September, 15, 2005 archives

• monday through friday
  • wake up between 6am and 7am
  • check email, weblogs, etc
  • go to gym (usually around 8am)
    • monday, wednesday, friday — set of twelve reps at most of the upper-body weight machines, 20-30 minutes on elliptical machine (cascades mode, level 12)
    • tuesday, thursday — 45 minutes on elliptical machine (cascades mode, level 15)
  • breakfast (granola and yogurt), shower, begin work
  • work (generally with a snack or two of an apple or orange)
  • lunch around 1pm (sometimes i run errands. monday-thursday i fix something at home, and on fridays i usually pick something up)
  • work (generally with another snack or two of apples, oranges, or celery with peanut butter)
  • dinner around 7pm (salad — lettuce, shredded carrots, roasted sunflower seeds, and ralphs poppyseed dressing)
  • watch television, dvds, or play world of warcraft
  • go to bed anytime between 10pm and midnight
• saturday and sunday
  • wake up between 6am and 8am
  • breakfast (pancakes), shower
  • read email, weblogs, etc
  • get out (go to a movie, go take pictures, go shopping, etc)
  • eat a mid-day meal (when and what depends on whether i’m in or out — a frequent choice is to pick up a few empanadas at the grand central market)
  • read a book, screw around on the computer, etc.
  • dinner around 7pm (salad)
  • watch television, dvds, or play world of warcraft
  • go to bed anytime between 10pm and midnight

the weekdays are more consistent than the weekends. weekends depend on what movies are playing, whether i need to hit trader joe’s, what books and movies i have on hand, whether i feel like baking bread and making pizza, etc.

but i’d say about 90% of my days fit these basic templates.

today will be an exception, for example — unless i flake out and forget, i’m going to head up to amoeba music and catch dengue fever.

i was a little surprised at how different kill bill: vol. 1 and kill bill: vol. 2 were. the first is much more action-centered, and the second is more character-driven. i have to say i liked the first more — the second just had a few too many parts that were too slow. but the two movies really shine as a pair of complementary works.

my impression of the second is probably also colored by having fallen asleep during the last fifteen minutes. that never does a good thing for my impression of a film, even when it’s just because i was tired and not really the fault of the movie.

i am, of course, powerless to go to amoeba without picking up some music. surprisingly, they didn’t have the two albums i was looking for. i didn’t pick up the dengue fever album because i had to bail out quickly, but the part of their appearance that i caught was great.

• blinking lights and other revelations by eels
• pressure chief by cake
• comfort eagle by cake
• yesterday rules by mtx

i think i forgot to check my mail on wednesday. so this may be two day’s worth:

• invitation and reservation form for the literary odyssey dinners benefitting the los angeles public library (starting at $350/seat)
• solicitation from the carter center
• invitation and reservation form for “a season for sharing dinner” benefitting the los angeles regional foodbank (starting at $500/seat)
• solicitation from acción international
• newsletter from la’s best
• thank you letter and receipt from la’s best

the literary odyssey dinners sound kind of cool — it is a bunch of 16-40 person dinners with various authors in different sponsor’s homes. a few authors that caught me eye: michael eisner, gil garcetti, larry gelbart, thomas keller, and stan lee. each of the dinners has a different dress code. here’s the varieties:

• business casual
• cocktail attire
• casual elegant
• relaxed cocktail
• business attire
• rumble seat attire
• informal attire
• california evening casual
• comfortably festive
• casual
• napa casual
• black tie (this is for stan lee!)
• coat and tie
• festive attire
• dressy casual
• sports attire
• jeans and jewels

i want to host one of these just so i can specify “pants optional.”

oh, and my regrowth charity t-shirt arrived, too.

matt sergeant’s article about using qpsmtpd is noteworthy for reasons other than it has my name in it.

i’m still running a pretty minimal set of qpsmtpd plugins since i upgraded by server to ubuntu. my main source of spam is my old college address, which is so ancient that it is deeply embedded in the mailing lists that spammers swap. and apparently they aren’t running very good antispam software at hmc. (i think they expect each user to set up spamassassin on their own.)

here’s an interesting tidbit i picked up from the hmc cs department site: a co-inventor of sql, don chamberlin, is a fellow alum.

cnet news.com reports on the results of the pew internet study that says for nearly half of the bloggers surveyed, blogging is a form of therapy.

that doesn’t surprise me. a lot of what i’ve been blogging recently has been motivated by that.