September 2009
Hollywood
Fri, 2009-09-18 12:00 | by Erin
Welcome to 2009, where on October 16th my last and possibly most fondest child hood memory of my Aunts reading Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" to me, will be raped by Hollywood in... it's quest to ruin everything I thought was great as a child.
I read this story to my son for almost 3 years straight at least 2 times a week. I love this book. I have this book almost completely memorized. I am sure that I own at least 3 copies of this book, one that my Aunts (Aunt Lyn my godmother) gave me as a child, that my mother then gave to her when she had children that she gave back to me, when Eric was born.
It is redeeming to see that Spike Jonze is directing it and really seems to care about makeing a film that doesn't suck.
The people who made Transformers, Terminator 4 and G.I. Joe should all go see this movie. If the movie is 1/2 as good as the trailer they might learn something.
Hollywood please stop making movies that suck, just because you think I am a 30 something guy with kids who will say "AUGH COOL I use to watch/read/play with that when I was Eric's age. Eric will love it!"
Here is the trailer, enjoy it, I did.
I read this story to my son for almost 3 years straight at least 2 times a week. I love this book. I have this book almost completely memorized. I am sure that I own at least 3 copies of this book, one that my Aunts (Aunt Lyn my godmother) gave me as a child, that my mother then gave to her when she had children that she gave back to me, when Eric was born.
It is redeeming to see that Spike Jonze is directing it and really seems to care about makeing a film that doesn't suck.
The people who made Transformers, Terminator 4 and G.I. Joe should all go see this movie. If the movie is 1/2 as good as the trailer they might learn something.
Hollywood please stop making movies that suck, just because you think I am a 30 something guy with kids who will say "AUGH COOL I use to watch/read/play with that when I was Eric's age. Eric will love it!"
Here is the trailer, enjoy it, I did.
Last Nice Weekend
Mon, 2009-09-14 19:00 | by Erin
I think this will be the last really nice weekend we will get for a while. The weather here is always nice, but after about September 20th it starts to get cooler and rains a bit more than necessary.
Eric and I headed out to Futuko-Shinichi for rugby practice. We were a little late, but we brought along some food I made the night before for a BBQ, and a screen from the BBQ at my house.
Practice was pretty brutal, work stress has the muscles in my back in knots making it hard to breathe when I run ect.... whine whine whinge cry cry cry.....my age is really starting to show.
After our last game of touch where I surprised my shorter opposition by kicking it over their heads, running around them then grabbing the ball and putting it down for the try. I retiered for the day.
We were having the BBQ for Tommy to celebrate him leaving for college in England. Good Luck Tommy!
It was almost dark when we left and Eric and I did not get back to Kichijoji till almost 8.
We stopped along the way so Eric could take his photo with a ceremonial drum.
When we got home I took a shower and went to bed immediately, next to me in bed was poor little Anna-chan who had a fever all day. She woke up several times durring the night and I did my best to make her comfortable. I hope she gets better soon.
Eric and I headed out to Futuko-Shinichi for rugby practice. We were a little late, but we brought along some food I made the night before for a BBQ, and a screen from the BBQ at my house.
Practice was pretty brutal, work stress has the muscles in my back in knots making it hard to breathe when I run ect.... whine whine whinge cry cry cry.....my age is really starting to show.
After our last game of touch where I surprised my shorter opposition by kicking it over their heads, running around them then grabbing the ball and putting it down for the try. I retiered for the day.
We were having the BBQ for Tommy to celebrate him leaving for college in England. Good Luck Tommy!
It was almost dark when we left and Eric and I did not get back to Kichijoji till almost 8.
We stopped along the way so Eric could take his photo with a ceremonial drum.
When we got home I took a shower and went to bed immediately, next to me in bed was poor little Anna-chan who had a fever all day. She woke up several times durring the night and I did my best to make her comfortable. I hope she gets better soon.
Same site New look
Sat, 2009-09-12 09:56 | by Erin
I have always believed in hosting my own site.
I have always had my own server, because I never wanted to be at the mercy of someone else's poorly designed and poorly executed system. Things have been difficult though at the location where I am currently hosting my server, and I thought it was time to move on.
I work for a ISP as well and I wanted to host my services here at work there was no English support, so I decided to look else where. I found hostgator while working with a friend on his site. I had a look at his control panel and the features they offered and though I should give it a try.
I honestly have never been more pleased with a purchase in my life.
Every thing just worked, and when I encountered a problem. Like I could not load my sql file for my database, I contacted tech support.
I have always had my own server, because I never wanted to be at the mercy of someone else's poorly designed and poorly executed system. Things have been difficult though at the location where I am currently hosting my server, and I thought it was time to move on.
I work for a ISP as well and I wanted to host my services here at work there was no English support, so I decided to look else where. I found hostgator while working with a friend on his site. I had a look at his control panel and the features they offered and though I should give it a try.
I honestly have never been more pleased with a purchase in my life.
Every thing just worked, and when I encountered a problem. Like I could not load my sql file for my database, I contacted tech support.
Me: Hi! Is there a way I can get a command line interface to the mysql server on my virtual host?
Tech Support: Did you try to ssh to the site and use the command line tools?
Me: A no can I do that?
Tech Support: Sure do you want to enable ssh?
Me: Yes please.
Tech Support: OK ssh is enabled.
Me: Thank you.