keepin’ it short

as in my hair. Now. There was more of it on the floor of the salon than there is currently on my head. Probably double at least. I don’t have a high enough quality dig cam right now so you’ll will have to wait until Monday for visual confirmation. :-)

bits and the friday five

hmm, maybe I was a leetle over the top last night in my comment excitement. I was never able to get the PHP script Heather sent me to work. The app I’m using is cgiComments, a script I found linked from this great blog resource page. And installing it really was like pulling teeth :-(. I’m no CGI expert and I haven’t done any form of hard programming in almost six years. But after a couple false starts (and fighting the desire to throw my computer from the loft) I was able to mod the script correctly. So in honor of that achievement I post the following poetic snippet (which I don’t think I ever really understood until last night):

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works ye mighty and despair!

– Shelley, Ozymandias

It’s a big day today: the CFI wraps, I get comments working, and I leave at 4.00pm to get a new hair cut. Oh the possibilities. In the mean time here is my Friday Five:

1. What’s your favorite vacation spot? I have two: New Orleans and Europe. I’ve only been to Europe once, and not to vacation (during my secret agent days), but I’m sure that I’d love to vacation there. As for New Orleans, I’ve been there three times and still can’t get enough. It’s just such a fascinating mix of old and new, good and evil, sin and salvation. Plus it’s full of photo opps (and I don’t mean the girls on Burbon st). And still to this day I’ll get the occaisonal 2.00am craving for Cafe du Monde’s Cafe Au Lait and Beignets. Mmmmm, powdered sugar (right Tina?)

2. Where do you consider to be the biggest hell-hole on earth? There are a few. The city of Las Vegas (not te outlying area), Troy NY, and being a Long Islander, the entire state of New Jersey (Bridge and Tunnel Trash). Actually, I’m not to big on most of the Carribean either: abject poverty that is carefully hidden from tourists who stay in veriable palaces.

3. What would be your dream vacation? Going to places where I can emerse myself in either rich nature or history and hopefully learn about myself. China, Europe, Alaska. I love places where I can be immersed in a city one day and escape civilization (or at least the country) the next.

4. If you could go on a road-trip with anyone, who would it be and why? Probably my brother Glenn. Mainly because it’s been a dream of his to drive cross country in a VW Mini Bus full of potato chips and a gituar. The plan would be to drive until you ran out of chips or songs, talking to people along the way. I’ve often thought of buying a car on the Internet from someone from the West Coast and driving it back to Rochester.

5. What are your plans for this weekend? Possibly going skating tonight and then to see a play. Saturday and Sunday are work days. We’ve got a lot to do on this production and if I can get some of it accomplished this weekend it will take a lot of pressure off me in the weeks to come. Plus I still have cleaning to do.

IT’S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!! MY CREATION LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!

I’VE DONE IT! I’VE GOT COMMENTS. AFTER 4 HOURS I NOW HAVE COMMENTS ON MY BLOG (and apparently a stuck caps-lock)! KNEEL BEFORE THE AWESOME POWER OF MY BLOG!!!!!!…

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…um, ok, now that it’s done I’m going to sleep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

some days you got it. some days you…

Rochester got about four inches of snow last night (which suddenly made me thing of the album “six inches of snow” and now bad reggae is stuck in my head thanks to that) and I got my butt kicked in class. It was a great way for Sifu to send home the fact that I don’t currently have a strong enough root/impart enough intention into my techniques; all of which I needed to be reminded of (plus after the last few classes I might have been getting a little too big for my britches). Still I would have prefer a less ego-deflating lesson. Either that or I just need to work on getting rid of my ego.

Ok, I just checked the insta poll. I’m psyched that I had 9 people respond so far (which confirms that the audience of my page is at least as big UPN’s)! Of course 33% or 3 people didn’t know that I’ve been postings MP3’s. Folks, no offense but it’s right above the survey. Not to hard to find. Check out the current Shonen Knife goodness!

Tina is back from the Olympics and meeting Steve Young! Thankfully Chuck was with her at the time and kept her in line. ;-)

Finally, my blog goal for the evening is to try to get comments up and running tonight. So perhaps by tomorrow I’ll have a way for folks to respond.

they’re ba-ack…

Today we spotted Mariah in the nest box and a collective sigh of relief went up from kodak.com. Each year we always start to hold our breath about this time hoping that the Peregrine Falcons will make it back safely for another year of Birdcam. This year they’ve taken their sweet time making it back (especially considering the site dedicated to them is going live on Monday). We still have yet to spot Cabot-Sirocco (the male), but hopefully he isn’t far behind Mariah. She’s spent most of the day off most of the cameras perched atop Camera 1:

This also means two things: 1. I won’t be going out to the nest box again. I have no desire to have one of these birds attack my head (they are very territorial and will go after any nest intruders). 2. We won’t have to go with our back up plan. If the falcons had not returned we were going to place Tony in a Chicken Costume up in the nest. I still think that would have generated more traffic to the site. Oh well, there is always next year.

In other news, the last two days have been super self affirming. Unfortunately, the CFI I’ve mentioned in past posts is going to slip its delivery date. That’s not good, but there isn’t much that we can do about it. Otherwise work is great (especially now that the falcons are back). Outside of the big k.com, things are rockin’ as well. Last night was another good martial arts class. I finally feel as if I’m coming into my own when it comes to sparring. It is the second night in a row I’ve been complimented on my creativity. Now I need to work on breaking out on better angles when pushed/pressured. Things on the plays are also going well. We’ve got a venue, performance dates and hopefully *knocks on wood* a tech director. Plus I really feel like I’ve improved as a director. And, even with all that, I had time yesterday to veg and play PS2 for a bit (Baldur’s Gate = mindless fun…. yea!)!

Finally, there’s some new stuff on ze blog. I’ve added a rockin’ Insta Poll. So you’re expected to fill it out. Yeah, I’m talking you! Plus, there’s a new MP3 packed with 100% engrish goodness. Give it a risten!

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