NOTE: I'm writing this while watching Dogville, Lars von Trier's extremely boring 3-hour-long opus. I don't anticipate being distracted as it is, like I said, extremely boring, but it may account for some disjointed sentences and general disarray in the post.

ADDENDUM: I don't have time to finish the last hour and a half of Dogville before I ( Read more... )

Yeah, so I'm sick today. I hate being sick. I would imagine no one particularly likes it, but right now I just don't have time for it. You know, it would be great if they could find some kind of cure for the common cold, but I'd settle for something that kicks it into overdrive and then doses you with a mighty wallop of vitamin C and echinacea ( Read more... )

It's 4:30 in the morning. I'm sitting on my balcony having one last cigarette for the night, then I should probably go to bed. The pea-soup fog that has persisted throughout the day has lifted as the temperature has dropped below zero degrees celsius and I can see stars in the sky and long-haul trucks going down Broadway a block away. The day is ( Read more... )

Call me crazy, tell me that winter is less than half over and despite my immediate impressions I still have at least two more months of freezing rain and treks through slush before spring arrives, but today does not feel like winter. It's 5 above, and it's supposed to get to 10 above tomorrow. It's overcast, sure, and there are small snowdrifts ( Read more... )

Clearly I was never the audience intended for this sort of thing to begin with, but I am starting to get really, really tired of celebrity gossip - this person's brother embezzled money, this person's kid died, this person is heading for divorce, blah blah blah. WHO CARES? Why should any of this matter? These are people that I don't know and ( Read more... )

I have a real problem with self-centred people, especially when I'm living with them. We're all self-centred to some extent or another, but I have tried to make an effort - particularly in regards to the people I have to spend the most time with - to at least try to see things from their point of view, and respect their points of view. But with ( Read more... )

So every year since 2000, I've put together a mix CD of Christmas music to hand out to my friends, and this year is different in only one way: I have compiled a TWO-DISC edition of Santarchy, as befits the theme. I've posted it (temporarily) at upload.to, with a proper permanent link coming soon (along with last year's Santarchy entry, OMGWTFXMAS ( Read more... )

Success... And man, Mediaportal is so much cooler than MythTV. Sorry, Linux, but I went through six months of hassle and Mediaportal just does everything better.

The MediaPortal update goes abyssmally, though I have not actually tackled MediaPortal just yet. I wiped the partitions and installed XP, and everything worked great... until I discovered that my remote is Vista-exclusive. Seriously?! So I had no choice but to install Vista. Unfortunately, after eight hours of hammering away in vain, I CANNOT ( Read more... )

I am seriously contemplating switching my HTPC box from the Linux-based MythTV system to the Windows-based MediaPortal system ( Read more... )