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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
| posted by bighead @ 21:10 | Still have the headaches. Still not motivated for ANYTHING regarding this site. But, at least I have iPhone 3.0 to comfort me in my slow descent to mental hell. |
Friday, May 8, 2009
| posted by bighead @ 21:47 | Well, I'm wrong. Coranto was updated August of last year. Sorry. |
| posted by bighead @ 21:35 | So, I've obviously not posted a whole hell of a lot on this site. I think you all can assume that I don't care much about keeping you up to date on this page using the traditional "blog" format. Well, that's mostly true. It's weird, but most of the reason I don't like posting on this site is because, currently, I'm still using Coranto, which is ALMOST dead. The last release was done over two years ago, which pretty much qualifies as dead in the world of CMS software. I just want to avoid the hard truth that I'll probably have to migrate this shitpile to WordPress, and more than likely, by hand. Since I'm not at all the awesomesauce Perl or PHP person I wanted to be when I set this place up in 2001, it will be faster to copy/paste the content into WordPress and manually enter date/time than it would be to write a converter. Looking at this shit makes me feel old. Angela and I are doing well. I've been getting migraines again since the end of January, which I've not really had for almost a year. Thankfully, the world of triptan drugs has been improving, and my insurance covers several quite well. Why do I post about my brain problems on here? Who knows. This shit needs WordPress NOW |
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
| posted by bighead @ 0:28 | EPIC FAIL |
Saturday, August 2, 2008
| posted by bighead @ 10:50 | Angela and I are getting married tomorrow, obviously. We realized that we did not have our event liability insurance through WedSafe. I "bought" the WedSafe liability on Thursday, but did not hear anything yesterday. When I called today, I found out that they are closed on the weekends. Great. Google turned up an insurance broker in San Jose named Zain Jeewanjee. Not only was he there on a Saturday, he has been able to get us a policy for cheaper than WedSafe, the day before our wedding, and he's a really nice guy. The website for his event insurance is OneDayEvent.com and his general insurance business site is Jeewanjee.com. It's such a relief to find people who are fast, trustworthy, and good at what they do. Screw WedSafe. Go with Zain Jeewanjee. |
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| posted by bighead @ 12:50 | So Angela and I just got our marriage license today, on our sixth anniversary. :) I'm so stoked. I like how it's now "Party A" and "Party B" on the forms. I can just imagine the prank forms for the queer crowd that will begin circulating: "Butch" and "Bitch" come to mind for the guys as do "High School PE Teacher" and "Lindsay Lohan this Month" for the ladies. Oh well... |
| posted by bighead @ 9:38 | I'm going to wish Angela and I a happy 6th anniversary today! Also, one month and one day to the wedding! woot! |
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
| posted by bighead @ 23:46 | OMG! A Jewish Twinkie! If you look closely, it is certified kosher dairy by the Orthodox Union! |
Saturday, May 10, 2008
| posted by bighead @ 20:17 | Though not a home OWNER, I am a home renter, and I found something that I really, actually enjoy. Mowing the lawn, I have found, is quite an enjoyable activity. Not only am I supporting America and not subsidizing some illegal immigrant's family back in Guatemala or Mexico, I'm getting some decent exercise and fighting the obesity problem (a few little steps at a time.) I also enjoyed fertilizing the lawn and spraying for insects. I suppose after a while it will not have the same pizzazz as it does now, but for now, it's going to be awesome. I know, I'm strange. |
Monday, April 14, 2008
| posted by bighead @ 0:26 | The following is an entry I wrote in December of 2004 but never posted. Since we are moving to El Toro this month, I thought it would be a relevant and unique perspective of parts of the city that have been destroyed in the name of (sub)urban renewal: El Toro Road is being widened by the city. There are tons of places that are being destroyed, including the Edwards Cinemas that used to be there. Screens 1, 2, and 3 were on the northern end of the shopping center, and screens 4, 5, and 6 were on the southern end of the shopping center. The 1, 2, and 3 building have already been destroyed, and they are right next to the Golden Spoon frozen yogurt place Angela and I go to. There's a light pole we sit down at (or used to sit down at) and ate at. It's no longer there. A few months ago, we were over there having some frozen yogurt and the lights at the 4-5-6 were on. It was very strange, since I hadn't seen the theatre lit up since I was a kid. One of the screens at the 1-2-3 was also lit up, but there was nobody there to see, aside from Angela. It was very eerie, and I was able to snap some pictures of the place before we left. If anyone is interested, I'll be more than happy to post the pics. I also got pictures of Rod's Liquor, which is a local landmark. Rod's has been on El Toro Road since before my parent's were married. In South Orange County history, 35 years is a very long time. |
Sunday, April 13, 2008
| posted by bighead @ 0:36 | Every time I see how much I pay in tax each year, it frustrates me to no end. I guess because I'm now over the magical $50k mark in gross income, I'm considered rich. And because some of that money is capital gains from my stock plan, I'm considered some Wall Street high roller. I'm sure Barry and Hillary would love to take more of my money to provide medical coverage to uninsured "undocumented" folks and other fancy benefits that I have to pay for as a United States citizen. The state of California is no better. They want to take as much money as possible to pay for all sorts of fancy things for illegal immigrants. I'm not going to bitch about the $600 check I'm supposed to be getting from Dubya. It's a refund of my money, after all. Not having to pay it out in the first place would be nice, too. Having a more reasonable tax system in general would be fucking wonderful. While I'm hitting the proverbial crack pipe, I'll also mention that having all of my Social Security contributions diverted to my 401k would be fantastic. I'd love to take care of that little nest egg (seeing as I'm told that it's my money to begin with.) The only good thing about the checks I'm writing this month is that my car insurance is finally under $100 a month. FINALLY. I don't want to spend it, but at least it's less than what I have been spending previously. |
Saturday, April 12, 2008
| posted by bighead @ 0:20 | So Angela and I get home just after 11PM, looking forward to a quiet night's sleep. We come home to the anus shades above us projecting a movie on the adjacent wall and talking loud as hell about all of their loser friends' dramatic lives, drug and alcohol problems, etc. This is one of many reasons why City Lights is the place to live only if you're on the top floor and have a sniper rifle to pick off people who can't shut up. Case and point:   And video just in case you wanted to know:  After the fact, I'll say that my sniper rifle comment was made in jest and ONLY in jest. |
Sunday, April 6, 2008
| posted by bighead @ 22:16 | "...the God fearing, law-abiding, Caucasian, middle- class Protestant-or even worse, evangelical Christian, Midwestern or Southern- or even worse, rural, apparently straight-or even worse, admitted heterosexuals, gun-owning-or even worse, NRA-card-carrying, average working stiff-or even worse, male working stiff-because, not only don’t you count, you are a down-right obstacle to social progress. Your voice deserves a lower decibel level, your opinion is less enlightened, your media access is insignificant, and frankly, mister, you need to wake up, wise up, and learn a little something from your new-America and until you do, would you mind shutting up?" -Charlton Heston (badass) |
Thursday, March 27, 2008
| posted by bighead @ 20:54 | So after meeting with two wedding photographers today (well one photographer and one consultant for Bella), Angela and I were semi-jokingly mentioning that we should become a husband-wife team and shoot weddings for a living. It's somewhat recession-proof: people are always going to want to document their weddings, and people will always be getting married. Then, in my ever sarcastic way, I realized that with the increasing divorce rate in America, if you're a good photographer, imagine the amount of repeat business you could get! HAH! |
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
| posted by bighead @ 19:29 | So, Angela and I are looking for wedding photographers, and we've been soliciting various folks and inquiring with a bunch of them. Dang, do some of them have crazy pricing changes from what is listed on their website. But anyways: One of the questions we have for each of them is if we can get copies of the camera raws and/or 16-bit TIFFs of the corrected images after they go through and do their fun work on them. Take a minute to think about this. I am asking for raw, which is not so radical, but I also mentioned "16-bit TIFF", which probably means I know a little bit more than the average potential customer. If I ask about getting 16-bit TIFFs, and you reply with simply "We offer full resolution JPEGs" that enlarge to "beautiful wall portraits in sizes such as 30x40 inches" you are a douchebag. I would take "No, we don't provide raws or TIFFs" or "We would charge extra for larger files" better than ignoring my actual question and saying your JPEGs are awesome. I'll have more to report tomorrow. |