What A Wave Must Be

I found out today that WordPress actually has a Facebook application.  That’s very very cool.  I always wanted to put my blog into Facebook, but could never settle on a good way to do it.  I tried importing notes with RSS, but that wasn’t really very elegant.  This WordPress app, however, is nice and smooth.  I like it.

The app so far can only interface with WP.com blogs.  So keep an eye on my other blogs, if you’re so inclined, so as not to miss anything.

I also managed to find a very nice application for books.  I’d been looking for a nice way to display books I’m reading, have read, and want to read for a while, as there were already a lot of applications for movies, but I found books more important to me than movies.  Most were somewhat lacking, but I found Visual Bookshelf to be very nice.  It pulls information on books from Amazon and displays everything in a simple box on the profile.

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I basically live on the campus of Menlo School now.  I’ve stopped bothering to take my black clothes and backpack out of my car every night now.  There’s just no reason to, especially when I get home at 11:30 and then have to go back to work at 8 the next morning.

Despite that, though, Music@Menlo has been overall fun.  I really like watching the concerts.  There are some pretty amazing artists here.  The rest of the time, though, I don’t like so much.  There’s a lot of sitting around and doing nothing, or doing something that involves lifting heavy stuff and moving it somewhere, then having to lift and move it again back to where you found it.  I think I’d mind it less if I got to go home at 6 or something instead of 11 every night.

I’ve gotten back to rewriting the Ciran grammar.  I’m determined to make a wordlist as I go along this time.  I sort of want to find some way to use this language in something.  I’m half considering learning how to play D&D so I can DM some campaign and put Farthara to work.  It’s really a shame that Lyla is leaving in August.  She wanted to start up a campaign and I think I’d have had fun making the wilderness and stuff.  There’s always the prospect of play-by-mail, but that’s sort of weird.  We could also invest in one of those online D&D things, which would be interesting.  I hear they make some pretty advanced stuff for that field.

I bought a copy of Harry Potter finally and have been reading it feverishly ever chance I get.  I get surprisingly large amounts of free time in big chunks during the day now that we’re out of prep week and into the run of the festival.  So I’ve been progressing at a good clip and have almost finished the book.  It’s getting really zomg-worthy.

If I didn’t think it’d look disgusting, I would really consider dying my hair.

I really can’t say that I have much else to report.  My life is on a short vacation right now.  I’ll catch up with it later, in about three weeks.

Haven’t been having dreams lately.  Too tired I guess.  If I do dream, it’s sort of boring and about work.

Can’t we sleep, can’t we dream forever?

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Not much to report.  Summer is generally uneventful, and I don’t find I have much to write about.  I think it’s funny that I write these blogs almost like letters to someone.  That’s the easiest way to write about nothing in particular, I think.

Chuckee finally got back to me with the layout mockups for his little project, so I started translating them into HTML.  They’re pretty simple layouts, all in all.  The one thing that I don’t like so much is that Chuckee decided to use a lot of frames bordering different areas and differently colored divs and such all over the place.  Sections are somewhat inconsistently sized too which makes my job a lot harder as I have to put in separate classes all over the place.  So, I’m taking something like a creative privilege and normalizing a lot of the margin widths to 25 pixels.

In other news, Music@Menlo is starting up this week on Thursday.  I go to get my fingerprints taken on Wednesday.  It’s sort of exciting, mainly because everyone else is working by now, so I’m really bored.

I’ve taken to watching anime in my spare time.  I caught up on Naruto: Shippuuden and started watching Eureka 7.

Shippuuden is pretty good.  The animation quality is very nice, and the characters are infinitely less annoying than they were in the original series.  Plus, it’s fun to watch the show with all the characters from the game.

Eureka 7 is pretty good too.  It’s much more episodic, as tends to be the case with Bandai’s series.  I like the animation a lot, and the characters are good too.  The episodicity of the whole show, though, is a little much for me.  I’d rather have a show with a good storyline.

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I’m back to WP.com.  Mainly because the new Flock is so awesome, I just had to install it.  And it seems that Flock doesn’t play nicely with self-hosted WP installs.  That’s alright with me.  I’m sure it’s just some bug and that it’ll get fixed by the time 0.9 is actually released.

So, here’s looking at you WP.com.  I never really had anything against you.

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