I'm Not Even Working And I Have No Life

You know you've been spending too much time on lighting design and rigging when, driving home late at night, you turn on your highbeams and immediately think, "Oh, they have hotspots".

And as if I needed more proof that somewhere around fourty hours is too much time to spend working on Fiddler On The Roof this week, I was thinking about the holes in my front wash and how to better rig my toplight before I was properly awake this morning.

Of Rain And Normality

Today was really weird. I woke up and the sun was shining. For the past seven days (give or take a couple due to innacuracies in memory), it has been either cloudy, rainy, drizzly, or any combination of the above, and I had started getting used to it.

Now picture my confusion when I woke up this morning to sun streaming in my window and no comforting sound of rain dripping off the roof. It's very disorienting, I tell you, and I must admit that I stumbled around a bit and was somewhat disgruntled before the effects wore off sometime after breakfast. Such are the hardships of life, I suppose.

Score! (The Great-Stuff-Cheap Edition)

I have found the suitcase. The suitcase that is sturdy, the suitcase that is cheap, the suitcase that is big enough to fit all my effects pedals. It's not the old, beat up hard leather suitcase I had originally envisioned, but still, one does not argue with a $5.99 Samsonite, with lock and keys, from that great bastion of treasures called Goodwill.

Now I just need to find my piece of plywood, speaker carpet, velcro and a method to latch the board into the case and prevent it from banging around inside. Another project for the summer. w00t.

Daisy, Daisy, Dilly Dilly Dee

Give me the time....it's quarter to three? Huh?

I built a clock last week. It was my final project for Intro to Ornamental Metalworking, my Art/Humanities credit for school. (Excellent class, by the way, highly reccomended; ART-192 at SMCC, make sure you get Mark Legel. He's totally awesome.)

It really came out pretty well, the Daisy Clock. Brushed aluminum petals, hammered copper center, $1.99 clock movement from Goodwill's Wesclox stock... except that something seems to be convincing the clock that a minute is 66 seconds. I need to take it back apart and un-convince it.

Our Fears Have Been Confirmed

My brother is a nutcase. For one thing, he has a yahoo.co.uk email address. He was signing up for a Yahoo!(tm) email as a spammable catch-all internet addy, and sees the "Preferred content:" popup menu on the signup page. "Oo, what's that do?" The little help item proclaims:

...Note: If you change this setting, you may recieve a country-specific Yahoo! email address instead of one that ends in @yahoo.com.

"Coooool!" And whaddaya know, it worked.

Now he's just made himself a Facebook profile, and he's got himself in as part of the network of a Highschool that he "technically" has taken one class at. With his yahoo.co.uk email address.

I give up, I just feel so way-terribly normal right now.

Zoooming to Zooomr (Or: Another Lazy Title)

I'm definitely moving to Zooomr. It's a combination of things, really. The day after my previous post, Kris, The Developer of Zooomr (of all people) comments to let me know that I can get rid of that stinky numeric url and replace it with one of my choice. (That's what I call service.) Cool, and I'm an Idiot not to have seen the setting to do that. And then he tells me that the API is coming and he's already hacked jUploadr to work with Zooomr. Scrap the "no clients" argument.

And how cool is it that The Developer takes the time to talk to people like me? I like it when busy people make the effort to help like that.

So now the only thing I can really complain about is Google maps being dog slow over a modem connection. But that doesn't have anything to do with Zooomr. And Kris says there is more coolness around the corner, so count me in.

Maybe I'll Move to Zooomr

I'm not really unhappy with Flickr. Sure, they're big and slow (on a modem) and a little ugly, but it works and it's pretty slick, and I've got quite a few photos there. But when along comes this neat alternative called Zooomr that looks nicer, provides more better features (like geotagging, for one), and gives you more upload space and fewer restrictions for the same low price, what is one to do, eh?

Oh, the agony of decisions. So many things to consider. I've got a couple dozen photos I'll have to re-upload! I just got first Flickr comments today! Flickr lets me photoblog! I'm an Old Skool user, I don't use a stinkin' Yahoo ID! (Ha!) But Zooomr is cooler. Geotagging. And it looks nicer. But it has stinky numeric user URLs. [Edit: But you can change them! In your account settings. Thanks Kris.] And no upload clients yet.

Blasted Decisions.