by Matt | Sep 7, 2004 | Movies
I let my boss borrow Clerks the other night and it was just returned to me with the phrase “ouch, that sucked” attached. OK, I realize it isn’t Shakespeare, but it’s damn funny for what it is: a very cheaply made movie with friends as actors and sarcasm and toilet humor for it’s main focus. Come on, who doesn’t laugh at the phrase “try not to suck any dick on your way through the parking lot”. Thats funny stuff people. Yeah, I know the actings weak, yes it’s in black and white, yes the plot is thin. Who cares. The very premise of the movie is funny as hell if you’ve ever worked behind a counter. I guess thats the point really. Some people are clerks and some people are customers.
Oh, and while I’m on the subject, the 10th Aniversary Edition of Clerks will be out today. I think I might pick it up although I already have a copy. My original copy is getting a bit worn and I’m a suckers for extras. I could have purchased Monty Python’s Holy Grail when it came out but I figured they’d come out with some uber-special edition and I was right.
And lastly, you all know that Kevin Smith is making a Clerks sequal right? I know Nagle does, I figure the rest of you do too. Just checking.
by Matt | Sep 4, 2004 | Culture
I’ve officially run out of space. Everywhere. My closet is full of crap from NH. My desk is still a “temporary” desk and barely holds my 21″ monitor, let alone my mouse, keyboard, speakers, Clie cradle and lava-lamp. Yes, I said lava-lamp. The drawers are full, the desk is cluttered. Next to my desk are 6 (!) 100 CD spindles that have yet to be filed or organized. My two hard drives are also full. I’d burn files off my hard drives but whats the point? I’d have to start a 7th spindle. It’s ridiculous. I’d like to get a nice desk, something along the lines of this. Oi.
That’ll have to wait until after I get that winning lotto ticket. That and what I really want, a GeForce 6800GT. Anyone feel like being a rich relative I’ve never met?
by Matt | Sep 2, 2004 | Culture
Real quickly… I’ve got 6 G-Mail invites, anyone want one?
Also, Nagle, get the fuck out of Savannah. Holy crap, have you see the weather report? That doesn’t look good.
Oh, and TCC won last night. Now we’re 6th on the Conquest ladder. Woot!
by Matt | Sep 1, 2004 | Imported Entry
Arrangements have gone forward for my grandfather. He requested that there not be a service or anything so there won’t be anything official. He was cremated yesterday along with his masonic apron, his drum sticks (he was an accomplished drum player) and his custom carved cane. His ashes will be separated and placed at a small memorial behind my grandmothers church in Saugus as well as at the Perry family plot in Maine. Everyone is handling it as well as can be expected. Personally, I don’t deal well with death and I’d just like to not talk about it. That said, something about mentioning it is actually therapeutic. Go figure.
So, other topics.
Widgets. (Damn Matt, transition topics often?). I like’em. I’m putting the four most popular engines through their pases to see what I like best. Of course Mac users will recognize the term widgets from the always popular Mac program Konfabulator. Windows users will get their hands on The K soon. Not soon enough for me however. I’m currently running Samurize, AveDesk, Kapsules and Desktop X. As far as my money is concerned AveDesk and Kapsules are winning. Kaps are so super simple in terms of use and setup. I was running in a 5 minutes. Compare that to the 30+ minutes it took my to hand configure Samurize scripts. AveDesk I like because of it’s flexibility. It can really do just about anything and theres a fairly large number of people trying to develop for it. Add to that the fact that you can use ObjectDock, YzDock and MobyDock plugins THROUGH AveDesk and it’s usefulness just tripled.
So… who wants to write some widgets with me? I’ve got a laundry list of simple things I think could be useful and yet no one has developed yet. First up would be a BF1942 server watcher. How many of those things did we have for CS? How hard could it be to simply get the player list and scores. Hell, they’re listed on ServerSpy, AllSeeingEye AND GameSpy thingies. How hard could it be to grab some text from a website or a java-script? You tell me.
Oh well. Hey, I know I’ve mentioned this to Chip, but for any of my other PC Gaming buddies, if you’d like to give Battlefield a spin and you’d like an experienced “tour guide”, just let me know. There’s so many nuances to that game that it’s scary. For example, if you’re an Engineer class and you have land-mines, you can be running toward something, hit the “lay prone” button which will cause you to jump and slide forward on your stomach, and essentially “kick the mine” forward underneath things… like a tank for example. Since the mine is under the tank you obviously can’t see it. You’ve just “booby-trapped” that tank. The next enemy to hop in it will be toast as soon as they pull forward. That’s just one of the oh so fun things YOU can see on Matt’s Wild Battlefield Adventure Safari. Tickets on sale now!
by Matt | Aug 30, 2004 | Imported Entry
I don’t really know what to say. We all knew it was coming. Frank L Perry, my grandfather, passed away last night. There isn’t going to be a service or anything, and everyone tells me not to come home. I don’t really know what to think. All I know is that I was listening to DropKick and their version of “Amazing Grace” came on and I burst into tears. I guess that pretty much sums it up.
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