one of our sites uploaded. Shouldn't be too bad a thing. A slight time-drainer, and a bit of a hassle to have to go back at night. Wish I could do it from home, but... (read more)

The Gods Are Kind...

Extra promotional items! Given to me! Out of nowhere! I walked in to Phil and Anthony's office this afternoon, and next thing I know I walk out with all this stuff! WOOHOO!!!!... (read more)

Hospital

February 17, 2003

Today, I returned my parents' call from last night and rang up my parents' restaurant. No one had seen them and the waitress I spoke with said "Oh, they're at the hospital." Naturally, I freaked. I called my dad's cellphone, and found out my grandma (on my father's site) 's... (read more)

I Would Have Posted About Beer #3, But Nap #1 Got in the Way

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Beer #2

God Bless America!... (read more)

Nooner

Got a few e-mails from Dave, and I'm helping him out with his site. He's built most of it, and I've helped him here and there with various components of it. Right now, I'm going to help him by adding some preloaders and slicing the thing up so it's slightly... (read more)

Work Day Off

Techincally, I've got today off. I checked voicemail last night, and went in the office this morning to check a few things. As I suspected, all of the issues were out of my control and I'm unable to do more than I've already done. So it goes. Back home now.... (read more)

Ahhhh... dinner...

Whew! Heavy full after a decadent night at Justin's. Got back around 11:30 PM last night, and I'm posting this around 12:30 AM. Alex and Justin had been cooking all day since around 2 PM (er.. 2 PM, Sunday afternoon). When I showed up, they had a nice soup going... (read more)

Beer #2

God Bless America!... (read more)

After Reading That Poem Again

February 16, 2003

god dammit.... (read more)

Things That Are Worse Than Death

by Sharon Olds (for Margaret Randall) You are speaking of Chile, of the woman who was arrested with her husband and their five-year-old son. You tell how the guards tortured the woman, the man, the child, in front of each other, "as they like to do." Things that are worse... (read more)

Sharon Olds, Revisited

The whole time I was rereading her poems, I would find myself muttering "god dammit" repeatedly, because I liked the poems so much. When a poet makes you react out loud, they're definitely doing something right. The poem (below) is one that makes me shiver everytime I read it. And... (read more)

Social Day, Continued

I got a call from Alex, informing me there was a big "feast" underrway for this evening. When I asked what I should bring, he gave me the task of getting a small dessert for five or six people. I went back out, stopped by Sweet Thang, and grabbed a... (read more)

TS7 Confesses

TS7: hahaah, just remembered this, like a month ago, I was trying to get Google search strings to show up in the usage logs of your site. I was finding ominous word pairing on various pages of your blog, like "plotting the murder of Portnoy", and "Portnoy's location and sniper... (read more)

Nature: 1 | Humans: 0

Talking to TS7 today, he shared a few pics of the weather in his neck of the world (DC). There's some serious snow going down! I had no idea! Here's a shot of the parking lot where he lives: Hahahaha - this images cracked us both up. You can see... (read more)

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Music

Before I headed home, I stopped in a Reckless Records to look for a few things (it's a great place, don't judge the store by its unfortunately loud rollovers). I got Alien Lanes (Guided by Voices) and Pink Moon (Nick Drake). It's been a really long time since I've purchased... (read more)

Walking Home Past My Old Home

I used to live on this street, before I moved. I noticed a blue plastic bag stuck in a tree, pushed there by a really strong breeze. Oddly, I thought of ActionScript, about programming, and about how randomness often creates things we don't expect.... (read more)

While No One Was Looking...

I set the camera on the table and took a shot of the room. To the right of that guy reading is where I was sitting, right before I moved to a table (so I could write).... (read more)

Rough Draft and a Decision

Working on an idea that I got a while back, when I went drinking with Justin. Today, I think I decided that I'm going to get serious again about writing. I've been meaning to review the poems I wrote for my thesis while studying at OSU, and they've just... (read more)

Coffee

Let's see... I went to return some movies (and to rent some more) around 11. Walked around the neighborhood some on the way. Here's one that's near Damen and Wabansia... a tree with a bunch of Christmas lights still strung all over it. Afterwards, I ambled down Milwaukee and went... (read more)

Anti-Anti-Social

Wow - I was actually out and about late this morning, into the afternoon. Got a few sporadic pics here and there. Eating a very late lunch, and I'll update soon.... (read more)

Slacking

February 15, 2003

And... all I really missed out on was a full day of slacking around the apartment. I ended up making a chicken dish with the crock pot, which turned out pretty well. The chicken ended up being a bit dry, and could use some spicing up... but a good turnout... (read more)

Work on a Saturday | Three Day Weekend

I guess things balance themselves out. I went in yesterday to attend to some stuff that needed to go up Monday. I was told a launch date of the 19th/20th, but whatever. Spent a few hours there getting things in order and caught a train back home around 2:30, 3:00... (read more)

Late

Crap! I can't believe I blanked out on updating this thing last night. Gimme a bit. I'll add to this day's entry shortly.... (read more)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle : Excerpt

February 14, 2003

The water was up to my throat. Now it was wrapped around my neck like a noose. In anticipation, I was beginning to find it difficult to breathe. My heart, now underwater, was working hard to tick off the time it had remaining. At this rate, I would have... (read more)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Definitely check this book out if you have a chance. I'm puzzled by it, still not entirely sure what happened even though I've finished it... but it's mesmerizing and wholly different than any other book I've read. Thanks, Justin, for giving me this book. Can't wait to talk about it.... (read more)

12:52 AM. The Thought That Right Now, Lots of People in the US Are Having Sex...

is kind of disturbing. Especially since I'm not among those that are getting any.... (read more)

Assisting Romance Is Better Than No Romance

All of us got into this interesting conversation about Valentine's day, and the likelihood of pleasing the "significant other." Ben had planned on spending the evening making dinner with his wife... and joked that the only way they could go "out" to eat was if they found a sitter. Or... (read more)

A Shot of the Redline Stop

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Valentine's Day Suckers

On our way out to lunch, we walked by one of the shops inside the mall where we work (Ben ran into the scene and stood in line). A crappy shot with low light, but it gets the point across. I'm sorry - true, I'm a bit down on Valentine's... (read more)

Chinatown = Lunchtown

We (our little Emmis Interactive group) have been talking about going to Chinatown for a while. Well, truth be told, Ben and I have been talking about it for a while. And today, we took an extended lunch. Me, Ben, Matt and Jill all hopped a cab (Justin took the... (read more)

:violin:

February 13, 2003

Well, for those of you who know me more from an Internet/tech background, I used to play violin. I mean, a lot. I started when I was in third grade, kept on playing through high school. The show that Paul's referring to, I believe, was at the Civic Theater, where... (read more)

A Note From My Past

Felix - This is Paul. Do you remember me from a show at the Civic Theatre? I'm looking for a violinist to play for a show that opens the first week of March at Theatre on The Square in Indianapolis. I thought I'd try to look you up on... (read more)

Dunphy's

I stayed a bit (7:00 PM) and finished up a few things. Justin and I went down to Dunphy's afterwards for a few beers. We watched some god awful television version of "Am I Hot or Not," which was as bad as you're imagining it to be. Next to us,... (read more)

A Brief, Puzzling Converastion with Mofo

Session Start (ICQ - a3dmofo): Thu Feb 13 22:06:04 2003 a3dmofo: dude.... Portnoy: :D *** Error while sending IM: This user is currently not logged on Portnoy: invisible? *** Error while sending IM: This user is currently not logged on Portnoy: hello? *** Error while sending IM: This user is... (read more)

Fun Day At Work

Some long meetings in the morning, and another one of those days where I didn't get close to a keyboard until 1:00, 2:00 PM. But the day was good, I got a fair amount done, and I'm happy with my job. How much better can you get? Ok, this made... (read more)

Ladders

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The UK Says Hello

February 12, 2003

Got a postcard from Phantom today! Cheers mate! Hope you're having fun! :)... (read more)

Best_Image_Evar

! It turns out that only 4 percent of the universe is made up of atoms with known forces such as electromagnetism and gravity, the ordinary stuff that makes people, potatoes, porcelain and everything else that humans know.... (read more)

Blabbermouth Wanker

I spent most of today discussing ideas, brainstorming, yapping away. I didn't spend much time at all in front of a computer, but talking with Ben and Justin and Jill and Rey... we all came up with some strong concepts, and I had a blast kicking things around. I feel... (read more)

Hmmm...

February 11, 2003

Looks like another early night of reading books. :)... (read more)

Strong Bad

ahahahahahahaha! Thanks for the link, Grumpy.... (read more)

Guilty Secret #8

Up until about 7:43 PM this evening, I thought Dana Gioia was a chick. I was doing a search for Kay Ryan, and came up with his essay. Heh.... (read more)

An Evening of Surprises

Stepping off the train - I found my little area of Chicago almost blinded by snow. For a good 30 minutes or so, snow just came down hard, the likes of which I haven't seen for about two years. I tried taking some pictures, but they all came out pretty... (read more)

Slightly Validated

I worked slowly, but I got it done. We're re-skinning one of the radio stations, and I converted a few pages. I moved like a turtle, but I felt pretty good about weaving my way around Justin and Ben's templates. At work, I'm the primary "contact person," so if there's... (read more)

So Full... So Very Full...

February 10, 2003

Went to Nola's again. The last time I was here, I was also with Kent. But tonight, I met two other friends of his: Mike and Tanya. They were both quite cool folks - it took us a little while to get comfortable (a lot of job/career/what-do-you-do talk at the... (read more)

Psssssttt.... Here's A Note, Pass It On

Earlier today, I let Justin know that I was going to be having dinner with Kent and some of his friends. When he found out, Justin was a bit jealous (as he hasn't seen Kent in a while). Justin made me take a picture so that I could show it... (read more)

The Shape of Life

February 9, 2003

So the Simpsons are over, and I'm flipping around a bit. I come across a PBS Documentary that starts off with a camera tracking a lion running at top speed, along with a deep voiceover that says: In the struggle for survival, Nature only rewards the victor. Is it wrong... (read more)

Some Things I Realized While Watching "Signs"

1) I'm getting closer to 30. 2) I work with code for a living. 3) I've analyzed Greek mythology before, and I'd do it again. Hm... is a forum a secret society?... (read more)

Best Quotation From the Movie "Signs"

"Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap... (read more)

Happy Non-Leap Year!

Got things worked out - the nav is no longer under the impression that 2003 is a leap year. Also, it seems like an errant button (in the 31st day slot) was active, when it shouldn't have been. Also fixed. I threw in a "current day" signifier, along with a... (read more)

Momentary Shame While Renting Movies

So yesterday morning, I'm out and about. I've run to Stanley's to pick up all my veggies for the week, and stop in to get some DVD's at a nearby blockbuster. I dig around some, and decide that one of the movies I want to see is Spy Kids. Now... (read more)

Perpetual Sleepiness

February 8, 2003

Today, I was living in a constant state of yawning. I woke up early, and got a few errands done. I hate errands, no doubt due in part to this "time" issue of mine. But where I'm trying to rush around and get things done... I come home and just... (read more)

Dull Day

February 7, 2003

My confession here is that I still don't know HTML all that well. We had a sort of emergency thing this morning, where a radio station's client needed to have their pages fixed quickly - and threatened to withdraw the rest of their business for the year. I worked a... (read more)

The Nerdiness Knows No Boundaries

February 6, 2003

Sometime early in the week, Grumpy and TS7 changed names and tried playing UT (pretending to be the other). Tonight, everyone changed names and became a variation of Thrillho, which was pretty damn fun. I had no idea who was who, and I still don't know. So nerdy... it hurts.... (read more)

Friendship Litmus Test

Something happened today that jogged my memory. I recalled a thought that I had, a while back... that you define your friends based on trust: specifically, the ingestion of certain foodstuffs. Imagine a complete stranger, walking up to you on the street. They had you a styrofoam cup filled with... (read more)

The Carpool

A few days back, Justin and I were going to carpool in to work - partly because we knew it would be a late night, and partly because we wanted to get in early to work. I missed a bunch of his calls, and he ended up leaving a few... (read more)

From "Work"

February 5, 2003

by Denis Johnson The Vine was like a railroad club car that had somehow run itself off the tracks into a swamp of time where it awaited the blows of the wrecking ball. And the blows really were coming. Because of Urban Renewal, they were tearing up and throwing away... (read more)

Jesus' Son

I've been meaning to put a few quotations from Jesus' Son, a collection of short stories by Denis Johnson. There was a movie made a few years back - I saw it maybe a year or two ago, but fell asleep after about 30 minutes. I'm always wary of movie... (read more)

The Chinese: Always Pushing the Ping-Pong Barrier One Step Further

This is something pretty damn incredible. :D... (read more)

Guilty Secret #7

About a week ago, as I was trying to get to bed early... I stopped in front of the poems that I taped up on the walls. I spent a good 10 minutes looking over old writing and reading things out loud. Partly to remember what I wrote, but partly... (read more)

So Sleepy...

It's about 8:30 PM. I've been falling asleep at the computer here, for the past 30 minutes. I'm on beer #2, and I'd like to get a game or two of UT in before I pass out. We had a good meeting day today, and I feel like we all... (read more)

FAN-TASTIC!

I got home to find Michael still in my apartment, setting up a fan for the living room. Rock! To top it off, he installed a dimmer switch. Woohoo! Though he couldn't determine a good reason for the coldness in the apartment, he felt that fans (in the living... (read more)

1:28 AM

I start updating the blog. I realize I drank my last beer last night. I realize I have to be up early, and arrive at work by 7:30 AM. I look to my cat for sympathy, but she just yawns and starts cleaning herself. Lousy, ungrateful cat. I turn off... (read more)

1:18 AM

I get back home.... (read more)

12:55 AM

Justin and I walk back to the Merchandise Mart, and get a cab.... (read more)

12:45 AM

I curse God.... (read more)

12:44 AM

I realize I left my lights on and the battery is completely dead.... (read more)

12:34 AM

Justin and I leave Q101, and head towards my car.... (read more)

10:55 PM

February 4, 2003

We're all (me, Justin, Ben, Deb and Jill) back at the office, finishing up for tomorrow's full day of meetings and sessions.... (read more)

10:30 PM

Everyone is asking the lawyer questions and we get into issues of "streaming" audio.... (read more)

6:00 PM

After a full day of work, we go to meet all our webmasters (who have flown in to Chicago). I have two beers, we eat some pretty good food, and listen to a lawyer talk about copyright issues and the Internet.... (read more)

7:45 AM

I'm driving my car, at Justin's house. I pick him up and we park in a lot near the Merchandise Mart.... (read more)

7:30 AM

Inside. Going to phone. Realizes there are messages from Justin, starting at 6:45 AM and ending at 7:30 AM. He tells me his car locks are frozen and can I drive.... (read more)

7:15 AM

Outside. Waiting. Expecting Justin.... (read more)

6:15 AM

Wake up. Wonder why everything looks foggy and why the air hurts to breathe. Realizes what time it is. Also realizes why most people don't get up this early: it's because the air hurts to breathe at this hour. Shower. Mumble.... (read more)

Speaking of Leftovers...

February 3, 2003

Going to have a late dinner now. Calling it an early night, partly because I only have one beer (which I'm finishing as I type.. finished!). But mainly because I agreed to go in early tomorrow with Justin. He's swinging by here at 7:15 (agh! What was I thinking?) and... (read more)

Whew!

Late night last night, getting those Chinatown images up. At work, I discovered that the big Flash movies were loading first, causing some of the image loading to hang. I've reworked the Flash files so that they'll only load on demand. This should solve that image problem. Late night tonight... (read more)

Lunch With Matt

Matt and I hung out today for the first time in a long time. I feel awful for being such a terrible friend - it's literally been months since I've called or stopped by. But we got to see each other today, and it was fun (albeit quick). For our... (read more)

Late Night Phone Call

February 2, 2003

Talking to Grumpy and a3dmofo on the phone. We're all in various states of drunkenness. I can't tell if this is a new level of nerdiness or not. But it's pretty damn fun. :)... (read more)

Chinatown At Night

After following around many a dragon, Alex and I decided to call it quits and get some food. Several of the places we tried were filled to capacity, so we ended up at a small joint in New Chinatown. The service was horrible, the entire waitstaff seemed stressed out of... (read more)

Here There Be Dragons

It's customary, on each New Year's day, for the dragons to go to every shop in Chinatown to offer blessings. Now, I'm not all that familiar with the specifics, as this has been my first official Chinese New Year in Chicago. Noise is used to "scare off" evil spirits,... (read more)

Year of the Ram

Early yesterday morning, Alex and I headed out to Chinatown for the Chinese New Year parade. We brought our cameras with us, and pretty much spent the whole afternoon shooting the parade and the dragons. For some reason, the Raeleans were at the parade. Alex and I talked to them... (read more)

For Fuck's Sake

February 1, 2003

I work with computers. So you'd think, you'd think I'm a smart guy. After being up all night last night, you'd think I'd just turn off the damn monitor and head to sleep. But what happens? I notice that the "February" button isn't working on the nav. I open up... (read more)

Happy New Year!

I went with Alex to Chinatown today, to see the parades and all. Today is Chinese New Year (the year of the Ram), and we spent most of the day taking pictures of crowds, firecrackers and dragons. It's late, and I don't think I can post all the pics just... (read more)

Check Check

First day of the first full month since I implemented the new nav. I wonder if it's working...... (read more)

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