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Saturday, June 23. 2007 So, where have I been? Uh... discovering torrents. 8-) My massive old CRT monitor began its slow and painful death immediately after the above happened. Coincidence? Maaybe. Mom offered to buy me a replacement (a shiny LCD which takes up perhaps 30% of the space as the old - technology is bliss!) as an "early birthday gift." Those three words were the worst thing she could have possibly said to me because suddenly I see potental "early birthday gifts" to myself everywhere. I've bought Hot Fuzz on DVD (R2, of course), Vic Reeves' book, a Vera Bradley Bowler bag - half price and in my favorite discontinued colorway, 5 sets of Brittany Birch knitting needles (love them!) to complete my set, a Harry Potter pattern book, and I have every intention of buying a swift closer to b-day. Plus, thanks to my newfound hobby, I'm eyeing a DVD burner and Divx DVD player. LOL. This must stop! In less illegal and more ironic news, a month ago the landlord surprised me with a beautiful new (to me) mattress and box springs to replace the old squeeky one. The new set is considerably lighter than the old, but still, less than a week later the bed frame (which, solid American construction notwithstanding, had a good 20 years on me) crashed! In the landlord's usual slow-poke ways, a replacement has yet to come so I'm sleeping with the mattress on the floor for now. *sigh* I really hope the apartment is mouse-free at the moment... Inspired by Crissy and Markie, I've started up my own Tumblr, and I must say I'm really digging it. Ever since I started up the knitting blog, this one has gotten less and less of my time. (Though the knitblog has recently been crying for attention too.) Most of the things I've wanted to blog (links, pictures, YouTube vids) didn't seem enough for a full blog entry, and that is exactly the type of content for which Tumblr excells. For those who may miss the old movie blog, I've started doing mini (very mini) reviews again. It'll also be connect to my Flickr account.. as soon as I photograph anything that doesn't involve yarn. I'm sorely tempted to switch to Tumblr full time. I just wish it had comments. Edit: I got Haloscan comments working! Friday, April 20. 2007 I'm on DSL day 4 now, so I'm getting used to it but there is still some, well, I guess it's culture shock. In all my years on dial-up, I adapted to its limitations in certain ways. Automatic image loading and browser plugins (think Flash) were always turned off until specifically needed. When reading bulletin boards I'd open threads on different tabs so they'd be downloaded by the time I got to them. Whenever I paused to read e-mail, write a blog entry, or go to the kitchen for a snack, I made sure to have something downloading in the background - whether it be usenet headers or a bunch of graphics-heavy knitting blogs... <takes a big breath> It feels so incredibly odd not to have to act that way any more. Thursday, April 19. 2007 So, I had to call -- **One photo shows a family of three - one of which is a child - all gathered in the living room, each working at their own laptop. The family that computes together stays together, I suppose. Thursday, April 19. 2007 The last time I spoke to my father he mentioned he'd lately bought Nelly Furtado and Christina Aguilera's latest CDs. Meanwhile, my mother has taken up an interest in Justin Timberlake and Hinder. And me? My current musical interest is... the Beatles. (The Easter Bunny brought me two Beatle CDs. :-)) Also The Feeling (very mellow - reminds me of Travis) but mainly Beatles. How strange it is when your parents are more current with the music scene than you are! Actually, though, one great use of TiVo I've found is to record MTV or VH1 early in the morning (i.e. about the only time they still show videos) and then fast-forward until a good one comes on. It's a tedious process with little success (VH1 has about a dozen videos it's very, very fond of that repeat continually. Jump Start lasts 4 hours every weekday, and by the end some videos have been shown 3x) but it works for me since I don't listen to radio. Tuesday, April 17. 2007 http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Eee... We have DSL, baby!!! I no longer have to fear graphics-heavy sites, Flash, or big downloads! Next up will be getting a hub or switch so I can network the TiVo for Unbox. Hehe. If you need to reach me, I'll be at YouTube or Netflix's Watch Now for at least the next few days. ;-) Friday, April 6. 2007 The new University of Kentucky basketball coach is... Billy Gillispie, former coach of Texas A&M. Yeah, I've never heard of him either. This past few weeks has been a strange trip for UK fans. Rumors came from various quarters that Billy Donovan and wife had been touring the Bluegrass last week (like he didn't have anything better to do such as, oh, prepare for the Final Four!), that they'd been house hunting in the area (why the rush? - did they expect to be chased out of Florida with pitchforks as soon as the announcement was made?), and that they were going to live on a horse farm, of all things. (Everyone knows that all Kentuckians live on horse farms, just like all Irishmen live in thatched roof cottages.) On the flip side, there was a particularly ridiculous rumor that Donovan didn't want to take the job because he'd have to play his former boss, Rick Pitino, every year. *snort* I didn't believe a word of it. There was no reason why he'd want to leave Florida; a respectable, winning program with money and sunshine - what more could you want? I have to say though that I really didn't care who the new coach would be. My one and only choice was Pitino, and there'd be no way he'd admit he made a mistake in leaving back in 1997. The strangest coincidence in all of this is that it was Gillispie (Tubby Smith's successor) who ousted Pitino (Tubby's predecessor) from this year's tournament - and on UK's home floor, no less. Weird, huh? Thursday, April 5. 2007 Warning: If you don't knit or crochet or etc., stop reading now or you'll just think me silly. :-) We're getting a Hobby Lobby! A new store is going to open in Nicholasville (i.e. Lexington) sometime in 2007. Yay!!! I hear they have a good selection of dishcloth yarn colors. ;-) So Lexington has a Joann, 2 Michaels, (2?) Hancock Fabrics, 2 Meijer (strictly speaking, not a craft store but their yarn section is just as good as the others), and now a Hobby Lobby. Oh, and at least three 'proper' yarn stores (two of which I've ever been to *sigh*). All we lack now is an A.C. Moore. Heheh. Sunday, April 1. 2007 Edit: Found a video of Teller talking on YouTube. It isn't the fact that he talks that strikes me so strangely, it's the heavy Philly accent. ;-) A 2-hour special about Harry Houdini was replayed on the History Channel recently, and while the show itself was very informative (the first adult biography I read was on Houdini and I've been a 'fan' ever since) the thing I was most struck by was that one of the interviewees was Teller - you know, the (usually) silent one from Penn & Teller. But in this case he was heard (and at some length!) but not seen - his face was left in shadow. It's funny how such a simple thing as that can be unnerving. I see that Wikipedia even has a list of occurrences when Teller has spoken in public. Heheh. Don't you just love a good showbiz gimmick? :-) Sunday, April 1. 2007 Entertainment Weekly spotted Robbie Williams at a taping of Dancing with the Stars and had the smarts to grab him for an interview. Here's an excerpt: EW: You're not releasing your latest album,Let's Swing Again,in the US. Why? Emphasis mine. It's not much of a surprise, really. Robbie's CDs and DVDs have always been difficult to find here. But I always assumed we weren't getting the albums because sales weren't there - not because of some arbitrary decision to keep one corner of the globe hype free. Frankly, I'm a little offended by this. This country is good enough to live in, it seems, but meanwhile his fanbase here (small but by no means unimportant) are left to fend for themselves in acquiring his works. Of course, with the Internet this is no big task, but it hurts to be practically the only country in the world not deemed worthy of the new releases. Tuesday, March 27. 2007
The BBC has aired an episode of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps 57 times in the past 3 years! I wonder how Law & Order repeats over here stack up to that.
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