Axodys

According to my order tracking page at Buy.com my new camera has arrived in Spokane. Hopefully it’ll get delivered to my building by lunchtime.

A Linux journal showed up in my mailbox today. Cool, I thought, as I slowly remembered that I had ordered it online a while back. Something about a… Holy Cow! Naked man sitting in front of a computer! Oh, I see that’s the crazy cover of the Python supplement that came with this month’s issue. As I explained to Mary later, I only read Linux journal for the pictures…

I was looking at Jake’s new redesign (when I should have been working on my own) and a certain picture of his jumped out at me. The rest, as they say, is history.

Hmm… lunchtime and I have the day off. Where shall I go? I think a Quizno’s tuna fish sandwich might be calling my name actually.

Last night Mary and I rented an offbeat indie film with the oh so apt title of SLC Punk! While it’s definitely not a movie for everybody, I found it to be a pretty entertaining look at growing up punk in Reagan era Salt Lake City.

I think it’s time for a little Return of the Jedi action.

Things I really should do to take advantage of my day off tomorrow:
* Get a working site redesign up and running.
* Start playing with Python.
* Install MySQL and the latest version of Python on my LinuxPPC box.
* General apartment cleaning (and packing?)
* Pay a couple bills
* Let my apartment manager know May will be my last month in the building.

I was quite successful in the shoe shopping arena today.

I noticed today that there’s an Ask Slashdot: covering the topic of which digital camera to purchase. Nice timing for me considering my current interest in buying one.

Last night I went to U-571. Now I’ve got submarines on the brain. There’s just something about underwater warfare that I find completely fascinating.

Work seems fairly quiet today. At least there were a lot fewer cars out on the street when I went to park this morning. Most of the offices throughout the University will be closing at noon because it’s Good Friday (Gonzaga is a Jesuit School). We also get Monday off as part of the Easter Holiday. I’m hoping to get a lot of stuff accomplished this weekend.

Look out weblogging world! I’ve just discovered that my hosting service supports XSSI (server side includes). No, I don’t have any idea what I’m going to do with my newfound capabilities yet.

I think the Casio QV-2000UX is going to be the camera for me. It’s got exactly the feature set I want (USB, 3x optical zoom, max resolution of 1600×1200, etc.) at a price point of around $500 these days. For $300 more you can get it with an IBM 340MB Microdrive (costs over $400 individually), but I’d rather get a new stereo I think.

Of course I haven’t ordered anything yet and I still might not do it.