So seeing as though I am still recovering from illness, I decided to watch a movie to pass some time. I didn’t put too much thought into it, I juts went for what seemed to be most popular on the tubes at the moment. So, it had to be Up in the Air. It’s a movie about a guy who’s job it is to travel the country and fire people who’s bosses don’t have the guts to do it themselves. Good premise right? And indeed, the movie starts of great.
Instead of write a long, boring text review of a movie, I though I’d make it a graphic. So here you go, but be warned, its a total spoiler.
It was bound to happen. I haven’t had so much as a cold since I got the swine back in October but alas, here I am again. Wearing my sweat pants and uggs in bed at 8:00. But I do not despair. I know how to be sick, and I know how to get better as quickly as possible. Let me share some secrets with you, all based on absolute science.
What you eat is everything. Fluids, fluids, fluids. I’m injesting in so many fluids I take a bathrhoom break at least every hour. And I’m eating soup, a lot of it. If you can get the flow to a constant stream, thats even better. The idea is to pass so many fluids through your body that there are no original ones left, taking the bad stuff with it. Also, eat pretzels to replenish sodium. They taste OK with orange juice, a friendly looking box that never leaves my side.
Walk extremely slowly and drag your feet as if they had bricks tied to them. Moving like you are a zombie is the fastest way to get to health.
Bring your blanket with you everywhere.
Don’t actually tell anyone that you’re sick. Now I don’t mean start using their chapstic or licking their faces or something, just don’t make it obvious. You don’t help anyone by moaning and acting pathetic at work or at school. Believe me, the guy sitting next to you during that 2 hour networking final doesn’t want to know. In fact, by telling someone you are sick you make the chances of them getting sick worse. You make them stressed, which in turn lowers the ability of their immune system to ward off disease. Also, you make yourself sicker, because now you are a social outcast and feeling bad for yourself never helped anything. Instead what you should do when someone asks you how you are is say “fine” and stare at them with those dark, glassy, pained eyes until they get the idea.
Most medicines do not help! They only weaken your body’s ability to defend itself. Take the easy way out often – get sick often.
So I finally got around to merging the old Fingel.com with this new site, which is now austinriba.com and Fingel.com. Spiffy.
Sorry laughingsquid, I just can’t hang with your hosting anymore. I know you just launched a new cloud hosting plans, but I’m on the old system, and its just not working out. My main complaint is the mail system. You only allow 70mb of storage? Is that really sufficient in today’s world? I love my @fingel.com email address, but I’ve basically had to stop using it because time and time again, my mailbox fills up. I set it up as a forward, but that doest help. The mail system still stores my incoming messages, and THEN forwards them. So when my box fills up I simply stop getting mail with no notification that something is wrong. Notgood. If I could find an option to forward without storing, or to delete messages after a certain period, I would have kept using it but… now its too late. I’ve switched the DNS entries over to 1&1. I know 1&1 sucks pretty bad, but at least its cheap and I dont have to worry about running out of space and missing mail.
Ok so enough of that rant. Here is something usefule: Worpress has an awesome feature that lets you export/import entire blogs, including attachments and comments. This made it easy for me to import my entire old blog into this one, as if nothing had changed. Even the old fingel.com links that are floating out there on the internet are still pointing to the correct URL. Not bad!
1&1 users who try to import wordpress blogs might find that the process crashes with an error “out of memory.” To fix it, place a file named php.ini in your /wp-admin/ directory that contains the line:
memory_limit= 20M
This should allow the import to proceed without crashing. However, when I did it the import would still stop after importing quite a bit of stuff, and I would have to reload the page to restart it where it had left off. I did this about 7 – 8 times and eventually it got my whole blog, with a nice message at the bottom “Good to go!” that let me know it was finished.
Lastly, I updated the design of the site. I dont like the name of the site, “Austin Riba” its terribly boring. But until I think of something else, I’m leaving it at that. Hope you like it.
Poop bags. They are a great idea. I applaud those who brave the warm squishy feeling in order to make the trail better for everyone. I’m happy not to have to watch every step as I take my evening stroll on Ashland’s wonderfil TI ditch trail. There is trouble in paradise however, it seems some have begun to abuse the use of the crap bag.
Lately I’ve been noticing a huge increase of brightly colored, bulbus, sagging double knotted bags of joy littering the side of the trail. Whats up with this? Like I said, gret if you pick up your dogs excretion, but why not finish the job? Its like washing the dishes but not putting them away. What gives?
Please throw away your used bags. By leaving them on the side of the trail you are not doing a good thing. You are doing a worse thing. Thank you.
This is a fun track – a mashup of the 25 most popular songs of 2009 (according to Billboard) in one song. Kinda makes you realize that a lot of these pop songs sound exactly the same… DJ Earworm – United States of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop)
Im not entirely sure what I just watched. But I like it. From the artist’s description:
Syn Emergence is a project which examines my own associative relationships between sound, form and space.
The project is constructed according to a range of specific sonic and spatial scale rule sets (micro, component, meso and macro) which I designed as part of a cross-disciplinary notation/cartographic system.
Dead week is upon us. That terrible time when months of procrastination finally catch up to you. For all of you typing 10 page essays the day before they are due, this is for you. Hopefully these tunes can help you out a bit.
Cool track from this band out of Manchester, to get that intro paragraph done.
Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before? Eko, a traffic light concept by Damjan Stanković that counts down the time until the light changes. According to his description the benefits of the light include: Less fuel consumption because drivers can turn off their engine as they wait for the light to change. Less stress, you should be free to text message if you know the light wont change for another minute. What he forgot to mention was the huge benefit it would give to cyclists. Knowing when a light will change can mean not slamming on the brakes at the last minute at yellows, as well as saving energy from slowing down unnecessarily at reds about to turn green.
Ah, the end of the quarter. For some reason it always seems to mean movies, movies… movies in class. Today I watched two films about global warming – one about the sinking nation of Tuvalu and the other An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s most lasting contribution to society. Ironically last night was my first night back at the robot hut, of course, the heater is broken again. I had a dream I was wrapped in a hundred blankets, when I woke I thought I had frostbite on the tip of my nose. Who cares, lets just get to the music.
Thanks to Andrew for trading a few CDs with me last night! Heres a sweet track he made that he also gave me:
