part i my pre-ordered from the nin website copy of ghosts i-iv arrived yesterday. trent said that they went into making this album with the intent that it could/should be the soundtrack to something. on march 13, he announced a ghosts film festival on youtube. holding the actual release in my hands, i noticed it […]

i’ve decided to do a new project. i turn 30 this year. i have a lot of “oh god i’m getting old” feelings about this, probably because i have very clear memories of my dad freaking out when he turned 30 (i guess it’s a good thing gavin and lilah won’t have that experience). anyway, […]

i was stunned when i read this article about the hype machine that is ZAP.  it made me change my mind about most evil company ever — no more does microsoft hold that title: ZAP is the new most evil company ever.  in fact, the article was so bad (not the article actually, but the […]

we recently netflix’d two movies in a row with “-proof” in their title: Quentin Tarrantino‘s Death Proof (one half of his and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse) and Adam Sandler‘s Bulletproof. A brief review of these stinkbombs… Death Proof the only thing this flick proves is that Quentin Tarrantino is working on his talentless hack title. seriously. […]

with some hacking and clever googling i think i’ve installed everything i need for RubyOnRails.  i’m not positive though, and i won’t really know for sure until i start really hacking my first program.  i had to find several different installation howtos to be sure i did everything.  i’m pretty sure the ubuntu community documentation […]

i’ve decided to learn RubyOnRails.  Rails is a programming language/framework that comes with some prepackaged “programming shortcuts” which allow developers to write programs much faster.  it’s more of a “do this” and the app actually does that sort of thing as opposed to writing lines and lines of code for weeks to make it “do […]

so just about all i blog about these days is how the web design gig is going. that probably has something to do with the fact that i’ve been dreaming CSS lately. well this post won’t be any different. and i’m still f’ing dreaming CSS… we recently hit a landmark accomplishment. when we were first […]

okay, so, yes, i’m one of the, like, 12 people who cares, BUT:i’m cleaning up a site for a friend of mine that i work with who runs a nonprofit.  and he shows me the site on his macbook and there’s some huge glaring layout problems including a gigantic DONATE button smack in the middle of […]

so it seems totally contradictory that now that i am home all day i actually have less time to blog than when i was working at albertsons.  that probably says something about my job.  but that also says something about having kids around and being a parent.  and, you know, that part is cool. so, […]

there comes a time in every blog where the blogger just randomly, for no particular reason and with no malicious intent, disappears. try as you might to bitch, moan, and nag the blogger in question, it is, alas, to no avail. it’s happened before on this blog and it undoubtedly will happen again. this particular […]

topography was yesterday and it’s official, i have Keratoconus, or KC as it’s commonly abbreviated.  so the funness comes in here in that i went in for an eye exam, expecting a prescription, on the day my medical benefits from albertsons’ went buh-bye, and now i’ve got a eye condition that needs treatment with no […]

so i went in to what i expected to be a routine eye exam before my albertsons’ insurance was up to get some glasses.  i knew i needed them or at least that something was up.  driving at night sucked, i have a hard time reading subtitles, and things are, in general, blurry around the […]