June 28, 2004
Napoleon Dynamite
Mike called tonight and invited me to see Napoleon Dynamite. It reminded me alot of Rushmore; except lower budget, more shots of Idaho, and a whole lot more of the creepy, crawly uncomfortable feeling that you get when you watch an impending train wreck. Suffice it to say, Napoleon will probably make you feel a whole lot better about your own life. All in all, I liked the movie. It was entertaining and not at all what I would have expected after seeing the MTV logo three times during the opening credits (the last such movie I saw was Joe's Apartment: entertaining, but nothing like this).
On a side note, since this keeps coming up, what the heck is up with the expression "Suffice it to say"? It just seems wrong. I mean, I suppose it's equivalent to "It suffices to say", but then why can't I say "Drive I to work"? Dave supposes that its just some relic of an expression that survived intact from the days when people actually did say things like "Gallop I to the field" and other people actually understood them. Dave also thinks that I should get an etymological dictionary since I tend to ask him questions like this from time to time (last time I was musing about the expression "might as well"...that one still confounds me). Perhaps he's sick of me? :)
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June 26, 2004
Goner
Last night Laura and I went to see the new Renegade Theatre Experiment production, Goner. It's always funny to talk with BJ, so seeing him in a black comedy is great. The show was hysterical and included nice lines like "if he wanted an Australian pet, he should have gotten a beer!".
This entry is also my chance to show Laura how Movable Type works...
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MovableType as a Blog
To be honest, it mostly happened because I just couldn't sleep. Paul's blog (http://westbrooks.org/blog) is great though and it almost inspired me to set up my own on at least five occasions. Welp, I finally bit the bullet and did it.
I didn't really spend alot of time considering the blog software alternatives. I've been playing with better bash programmable completion (how did I live so long without this?) and so I have been spending a bit of time at Ian McDonald's site (http://www.caliban.org/) as he wrote an excellent bash completion package. I eventually ended up looking around and bumping into his personal blog. It uses MovableType and looks really nice...so here we are. I guess only time will tell if I will still like it after trying to use it...
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