So I obviously haven’t been posting much here lately. I plan to change that, but you knew going into this there are no guarantees.
Not a whole lot going on here at Château Defect recently.
Got to see Steven Wright at the Keswick. That was pretty sweet. I’ve seen a lot of good comedy in the last year or so. I hope that continues. Good for the soul.
My sister is going to have a little girl!
My current plan is to spoil the crap out of her.
I ordered one of these today:
I rule!
Saw Weezer at the Susquehanna Center in Camden on Saturday and they fucking rocked.
Obviously I’m not the guy to go to for unbiased reviews. I like what I go to because I don’t go see shit.
The Susquehanna Center felt like an armpit though. They seriously need to ramp up their ventilation system; especially if they’re going to put up the curtains and make it an indoor event. Fresh air would have done wonders to improve the overall experience, but as I said, Weezer rocked so it didn’t matter all that much.
If you are a Weezer fan at all and they are coming to your town, get off your duff and go. It’s worth it.
I love Quordy. I’ve always been a sucker for Boggle clones, but this is perhaps the best I’ve seen. If you have an iPhone, definitely check it out (it’s free).
It’s not perfect, but the interface is excellent and all my complaints are minor. I wish you could set the minimum word length at four letters and maybe a little more dictionary control, but for the most part it is made of win.
If you have an iPhone (or iPod Touch?) and wanna dual, sign up for an account and we can make asses of each other.
Sure beats doing work, right?
Like many of you out there I’m very excited about Google’s new browser Chrome.
The idea of a multi-process browser is very intriguing. This comic strip does a much better job of explaining it than I could do, but basically, it will make the browser much more robust and reliable for web applications.
In many ways Chrome still has a long way to go in order to match Firefox’s user experience, but its potential is enormous. I love that it’s open source. Google obviously has the resources to catch up to their competition in this arena and I believe very good things are on the horizon. The competition and collaboration (god bless open source!) that this will bring to the browser world will be a great thing for users.
I’m very much looking forward to OSX and Linux versions of Chrome as I only use Windows at work these days. Cross-platform support and just a few of the bells and whistles that the other browsers have (full page zoom, mouse gestures, etc.) and I think we’ll be looking at a serious competitor to IE and Firefox. Even if Chrome does not emerge as the dominant browser, it will force all browser makers to up their game. Hopefully Microsoft will be forced to adhere much more closely to web standards.
I am curious about adblocking. Google makes a ton of money on their ads. It will be interesting to see how they approach this issue with their browser.
Well, another summer come and gone. I’m looking forward to the cooler weather, but there is something undeniably lonely about the fall. I’m going to miss the long days. The darkness of winter here in Philly is really a drag.
I did have a great weekend down in Avalon with the family though. I didn’t do much, but that’s just the way I like it. It was nice to get out of town for a bit, but this Tuesday morning is giving any Monday I can think of a run for its money.
At least this will be a short week.
I went to the Radiohead show in Camden last night and they fucking rocked. The lawn at the E-center (or Twitter Center or Susquehanna Bank Center or whatever the fuck it’s currently called) was packed. We could only find room behind a column that basically blocked the stage from view, but it was still an amazing show.
Here’s the set list.
I totally want one of these.
I have no doubt it would gather as much clutter as every other horizontal surface in my apartment, but how fucking cool is that? It doesn’t really have the home defense cred that the Remington 870 enjoys, but it’s got style.
They really need to make a center console version for the car.
On Friday my company had its summer outing. We basically head up to a park at a lake around here and spend the day playing kickball, going out on paddle boats or canoes and generally having a good time. All in all it was a really cool event.
The problem is that I’m as dumb as a sack of slow-witted hammers.
I knew I was going into the canoe, I just failed to realize taking my phone and my keys out of my pocket would be a good idea. As one might expect, I ended up in the water (three times actually, but that’s not important right now). I didn’t lose anything, but obviously the water didn’t agree with the electronics in the phone and my car alarm remote. And that, dear reader, is where the next few days of my life acquired that special flavor of hell.
Without a phone or a car is not a good place to be. Especially if your cell is your only phone. The thing that becomes quickly apparent in this situation is that one needs one or both of these items to get anything done at all, including replacing phones and key remotes.
To make a long story shorter, I am extremely lucky that I had a friend around (one of the others in the canoe) who was kind enough to drive my ass around for the next couple days to help me get my life back in order. Returning to my car again (after trying the wet keys, letting the keys dry out then trying them, trying the keys after replacing the battery, etc.) with the backup keys that were at my house (a half hour away), I realized that nothing would work. I could get in the car, but I couldn’t turn off the alarm. It wouldn’t even shut off after trying to start the car with a valid key. I was fucked. I had to get my car towed to the local dealer who informed me that if they couldn’t get the alarm remote to marry up to the car it could run up to about a thousand dollars to fix this. Well, after spending fifty bucks to replace my phone, probably another hundred or so for the car I needed to rent, and an entire Saturday (and most of a Sunday) dealing with this crap, I was not looking forward to shelling out a grand on replacing my damn keys.
Fortunately this morning the dealer called and said they were able to get one of the remotes to connect. They asked if I wanted to get another one for a hundred bucks or so and I was happy to say yes. So hopefully this whole ordeal is nearing the end and things can go back to normal.
Ugh, stupidity is painful.