Dave Kellam

At the moment, I’m trying to repopulate my bookmarks. Suffice it to say there aren’t as many as their used to be. I haven’t been to tom’s site in awhile, so I’m noticing now that he has a new design up. Seeing as how I’m a bit of a bookmark whore and tend to mainly visit things inside the realm of what I’ve previously experienced, I’m finding that not having the bookmarks to rely on is rather difficult. So I just sit here in front of the box and stare at the browser, wondering what I’m doing. No wild and frienzied click-through. Type type type. Recommended links would be nice.

I’ve been ignoring my computer for awhile. I think I’ve worked the nine of the last ten days, generally 2pm until close (9ish). Wake up late, go to work, get home, shower, hang out with friends, goto bed. I have the next three days to reaquaint myself with the machine. Maybe a formatting, maybe some site design, who knows. The plan is to avoid entirely wasting it.

The new demo utilities at Google Labs are pretty cool. The glossary search is handy and the set search is pretty cool too.

Perhaps you’ve seen the new Gap commercial; the one with Dennis Hopper. Now as much as I like to hate Gap commercials this one makes me laugh. He’s just sitting there with that look, the one that says, “I’m the man.” And he’s sitting there thinking, “You all thought I was a fool for becoming involved with Waterworld. I knew what I was doing, it was over-budget because of me not that ponce Kevin Costner. I’m rich, look at me sitting in this lounge chair with the beautiful girl. Yeah.”

Hey kids. Neil has started up a new satire site, called The Big Jewel. This guy is one of the funniest people I know, he used to be my editor over at Golden Words. I advise you to check it out.

1. What shampoo do you use? I have a bottle of Herbal Essences right now, it was cheap. My housemate went home for the summer and left his Head and Shoulders around, so I’ve been using that a bit lately.

2. Do you use conditioner? What kind? Not usually, sometimes 2 in 1.

3. When was the last time you got your hair cut? I don’t remember. The last time I shaved all my hair off was January, I haven’t touched it since.

4. What styling products do you use? None.

5. What’s your worst hair-related experience? Nothing really, I think someone was giving me an undercut once and forgot to put that attachment on. Ended up shaving a little bald patch.

I’m supposed to work this afternoon, in about two hours. I was also supposed to work at leat four out of the last seven days. All of my shifts have been cancelled due to rain and course closure. It’s sunny outside right now, albeit a tad chilly so I’m guessing the golfers will still be heading out. When you need some money, it doesn’t help if you’re not working.

Check out Rich’s new project: snap your desk. Take a photo of your workspace and send it along. He might need to redo the interface, if more people submit pictures it’s going to get kind of tedious trying to see ones that you haven’t seen already. Some sort of database implementation where people had an account and could change their photo to reflect their current space.

I started using mozilla as my primary browser a day or two ago. So far I’m liking it, especially the tabbed browsing feature. It’s upto release candidate 2, so we can expect version 1.0 shortly.

I’m curious to know if many people have tried OpenOffice.org and what they think. It looks like things are starting to get to the point where you don’t neccesarily need to be running Windows with Office.

Nullsoft has released Beep, it makes your computer sound like the ones in the movies. It’s good for a laugh at least. It might confuse other people that use the computer as well.

I highly recommend watching Donnie Darko. The website is fun too, tought to get around but it looks good. The movie is about Donnie Darko, a somewhat twisted kid who sees a giant rabbit named Frank. Throw in some time travel for good measure and you have a nice dark comedy.

A run down of the movies I’ve watched in the last few days: Moulin Rouge, Spiderman, Heist, No Man’s Land. Which one did I like the best? That would be No Man’s Land.

I wasn’t sure if I’d ever let myself sit down and watch Moulin Rouge, it just seemed wrong to me. Never the less, I did end up seeing it. Visually, I found the movie stunning, it was awesome. The songs were blah, it’s nice to do medley’s with other people’s music but it became pretty annoying in parts. And the plot/story? Yeah, that was horrible.

On to Spiderman. I watched a vcd version of it, I’ll probably check it out on the big screen for the eye candy. Lots of eye candy. Some more effort could have been put into the dialogue, although comic books aren’t known for their brilliance on that front.

Heist was blah. It’s a decent caper flick but I didn’t find anything that made it stand out in the crowd. It’s time filler I guess.

Lastly, No Man’s Land – well deserving of it’s Oscar win as best foreign film. It’s not an easy movie to watch, although not many war movies are. They almost make you feel guilty for being alive and living in comfort while people are dying. There are lighter moments, especially the difficulties that come into play with the multitude of different languages that are involved. The cinematography is pretty amazing as well, I recommend watching the widescreen version.