by Matt | Jan 20, 2004 | Imported Entry
Well, theres been things happening all over the place and I haven’t had the energy to mention any of them… but I will now, because I’m procrastinating. First off, a big huge thanks to Chip and Dave for sending me a years subscription to Netflix. That was absolutely kick ass and we’ve already rented our first movies. At some point, once my ever-ongoing redesign is complete I’ll work in the Netflix MT plugin and, for no reason other than general intrest, you can see my rentals.
Last weekend was also Lauren’s mom’s birthday. We went to the Alamo Drafthouse and saw the Last Samurai. The Drafthouse is one of those dinner and a movie places where you order before the show starts and get to chow down while you watch movies. We had one in NH that I only got to go to once or twice, Chunky’s in Pelham I believe. The Last Samurai actually surprised me a little. I honestly thought it was going to be either another Brave Heart or another pointless Tom Cruise drama where its in his contract to get naked at least once and shoot half a million bad guys. It was not either of those, thank God. It was actually pretty good. If you try and forget what a complete moron Tom Cruise actually is it’s very enjoyable. Cool sword fights, nicely filmed, good story and NINJAS! Aw yeah. Can’t be a cool movie without ninjas. Loft kind or otherwise. (Sorry, lame CS joke).
Also, I finished Crimson Skies. Solid, kick ass game. Very pleased with it. If everyone else on the planet hadn’t already given it high marks (100% tomato meter!) I would be compelled to say more, but seeing as how most everyone agrees with me, I’ll leave it at that. I’ve now moved on to ESPN NHL hockey. Legwond is my bitch. (That one is for Jason). I’ve also hooked up the Xbox to the router and I plan to give Xbox Live a whirl (or at least the two month free trial) in the next little bit.
Lastly, for Nagle, I’m going to mention the Patriots. They beat the crap out of the Colts on Sunday and now they’re coming to Houston for the big dance. The preparation the city is going through is a bit crazy. There are 8 (!) different city wide celebrations. Parties galore. Think Savannah on St. Patricks day and you will have a vague understanding of whats about to happen around here. It’s nuts already and the teams haven’t even come into town. It’s the only story they have on the local news, it’s on the radio, it’s everywhere. I plan to sit at home and ignore most of it. I’ll probably have the game on, but lets face it, New England is going to completely destroy Carolina. There isn’t really any other way. Obviously I’m proud of the home town boys for making it, but seriously, who’s going to stop them? Not Carolina I can assure you. So, game excitement wise, I’m not that interested. I’m a hockey man remember. Commercials might be my draw this year, but that’s a little sad as well. And I’m sure as hell not watching Survior after the game like the network would like you to. They can go strait to hell with that reality show crap. Whats that new shit Fox is peddling? My big obnoxious fiance? Who the hell thought that up and why haven’t they been fired yet? *end rant*
Lets see, what else. Oh, I’ve gotten my hands on a complete Red Dwarf episode collection. Yippee! I’m thinking about transfering them to DVD (we have a burner at the office) and making my own box set. Other than that I’ve been working a lot. We’ve had a wedding every weekend so far this month. There’s always enough at the office to keep me busy, almost too much. But it’s going well. Lauren’s been working hard too and everything is pretty good. I’ve started putting our wedding album (or at least it’s layout) together. That will be our next project. It should be cool.
That’s about it, I should probably be getting back to work.
Matt out.
by Matt | Jan 14, 2004 | Imported Entry
Quote of the day… or perhaps my life:
“Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off.”
I’ll tell you more later.
by Matt | Jan 6, 2004 | Imported Entry
I’ve found the preverbial last straw. It’s in the shape of journal comment SPAM. It’s going to stop. I’ve already put two calls in to the ISP it’s originating from but they said the account is a dial up and it would take some time to trace back the offender since the IP address keeps changing. I call that stalling. Hell, they’re probably in on it. Regardless, as of tonight I’m installing MT-BlackList and banning not only the content, their IP ranges but even yahoo and hotmail email accounts in total. I’m not fucking around anymore. My appologies to anyone with a yahoo or hotmail email account. The ban will be temporary unless there is reason to extend it. I’m also looking for some way to validate email addresses within the system. Locking out things like “fakemail@yahoo.com” since, obviously, it isn’t real. I doubt something like that exists. Maybe I might talk to Chip and see if he’s interested in a little programming. Arg.
by Matt | Jan 2, 2004 | Imported Entry
Actually, I had several. They didn’t make it for one reason or another. Mainly because I just haven’t really had anything I’ve wanted to talk about for a few days now. Christmas was fun. My family came into town for a week. I think we bored them to death. My sound card broke but I fixed it. Project Gotham kicks butt, Medal of Honor Rising Sun will probably get traded in, possibly for the new Crimson Skies. ESPN NHL is the bomb. It really needs to be played by everyone who ever loved video-game hockey. We’re talking old school, Sega, ’94, Brody-playin’ kind of game. It’s what hockey should be. Complete with Barry Melrose’s mullet.
I’m at work now. It’s rainy and nasty outside and our 11:00 appointment has yet to show up. Actually, the boss isn’t here either. I’m the only one here. Which is why I’m posting now instead of tonight after I get home.
Oh, and I almost forgot. The photos from our wedding come down off the website on January 15th. If you’re going to order some, do it now. I can’t extend them only without the lab charging extra for it.
That’s about it. I’ve spent the past week trying to think of fun things to do with my family. I’ll let you imagine how much fun it’s been. Yeah… about that much.
I’ve got a few ideas for a redesign for this page. Like Chip said ages ago, it just doesn’t seem right for docholoday.com. I’ve got something a little more artsy and different in mind. You’ll like it. Of course, that’s only if I ever get a chance to work on it. Since my weekends are completely messed up that translates into “it’ll be a while”.
Actually, I’d like to talk about that for a minute. I work Saturdays. That’s fine, a lot of people do. But if I go to church with Lauren on Sunday I don’t get to sleep in and it pretty much kills most of the morning. Mondays Lauren usually needs me to do something. So, no rest there. Then Tuesday I’m back at work. I really don’t see how this system is supposed to work. I don’t have any actual down time.
This, I think, is the main reason why normal, middle aged people go to bed just after Letterman’s opening monolog each night. Somehow you require more sleep when you work. People really should just take two days a week off and not do anything. Nothing. No trips to the store, no soccer practice for little Billy, no anything. People should sleep, for two days strait before going back to work. I think everyone would be much less irritable on Monday if they had just gotten out of bed after 48 hours. At least I would be.
Oh well, I should go do work now. Later.
by Matt | Dec 18, 2003 | Imported Entry
I took a listen to the radio this morning and, since I hate FM pop-rock-shit radio, I had it on the local AM news station. This morning, amongst traffic reports and weather updates I heard about Nelson and Garcia (two New York Yankees players) being charged with assault from the brawl in the 3rd game of the ALCS. I did a little dance. I don’t really know why. Also, I have to express my concern and confusion over the recent trade rumors and such. First, the sox picked up Curt Shilling, which is nothing short of a miracle. Now the RedSox have three of the best arms in baseball. The Yanks on the other hand, have lost Clemens and Penent, their two aces. All they’ve picked up to stop the bleeding is an aging Gary Sheffield. Then there’s this Arod deal. Thats Alex Rodriguez for those of you who don’t know. He is what many consider to be THE best player in baseball. The RedSox want him. He WANTS to come to Boston. But theres a 7 year multi-million dollar contract in the way. They have until tonight to figure something out, literally. While Arod is, well, fantastic and all, the downside to him coming to Boston would be that they would be trading Manny for him and wouldn’t have any place or money to keep Nomar around. So, they finally fix the holes in their less than stellar pitching staff and want to throw away the best hitting team in baseball. Seriously, did anyone see their slugging percentage for the post-season this year? It was sky-high. They had the best bats in the entire post season, hands down. No one can argue with that. They had a solid 1-2-3 line up, and a 5-6-7 line up that got hotter than hell. Now that they would have a team to finally do battle with the Yankees, they want to throw away their best player and Manny (who isn’t half bad) and destroy their batting line up? Huh? What the hell are they thinking? I know what they’re thinking. They’re thinking that Arod is so much better than Manny that its an obvious trade. What I don’t think they get is that both Arod and Nomar play shortstop. Where are you going to put them? The only thing I can think of is that you put one of them at 2nd and move Damian Jackson some place else, like the minors.
But that’s just my two cents.
Besides the RedSox, everything is pretty much status-quo around here. Our Christmas tree did however die. We’ve replaced it with a fake one. Apparently when you get trees from Texas, they don’t have a real long life span. We even did all the little things you’re supposed to do to keep it healthy. We put some of that flower life extender crap in the water, we kept it on a corner away from hot air vents, we watered it every day. And here it is, a week before Christmas and only a week and a half after we got it and it’s dead. D-E-A-D. Dead. That’s just not right. We’re going to go and ask for our money back.
I also got my shopping done for the holidays, Lauren’s presents (and everyone elses for that matter) are on their way from various internet places. Chris, I’m sorry bud, but one of your things was on back order so you’ll be getting it a little late. Same thing goes for Chip. Sorry guys. You’re just too damn hard to shop for.
Oh, and for myself, I’m up to 100,000 kudos in Project Gotham 2. I was all proud of myself. I’m up to the “Roadster Series” and moving along nicely. I’ll see if I can’t get Xbox Live setup over Christmas and give that a try too. That and Dish, which I’ve found out, offers NESN (New England Sport Network). The glory of NESN and EVERY Bruins game shall be mine.
Matt out.
by Matt | Dec 13, 2003 | Imported Entry
Ok. I want to get you people nice things for Christmas… which means you need to update your Amazon lists (Chris and Chip) or ThinkGeek Lists (Chip). I need accurate addresses people! Unless of course Chris wants his gifts to go to New York. :p
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