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SIFF 2009

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:44:01 +0000

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.

New Look

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:25:29 +0000

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?

SIFF 2008

admin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:20:36 +0000

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:

Letter of Apology…

admin — Sat, 17 May 2008 04:38:28 +0000

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.

Site Update

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:08:23 +0000

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.

Jason’s big adventure, part 1

admin — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:06:48 +0000

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

Its always there, waiting…

admin — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 06:05:51 +0000

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.

Back from the Dead

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 06:08:10 +0000

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.

update-o-rama

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:08:29 +0000

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. . 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

Addicted to threadless

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:08:35 +0000

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