Happy Birthday Alex!
My son turns 8 today. How time flies.
At least the baby isn’t being born on his birthday today. 
Which reminds me, I need to get her webpage set up so I can upload pictures and stuff.
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Matrix: Revolutions
PvP, an online comic I read written by Scott Kurtz, summed up my reactions to Matrix: Revolutions perfectly.
You can read his rant / review / comments here.
Don’t read it if you haven’t seen the movie, you might spoil something.
Badger Football
Took Alex to his first college football game yesterday, Badgers vs Gophers at the Metrodome. Gophers won on a last second field goal, but Alex had a ball. Pretty good seats, corner end zone, upper deck, so we had a nice clear view of the field.
I had as much fun watching Alex and his reactions to the game as I did watching the game. Great football game (even if the wrong team won) – Badgers stormed back in the second half, Alvarez had a gutsy time out call on the Gophers last drive, but it wasn’t meant to be.
Didn’t even realize until today when I was reading the sports page that the Gopher’s starting QB got hurt.
Great time, will have to do that again with Alex.
Coupling – The Good and Bad
So I missed the news last month, but the BBC had a press release on Oct 14th that Coupling is coming back for a 4th season.
I never could make the transition from the (much better) BBC version to NBC’s version.
NBC’s version got the axe this week. Done. Caput. Over with. Oh well. The worst part about it is the perception problem that “Coupling’ is bad – when the BBC version is absolutely hilarious.
Oh, and the Season 2 DVD just came out. Must get.
Top 5 80's Albums
One of my favorite parts of Nick Hornby’s great book, High Fidelity (and the movie adaption with John Cusack was pretty good too, but his books are better), are his Top 5 lits.
So here’s my first one. Inspiration hit me last night when flipping through the radio dial (If I hear Coldplay’s new live song one more time….) and I heard Prince’s Purple Rain.
Here we go, Top 5 Albums (yes, I said albums, this is the 80’s, and I’m talking a complete record here, not one with just 2 good songs, in no particular order:
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Prince – Soundtrack to Purple Rain
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INXS – Kick
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Def Leppard – Hysteria
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Van Halen – 1984
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Depeche Mode – 101
There’s so many other ones that I could mention, but those are my personal faves.
Dominating
How about those Packers?
As a friend said in an email this morning ripping on the Twin Cities media:
Bum bum, ba ba ba bum: GO PACK GO!
Back in the saddle
Back home after traveling 2 out of the last 3 weeks. And the last 3 weekends in a row.
Florida was nice. 80 every day. I could get used to that.
Messed around with Netjuke a bit last night to see if I could get downloading to finally worked. Installed gzip on Apache. The good news, you can now d/l one file at a time. The bad news, you can’t d/l more than one file at a time.
Looking at the gzip log files, it appeared to be an Internet Explorer thing (ha, there’s a surprise). IE 5.5 doesn’t read gzip encoded web pages right, nice bug. The pages are loading a lot faster though in IE and Mozilla, so a part of it is working right.
But in Mozilla, I couldn’t d/l multiple files either, so I think I need to play with my Apache configuration. (Ugh).
So I’ll add that to my to-do list, which keeps growing. And growing. And growing.