Dave Kellam

I installed litestep last night. I haven’t decided whether or not to keep it yet, I have to play around with it some more.

I’ve spent a good chunk of the last couple days over at my grandmothers house, scraping and painting her garage with my dad. Yesterday, it was way too fucking hot to be doing something like that, we tried to stay in the shade.

I spent quite a bit of the rest of my time the last two days watching movies (Jurassic Park III, The Last Emperor, 3000 Miles to Graceland and The Mexican). Hmm, Jurassic Park was pretty shitty, i’m glad i didn’t pay to see it. This one isn’t even based on a book, although the ever two never really followed the books much anyway. A kid can stay alive on the island for eight weeks by himself, but grown men in a group can’t last five minutes, bah. The last emperor was pretty good, but I found it dragged on a little bit too much. 3000 Miles to Graceland wasn’t what I was expecting. It had some good scenes, but it was a little over the top. The mexican started off well but started to drag on. I was glad i had the deleted scenes on dvd, they cut out part of the story that I was wondering about. There are a whole bunch of problems with the movie, namely what happens to all the dead bodies? Yah, dead bodies, it’s not the light romantic comedy it’s made out to be.

New conform update, this one by simon. Apparently, his mom likes it. Simon’s mom is cool.

I’m back from kingston now, it ended up being a fairly good weekend, did some work, had some fun. I watched a bunch of movies over the weekend, Soylent Green, The Graduate, Last Night and Glengarry Glen Ross. Out of the four of them, I liked the graduate the best, it’s a quality movie. Last Night is a tad on the empty and depressing side. I found glengarry glen ross to be a tad boring, there are some good scenes, but it drags on. Soylent Green is soylent green, it’s one of those sci-fi movies that you kind of have to see at some point. It paints a bleak picture of the future though, and some of the issues about the environment seem kind of surprising coming from a movie made in the early seventies.

I picked a couple cd’s for cheap at a used record store in kingston. The three albums i picked up were Collective Soul, Meat Puppets – Too High to Die and The Cult. The meat puppets cd and the collective soul cd are throwbacks to my younger days. Things that friends had, that i made tapes of years ago.

Wasn’t going to work yesterday, but I ended up doing it because someone cancelled a shift. Therefore no posts in the last two days. I made a new splash, which you probably saw on your way in. Not sure if i’ll keep it or not, the file size is kind of big.

I decide to come up to my house in kingston for the weekend and the weather decides to make it one of the hottest weekends of the summer. I have air conditioning at home in brockville, but not here. Bah.

I went and saw Planet of the Apes last night. I have some mixed feelings on it. I haven’t seen the original movie, so i’m trying to compare the two. As can be expected from tim burton, the movie is visually stunning. The acting and plot are kind of weak. People have said tim roth and helena bonham carter did great jobs acting, however a good chunk of it was just jumping around and screeching (for tim roth at least). There are some plot holes for sure, like where the hell did the horses come from? I don’t think the ending could have tried any harder to set things up for a sequel. It was still worth seeing anyway.

It’s nice and late and I have to work tomorrow. I decided to fuck around some more with php and the archives. Now the archives actually use the month and year for the query instead of the numbers. Kind of pointless, but it gave me something to work on.

Just finished ironing out some of the issues that were caused by me implementing that movie thing the other day. I found out that my archives didn’t work, so i fixed the problem. I’m starting to become a bit more comfortable with php, although i really don’t know that much at all. I also discovered that blogger had managed to delete my archive references from june 2000 to octover 2000. I figured out how to get them back shortly after I posted a message to the discussion board.

I watched Enter the Dragon last night. It was an alright movie. The fight scenes were pretty good, but the acting, plot, etc. left a little bit to be desired. I have to pick up some other bruce lee movie’s, i’m told they’re better.

Root zone whois, a handy little tool for looking up whois information for sites that aren’t top level domains.

Some of the kids have decided to just be plain dumb today. They keep asking the same questions over and over again. I think they all ate too much sugar at breakfast this morning. They’re probably ready to start bouncing off the walls. Some days are like this, especially during the middle of summer, the doldrums. They have no desire to learn anything and just want to play games. As long as they manage to retain something that they’ve learned this week, i’ll be happy.