My me-time this past weekend wasn’t a total waste for the rest of humanity. I made a lot of changes to the site, and worked on the redesign. Tough questions were asked, like do I put a picture on my front page like an nerdy academic, or remain faceless, like a trendy blogger? In the end, I compromised, by putting up a picture that doesn’t look all that much like me. I’m a bit more of a CHUD in real life.
The big change, though, is that I used a few of the huge number of WordPress plug-ins to add info about my media consumption habits. Now you can see what I’ve been listening to, reading, and watching. I actually kind of dig it when I can go to other people’s web sites and find out stuff like that, so hopefully some of you out there will dig it here. I’m especially looking forward to having a forum to write glib little mini-reviews of movies I’ve seen, since I tend to do that on a pretty regular basis anyway.
So I’ve been pretty focused and Interweb-less the past couple of weeks. I have some deadlines looming, a couple of recently-scrapped projects behind me, and various other demands of my time. Yesterday, after a morning full of meetings, I spent about ten hours straight trying unsuccessfully to implement an optimization algorithm. I walked home, tired and frustrated, in full-on zombie mode. And Ty, Gill and I watched this video of bouncing Japanese kids playing the Saber Dance.
My former roommate’s girlfriend’s former roommate’s Neo New Wave/Electropop duo — Children of the CPU — not only has a really pretty cool album (geek-chicishly titled Back to BASIC), but they got air time on my fave podcast — CBC’s