Archive for November, 2003
Sunday, November 30th, 2003
Thanksgiving in Maine
Well, I spent the past few days up at my mom’s house in Maine celebrating Thanksgiving. I drove up on Wednedays, and came back on Saturday. Mom prepared a great Thanksgiving dinner, including juicy turkey, mashed potatoes, lima beans, stuffing, and the like. It was all great. The turkey was a free government turkey, which [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Travel by Chip
Wednesday, November 19th, 2003
New Journal Design
As some of you may have noticed, I’ve made a few changes to my journal page. Recently I’ve been playing with a bunch of plugins for MovableType, and decided to use some of them here. The book image and my new book page use the MTAmazon plugin to grab the image links and book information [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Geek Stuff by Chip
Sunday, November 16th, 2003
Master and Commander
Andrea and I went to see Master and Commander this afternoon. For a movie that’s getting so many good reviews it seemed rather mediocre. I went into it expecting an action film, and while the action was good, there were only 2 good action scenes, and they were seperated by about an hour of drudgery. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Movies by Chip
Saturday, November 15th, 2003
Christmas gift idea!
Thanks to Gizmodo, I now know where to get the solution to one of my biggest complaints in movie theaters. Granted, it’s illegal to use one, but still, I really really want one of these.
2 Comments » - Posted in Random Junk by Chip
Friday, November 14th, 2003
Whoops
Guess that’ll teach me for testing things on my own LiveJournal. I was working on some modifications to my ljcrosspost plugin for MovableType, and I messed up and deleted my last entry, along with it’s comments. I should probably do my testing on another journal. Ah well.
Anyway, I’ve worked out some additions to ljcrosspost that [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Geek Stuff by Chip
Monday, November 10th, 2003
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
So I went out and bought the new Castlevania for PS2 today. Been playing it for a little bit, and so far it seems pretty cool. I think I still perfer the older 2D games, like Symphony of the Night. Still not used to the whole 3D thing, though this one seems much better [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Gaming by Chip
Sunday, November 9th, 2003
Revolutions and cleaning
This past week seems to have flown by, yet it already seems like the whole Texas trip was ages ago. Odd. Anyway, I did get some stuff around the apartment done this week. I finally rearranged the living room and cleaned up the kitchen. I’m going through the place one room at a time and [...]
