http://m13b.net/blog Stuff, things and other such. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:26:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About 3-4 weeks or so ago, Laura and I noticed that we were getting insect bites on our arms and legs, and it appeared to be when we were sleeping. As time went on, the bites kept persisting, although we had never heard or seen a mosquito nor spied ... http://m13b.net/blog/595/good-night-sleep-tight/ Ordering... Drum set... http://m13b.net/blog/594/must-resist/ Yesterday afternoon, a strong thunderstorm rolled through the area where I work, and of course, knocked the power out. This came as little surprise to me, as our connection to the local electrical utility has always been rather frail. Luckily, the majority of the servers were shut down gracefully. ... http://m13b.net/blog/593/great-way-to-start-a-holiday-weekend/ I suppose it was inevitable, but Criterion announced that they're going to start releasing the Collection on Blu-Ray, as well as standard DVD. Looking at the premiere list of titles, not a whole lot jumps out at me as cause for a double dip, but I'm sure there will be more ... http://m13b.net/blog/592/criterion-goes-blu-ray/ Today is Firefox 3 "Download Day", where the Firefox team hopes to break/set some kind of goofy 24-hour download record and get their name in a book filled with other meaningless trivia created purely to settle bar bets. What this REALLY means however, is that at 1PM EDT we get a ... http://m13b.net/blog/591/firefox-30/ Much like Chien-Ming Wang's tendon, I am torn. On one hand, I have always disliked the National League's insistence that pitchers take an at-bat in the rotation. Opposed to an outfielder, who may spend entire innings just standing there at the ready, a pitcher has to throw with speed and ... http://m13b.net/blog/590/i-am-torn/ Been playing with the site design, as some might have probably already deduced. CSS makes the doing easy, but it certainly doesn't assist with the imagining. It is times like these when I just have to step back and bow to the power and glory of true graphic ... http://m13b.net/blog/589/slow-goin/ A quick note to the wanna-be drummers out there: Don't get married. Either that, or at least remember to take off the wedding band before playing a demanding set. http://m13b.net/blog/588/casualty/ After Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese wrapped up shooting of their new film in the area, it looks like Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames will be taking their turn. Shooting for the upcoming film The Surrogates begins locally this summer, and may last as long as a couple of ... http://m13b.net/blog/586/hollywood-returns-to-taunton/ I recently reviewed the latest Romero zombie pick a bit higher than most, which is to be expected of me, as I am a raging DEAD fanboy. So that didn't worry me much. This weekend however, I saw a movie called THE AMATEURS which I thought was cute and funny, ... http://m13b.net/blog/584/am-i-that-far-off-base/