2005
Add One More to the Driving List
I received the following IM:
Lil' Gordon (8/1/2005 11:34:00 AM): i got my lisence
Lil' Gordon (8/1/2005 11:34:02 AM): license i mena
Lil' Gordon (8/1/2005 11:34:09 AM): how eva u spell it'
So congratulations Gordon on passing the driving tests. And to everyone one else, watch out! (I’m joking…or am I?!?!?!)
July - End of Month Rant
I haven’t written anything of too much substance this month. So let’s see what I can pull out of my butt right here.
First off, I added two new albums to the [Flickr] page. The first is a long over due album from Skylar’s birthday celebration in May. The photos were taken with the Sony T-1, before I got my Nikon:
I’ll need to go down and take some more photos of the kids, as well as Scott and Stefanie. The other album added was during a Yahoo! Music on the Green. The artist who was performing was [Brandi Carlile] She did a fine job. I’m not particularly happy with the photos I took of the event, wishing I was more aggressive, but that is something I need to work on.
This weekend not much happened. Today Farrah and I tried the new [Lori’s Diner] in Cupertino. We had a late lunch. The service was a little slow. Farrah ordered the Chicken Fried Steak (good) and I had the Southern Fried Chicken (good as well). Our waitress did notice that our orders were taking a bit long, as the dreaded ‘large party ahead of you’ was getting all the service. So she gave us dessert for free! We enjoyed a nice hot fudge sundae for a nice summer’s day.
I also managed to finish season one of 24, watching it because Bert and Evan couldn’t stop talking about it!?!?!? Overall, season one was a satisfying season. The characters and storyline does make me want to continue onto the next series, so season two of 24 is in my Netflix queue.
What else? Well, a site update when sour when I tried to upgrade the Gallery application used for the site photos page. I’m still recovering from that because I didn’t have a ‘latest backup’ of the web site. This should teach me to back up every week! So those photos will be inaccessible for a while.
I guess that is it for now. I’m going to head to bed.
#1 on Yahoo!
I know it’s difficult to tell in the image above, but when searching for ‘janella’ on Yahoo! this web site is the first result now! This makes janella.com the #1 result on Google and Yahoo! now. Who was ranked #1 before on Yahoo!’s search engine?
The item currently listed as #8
"[ I Will Only Love You ] Open this result in new window
... Best Viewed In 1024 x 768. Name: Janella_Lee. Age: 19. ...
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Pulp Fiction in 30 Seconds
You have 30 seconds to spare and Flash installed? Then watch [this quick version of Pulp Fiction]
Also available:
and others.
Albums Offline
Ugh! Bad update last night. The [photos]janella.us is offline. Any photos to see are only on the Photos@Flickr site.
It’s going to take sometime to rebuild stuff.
Ugh!
Dave's Headshots
Met up with Dave yesterday to do our weekly coffee talk. I had a chance to test out the replacement 50mm since I needed to get headshots of him for a web site. Well, here they are:
Overall I think they turned out well. I had to remember to enable the flash after the first shot, to fill out the shadows. I think it worked out. Man, I never noticed how much I like the 50mm.
The Music I Listen To - Another ME Thing
Ah, another Internet and ME moment. Found this nifty plug-in/site called [Audioscrobbler]. From their site it states:
Audioscrobbler builds a profile of your musical taste using a plugin for your media player (Winamp, iTunes, XMMS etc..). Plugins send the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler server, which updates your musical profile with the new song. Every person with a plugin has their own page on this site which shows their listening statistics. The system automatically matches you to people with a similar music taste, and generates personalised recommendations.
The cool thing I’m looking for is recommendations of new music and groups. This was one of the main reasons why I liked file sharing, the ability to see what other people listen to who share your musical tastes. (Of course there’s that nasty legal side of sharing files, but let’s not get into that here.) The profile does time time to build, requiring about 100+ songs to be listened to before updating. The site can also be slow due to the amount of submissions and songs processed. Give it a shot.
Plug-in available for the following players:
- Winamp
- Windows Media Player 9/10
- iTunes (Windows)
- iTunes (Mac)
- foobar2000
- XMMS/Beep Media Player
- AmaroK
- QCD
- Rhythmbox
- J. River Media Center
- Xbox Media Center
- SlimScrobbler
- Noatun
- AmiScrobbler (MorphOS)
Governor Arnold and Y!
The Governor of California visited work today to make a little speech. We waited in line, hopeful to get in, but fell about 50 people short of the door. Oh well, I didn’t vote for him (or the recall) anyway.
Here’s some photos from outside (with a few more @ my Flickr page):
Esthero @ The Filmore
Thursday was one of the times I was glad I checked my spam email. I get the weekly email from [Ticketmaster] about concerts. I guess I missed the one earlier about [Esthero] coming to town, and only found out on Thursday when she was playing on Friday?!?!?
I called Farrah to quickly confirm we had nothing plan, and was able to purchase some general admission tickets online. Finally, we get to see Esthero after missing her so many years ago.
Esthero in Seattle. Photos taken by [OptimusCrimeDeux]
Esthero came out full of energy. Her vocals were strong, her manner confident, and her energy contagious. She was chatty with the crowd, taking requests for a song here and there. She was wearing a black strapless number that posed problems for her during the show (having to continually pull it up to hide the goods), but otherwise danced around like there was no tomorrow. A great show.
Her set was a little under 90 minutes. Some of the songs she sang (in no particular order) were:
- Wikked Lil' Grrrls
- Breath from Another (just an a cappella tease)
- OG Bitch
- Superheroes (a cappella - by request)
- Gone
- My Torture
ENCORE:
- Joey
- Wish You Away
- We Are in Need of a Musical Revolution
Welcome Emmalia Rose!!!
“I was born Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 8:24am. I weighed 7lbs 3oz and measured 18.5 inches. My turn-ons include nipples, balmex and pink onesies."
Congratulations to Mark and Ivria
July 4th Weekend - Pretty Quiet
It’s been a pretty low-key weekend. I have just been trying to recover from this cold-thing. Saturday I spent most of the day in bed, hoping I could go out and about on Sunday and Monday. And so I have been able to do so.
Yesterday, Farrah and I just hit the malls - Valley Fair, Vallco then Fry’s - to do a little window shopping for the most part. Coming back from a late breakfast we ran into Mitsuki and her father on their mid-day walk. You can see pictures either on my Flickr account or soon to be posted on the photo page:
Today we went over Farrah’s house for a BBQ lunch. I didn’t take any pictures, probably because I was upset with the fact that I might have lost a lens. Yeah, I can’t find my 50mm lens. I’m not sure when I had it last - I think during Kayla’s dance recital a couple of weeks ago. But I’m sure I had it in my bag. I’m thinking I simply put it down when I was changing the lens and left it behind somewhere. Luckily it is not a really expensive lens, but it still irks me that I lost it. Ugh.
Oh well, that’s the weekend wrap-up for you.
Mitsuki and Sunny 16
Farrah and I ran into Doug and Mitsuki on their mid-morning walk. I had the camera with me and started to take some photos of Mistuki, which I haven’t had the opportunity to do. I went to manual and forgot the sunny 16 rule, so few of the shots here have way too much light:
Luckily I could look at the LCD and quickly remedy the situation to get a couple of good shoots as well:
Still A Little Under the Weather ... Still Amazed
I’m recovering from this damn cold still. I got the stuffy head thing going right now. Hopefully it will be gone soon so I can enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Right now as I’m writing this I am watching the the Live 8 concert feed on [AOL.com] I know the Internet has been around for a while now, but I’m just amazed that I am able to jump back and forth between the feeds in London, Berlin, Toronto, Philadelphia and Rome. It’s coming across pretty good too with no jumps or jitters.
Oh well, time to clean up some of this computer room. It’s a mess!
New Albums Posted
These new albums now available for viewing:
Photos from Yen’s birthday dinner.
Photos from Lotte’s birthday dinner.
Steak and Tylenol
Its official: I got some kind of bug. Aching back. Runny nose. Hacking cough. Ugh, I hate this stuff.
Of course, I decided to go out yesterday after work and spread my germs! No, I had to pay a bill at the mall. So Farrah and I grabbed dinner at [Alexander’s Steakhouse] - more on that later - and headed around the very dead Vallco Mall. I started to feel progressively worse. When I got home I knew I was just going straight to bed.
I break out the cold & flu medicine we have and check the label. Get this: “Tylenol Cold Nighttime with Cool Burst”? What the heck is ‘cool burst’? The box says Tylenol Nighttime with Cool Burst “gives you the multi-symptom relief you need to rest-plus an instant cooling sensation you’ll feel right away.” Well, it was like taking a mint for medicine but it was effective. It knocked me right out for a very good nights sleep.
But I still feel like s@!t this morning. I think I’ll be wiping my nose and coughing away all weekend.
This sucks.