June, 22, 2005 archives

a routine trip turns into an enchanting escapade.

movie gallery projected a weak sales outlook — they’re the video rental chain that focuses mainly on smaller communities.

locally, video action at 1st and hope just announced that they’re closing at the end of the month unless they find a buyer — after 24 years of operation. and eric recently reported that there’s a video store looking to open in the old bank district in the fall.

metafilter is a funny place. i find myself generally more interested in ask metafilter and metatalk than the main site. some of the questions/answers on ask can be fascinating, and metatalk is good for entertainment value.

i think it is odd that none of the major im clients appear to send a display name in addition to your username. i guess there are times when you may want to be known only as wundrdog53, but sometimes you may want people to actually be able to tell who you really are. and clients that don’t let you change the name used to display your buddies are crazy.

of course, this is only an issue for me on systems where i wasn’t able to be jimwinstead. or where i probably had jimwinstead, and long since forgot the login details and can’t recover it because the email address attached to it is something really old that doesn’t still forward to me.

there’s two upcoming events that are part of the american theatre organ society conference and are open to the public. the first is “5×2: the opening night concert” at the pasadena civic auditorium and the other is a screening of wings with bob mitchell at the mighty wurlitzer pipe organ at the orpheum. tickets are $15 in advance, or $20 for both events. the concert is on friday, july 1, and the film is on saturday, july 2.

i can add one to shannon’s list of ten reasons you should sign up for the historic core walking tour on july 2: i’m going. or does that add one to the list of reasons you shouldn’t sign up?

you can see all of the active bugs currently assigned to me in the mysql server. it’s currently thick with patches pending but not yet approved.

so far this year, i’ve fixed 122 verified bugs. that’s on pace for one bug per working day. whew.

now if only the rate at which bugs were introduced was less than one per working day, we’d be set.