My brother gave me and Kenny lift tickets to Kirkwood as a wedding gift. We’re heading down tomorrow night for a long weekend snowboarding with my brother, some of his friends, and my dad. I’ve heard that snow conditions have been somewhat marginal in California this year, but there’s supposed to be decent snowfall with 10-14 inches of accumulation tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
Monthly Archive for February, 2007
I recently migrated my photos to Gallery 2 (for now, coexistent with my Gallery 1 installation, which I haven’t removed yet), and I don’t like it. I can’t do rectangular thumbnails anymore, the new slideshow mode is atrocious, URLs are uglier (I think there is an URL rewriting plugin, but I haven’t gotten around to playing with it yet), the vanilla non-customized site is hideous, and performance is terrible.
I would have just stayed with Gallery 1, but my installation is broken for some reason and I can’t upload.
I’m playing with Coppermine a little bit too, but the UI is clunky and some of the basic features – like uploading photos! – don’t seem to work reliably.
I’d like to move to some other open-source photo gallery option with a similar feature set to Gallery or Coppermine. I haven’t had time to research this yet and as a result I haven’t been uploading any new photos. :(
Recommendations would be very welcome.
It was really nice. It was out on Saturday too. Methinks spring is just around the corner.
People in Seattle are way too obsessed with the weather. Because nine months out of the year, it’s terrible. I think the other three months make up for it, but whenever I go visit the family in California I get jealous and start to have doubts.
I like the new Shins album. I finally got around to reading Seattle Weekly’s feature from January about The Shins and how they have helped Sub Pop move out of the grunge era. The article even credits The Shins with attracting quite a few other bands to the label. One snippet I found amusing:
The record the Shins have made, Wincing the Night Away, is a boldly produced, sonically dense record that stretches the band’s retro pop sound into broader, spacier territory. Anyone looking for the jangly, Brian Wilson-esque numbers of Chutes Too Narrow will need to check their expectations at the door.
While I agree that this album is more complex than the first two, I still hear Brian Wilson all over it. The first time I heard “Phantom Limb” (on KEXP via my alarm clock one morning) I actually wondered whether it was The Beach Boys, but it also reminded me of The Shins and then I remembered that a new Shins album was imminent. The Beach Boys comparison had never even occurred to me with Chutes Too Narrow, which the reviewer seems to think was the more Brian Wilson-esque album.
And “Pam Berry” sounds like Travis to me.
I’m going to see them at the Paramount tomorrow (even though I hate the Paramount for concerts). I hope the theatre isn’t full of Garden State fans who think that “New Slang” changed their lives.
P.S. The 6-CD changer in my car broke last spring (fortunately it was under warranty). I took it to the dealer to get it repaired, which they did very quickly and for free, and when I got my car back the CDs that had been inside the changer were mysteriously gone. No one at the dealership seemed to know anything about it. One of those CDs was Chutes Too Narrow, which I still need to replace. Grrrr. Thank god for Rhapsody.
For anyone who frequents Seattle’s Eastside and has been wondering where the “taco truck” went, some good news from the owner:
Taqueria Guadalajara (the taco truck) will re-open on February 7 at our new location in 15920 NE 8th St. Bellevue, WA 98005 located in the East Crossroad Shopping Center near the Post Office.
P.S .If you know of any more customers looking for our new address, please let them know. We really appreciate your support and look forward to see you soon.