Category: LifeStream

Jack Nicholson is 73 today. Dayim.

Did we ever agree how to refer to the decade of 2000 to 2009? To call it "the two thousands" obviously just won’t work.

We have "the eighties", "the thirties", maybe with a "nineteen" in the middle – we’re in "the tens" or "twenty tens", but what of 2000-2009?

Seemed no one was in a hurry to resurrect "aught", so "the twenty ohs"? "Twenty zeros"? (Sub ‘two thousand’ for ‘twenty’ if so inclined).

Indonesia Takes US Kretek Ban to World Trade Body – The Jakarta Globe http://bit.ly/a9Uuop

So great to be not sick! 🙂 Getting a lot done today and listening to the commentary for The Stand mini-series – best King adaptation ever.

Btw, Handbrake is the only (free) software I know that allows you to create multi audio track video files for the PSP or whatever device.

So I use Handbrake to rip DVDs to PSP/iPod/whatever files with multi-audio so you can switch between the original audio or commentary(ies).

Nice! According to @streamingsoon, AMELIE will be available streaming on Netflix soon. Love that one, but uh, does Netflix have subs?

Amelie really needs a Bluray release. It’s a french fantasy/romance sort of thing by the guy who did Delicatessen and City of Lost Children.

Btw, Amelie is a ‘see also’ for Moulin Rouge – takes place in the same areas of Paris and so you see several of the same locations in both.

.@don_rivers ok, I’ve seen talk about Netflix bringing subs someday so I guess they mean optional and the current subs are burned in.

.@don_rivers Terra found a season of CSI had no audio at all, so yeah, seems it’s not all perfected.

Sitting at my bar, hurriedly eating leftover cottage pie. Still a lot of housework to do and running out of time.

Caffeine’s only failing is that though it can speed me up it cannot slow time around me. I hope someone somewhere is working on this.

At least SOMEONE gets use from my ruined chair 🙂 http://flic.kr/p/7Vkz9X

RT @streamingsoon: @jesusfreakgeek I’m sure for Amelie it’ll be embedded in the stream, no matter how you watch it. Wonderful film.

Well, I got a lot done today – almost caught up from everyone having been sick, one after another (ending with me), that kept me so busy.

Wednesdays are Terra’s night shift day, and I’m always most productive from afternoon on, so Wednesday is my catch-up and big projects day.

(uh, of course, Thursday means back to getting up at 5am, so, we get very little sleep since she doesn’t get home until usually 11pm or so.)

RT @tbka: Lost Cat!?!? Anyone from Alamogordo missing or know someone missing a little gray cat we found 1 & turn it into the shelter.

mentioned this on FB – I wrote it a year ago. Blog post: twitter is like a text webcam http://bit.ly/9RnZK1 prob most hit page on my site.

Sick and tired of being sick and tired. Day 5, still enough lingering symptoms (incl nausea!) to limit productivity – house is a disgrace.

Thanks for the well-wishing, my friends 🙂 Oddly enough, I’m feeling a lot better. Shoulda known that’d happen if I publically complained 😛

Green knight needs food badly! Enough clear liquids and popsicles – I need some of that leftover pizza. Or a coffee. Maybe both.

watching Whip It with Terra – I was right when I had an inexplicable compulsion to take to her to see it in the theater. But I didnt! 🙁

I am loving Whip It as much as I did Bring It On. What has happened to me? My taste has been ruined by all those slumber party nights 😛

.@don_rivers Well, it’s no Citizen Kane (or uh, whatever the sports flick equivalent of Citizen Kane is) but it’s a great date movie.

@Jaeckle I feel your embarassment. Once tore my jeans (in the back!), 3 hours into a 14-hour day – on a project in a town 2 hours from home!

I just ordered a lb of Intelligensia Black Cat Classic Espresso. The best I’ve ever used is the Espresso Italiano from Red Rock in ABQ.

It’s pride. I think my equip and skill level should be producing better coffee. Have I been ignorantly using sub-standard beans all along?

One hour until the US Barista Championship finals! – 6 baristas in 2 1/2 hours – interesting coverage stuff at http://usbc2010.tumblr.com

Watching http://USBaristaChampionship.org finals and only one set of judges, so it’s dragging. But, the second finalist is finally up!

This guy is extracting coffee with espresso and water in an Aeropress. Hmm, genius or insane? #USBC

My kinda’ Saturday morning – watching http://USBaristaChampionship.org 🙂 missed out on the events yesterday 🙁

This Danielle looks more a school teacher than a barista. And, she has Ozzie as her music. And Indonesian beans. This I gotta see. #USBC

Michael Philips from Intelligentsia is on – this is what barista’ing should look like! Dude has like six hands! #USBC

Sigh. Though US Barista Championship happens only once a year, real life calls. So, I must tear myself away so we can go to walmart.

Ok ok, just one more semi-finalist, then we’ll go. Poor Terra 😛 (Btw, Wesley keeps imitating what the technique judges are doing.)

Hey, at least i’m not into sports 🙂 And we don’t have tv/cable/satellite/anything broadcast, so nothing is ever distractingly live.

Terra observed the worst thing about stomach flu barfing is you didnt even get to (over)do anything fun to cause it – junk food, booze, etc.

PlayStation LifeStyle » Video Games Aren’t an Art Form According to Roger Ebert http://bit.ly/cQCc0H

from Feb11,06 – he has written on this subject before: christopher’s lives (v5.3) – » the whole “Ebert on games” thing http://bit.ly/9vmPhm

Latte art? http://flic.kr/p/7Uizv1

Thank God Terra’s home! My turn with this horrible flu started overnight and being this sick all day while caring for Wesley has sucked 😛

Wesley’s temp is down to normal and he’s friskier but he still whimpers a bit when he tries to eat, so, it’s another netflix day for him 🙂

How cool. Watching live coverage of/at http://USBaristaChampionship.org

WHAT???!!! (Bloody Kisses was in high rotation around here last Halloween.) RT: @1prdpgn: R.I.P Peter Steele #TypeONegative

Watching the U.S. Barista Championships makes me at my bar look like a total hack/newb/dork. Sigh… Folgers, anyone?

@don_rivers didn’t RTFA, but what you said made me think of Lintilla’s (?) crisis inducer device in the original HHGTTG radio series.

Frequent Grinder Adjustment Shows Sub-Par Technique – Tips and Techniques • Home-Barista.com http://bit.ly/b9JVuC

Wesley is sickly today. So he has his favorite chair in the living room with crackers, Sprite-orade, and VeggieTales on Netflix streaming.

Wow! RT: @livin4hymn: RT @cnnbrk: Library of Congress announces it will archive all your tweets. http://on.cnn.com/c0X8VY

Uuunngghhh… It seems man cannot live on leftover chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting alone. Scoot over Wesley – i’m sick, too.

@don_rivers Eddie Izzard: Dress To Kill – I saw it once, years ago, remembered it being brilliant – I was on a lot of drugs back then 😛

@don_rivers I pretty much have no use for stand-up comedy and made a very rare exception. Lesson learned.

Cleaning the kitchen, listening to the audio commentary for Pi. Been listening to movie commentaries while doing housework a lot lately.

Lasagna, green pepper/cuke/mater salad, my superior garlic bread, italian sausages, chonklate cake with cream cheese frosting. Hoo yeah 🙂

Watching the semi-free form documentary "Tarnation". Only a third in so far, but ‘self-indulgent’ and ‘overproduced’ keep coming to mind.