Dave Kellam

I’ve been waiting for a while for someone to finish up their conform image, so I could launch the new design and new series. I got fed up with waiting and did the second image myself. I just launched the redesigned site, go check it out.

I finished reading microserfs by douglas coupland this evening. I thought it was a great book, especially in light of the fact that I’m headed off into the same world that these people belong to. The novel is essentially the story of a couple computer programmers trying to find lives beyond work. The story is told by a young geek named dan in the form of a journal on his computer. I thought it was well written and I had trouble putting it down. Welcome to the world of geek culture, maybe i liked the book because I can relate to parts of it.

For some reason or another I never did mention Memento. It was a really good movie, i recommend you see it, if you haven’t already. It’s somewhat difficult to wrap your head around and as soon as it’s finished you’ll attempt to poke holes in the plot. I watched the movie with a couple friends and we started pointing out various things afterwards, but people would bring up another point and invalidate the supposed plot hole. At any rate, i really enjoyed it.

Go and read Conan O’Brien’s speech to the Harvard class of 2000. It’s damn funny, i wish all those crappy speeches you have to listen to over the years were like this.

I just finished up my first winamp skin. I posted it in the download section, it’s available in both .zip and .wsz (the winamp skin format).

Yet another study that you have to wonder how scientists managed to get funding for. They have proved that buttered toast lands butter side down more often than not.

I watched eXistenZ yesterday, i think it was the first cronenberg movie I had watched in entirety. It was pretty good, it messes with your perceptions of the characters reality. It’s hard to figure out what’s going on, but that’s the point.

Drinking has been linked to high dropout rates in Irish universities. Read the last paragraph of the article, it’s pure gold.

Another uneventful day draws to a close. I performed a couple exciting tasks that included cleaning the bathroom and cleaning the kitchen. I also cashed my paycheck and picked up a few groceries. Holy shit, this is boring. I just finished watching platoon, which is a damned good movie and I can’t really explain why I hadn’t seen all of it yet. I had seen a few select clips from in in high school english, but that’s about it.
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I watched The Untouchables on television tonight. I hadn’t seen it before and thought that it was a decent movie. I found that it almost seemed short to me, they probably could have done more with it. I found the scene on the stairs in the train station, with the baby carriage, to be a tad on the over-dramatic side of things. I also finished reading Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbons tonight. It took me a little while to get into it, but I found myself drawn to it as I got further in. I haven’t read anything else by the author, so I can’t really compare it with any of his other works. Parts of it are deffinitely abstract and make you think.