March 2003 Archives

I went to Secret Safeway today and on my way out, I got a glimpse of another crazy California sunset. Yes, that's right. There's a liquor store in heaven. Did you ever doubt it?

I added link to the poorly maintained eyetide screensaver that I'm trying to keep current with this site. Enjoy, or not.

Two things:
1) I'm back from spring break in Big Sur.
2) I'm feeling much better now.

I wish I had a new photo to post, but I really can't bring myself to carry around my digital camera too much (the image quality is high in suck-osity), and I have yet to find use of a negative scanner or large enough flatbed to scan in anything new from my lovely film-based camera.

This whole spring-break thing has given me a chance to settle back into my skin, though I'm still pretty tired all the time. I think part of me got left behind in January and it still has to catch up...

In a future-referencing allusion to the extended entry, I will say that I fuxored with a few more (minor) layout things, primarily categories.

A moderate amount of activity has occured today on the front pages. It's good to see that some people are starting to use counterpop... Meghan continues to amaze. Now if only she would make more things like goth-girl dress-up...

I took the CalTrain (didn't really feel like driving) up to San Francisco today and had dinner with The Daniel. Much eating of ridiculously good Indian food transpired, and it only cost us $12. Total. Creeping realisations of just how skewed your sense of dining becomes after 4 years at a school that somehow finds itself in a patently un-college town.

This photograph is almost entirely unrelated to this post. Noelle is shiny and bright.

Audioscrobbler is one of few genuinely cool plugins I've seen in a while. Here I am.

3 finals down, 1 more to go. This quarter just needs to end. blah.

I am tired. I am true of heart!

Won't you please knock me off my feet for a while?

Sometimes it's just easier to express yourself in terms of references to other things.

Instead of studying for any of the 4 finals I have this week, I spent most of my day playing around with layout.

First, I tried getting out my "The New Color-Aid" cards, ostensibly for the use of creating new and undiscovered color schemes. I have to say, these cards are possibly the worst purchase I have made in recent history. I bought them for a class that I ended up dropping. They were ridiculously expensive, and all the colors have lame names. I'm not exactly sure how the hell you're supposed to convert something like "C-P3-3" or "GRAY 3" into any kind of standard colorspace, (RGB or CMYK, for instance), and the Color Aid Corporation seems to skim over this aspect of their use. They claim We offer you a color-order system based on objective perceptual principles rather than one derived from mechanical mixing of pigments inks or dyes, but you know what? These cards were printed on paper. By a machine. With dyes and/or inks. It sure would be nice if they provided some means by which you could say, reproduce these colors. It would make it a lot easier to use them for any conceivable practical purpose.

After realizing that Color-Aid has the craptacular nature, I just started messing around with the default styles that I shamelessly ripped from the Moveable Type website. I didn't do too much (I spent too much of my energy trying to figure out those damn cards), but here it is.

Assorted randomness:

the secret weblog of Meghan Moore.

a photograph for your viewing pleasure:

(Christmas day, chez moi)

Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing anything because I don't own a television.... sometimes I don't.

<calil> next thing we know, allan will be appearing on "Married By America"
<allan> married by america?
<allan> never heard of it
<calil> people come on. allow the viewing auidence to call in and tell them who they're going to marry.
<calil> trainwreck
<allan> what?
<allan> that sounds like a really random premise
<allan> is it on Fox or something?
<calil> you got it. :)

You really have to wonder who comes up with this crap.

I was going through my email, trying to clean out my inbox and whatnot, when I came across an email from the wonderful Sadia Shepard, containing these words of endless inspiration:

I would love to see what you are up to, and depending on where you relocate post-graduation yes, you will see my documentary, providing I don't become completely demoralized by the endless pursuit of cash to keep working on it, constant doubts as to what structure it should take, and the depressing realization that many people I know are giving up on their hopes and dreams and becoming lawyers with mediocre fiancées.

A bit of Googling on Sadia turns up this, which includes a link to some of her photographs, both related to the documentary she mentions.