April 25, 2006

• The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Where to start? I think I’m making progress…perhaps I’m just now catching the Tao of life. I’ll have to tell you about Monday. Lots of good, interesting things happened on Monday. Before we get there, I have a few news items.

  Advances made on A Film Noir Short
  Stay tuned to http://lockandkeyfilms.wordpress.com/ for the latest news about the project. A major wave of script revisions should be complete by the end of the week, thus expediting the move into pre-production. We appreciate your support. Simply voice yourself on the forum. You can also see the director’s storyboards here.

  The Two Best Asses in the World
  

  ehowton

  drax0r

  No, these are not links to pictures of Jenna Jamenson’s ass. Rather, these are the guys who pulled off the best social engineering hack to date. I can’t do it any more justice describing it then Howton did. Read about it here

  Random Tidbits.
  Hey guys: sick and tired of feeling like you’re going to be watched in the men’s room? Check out this story and see how you feel.

  I’ve had coffee in the morning for four consecutive days now…haven’t done that in over a year.

  I have seriously contemplated buying shorts.

  A lot of people have told me that I should get a dog. I don’t like house animals. I don’t want my stuff torn up. I don’t want shit on the carpet. I don’t want to smell it 24/7. I don’t want fur all over the place. I don’t want to care for it.

  I have considered buying a King Cobra as a pet, however.

  Thought for the Day
  Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

  

  What life lessons can we learn from this image?

  More Blathering about the Future
  Despite Howton’s claim that I “blabber horseshit”, I have thought about this fall some more. Here’s what I’ve concluded: I will study XML, advanced topics in Java, and Perl in that order, enroll in a few classes in the fall, and work on A Film Noir Short. During all of that, I also plan to work on a script or two with the great Slandingo. The idea is this: I can go back to school and still avail myself to film projects, thus leaving both doors open.

  Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day
  For those of you who didn’t know, Monday is my day off. Unlike other days off here lately, this Monday was a blast. First of all, I never got any sleep Sunday. Don’t know why, I just lacked the will to go to bed. Reggie called me around 0700 and wanted me to follow him to the shop so he could get the car I hate so much fixed. Returned and then decided I wanted a good breakfast, so I cruised out to Madison and had breakfast at Cracker Barrel. From there, it was back to Huntsvegas.

  Went to good ol’e Wolly World to get the oil changed and to get new tires. They didn’t have my tires in stock, so I opted for just the oil change. Had to wait somewhere between 45 min and 1.5 hours for this simple task be completed. So I shopped in their lovely little store. That was a trip, let me tell you.

  This chick, Marla Singer did not have testicular cancer.
  First of all, they were remodeling, but it wasn’t quite apparent when you walked in. Now I walked in the back, a place of the store that I never go. The walls were all this dingy beige (like an old lady’s sweater beige) and the shelves were scattered. Now, remember that I hadn’t slept Sunday night. I thought I had walked on the set of Requiem for a Dream. Whilst walking around the non-cohesive store, I texted back and forth with this troublemaker. Wound up purchasing a copy of Band of Brothers.

  Mallrats!
  So I went to the mall. This normally wouldn’t have been the ideal thing for me to do, but it was my day off. No, I did not take Jesse’s advice that I go to Cool Springs, TN, despite the fact that I’ve been bitching about wanting to get out of the State and take a roadtrip. NOTE: I am planning on taking an extended roadtrip in the near future. Went and talked to a buddy in the futon store. I was going to go see a manager at a closing novelty store. She wasn’t in. Instead, I made a friend with yet another manager there. She does page layout stuff. We got to talking. I offered to give her a copy of the Adobe suit as well as show her a few tricks. She’s yet to email me about it.

  Given a long enough timeline, everyone’s survival rate drops to zero.
  I then bumped into a family friend that I hadn’t seen in years. Come to find out, her parents are snubbing her about as bad as mine are, though they still talk to her and lover her. Hell, they are even talking about giving her a house.

  From there, I went back to the futon store and shot the shit some more. Went up to the bookstore, but they didn’t have any books on XML, so I went to Barns and Nobles. And bought Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days, Third Edition. My reading list for XML is as follows (in order that they will be read.)

  Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days, Third Edition

  Mastering XML Premium Edition

  C++ XML

  This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.
  After B&N, I came home and crashed. Tried to get a hold of some friends to go putt putting, but couldn’t get them. Napped for a couple of hours, then went to Jones Valley to see the new Rave theater’s construction site. Picked something up from Chilli’s. Came back and watched the first two episodes of Band of Brothers. Had a Green Apple Sminrnoff to top it all off.

  Buy Me Shit Department
  

  EDIT
  I went to Kyrstal’s after posting and on the way the check engine light came on. I don’t know what’s wrong. Hope and pray that the extended warranty will cover it.

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