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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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5 April 2005 - 4:07 pm
I've been remiss in posting here lately. As you have probably guessed, this is entirely related to having some interesting things to work on while I'm at work. But aside from that I've had a pretty interesting weekend, so let me share a few things with you.
My weekend started on Friday with me taking the afternoon off to go pick up my new living room furniture. As I mentioned earlier, I bought a sofa, loveseat, and chair from Jennifer Convertibles a couple of weeks ago and they were finally ready for pick-up on Friday. I'm not sure if I mentioned this, but I had originally planned to have the furniture delivered, but when they quoted a $150 delivery fee, I suffered from sticker shock and decided to do the work myself (with help from michael). This didn't turn out to be too horrible a decision. It took us two trips from the warehouse to get everything back to the apartment, but we were able to use the elevator to get them upstairs (despite an elderly resident's sing-song insistence that it would not work). The first trip from the warehouse with just the couch was a breeze, but the trip with the chair and loveseat was more problematic. Things didn't quite fit and we had to do some creative work with ratcheting straps and ropes to get things situated for the return trip. But the real difficulty came in moving out the old furniture. The first couch we took down went down the stairs without much trouble, but we had to remove a light to get it out of the stairwell. And then we almost failed to get it into the storage locker. michael and I both suffered in that last stage. The other couch proved easier to move (but that was partly because we didn't move it far), but it wasn't without its difficulties either. But we finished with just enough time to grab a bite to eat before heading out to see Sin City.
michael, Rachel, Jeremy, Yang, Ben, and I saw Sin City at the Moolah Theatre on Lindell. The Moolah is interesting because they have a huge screen with couches on the floor in front and balcony seating higher up with lots of space between the rows. They also have a bar outside the theatre and a bowling alley beneath the theatre. Sin City turned out to be great. It was a tad long, but that wasn't something you noticed until the show was over. A more serious complaint is that the hard-boiled dialog doesn't sound quite as compelling when spoken as it does on a comic book page. But that's my only quibble, and it's a minor one. There is a bit more gore than some might be comfortable with, but the impact is somewhat lessened by the non-red color of all the blood. Anyway, I recommend the movie.
After the movie we went to South Grand for some pasta.
On Saturday michael and I went to CompUSA and bought a remote control for my computer. After that we began the Deadwood marathon. By the end of the weekend we'd seen eleven of the twelve season one episodes. If you don't mind a lot of cursing, I think you'll like the show. But you need to subscribe to HBO or know how to find the shows online. The DVDs are also out, but at nearly $100 they seem prohibitively expensive.
Here's the thing about premium channels. If I could pick and choose which ones I wanted without having to get them in packages and without having to get a digital cable box, I would probably get a few of them. But Charter's policy of bundling and requiring a digital box means that I'm not going to get any of them. I don't really understand why they have this all or nothing policy, but its costing them some money as I would happily pay an extra five or ten dollars a month for the the two stations (BBC America and HBO) that I'd like to have. But that isn't an option, so I keep my money and get the shows I don't have channels for online.
On Sunday I completed my living room purchases at World Market by buying a small stool that serves as an end table and a suede cube that I'm using as an ottoman. I also moved my bookcases around a bit and planned where I would hang my framed Turner print. michael thinks curtains or other fancy window covering are needed to give the room a finished look, but I'm done for at least a week or so.
Tonight is the first Cardinals game of the season. I have high hopes, so the Cardinals had better not disappoint.
Tomorrow I have to stay late at work for some after-hours network gear testing. Sometimes it sucks to be indispensable.
Posted by on 5 April 2005 at 3:25 PM
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A remote control for your computer? Can you explain? I have to check out the Moolah theater; it sounds great.
Posted by rkc on 8 April 2005 - 7:53 AM
It's just a basic remote control that lets you control, for example, Windows Media Player. So we have a laptop hooked up to the TV playing shows I've downloaded and controlling it all with a basic remote that gives you pause, stop, and play functionality.
Posted by david on 14 April 2005 - 11:30 PM