by Matt | Mar 1, 2005 | Tech, Web
You may or may not realize this, depending on how you have my site bookmarked, but I’m mid-process of switching to Word Press. Point your browser back to www.docholoday.com and see what I mean. There’s still a few issues to work out. Namely this whole “page vs. post” thing, the fact that I can’t figure out how to make my journal be anything other than index.php (like journal.php for example) and also the fact that each post is simply docholoday.com/?1 or whatever the post # happens to be. That’s a little weird to me. I can’t see to find any formatting options for achives, singles pages and that sort of general setup info. Maybe Chris can point me in the right direction. Oh, and for the moment I’m using a great theme called Minima until I can convert my working design of a webpage into a nice looking css style. It has a few bugs. Anyway, this will be it for a while. I’m kind of liking WP, it just has some “find the feature” issues that I’m going to be chipping away at for the next few days.
Matt out
by Matt | Feb 21, 2005 | Imported Entry
So it’s been a little while. I’ve been about as busy as one person can be. Most of it good, some of it annoying. Work is steady and likeable for the most part so long as you ignore the pageant people and focus on the work itself. It’s actually pageant season if there could be such a thing. It’s this time of year that all the local pageant pick who will be going to state. Everyone is required to have photos and everyones deadlines are sometime within the next month. I’m doing a lot of retouching and output lately, with some basic headshots thrown in for good measure. I also have a wedding this coming Saturday that I’m excited about. It’ll be at the natural science mueseum here in town, so it’ll be qwirky and different.
Been trying to relax a bit more lately. I was feeling overworked and under appreciated before, but at the pase things are going there really wasn’t much time for that, so I let it go.
Home life is great as always. Lauren and I went out last night with a couple of her friends and I got pleasently mellow off a few margarittas. It probably didn’t help that they were the top-shelf variety and that typically means quantity and not quality when you’re at a bar. For once I’d like a top-notch drink to have something like El Tesoro Paradiso in it instead of Cuervo 1800 or some crap. Note to all drinkers: If you ask for a drink and don’t specify whats in it, you’re drinking crap. Why do you think everyone drinks Smirnoff? It’s not because of the quality, thats for damn sure. No, people drink that swill because that’s what they’ve been served over and over again.
My friends, let me educate you in the finer things in life. Vodka, Wiskey and Burbon and mens drinks. Tequila, Rum and most liquiors are for when you want little umbrellas in your drinks. I’m not knocking them, I was even in the mood for an umbrella drink last night, it’s just that they’re not as refined.
For vodka, there’s 3 brands to drink and 3 to run screaming from. For the best vodka on the planet you’re going to need to find some Gray Goose (the triple distilled black label, not the blue one), Monopolowa and a certain Russian brand that comes in a metal flask-like bottle and is completely unpronouncable. You won’t find it in the states, but it’s define. On the flip side, you’re going to want to throw a drink back at a bartender if they serve you Smirnoff, Absolut and anything that you can buy at a corner store for under $10, most of those have Smirnoff looking red and black labels and the bottles will probably have handels. Of course you can find perfectly drinkable things in between without breaking the bank. Level Vodka, Sky, Ikon and a little Texas label called Tito’s are all perfectly acceptable.
Stay tuned for next weeks exciting adventure, “how to buy a good cigar”.
Matt out.
by Matt | Feb 6, 2005 | Personal
Last week I had dental work done. It was the first half of a crown. It still hurts. I hate dentists.
I shall elaborate. For those of you who have never had a crown, basically it involves them taking the tooth that you’re having problems with, getting out a big ass drill (not the small one they use for filling cavities or anything) and removing half your tooth to make a “stub” to attach the crown to. Only problem is that they send the crown off to be made out of a mold of your original tooth and it takes a while (2 weeks in my case). So, since they’ve already made whats left of your tooth into a bloody stump, they stick a “temporary crown” onto it. That a great idea in theory, but it’s just a smooth cap thingy to keep your stump from getting infected. It’s not made for chewing or anything. Infact, since it’s just a cap, it isn’t really much of a tooth at all. This angers the rest of the teeth in the area. Their friend has gone missing and this cap thing is in it’s place. So, what do they do? They start to hurt too, because the cap doesn’t fit 100% perfectly and your bite/jaw line is completely fucked up. So, instead of one tooth that hurts originally, you now have a stump, a cap and half of mouth of pissed off teeth. Well, you do if you’re me, cause nothing nice ever happens to me. Fucking teeth.
It’ll be the 18th when I go back for the “real” crown. Until then I have to pop 16 advil a day just to keep the swelling down. I’m sure Chip remembers that time my wisdom teeth came in and my face was the size of a basketball. Well, this is worse.
Fucking teeth.
by Matt | Jan 28, 2005 | Personal
I love coffee. Some might say I’m an addict. I like a good frothy cup of hot coffee in the mornings and even a nice mocha or decaf mocha in the evenings. If it’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s sub-par coffee. To me, powdered non-dairy creamer make about as much sense as a Jewish Hitler. I don’t get it. It’s a powder… that’s not milk… that’s suppose to stand in for milk…. but it’s a powder? Huh? Last time I check, you don’t get powder from a cow. I can understand the non-dairy part if you’re lactose intolerant, but for the love of everything holy, at least use a LIQUID non-dairy creamer. I think my main problem is the taste. They just can’t nail down artificial flavors. Fake milk sure doesn’t taste like real milk. Fake fruit flavors don’t taste like real fruit. When is the last time you had a piece of gum and thought, gee, this really does taste like grape. Grape is the worst offender. They’ve never been able to get that shit right. Compare a grape soda up against a glass of grape juice and see what I mean. But milk… why even bother making fake tasting milk. It’s like the shitty “soy milk” my Mom tried to get me to drink when I was a kid. I’m sorry, you don’t “milk” a soy bean. If you did they’d probably arrest you for lude conduct with a legume.
I digress. I think what’s made me mad is that I brought a carton of real cream to work and put it in the fridge. Everyone else is 100% cool with drinking that powdered shit, I figured it would be safe. I went to make my coffee this morning, guess whats missing from the fridge. Yup, my creamer. I got ONE cup of coffee out of that creamer. One cup of coffee that didn’t taste like ass and now its gone. So, what am I drinking. Brown sludge with white powder in it. Huzzah.
by Matt | Jan 20, 2005 | Movies
Yeah, like you didn’t see this coming.
At any rate, this is my list. Other people have other lists, and that’s fine for them. I’m sure, in some weird backwards world, Spider-Man 2 might have made it onto someone else’s list. Not here brother. I’m tough on movies. People who see movies with me are lucky to survive if I start ranting as soon as I walk out of the theater. The good movie are the ones I wait until I get home to make fun of.
Anyway, without further ado… Matt’s Top Ten Movies of 2004 – now with explanations!
10. Dawn of the Dead – Ok, I know it’s campy. It’s cheesy. But what other opportunity did I have to laugh at zombies……
9. Shaun of the Dead – Good, funny zombie flick. But then, I think all zombie flicks are funny. I’m weird like that. It had its moment, but not enough to move it higher in the count.
8. Saved – Macaulay Culkin in a wheel chair, who couldn’t laugh? Actually, it was a light-hearted poke at people who take religion just a little to far. Jena Malone does a great job for her first film. The van scene still has me laughing. “I’m FILLED with Christ’s love”… *whack*. Classic.
7. Shrek 2 – The cat made it funnier than the first. That and the little inside jokes here and there. I bought the box set. Good stuff.
6. Miracle – It’s a movie about the single greatest hockey moment in history… as if it wasn’t going to make the list. It’s also really good. I went to see it with Lauren and a non-hockey person and even they liked it. Go figure.
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – One of Jim Carrie’s best. Artsy and stylish and just sappy enough. Well written and directed, unique and funny. Bravo.
4. Lost in Translation – I loved it, others hated it. I dunno, I genuinely felt sorry for the characters at the end. That says something right there. That and for once, Hollywood didn’t need a sex scene to “wrap up” loose ends. Genuine movie. Murry deserves some sort of award. But wait, isn’t this movie from 2003? Yeah, but I didn’t see it until 2004. MY list. Get it?
3. Napoleon Dynamite – Funny shit. Period. It had its dull moments, but everytime that kid talked I was rolling in the isle.
2. Garden State – Almost made it to #1. For his first try Zach Braff did a great job. Witty and entertaining, beautifully directed. A real indie-film treat.
1. The Incredibles – Yes, the Incredibles. Not only was it good, it was a cartoon! Seriously though, it was perfect from start to finish. An instant DVD special edition purchase. I found it hard to nit-pick and what I could was easily negated by the fact that it was CG. The voices were perfectly cast, the animation was great and hey, it had Jason Lee in it, what more do you people want!?!
I’m done.
Out.
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