http://www.cineblog.org Its not just for movies anymore Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:23:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I went to college at Northern Illinois University, a large state college outside Chicago. At NIU there was a building right in the middle of campus where large gen-ed lecture classes were held. Cole Hall probably held around 1,000 people when full, or at least that is how it seemed ... http://www.cineblog.org/2008/02/14/memories-complicated/ I am typically not in favor of splitting blogs up by individual subject matter (taken to its logical conclusion, you end up like my friend Dwight who now has five blogs.) However I decided that my software engineering writings are tightly focused enough to a specific audience that they are ... http://www.cineblog.org/2008/02/08/another-blog/ It's a little odd for me to write up and list a bigass top ten like this. I mean, I could list the records just as easy or point people to my listology or whatever. I know the 7 or so people who read this thing on a regular basis ... http://www.cineblog.org/2008/01/21/top-10-albums-of-2007/ Note to my usual 4 readers: This post is heavily nerdy and computery. On Wednesday my co-worker Gary Love and I gave a presentation to the Seattle Drupal User's Group. Drupal is an open source content management system, which I have been working with for the last year or so. It ... http://www.cineblog.org/2008/01/19/seattle-drupal-users-group/ One of the things I've been thinking about blogging lately is various places and things to do in Seattle. Roya and I go out a lot, especially hunting down vegetarian and veg-friendly restaurants, and the world should hear about it. I mean, I have opinions damnit and where would everyone ... http://www.cineblog.org/2008/01/12/veggie-veggie/ I have several ... lets not call them resolutions but rather goals. I have several goals for 2008. Blog 50 Times - Easily once a week I think of something that would be interesting to write about, or an opinion / thought I would like to share. I have already started ... http://www.cineblog.org/2008/01/03/2008/ (Note: I found this draft of SIFF Day 10 sitting in my draft folder and decided to publish it as is. More news soon buds.) I was thinking about what to say about Tsai Ming-Liang's new film I Don't Want To Sleep Alone when I discovered this review by Scott Tobias ... http://www.cineblog.org/2008/01/01/siff-day-10-i-dont-want-to-sleep-alone-the-man-in-the-chair-the-elephant-and-the-sea/ Here is how it works: copy this list. Leave in the bands you've seen perform live. Delete the ones you haven't and add new ones that you have seen until you reach 25. An asterisk means the previous person had it on their list. Two asterisks means the last two ... http://www.cineblog.org/2007/09/10/some-shit-i-stole-from-socialretard/ First off, blogging will resume here possibly today. I have half the next entry written already, but I came down with a cold that knocked me on my ass. I will finish this thing! Secondly I bought an iPhone the other day, scientifically proving I have more money than sense. The ... http://www.cineblog.org/2007/07/04/announcements/ Now that beer-retard has basically dared me to finish my SIFF blog, I pretty much have to don't I? This day got off to a great start with the German film The Cloud, a big budget disaster movie about a nuclear accident combined with a teen love story. I loved ... http://www.cineblog.org/2007/06/25/siff-day-9-the-cloud-still-alive-a-film-about-krzysztof-kieslowski/