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Monday, February 25, 2002
Filmpreservation.org helps to preserve early films (mostly shorts). Our library has the four DVD set they've put out, which contain a total of 200 early American films. I grabbed volume two and watched D. W. Griffith's The Loandale Operator, a good little train robbery movie from 1911, plus several other things. I'm still working my way through it. I also caught a great film with William H. Macy in the lead role (Panic) and, a few days ago, I watched Jean de Florette, which I hadn't seen in many years (I also tried a bit of the sequel, but it was impossibly melodramatic).
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Filmpreservation.org helps to preserve early films (mostly shorts). Our library has the four DVD set they've put out, which contain a total of 200 early American films. I grabbed volume two and watched D. W. Griffith's The Loandale Operator, a good little train robbery movie from 1911, plus several other things. I'm still working my way through it. I also caught a great film with William H. Macy in the lead role (Panic) and, a few days ago, I watched Jean de Florette, which I hadn't seen in many years (I also tried a bit of the sequel, but it was impossibly melodramatic).
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Sunday, February 24, 2002
file under > good but not perfect:
At the request of two of my bandmates, I reworked the color scheme on the Nancy site. I also created a nice ad (I'm assuming it's going to be for the web, but I also worked up a print version) for the Solace Kid disc. I'm going to eventually incorporate a style switcher, so you can choose the old scheme (which I still like) and a printer-friendly one (as this new scheme uses a lot of white and probably won't print out very well). I have two other sites to work on today and I'm meeting for the second time with my new client. Add in the regular weekend house cleaning chores and it's going to be a busy day (at least the weather is beautiful; that helps).
file under > no one will care:
Two quick site notes: the archives for 02/2002 currently produce an error, but this will be fixed as soon as March 1 arrives. The error has to do with the limitations of Blogger, which gives you one header file for your posts and your archives. So I have to go in an manually add three lines of PHP at the top and bottom of each archive file. And since the archives get overwritten every time you post, there's no need fixing it until February is over (since, after that, it will be a complete archive and won't get overwritten ever again). Also, the comment windows look odd. The code for them was mangled a bit during a site upgrade that my hosting company performed. But they still work. All you have to do is scroll to the bottom of the window and post as you normally would. After the first post is published, the display glitch disapears. So feel free to comment. And as soon as I have time to read through that code, I'll fix it (and fix it so that the color scheme matches your preference).
file under > in dreams begin responsibilities:
I've been dreaming of renting a small studio space once my wife and I relocate to Little Rock (ETA: fall 2003). If I can pull that off, Wheatdesign will have a street address as well as a virtual one. I'm so excited about it, I actually drew up a floor plan. I only need a small space (maybe 200sf). And I don't care much where it is as long as the neighborhood is safe. Dare to dream...
I'll give any of you pointy-headed literary types ten bonus points if you can identify (from your own memory, not the Google cache file) the author of the short story I allude to in the title of this post.
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file under > good but not perfect:
At the request of two of my bandmates, I reworked the color scheme on the Nancy site. I also created a nice ad (I'm assuming it's going to be for the web, but I also worked up a print version) for the Solace Kid disc. I'm going to eventually incorporate a style switcher, so you can choose the old scheme (which I still like) and a printer-friendly one (as this new scheme uses a lot of white and probably won't print out very well). I have two other sites to work on today and I'm meeting for the second time with my new client. Add in the regular weekend house cleaning chores and it's going to be a busy day (at least the weather is beautiful; that helps).
file under > no one will care:
Two quick site notes: the archives for 02/2002 currently produce an error, but this will be fixed as soon as March 1 arrives. The error has to do with the limitations of Blogger, which gives you one header file for your posts and your archives. So I have to go in an manually add three lines of PHP at the top and bottom of each archive file. And since the archives get overwritten every time you post, there's no need fixing it until February is over (since, after that, it will be a complete archive and won't get overwritten ever again). Also, the comment windows look odd. The code for them was mangled a bit during a site upgrade that my hosting company performed. But they still work. All you have to do is scroll to the bottom of the window and post as you normally would. After the first post is published, the display glitch disapears. So feel free to comment. And as soon as I have time to read through that code, I'll fix it (and fix it so that the color scheme matches your preference).
file under > in dreams begin responsibilities:
I've been dreaming of renting a small studio space once my wife and I relocate to Little Rock (ETA: fall 2003). If I can pull that off, Wheatdesign will have a street address as well as a virtual one. I'm so excited about it, I actually drew up a floor plan. I only need a small space (maybe 200sf). And I don't care much where it is as long as the neighborhood is safe. Dare to dream...
I'll give any of you pointy-headed literary types ten bonus points if you can identify (from your own memory, not the Google cache file) the author of the short story I allude to in the title of this post.
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Friday, February 22, 2002
Two (complimentary) views of the Enron swindle: the Onion and Alternet (via danerousmeta!).
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Two (complimentary) views of the Enron swindle: the Onion and Alternet (via danerousmeta!).
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I hadn't surfed any of Josh Davis' sites in a while. He's merged Praystation and once upon a forest into one site. And there's some amazing stuff to check out. Ignore his ocassional pretentiousness and enjoy the color and inventiveness (remember that anyone who hates Jacob Nielsen can't be all bad).
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I came up to my office to do a little last-minute work since I'm going to be out all day tomorow. After that, I tweaked the stylesheets on wheatdesign.com a bit, especially the Zeldman-ish one (which now looks more like his actual site and not just an orange mess). I also updated the site info page a bit. Nothing drastic. But I'm really looking forward to getting rid of all that old table-based, HTML 4.01-ish formatting and going just with CSS (and probably XHTML). Basically, I have two header files on my site. Pages that are controlled by the main header file (like the main page) use CSS for all the layout. But pages that use the other header file (like the page you're viewing right now) use table-based layout. But it's scarry to switch it if you don't have a few hours to fix whatever you break in the process, so I'm leaving it for another day....
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Monday, February 18, 2002
I've never really been part of the Ebay revolution. But I just now put an item up for sale. I put it up for Gina, actually, it's a TI-89 graphing calculator that she bought but then didn't need. Since I'd already pitched the packaging, I couldn't take it back to the store. So I figure maybe I'll cut my loss a bit. I have a sack full of other stuff that I'll be putting up tomorow, thought I don't expect all of it will sell.
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I've never really been part of the Ebay revolution. But I just now put an item up for sale. I put it up for Gina, actually, it's a TI-89 graphing calculator that she bought but then didn't need. Since I'd already pitched the packaging, I couldn't take it back to the store. So I figure maybe I'll cut my loss a bit. I have a sack full of other stuff that I'll be putting up tomorow, thought I don't expect all of it will sell.
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Saturday, February 16, 2002
I've been running sound on the side to make a little extra cash. It's fun work. Tonight I ran sound for a NYC folk singer named James Thomas along with his friend, Austin folk singer Philip Gibbs. It was a good performance. It's a nice excuse to go see a show. And it's a pleasant change from my more serious day gig. I look forward to doing it more often.
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I've been running sound on the side to make a little extra cash. It's fun work. Tonight I ran sound for a NYC folk singer named James Thomas along with his friend, Austin folk singer Philip Gibbs. It was a good performance. It's a nice excuse to go see a show. And it's a pleasant change from my more serious day gig. I look forward to doing it more often.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2002
Wheat's BassBook, v.5.0 has left the building. This is the first major update in two years. I completely overhauled the interface. Now each chapter (or, if you choose, the entire book) is assembled on the fly thanks to PHP includes. I stripped out every bit of legacy code. It's all CSS and solid HTML. A little more sprucing up and it will validate. Surf it and let me know what you think.
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Wheat's BassBook, v.5.0 has left the building. This is the first major update in two years. I completely overhauled the interface. Now each chapter (or, if you choose, the entire book) is assembled on the fly thanks to PHP includes. I stripped out every bit of legacy code. It's all CSS and solid HTML. A little more sprucing up and it will validate. Surf it and let me know what you think.
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Sunday, February 10, 2002
I'm sick as a dog. I stayed home from work Friday in hopes that I'd be able to rest up and recuperate. But the entire weekend was shot as well (today, I barely got out of bed). It's been no fun at all. The only good thing is that I've been doing a lot of work on the new (and radically improved) version of the bassbook. I hope to have the new verison up this comming week. I'm very proud of it. It's going to be good.
Being sick in bed, I've watched some movies--most of them crap. But I did watch one suprisingly good one: The Anniversary Party. It's a really great little drama and the people who designed the DVD did a great job (ever noticed how badly most DVD interfaces are designed?). It's all shot on digital video, too, which is still pretty rare for big films. But I think this one goes a long way to proving how good a medium it can be.
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I'm sick as a dog. I stayed home from work Friday in hopes that I'd be able to rest up and recuperate. But the entire weekend was shot as well (today, I barely got out of bed). It's been no fun at all. The only good thing is that I've been doing a lot of work on the new (and radically improved) version of the bassbook. I hope to have the new verison up this comming week. I'm very proud of it. It's going to be good.
Being sick in bed, I've watched some movies--most of them crap. But I did watch one suprisingly good one: The Anniversary Party. It's a really great little drama and the people who designed the DVD did a great job (ever noticed how badly most DVD interfaces are designed?). It's all shot on digital video, too, which is still pretty rare for big films. But I think this one goes a long way to proving how good a medium it can be.
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Friday, February 08, 2002
I found this unauthorized translation of the bassbook into, I believe, Korean. It's just book one, and, to their credit, the copywrite info was left unaltered (though they did tweak the design a bit).
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I found this unauthorized translation of the bassbook into, I believe, Korean. It's just book one, and, to their credit, the copywrite info was left unaltered (though they did tweak the design a bit).
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My new neighbors just don't get it. They're constantly loud. And yet, every time I see the girl who lives there, she is incredibly apologetic as if she actually cared that her behavior, and that of the house-load of friends who are eternally present in her appartment, is noxious to me. But after every apology, the hip-hop (or bob dylan, or the dead, or whatever they're listening to that day) gets louder and the party runs later. We've complained to the landlords, who've told them that one more incident will have them out on the street. But I'm not sure what qualifies as an incident. Maybe I'm just too old to live here: too set in my ways and in love with what little bit of silence I can wrest from a noisy world.
I've been rediscovering our local library. They loan DVDs and CDs along with book, and their small but growing DVD collection is excelent. I also picked up a book by Paul Feyerabend called Conquest of Abundance. I've never read anything by Feyerabend before, but the blub on the back by Richard Rorty and a glance at the introduction convinced me to give it a shot. I'll keep you posted.
Nancy practiced tonight and we wrote a new song (I think we've written a new song every week for the last three). Soon, we'll start recording our second album, which will probably also be our final one, as Sean and Jamkat will be leaving in the fall to persue teaching positions elsewhere. I'll probably be here in Fayetteville until the summer or fall of 2003, afterwhich my wife and I will be moving elsewhere so she can continue her education. Fayetteville is a nice place, but I'm ready for something new.
I got an email from the guy who is tranlating the bassbook into his native tongue. He says he expects the translation to be ready by the first of March. I'm excited to see it.
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Thursday, February 07, 2002
I've been coding a new project using PHP and ODBC to perform searches on a MS Access database file. It's cool and gives me lots of ideas about how I can use ODBC to make other data in web-unfriendly formats availible through web interfaces.
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I've been coding a new project using PHP and ODBC to perform searches on a MS Access database file. It's cool and gives me lots of ideas about how I can use ODBC to make other data in web-unfriendly formats availible through web interfaces.
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Sunday, February 03, 2002
It's been a while since I bothered with a film update here, so why not now? First, as I think I mentioned previously, I got on a horror film kick recently and rewatched Haloween (a classic). Then I decided it might be fun to try some of the sequels, so I tried II (which was good) and about the first twenty minutes of III, which was probably the worst film I've ever seen (and doesn't even deserve to be called a sequel, since it has nothing to do with the two previous movies). Then I repeated the process with the Nightmare on Elmstreet movies. The first one is great (of course). The second one is not great but not awful. I personally like the third one quite a bit (though most people don't). And I tried about fifteen minutes of the fourth one, which was bad and obviously not going to get any better.
After I got over my horror film jones, I caught Office Space, a very funny comedy about working jobs you don't like, and Triumph of the Will, a Nazi propaganda movie from 1934 (quite an eye opener, though with some amazingly good shots).
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It's been a while since I bothered with a film update here, so why not now? First, as I think I mentioned previously, I got on a horror film kick recently and rewatched Haloween (a classic). Then I decided it might be fun to try some of the sequels, so I tried II (which was good) and about the first twenty minutes of III, which was probably the worst film I've ever seen (and doesn't even deserve to be called a sequel, since it has nothing to do with the two previous movies). Then I repeated the process with the Nightmare on Elmstreet movies. The first one is great (of course). The second one is not great but not awful. I personally like the third one quite a bit (though most people don't). And I tried about fifteen minutes of the fourth one, which was bad and obviously not going to get any better.
After I got over my horror film jones, I caught Office Space, a very funny comedy about working jobs you don't like, and Triumph of the Will, a Nazi propaganda movie from 1934 (quite an eye opener, though with some amazingly good shots).
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