miscellany is currently being migrated to hyperbolation.com – this may take awhile, as I no longer have dsl at my apartment because i’m moving at the end of the month, which falls in the middle of the week, oh lucky me.
miscellany is currently being migrated to hyperbolation.com – this may take awhile, as I no longer have dsl at my apartment because i’m moving at the end of the month, which falls in the middle of the week, oh lucky me.
wtf?! if i wasn’t paranoid before…..
thanks to eric for this terrifying beginning of my day
kate and i like to call ourselves nerds. but really, we’re not. i mean, she’s closer to real nerddom than i since she actually knows a computer language and some other mathematical stuff that i tossed down the memory hole a long time ago. mostly we’re nerdy because we like to oogle computer specs and watch a lot of star trek. eric however, is actually a true nerd and i bow down to his coding glory. he just set up movabletype for me, and truth be told i could have done it by following the instructions…really slowly…but he was all blazing away on puTTY, typing seemingly random letters that magically made other strings of random letters appear. wow. programming is so cool.
…and i’m pretty sure that that sentence just made me even nerdier.
ok, so obviously i’ve been extremely busy in the past month, and specifically the past week. i’m busy onlining ‘the caseys’ and finishing up classes. graduation is in less than 3 weeks and my last final ever is tomorrow. after that i only have two papers left to write. this saturday is the studio22 premiere and after that’s over, my life will get 200% less stressful.
last friday i saw ‘finding nemo’ and it was AMAZING!! it was actually better than ‘monsters, inc.’ i think. it was so funny and touching and suspenseful and action packed…plus, sea turtles! it was beautifully animated and albert brooks and ellen degeneres were perfect as the leads. go see it NOW. NOW, I SAY! NOW!!!
man, it’s close-readings of films that make me happy to be a film major. check out this guy’s take on ‘the Matrix’
right now it’s midnight. where am i? that’s right! WORK. i have just finished making 6 mark overlays for our promo commercials. oh boy.
further proof of my nerdity (besides making up words like ‘nerdity’): i’m tired today…er, tonight. know why? was i up with a hot date or seeing a movie or drinking or dancing? no. i was up until the wee hours last night reading my…
wait for it….
that’s right, i was reading my JavaScript book.
oh dear god.
i should go home soon i think, since i have to make some changes tomorrow – i mean, today. eric and mike, i hope you’re having a real good time. jerks. 🙂
ever want to know what happens during an autopsy? includes cute illustrations. no, really.
mike and eric, those lucky bastartds, are on their way to l.a. for e3 to try out video games and have fun and merriment in the land of sun and parties and earthquakes and landslides and flash floods and plastic and….oh wait. maybe that isn’t something to be so jealous about. no…yeah, i’m still at work and in class while they’re driving down the coast in their convertible so…yes, they are definately having a better time than i will be since i have papers to write and interviews to conduct and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
‘the matrix: reloaded’ opens this week!! YAY! jim bought 35, yes THIRTY-FIVE tickets for friday’s showing. all of compositing + the office are going. ‘yes, sir – how many tickets do you want?’ ‘mmm…you know, how about you just give me a whole theater?’
last night we went to lou malnotti’s for pizza and it was SOOOOO good. mmmmmmm. i almost can’t believe that that building, where yesterday’s used to be, is the same festering hell-hole that i spent two weeks in two summers ago. the ceiling was caved in, the smell was horrible, it was damp and 100 degrees, insects and god knows what else scampering around, high voltage film equipment stung in the basement which was rapidly flooding up towards the breaker box when it started to rain and since none of chicago drains AT ALL the streets were flooded and we were trapped there with a mass electrocution ready to happen at any moment while the director went insane and started swimming in the streets.
man, i’ve got to start updating this more often.
this week i did a lot of nothing. well, not really, but i was sleepy most of the time so i ended up taking a lot of naps.
friday i got to compositing at 5 till 10 only to check my email and find that class was postponed until 11:30. so i sat there for an hour and a half looking at websites. here are some of the fruits of my labor.
‘identity’ was, indeed scary, but between mike and my theories, we pretty much had the movie figured out by the halfway mark. tonight we’re going to see ‘x2’ and i am SO EXCITED!!!! everyone says how awesome it is, and i can’t wait to get my geek on. i’m heading over to the theatre at 7 to check out the line situation and maybe have a few drinks at the rhythm room.