I am out of the Web Nerd loop by at least a few years (something about my wife being way more interesting than monkeying around with code stuff) but some of the HTML 5 stuff rolling out is pretty slick. Particularly, I am interested in the state of the <video> roll out. It will be a beauty of a day when folks can post a video and not have to monkey around with Flash (and the various suckiness that comes with that). Thinking I might throw together a page to play around with some of the stuff in the near future.
Working hard from home before heading out to face the world, perhaps to hard. Somehow, I ate a half pound of Jelly Bellys. As you can tell my photo, I was either very sad or had just killed some people in prison.
I compulsively fret about my external hard drive setup, my router, and my servers. I dream about them. I imagine possible scenarios of my life, except with better data storage.
Prime Example:
My wedding day…but with a server running my slide show….and streaming it online.
After an 8am Lowes run for yard work sundries, I am sitting at my favorite Saturday spot (Oddfellows, which happens to be downstairs from where K8 and I got married). I come here about every saturday (we’ll see how long that last once I get into full swing at fixing up the house) for bible study with some friends. Here’s why I like this place:
When I walk up to the counter, after waiting behind the lady who wants glutten-free vegan eggs or something, the girl smiles and starts reaching for my regular. One Drip Coffee, One Peanut Butter and Jelly Panini and a Rainier Tall Boy.
At dinner tonight I was reminded that certain people have above average appetites for certain foods (See: Me and Peanut Butter) and I got to thinking about what a compelling narative that could be.
In a flurry of lighting fast (divinely inspired?) thought I came up with Courses, The Movie. Similar to Signs, the protagonists have a laundry list of special dietary quarks that later are the key to their ultimate salvation and a glimpse into a higher order the universe.
Here’s a taste test of a scene for you:
Setting: Inside a Tortilla Factory, during a school field drip. The late-middle aged teacher is herding disinterested students through a tour while thinking back to an arguement he had a week in the past with his wife about not pushing himself to get a better job or break out of his rut. In the flashback, they are in a Mexican Restaurant and he orders basket after basket of chips. His wife ultimately storms out and you see the flashback end with another basket of chips arriving.
Queue a mishap at the Tortilla factory, hot oil is flash frying the giant sheets of Tortilla which are then falling about blocking the exits and trapping the students and perhaps some factory works. The only means to escape? Our hero must eat through a wall of Tortilla Chip.
I think this has legs. I am going to try and pitch it some movie people and see what happens.
Sitting in a coffee house in Tumwater getting ready to head over and meet with a client.
Tumwater, is very Kentish in nature. Read as heavy on the strip malls and having a high Dairy Queen to Population Ratio.
Anyways, as was sitting here…researching my client to the point of stalker-dom, this dude sits down next to me and asks what I am drinking.
Then drops this on me:
“You know what? I don’t care, I just don’t like coffee. My drink of choice, Ovatine. Its good for the heart? I have a decoder ring.”
As a long time lover of encryption and powdered beverage he immediately had my ear and was prepared to extol the virtue of each in depth. However,
“…..have you ever considered your financial dreams? I make 2k a week working from home!”
AAAAAAARGH! Amway pitch! How did he find me, why did he think Ovaltine was a good lead on me?
Now, I was curous to see how he would pitch me on buying my soap and sundries from him, however I had to run to a meeting. Off I go, wondering what I missed with this guy.
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