Apr
27

Y Tu Mama Tambien

By e; — Saturday, April 27, 2002

So I know I should be posting in movies, but I'm lazy and that section's so ridiculously out of date anyway... This summmer I'll bring it back.


Anyway, tonight I went and saw Y Tu Mama Tambien. It was hilarious. No, I don't speak Spanish, so I did spend the entire movie reading, but I didnt think that distracted from it at all. The camera work was very natural and fluid. Scenes just sort of flowed. At times the camera almost seemed to just wander around a scene. The acting was also really well done. All in all, an enjoyable night. And then there was the hooker on Sunset, but we won't get into that here.

Apr
26

welcome to eThreads:evolution

By e; — Friday, April 26, 2002

So I just switched rantings over to the #{node "7"}eThreads#{/node}:evolution core (or eTevolution). You really won't notice much of a difference on the front-end, but I assure you there's a lot of cool new stuff going on in the backend that you just can't see. One thing you can see is the archives, which is linked to at the top of this page. I'll post more about the new backend later.

Apr
25

quote of the night

By e; — Thursday, April 25, 2002

Paraphrasing Drew Pryor:


The number one thing I would tell you is... don't be a COMM major. We already know common sense, we don't need to major in it.

Apr
25

gar gar gar

By e; — Thursday, April 25, 2002

It would make sense that the day before I have to take my COMM final, the USC email server would be borked up and I wouldn't be able to download the study guide... Typical...

Apr
23

cell phones

By e; — Tuesday, April 23, 2002

I really know more than most people should about cell phones. Everyone else just cares about making and receiving calls, and here I am looking at things like what Voicestream's LA build-out is going to do to Cingular's network saturation and the details of GPRS roaming.


Today I called Cingular and got changed to a newer rate plan (my 350 minute national plan went down $10), activated Wireless Internet Express (GPRS... 1mb included), and asked a lot of roaming questions. Wireless Internet will roam fine in Muskegon on NPI, and when I'm in Grand Rapids or Chicago I should be able to roam onto Voicestream's GPRS network. I've only done the most trivial playing with GPRS so far, but it's definitely faster and a quicker connect time. Now I just need to find a good way to monitor the traffic I put through it to keep from going over the 1mb cap.