I’m in a good mood this morning - I closed a deal, and got a good nights sleep. Unfortunatly I’m having to wear this silly jacket while I meet with my new consultant , but hey - it’s money! Now let’s get on closing a second deal!
This jacket makes me look fat, but still I could use to lose a few pounds. I think I’m going to take a few pages from Jason’s book and get on the treadmill!
…if business has any say in the matter. The internet is filled with pop-up advertising, spam, and every sort of scam under the internet. It’s sad that it’s a valid business model to serve up advertisements to people. When a company spends so much money on marketing they are taking money away from R&D and making their product better in the future.
If a product is sound and is the best in the marketplace it will sell itself - there is no need to plague a users computer with garbage, wasting their bandwidth and polluting your screen real-estate with an advertisement for cheap air fares or the latest phone.
Hopefully before the internet ends up wet wired in everyones brain this problem will go away. As looking forward to being “connected” as I am the thought of fucking Viagra advertisements getting spammed to my frontal lobe makes me throw up in my mouth.
Being a grown-up sucks: you realize that the world is headed to a giant conglomerate hell, soaked in advertisements and dripping with the leavings of a capitalist society.
So it’s done - Brien is on an airplane (or might even be in Ireland by this point), not to return for at least five weeks, and possibly as long as two months. I miss him already and wonder what life without him hanging around is going to be like.
I celebrated by getting a good nights sleep last night! I had been tired and staying up late so last night I went to bed early. In fact not merely was I in bed early, but I was actually asleep by 10:30. I think it will do me a lot of good to get more nights of sleep like that. I feel so much better this morning and am really ready to tackle my day!
Well off to work - I have 3 interviews today and lots of things to do.
Gear Live has launched a video podcast (or vodcast for those cool enough to pronounce it) and the second episode had a whole lot of me. Mind you - I think it’s a complete disaster and I was nervous as heck, but who cares - it was fun! The second one which we just filmed should come out much better as both Andru and I were much more relaxed.
Without further ado: Gear Live, the Bleeding Edge (now with 100% more Sparky action)!
Today continued the relentless Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.0 marathon. Several people including Scott and Jason came over and we drank, watched BSG, and generally had a very good time. Brien was down for part of it but he’s been pretty busy packing this weekend for his big work-trip in Ireland.
Midway through we broke for sushi and had a fine meal at Blue-C. Every time I go there I am so happy - such good sushi and fun times. I’m hoping that the rumors I have heard that they will be opening a second location in downtown Seattle.
I’m kinda a little nervous about Brien leaving for Ireland. I’m going to miss him - 5+ weeks is a long time for a business trip. Hopefully he will have a lot of fun. I’m hooking him up with a Flickr account and hope that he uses his new camera to take lots of cool photos in the wee land O’ the Irish.
Today was fun! On a lark I decided to join Jason and some of his friends to go see Underworld: Evolution. It was actually quite a bit better that what I had expected and easily surpassed the original Underworld.
There were several strong themes in Underworld: Evolution including blood, poking, grinding, and sucking. The main bad guy has wings with talons at the end and there was a lot of shots of him pulling people in for the bloody kill. Much like the first one there was not that much of a plot, but it was a very pretty movie.
Better yet I got to see the Ultraviolet trailer before the movie. I’d seen it in HD from the Apple site linked to above, but seeing it on the big screen really made Jason and I very excited to see it when it comes out.
After the movie we all went to Mexico (a so-so restaurant downtown for soccer moms) and had some fine food and drinks. One of Jason’s friends brought this guy named Christian who really made my blood boil. He was some Brit guy with a bad accent and even worse manners. In fact he was one of the more emo homos I’ve met in a while - how annoying.
Tonight a bad thing happened - my Powerbook’s AC adapter died in a shower of sparks. Luckily it happened at about 7:00 before the Apple store closed so I was able to go down and get the problem fixed and get a new one right away.
You know it’s always a mixed blessing going to the Apple store. I was disappointed to find out that you normally need an appointment to go to get a repair done, but luckily they had an opening that night and I was able to talk to the tech right away. Aside from that their customer service was great as always - friendly, knowledgeable, and apologetic that there was a problem.
After a quick dinner with Brien topped off the evening preparing me for the weekend ahead.