I got pinged with an email invitiation to join Orkut which is one of these online community deals. It ain't the Matrix or anything, but it does have kind of a bloggesque feel to it. Go ahead and check it out, it's part of the good folks at Google and it seems like a great way to waste a lot of time.
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This evening Terry and I attended the Saturday Night Screening Room event at Gerhard's home. The Saturday Night Screening Room is a club composed primarily of film collectors, and some film buffs, who gather on the third Saturdy of each month at one of the members homes for a movie showing. Most of the members have built movie theatres in their basements; with a projection booth and actual movie theatre seats. This evening I attended my first showing at Gerhard's home. Gerhard is an avid film collector and his day job is doing something at Washington University with the human genome project or something like that. Gehard is the only movie collector in the club who shows 35mm films! He has a 35mm movie projector in his home theatre that dates back to 1948. It was used in an actual movie theatre for over 30 years and, still today, runs flawlessly! Gerhard's theatre has seating for only about 12 people (in actual movie theatre seats) for a private showing on a xenon 35mm proje
I don't really have anything more to say than I did the last time, but I feel obligated to bump my posts every now and then. I am really enjoying my new job. It's very refreshing to work on a new project after running the last one into the ground. This week I'm designing a scene definition language in both XML as well as a scripting language using the Lua engine.
Recently I have had some very bad experiences with the whole commuting thing. A week or two ago I bought a new computer and, since then, I have decided that I am not going to bother leaving for work until 8:30am. If I leave for work at any time between 7:00am to 8:00am, I spend an extra 20 minutes to half-an hour in bumper to bumper traffic averaging maybe 25 miles per hour. If I wait until 8:30am, most of the traffic has cleared out and I can average 60mph. So, I'll just sped the time from 7:30am to 8:30am working on my comptuer at home. There's no easy answer when it comes time to come home.