The cycle continues

Long weekends rock. It should be monday, but in fact its tuesday, which means the lost finale is tomorrow. (I had previously been mistaken, i though the lost finale was last week)

Good long weekend, got lots of gaming in, and a bbq over at jeremy and lauries place. fishtanks are now cleaned out and have fish in them, although i think one has a slow leak. kind of annoying.

saw starwars, and hitchhikers guide to the galaxy this week. starwars was good, it was the story i was expecting with great special effects and visuals. hitchhikers guide wasnt as good as i thought it would be. but its not a bad movie. because of the length of movies, they had to cut a LOT out. unfortunately most of the funny bits were in the dialogue they cut out, so it doesnt have the same effect. but it is cool to visualize, and the selection of actors was good.

more about starwars.. they created an animated series to fill in the gap between episode 2 and episode 3, so some people might have been lost as to where the movie was starting, but i understood :) "clone wars" the animated bit was annoying to watch on tv because of the short animated bits preceeded and followed by annoying commercials and animated intros and outros. a lot of filler and very little content. but when you download them from the internet, with all the crap edited out, it makes for a better viewing experience :) i can only hope the starwars tv series is going to be good, but i have my doubts.

So after lost is done, tv is done for the summer. thats all ive been watching anyhow. not many shows worth watching these days. the new family guy episodes and office kind of interest me but not enough to actually go out of my way and turn the tv on.

I've been doing a lot of scripting work lately. writing visual basic document automation for the project at work. there tends to be a lot of monotonous tasks that can be performed by VB quite easily in our documentation work. and the more automated we can get the documents, the better, because it eliminates the human typos... or at least, it propagates them exactly as they were :)

And in other projects ive picked up someones project called php:irc from sourceforge. its an irc client that runs server side. so the jist of it is that you can still irc even if your network administrator doesnt allow irc ports out from your network. its quite a mess, so theres a lot of work to be done, but its a good pet project to work with, and it gives me some practice working with a streaming page that i havent really done before. the project is loosely based on cgi:irc, but thats perl (yuck), and written using un-portable unix socket code. hooray for stinky, bearded, smug unix nerds. you can take your unusable OS and stuff it.

I'll post a link to the project when im done. and some other stuff im working on like my adventures in CSS. soon.

in other creative news, i took the old keyboard that someone had left from the other apartment, and got a midi to usb interface cable.. and hooked it into fruityloops. now all i have to do is learn how to play the keyboard again. fruityloops is really really great though for sequencing, and it makes the keyboard extrordinarily useful, as it has a ton of drum synths, samples, and other stuff that make the creation process very easy. and enough features to make it very flexible as a professional production studio.

And i bought myself a pen tablet. i dont know if ill use it much, but i have been doing some pixelart and other things, so im going to try and do some drawing on the PC and see what i can come up with. also a lot of practice there to be done. but maybe someday ill come up with something good, who knows :)