For the last few months, I’ve been telling everyone just how wicked the TV show “24” was. I got hooked a few months ago on the show at Jason’s recommendation, and spent about two weeks straight on the couch watching episode after episode until I finished all four seasons. I’m eagerly waiting for season 5 to come out on DVD so I can kiss another full weekend goodbye watching it.
When my dad was in the hospital, Cathy rented the first four episodes of season one for him. I tried to talk to him online tonight and he was like “sorry, gotta go, episode 13 just started.” That’s 13 episodes ...
Here’s a brief update on my new fitness regimen:
Times at the gym last week: 4
Weight lost this week: 1.5 lbs
Weight lost total: 1.5 lbs
Days without caffeine: 5
Marital status: still single
I’ll try and keep updating every week. ...
I read this link tonight, and it reminded me of my friend Jeff’s cousin who died while running from the police in California (not sure why he ran, but the police didn’t really seem to care — they just shot him a few times and he stopped running). Now the guy in this article I just read *was suspected* of killing a cop, but seriously: did they really need to shoot him 68 times?
Here’s a great quote:
“I suspect the only reason 110 rounds was all that was fired was that’s all the ammunition they had,” Judd said. “We were not going to take any chance of him shooting back.”
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/01/deputy.shooting.ap/index.html ...
Wow, I just woke up. Not a very exciting day, but it’s nice to have a good rest. I got up earlier and went for a walk, stopped by the plant shop, and headed home to see what was on TV. I was pleasantly surprised that Garden State was on, so I watched that (I saw it about 6 months ago, and really liked it — although Natalie Portman was a bit stiff as always). Several things stuck out this time:
Natalie Portman isn’t a very good actress (IMO)
Zach Braff directed the movie (I didn’t know that the first time around)
He also looks a lot like John Ritter did when he was younger
The soundtrack ...
Last night Clay had his big concert down at the Marine Club in Vancouver. A bunch of people from work went to watch, along with Mel and some of her friends. Clay really impressed us all — we had no idea he could do more than like, well, sell stuff. Good job buddy.
I’m going to take it really easy today and stay close to home. I’ve had a few plants die on me over the last few months, so I think I might walk down and get some new ones.. I also might check out a show or two at the Vancouver Film Festival if this throbbing in my head goes away. I’m pretty much out of groceries, so I might ...
Today is hopefully the day that my dad gets to go home from the ICU in Chilliwack. He went into New West. yesterday for angioplasty, and the initial word is that the surgery was a complete success. He’s got another 50 years of camping with the current hardware now. I spoke to him last night in the hospital via phone and he’s relieved and obviously happy to be going home. ...
Well, the time has come for me to give up caffeine once again. Why you might ask? Because I’m way too addicted to it, and I know how completely shitty it is for the body. Here are some reasons why caffeine sucks:
It disrupts REM sleep, making you feel tired in the morning
It increases cortisol, making you feel stressed out
It distrupts the body’s glucose system, increasing insulin levels by as much as 50%
It makes weight loss difficult since the body can’t burn fat with high levels of insulin in the blood
The problem with working in a high tech industry is that there’s free pop. So, ...
I was reading about this this morning. Apparently landmark registrations for .mobi names begins today.. I thought about getting duanestorey.mobi, but considering not a lot of people look at my website from a normal PC, I don’t think many people are going to from a mobile phone.. I tried briefly to get google.mobi, but alas, it’s already taken 🙁 ...
Why is it that hairdressers just can’t follow simple instructions? How does “just a little off the top” translate into “shave my head bald?” I just don’t get it. I’ve been trying to grow my hair a bit longer for like six months now, and yet whenever I go in to clean the sides up a bit, they always chop like a full inch off the top, even though they always promise not to.
It doesn’t start that way either, which is what I don’t get. The hairdresser always says “yeah, don’t worry, I’ll just take a quarter inch off the top to clean up your ends.” And then, it all just goes ...
I accidentally went through my cell phone pictures tonight, and was really surprised that I had so many. So, I pulled a few off from my adventures this summer and added them to my flickr cell phone set.
Here’s one from the John Mayer concert. I didn’t think I’d go to this concert, but it sort of fell together at the last second.
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Well, it’s been a very busy couple of days. I got a call on Thursday at work from my step-mom telling me that my dad was in the hospital because he had a small heart attack during the night. I left work to go to Chilliwack and be with him in the hospital. He’s doing really well, and is mostly just bored now. They’re going to take him to New Westminster in the next few days to do an Angiogram and see what he looks like inside. Everyone is confident he’s going to make a complete recovery, so that’s great. I made several trips to Chilliwack over the weekend to visit him, and just got back ...
So, I’m all over this “chilling out at home” thing. I’ve spent the last few nights just pittering around my apartment, drinking coffee, and listening to music. Hell, I even cooked my own dinner tonight (it wasn’t very good though). I feel a lot better now that I’ve had a few good nights of sleep, even though I could still use a bit more.
I rediscovered some panorama software on my computer, and decided to try and stich a few together. Here’s is a stich of a few shots from my apartment this weekend. Sean asked me to try one at night, so I’ll do that soon too.
On another note — ...
Well, I can honestly say that as much as I like travelling, it sure is nice to be back home. Leaving my home city always makes me appreciate it more when I get back home. Von was a great time, but I’m looking forward to relaxing and catching up on sleep for the next few days.. I just got back from the mall where I bought a bunch of new clothes (winter’s coming after all). I also picked up the new John Mayer CD (Continuum), and have been listening to it. It’s pretty mellow, but it’s actually really good. His concert is coming up next week here in Vancouver.
Here’s a shot from my patio ...
I spent a bunch of time walking around tonight with my iPod and some new music. You can definitely tell that summer is basically over, and that autumn is slowly putting its claws into Vancouver. To be honest, I’m actually glad. I love that feeling you get in the fall when you walk outside and get the cold, crisp air in your lungs. Or crawling into bed late and night when your sheets are a bit cold. Even sitting in front of the fireplace with a plate of nachos watching a movie.
A few years ago, in the fall/winter, there were a few weeks of crazy sunspot activity on the surface of the sun. When ...
Well, the last 24 hours have been very frustrating. It started at around 3:30pm as we left the Boston Waterfront Hotel and headed to Logan Airport. Our original flight was supposed to leave at 6:30pm, bounce through Toronto, and get us back into Vancouver at around 11pm PST. Once we got to the airport they informed us that our 6:30pm flight would be cancelled, but there was one at 7:30pm we could catch. This also changed our Toronto-Vancouver lag of the journey, getting us at home (in theory) at around midnight.
We weren’t that concerned about this at first, since it gave us a few hours to drink ...
Well, in about nine hours I’ll be lifting off from Vancouver International Airport, heading for Logan airport via Toronto. I’m actually pretty surprised how normal I feel about flying tomorrow. I thought I would be pretty nervous. Maybe flying with 3 of your close pals makes it a bit easier, or maybe it’s the thought of the stewardess and her cartload of beer that makes it worthwhile.
Clay and Aaron flew today to set up the booth and get ready. Clay’s blog entry is pretty funny.
Chris and I made the obvious mistake of sitting on my couch, drinking beer and watching 24 episodes up until ...
So tonight was a pre-party drinking adventure at Jason and Sheila’s new apartment near Coal Harbour. They moved from near me down to a new place right on the water. There’s a good party coming up here on Friday, so it should be a good time.. It will probably be the last big drinking adventure before we’re having a few beers at the Westin Waterfront hotel in Boston. I’m actually getting really exciting about going to Boston.. I hate flying, but realizing I’m in a bar on the atlantic ocean at 2am always brings a smile to my face..
I went out today after work and snapped a few shots around ...
Lately at work I’ve been doing some developing on the macintosh platform. At first I was pretty excited about this, because I really don’t have much experience developing anything on a mac (and macs seems to be the “cool” thing now). But now that I’ve done a week of development on the little mac mini beside me, I can honestly say that development on a mac mini is just a bad idea. These things might be able to play music in iTunes, but they really aren’t meant to do anything as hardcore as compiling code. Maybe I’m a bit biased since I’ve used windows all my life, but even navigating ...