Just for schdav

I see this and the first thing I think of are schdav's comments while watching Firefly. :) Now those of you watching The OC with him can hear them too.

The OC? Style?

Looks like OC Parties are a trend. It also appears it's a bit of a cash cow. After reading that one wonders if they actually had any purpose other than to latch onto cultural fads and launch them into money makers.

My biggest remaining question is why isn't schdav quoted? My only guess is something to do with all the people mentioned in it are in high school... :)

Work has been going reasonably well. Nothing's been blowing up, which is nice. However now it's what big things to start in what order, and making sure all the little interruptions are out of the way first. I need to take a few days off sometime. I do have one planned this week, but it's for class and not for relaxing, so I'm not sure that counts.

Anyways, last weekend Joe Buck and I went to see Serenity, which is an awesome movie. You should go see it if you haven't. For those who haven't seen Firefly and are in the area and pay attention to the lunch mailing list, L&O Theater will be Firefly Theater for a while. Hopefully we'll all fit. Other movies of the weekend were Texas Chainsaw Massacre which was horrible, Sideways which was decent but nothing special, and The Machinist which was weird. Free movie of the week was Unleashed, which was really really good.

Last weekend I also bought a bunch of insulation accessories and started poking around in my attic. It didn't go near as well as I had hoped, but maybe I'll get around to finishing that up sometime in the near future. Stupid low-pitched hip roof...

This week went decently well, with someone deciding that The O.C. would be good lunch material over L&O so there was a revolt and a watching of an episode of Upright Citizens Brigade. This is actually what inspired the whole Firefly thing BTW. We also decided to check out the new buffet at China Tiger, which was good and had lots of food. Also went to Chipotle, which is one of those places where I think I see people I know every time I go. Saw 3 people and ended up eating with Joe and brooke, which was cool. That's enough mundane details for now though. You should try China Tiger's buffet if you like Chinese food though.

Second movie of the day was Cellular. It was better than I was expecting, partially because of the bad reviews it got. It actually had a better plot than a lot of action movies, and was something different for a change. And how can a movie possibly go wrong featuring and having a soundtrack by G. Love and Special Sauce? I think the best part of the DVD is one of the extras called "Celling Out". Basically it's a brief overview of phones, basically how cell phones came about and how they've changed. A large part of it is how phones originally started to tie people to their desks, and how cell phones have changed that, but the tradeoff is you can't get away anymore. It's rather interesting to hear the guys who were involved in designing the phones and systems rant about how much of a pain they've become.

Third movie of the day was The Village. The best way to watch this DVD is to put the disc in, wait until the Hitchiker's Guide trailer finishes, and then eject it. Yea, I didn't like the movie much at all. I will admit I knew the ending going into it, but it just didn't seem interesting. It was pretty obvious what was going on since they did a poor job of covering it up. I guess I don't really like any of Shyamalan's stuff. Signs was OK but the ending really sucked and wrecked the story. I never bothered actually finishing The Sixth Sense (although I've started it at least 3 times, I always get bored within the first half hour or so - and given some of the movies I've sat through that should say something). He does seem to put a lot of thought into stuff and make the films well, but the stories just seem to suck. Maybe he should consider directing stories from other people?

Other things in the day include some guy making UML diagrams of The O.C. and posting them on slashdot. The predictable responses (basically what everyone but schdav says about it) ensued. One person remarked that it almost looked fully connected. Somewhat of a great disturbance? And then Crucial now has RAM with bling available. Ground effects and everything. Sounds like something those nuts who put windows in their cases would use.