It’s that time of year again. Ahh, SIFF – how I love thee so. Last night I was convinced to go to the midnight showing of the campy Norwegian nazi zombie flick, Dead Snow. Perhaps not a film classic, but a nice mix of humor and abundant intestines.
As usual, you can check out the films over on the SIFF site or over at the Stranger guide – nice twist, this year you can download an iPhone app too.
I finally got around to making the site look decent. I went ahead and found a theme that looked pretty good as a base, hacked around with it until I got it to look how I wanted, then added multiple sidebar support the way I like it. In the process of checking out WordPress 2.6 compatible themes I stumbled across an interesting super minimalistic theme that was used as the base in a design contest. If I ever get the urge to do a design from almost scratch it looks like it would be an excellent starting point.
So, what do ya think? Look good?
Well, I’m out of tickets for SIFF this year. I have to say, I wasn’t as excited for their lineup this year compared to previous years however most of what I saw this year turned out to be pretty good. Here were my favorites:
Dear patron of sushi maki,
I know you were probably looking forward to your special tuna roll. I was looking forward to my spicy tuna roll combo with extra pieces of tamago and unagi as well. Unfortunately, they gave me your order instead and I didn’t notice it until I got home. It’s a ten minute walk and I was too lazy to go back so I ate your order – Sorry!
Seriously though, for a tiny, tiny place, it was hopping on this beautiful Friday Seattle evening. The roll was huge and pretty tasty – I think I’ll have to give them another chance even if I was seriously missing my real order.
Ok, alexrose.net is up and ready for business again. I updated to the latest version of wordpress, tweaked a simple theme to get a clean look, and imported my old content. I’m not 100% happy with how things look but I’m going to make a concerted effort to keep working at it, especially since I have a lot of plans for this summer all lined up.
Speaking of summer – its time for SIFF again already. Do you have your tickets yet? I do – going to see some Johnny To, a little Takashi Miike , and a really old (young?) Jackie Chan amongst others.
Looks like the first leg of my brother’s sailing expedition to explore the sunny coasts of Mexico didn’t go too smooth – here’s hoping he’s found all of the issues with his boat and the rest of his trip goes according to plan.
Details at www.jasonrose.net
Ever since I came home from Japan there’s been this spider thats been hanging out right by the door to my condo. Waiting. Watching. I swear every time I see it, its a little bit bigger…
Now, I have a confession – if there is anything that has a high chance of making me scream like a little girl, its spiders. No, not little dinky spiders, not cute daddy long legs – I’m talking big, evil looking spiders.
As it is, we are at a standoff. I wait, hoping he will go away, for he is already way to big for me to be comfortable with direct action. He waits, biding his time I’m sure till he’s just a little big bigger so he can accomplish whatever nefarious plot he’s been weaving.
Its been over a year, but I’m working on Cerebral Imprint again.
My first goal – make it so it doesn’t look like, well, ass (pardon my french). When I first started working on Cerebral Imprint I was a fresh switcher from a windows world and the only user interface work I had done in a while was swing based. Now that I’ve been a Mac convert for quite some time I find the user interface to be somewhat of an embarrassment. So, what do you think about this layout?
Its going to be a little bit before I have a new test version ready but stay tuned. My goal is to actually stabilize the code base, release a 2.0 release, then actually start to add new features again.
Within days of my last post I was back to MythTV, partly because it works better and partly since I can watch recordings over my network on my Mac.
Time to come clean: I succumbed and re-activated my WOW account. <big sigh> . A lot of things have changed since I quit and I actually having fun again. Its sad, but given how I get sucked into these games I actually set up parental controls on myself to control when I can play : )
In case you wondering…
The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
Crop circles are Vin’s way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the fuck down
I think I have a problem. Its name is threadless.com and apparenly I can’t stop buying tshirts from them every couple of months. I have to admit there are a couple of shirts that I probably wouldn’t have bought if there wasn’t $10 sale enthusiasm clouding my judgement but in general I’m very satisfied with the interesting designs I’ve picked up.
You are what you eat
Gingerbread Nightmares
Flowers in the Attic
A Room with a View
Yo-Fu
Dark Side of the Garden
Southbound Pachyderm
Moby was a consumer
Pandamonium
Motovino
Consumable
Game-set-match