Month: January 2006

I feel weird posting pictures when we don’t actually own it yet, but I still want to show off. This is the house that Lisa and I will soon call home. There’s also a picture of the backyard on flickr. I have a bunch of shots from the interior, too, but I’m holding off on them. I’d rather show off the before and after from when we move into it empty and begin the painting and whatnot.

Which brings me to my follow-up question – what are you doing on the 4th of February? We close on the 27th, and I plan on spending that weekend moving in some boxes, cleaning up, painting, and possible doing some minor work. That will leave the following Saturday for the real move. Any able-bodied hands would be welcome – and beer and pizza will be sure to be flowing. I’ll be sure to send out e-mails, too, but please leave a comment if you already know you can help out. Thanks in advance.

So, have any of you heard of this show Lost? I really think it might take off… Okay, maybe I’m just a tad late to the party, but I actually was interested in it from the beginning. I just don’t think I had a DVR yet – and that means all TV viewing was suspect.

Once they started showing the re-runs, however, Lisa and I caught the first few episodes. I wouldn’t say I was instantly hooked, or anything, but it got my attention. Of course that still didn’t get me watching regularly. Instead I downloaded… I mean I procured the entire first season in a viewable format (much easier when your DVD player does DivX and Xvid) and spent much of our “winter break” catching up (especially on New Year’s Day).

I still wouldn’t say I’m totally hooked, but I am enjoying the series. It’s a tad uneven, one episode will be brilliant and leave me anxious for the next one, only to be left indifferent with some of the storylines. Part of that might be the overdone score, which tries too hard to add to the suspense rather than just emphasizing it in the background. Nevertheless, Lisa is bordering obsessive and we’re trying to catch up to the broadcast schedule so we can talk about it in front of everyone not watching… Oops, I wasn’t supposed to reveal that part of the plan.

Anywho, while waiting for Parasite to end and Raptor Island to start (just can’t get enough of those crappy Sci Fi movies), the time seems right (well, overdue) for me to review my viewing habits – for all of you blissfully unaware of what you might be missing. So what is on my DVR these days:
Continue reading “Get Lost”

I’m just testing out the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin. Even with the site back online, there are little changes that keep me from actually posting. Maybe this is the plugin I really need to move forward (yeah, right).

EDIT: The tags are working, and the weird funkiness I originally saw in the edit window appears to be fixed. Now I just have to fix the main page template which still references the categories (although Michael did a really cool job of addressing tags in the individual post pages).

Thanks to the Akismet spam plugin, I’m hoping to keep comments open far longer than the previous 21 day period I was using on ye olde neverhood.net. It’s all part of my masterplan to make this a far more interesting site than in the past. I was planning on re-opening the comment form for all previous posts, but there are two issues holding me back:

1. For continuity’s sake, it makes sense to preserve the old content, but stop further discussion unless I decide to create a new post referencing an old topic.
2. I’m lazy, and don’t know what kind of SQL query to run to quickly re-open all comments.

We’ll see whether or not laziness and a lame excuse win out with this decision. In the meantime, Akismet seems to have already begun cleaning out the spam remaining in the database (274 instances found – not sure where they cam from), and brought this gem to my attention:

your site is exactly the kind of sites which make the net surfing so fun. quilt your fabric yoyo:

It’s that brilliantly nonsequitor combination of startling praise and confusing demands that make spam comments so much fun. The constant use of such closing lines as “I finished the 6th ball” or “1 small clove garlic” are amusing enough, but when they add a bizarre use of a rather mild insult (such as yoyo) a big smile can’t help but cross my lips.

If only I possessed such wit.