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The "Sweep" footage is now mostly in the can. We shot some more dream sequence footage (giggage?) Friday night till about 2a at the dojo in Chapel Hill. Saturday was my first relaxing weekend day in some time. I played a game of disc golf @ the Kentwood Park course on Kaplan Dr., right near NCSU. It's a really nice relaxing game if you've never played before.

If you've ever been to Carrboro, NC, check out this video from It'sCarrboro.com. Pretty funny at times. "Vis to the Art to the VID-E-O" Weaver street market is also mentioned a number of times, Cat's Cradle, etc.

Carrboro is a cool town. I've spent many really nice days and nights there since I've moved to Raleigh. I'd move there next if I wanted to leave Raleigh and stay in the area. After that would be some place in Chatham Co.

Bye weekend.......

What wonderful friends I have. It's 3:35 am and I was just driving home from a Thursday night shoot for Sweep. Cell phones are obviously off during a shoot and I'm always curious what might be on my phone when I get in my car and head home.

3 voicemails! My friend Kristen called me back. I rung her earlier on the way over to our shoot but got her voicemail - around 6p. We haven't spoken in maybe 4 months. Kevin just finished school and gave me a ring to see what's up. Christina asked me to stop by the Jackpot for a brewski. All this stuff usually happens before like 10 or midnight - I don't get them for many hours later.

There's no reason you should care. It just makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

Time for nighty-night anyway. I appreciate the calls!

CUTE!!! video. Laughing babies make you smile.

A link to my friends' radio show :: the Twisted Pair radio show with Al and Y0rii. I know them through my local nc2600 group. We meet at BitPlayers in Raleigh on the first Friday of every month. There's a 'gear swap' tomorrow. Bring some technical gear you've been trying to get rid of and maybe somebody will take it off your hands. If you'd like to find the 2600 meeting closest to you, go to 2600.com and look to the worldwide meetings list.

More on the anti-mouse stance. Learn the excellent text editor vim by using this really neat tutorial to radically flatten the learing curve. It's not intuitive in any respect but if you edit any quantity of text on a daily basis, do not deny yourself learning the vi/vim keybindings. You can find a few more resources by googling or looking to my 'learningunix' page. It's worth it and I use it every day.

Happy 5 May!!!

Holy crap this is funny. Not any one in particular but after a few they are absolutely hilarious. Binge. Be sure to click around once you get there.

Foshata is a website where people add English language captions to random bits of the crazy video we all know that comes from Japan. Crazy Japanese media with English subtitles - by you! Genius!

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Put your favorites in the comments. I'm done here.

Homework late again? You're not a skilled procrastinator. The Procrastinator's Formula explains.

… Once he perfects this gift, this wonderful talent, the procrastinator becomes capable of compressing lengthy chores into a single day. … However, this method should not be attempted by just anyone. A slight miscalculation in the length of time to delay work could prove disastrous, something only the veteran procrastinator knows how to avoid. …

You can also sample some of this author's other labors in the form of wicked eye candy for your desktop. Best. Screensaver. Ever. … though without an OpenGL 3D-accelerated video card, pretty tough to enjoy…they will be too slow to be very much fun. If they run slow for you, "ass-slow," try searching for updated drivers for your card. A similar OpenGL project can also be found for Windows[screen shots] and the GLX port thereof for Linux[screen shots].

Download the Fireflies screensaver for:

• Windows
• RH9 Linux .rpm
• (woody|sid) Debian .deb (Debian, btw, is another flavor of GNU/Linux, should you be wondering....)
• OSX (src also available @ Stephane Sudre's website)

You can also get the Windows Standalone version that allows you do do a few cool things with the mouse and keyboard you can't do with the screensaver. (It requires SDL. See the README for info on installing and mouse/keyboard controls).

Here's what he has to say about his essay regarding, those whom many often refer to as, the slacker: This is an essay I wrote in my high school English class Sophomore year. It's my favorite essay I've written for a school assignment, and also probably the best. In fact, it's quite possibly the best essay ever written, by anyone, ever. Well, maybe not. But it was good enough to score an A+ in high school. So read up and enjoy [The Procrastinator's Formula].

[This post started as a response to this comment, but grew uncontrollably into what you see below. It is also somthing of a continuation of the issues and discussion I introduced in my Don't be scared. Be prepared. (The bird flu may never come.) post from 11/08/2005. Click "read more" at the bottom to see the whole thing. I'd love to hear your feedback or comments, supporting or otherwise.]

We all take chances every day; yet everyone worries about "the big one" that has a 1:1,000,000 chance of striking, like lightning, or a plane crash, OR like what recently happened in the Big Easy. People fret about things that happen infrequently, while completely missing the mayhem that is brought upon our people by our nation's highways EVERY YEAR. Our reactionary programming is what causes us to scream about the wintertime front door being open for a second while the basement windows leak heat and waste energy ALL WINTER LONG, YEAR AFTER YEAR.

We have to wonder, what *IS* a legitimate threat? The icicles that form on the gutters above the sidewalk or the nails and glass on the highway surely have a much better chance of seriously interrupting your life than a few sick birds in Vietnam, no??? Do you have any idea what the levels of lead or arsenic are in your tap water you drink, cook with, and brush your teeth with every night? Ever think about the radioactive minerals being released into the air from coal burning power plants? Is your basement full of Radon gas? Have you had it tested? Is the electric dishwasher you open every night after dinner, with wet hands, still touching the earth-connected sink, properly grounded? Are the batteries in your smoke alarms still powerful enough to activate them? Black widow spider in the winter boot you haven't used since last year? Mold spores growing in your pillow or brewing in that humidifier? You want some paranoia???? Do you even lend a passing thought to these things?