Dave Kellam

I watched Pay It Forward last night. The movie had it’s good moments and overall, you won’t feel like you’ve wasted two hours of your life sitting there watching it. I found the ending a little bit on the cheesy side, i think it could have been done better.

Today is essentially birthdate of the web, well the day it was released to the public. To celebrate, maybe i’ll go back and look at some old magazines to see what predictions never came true. I remember the big things in a couple issues i have from around 1996, 1997 were 56k modems and the future of push technology, an integral part of netscape communicator. It never really panned out, oh darn.

Proof that girls are evil. It’s damn funny, well in a math geek type of humour anyway.

I’m back at home for a couple of days. Just took it easy and went out to a bar with a friend i hadn’t seen in awhile. We couldn’t really get a hold of many people, a good chunk of them had to work today.

The concert that weezer is having in toronto is being moved to june 8 and the only way to get tickets is through the edge. I put my email into the contest, but it doesn’t seem likely that i’ll win. It would be nice to go. I made a cd yesterday afternoon, one of the first i’ve made in quite awhile. I was experimenting with a program called nero. It has some features that allow you to do things like crossfading. So, I’ve got a nice 21 song cd with crossfaded tracks. Although I was in a rush and didn’t notice that one of the tracks didn’t rip well and cut off part way through (blimps go 90 – guided by voices). Update: at this point I hadn’t listened to much gbv, so it seemed really abrupt with the crossfade. The track is in fact less than two minutes, but it’s still a damn good song

Yet another day. The new weezer album comes out today, although i have had my hands on it for awhile. It’s pretty good. They’re going to be playing in Toronto on the 27th, but I don’t know where or how to get tickets. Odds are good that it’ll be some sort of contest give away thing. It would be nice to see em live though. I’ve also been listening to the upcoming gorillaz album as well. It’s some funky stuff, get a hold of clint eastwood, it’s a good tune.

I think I’m going to head home for a couple days tomorrow, see the family, see some friends and get some laundry done. I think i am supposed to help my brother write a cover letter for the job I had last year teaching computers. He probably has enough skills to handle it. I think i’ll through in an application for lead counsellor. If I got it, i might take it. I have a job for now, but it’s minimum wage and i’m not really sure whether it’s full time or not. The lead counsellor position pays $15/hr which is pretty damn good. I am having fun here and would hate to saddle my housemate with the flat monthly rates of telephone and cable, so it’s all kind of a tossup.

I’ve haven’t posted anything in the last day or two because I’ve been plugging away at a redesign of conform. It’s coming along, pretty much finished. I have to get the next series started up (shaun’s going to be helping me out with that) and perhaps tweak the contact page. Right now, it doesn’t work with the database to add people to the conform or suffocate mailing lists.

The US is holding back money that they owe the UN until they are reinstated onto commissions that they lost seats in last week. I have to say that it’s akin to blackmail and will most likely only further serve to alienate world opinions of americans.

Wow, just looked at my site in netscape 4.08 and my site works fine. Yes, i hav netscape 4.08 kicking around, I have to. I’m working as the webmonkey for golden words next year, since it’s a Queen’s site, it’s supposed to be compliant with that version of netscape. Most of the computers in the various lab’s around campus and a default installation on the computers that they sell has netscape 4.08. Rather than upgrade to a good browser, they just force all the websites to be shittier.

I had a fun evening. I ate dinner with one of my housemate’s (who’s staying the summer) and two girls from our floor last year at their apartment. We had a good time. The made us some pasta with feta cheese, sundried tomatoes, peppers and chicken. We brought over a couple bottles of wine. My housemate (dave) and I watched some of the leafs game while the two girls were cooking. The leafs started out alright, but the game degenerated into a blowout. Oh well, maybe the raptors will beat the sixers and it will gives us someone else to cheer for.

Apparently the Americans For Purity think masturbation is a bad thing. Personally, i want to know how the police in San Antonio and Austin are aggressively enforcing laws against masturbatory devices.