I stayed at Kate's last night and managed, for the first time in a long, long time, to fall asleep before 2 am. Well, after wrastling with the cats to get them outside the room and not inside all the crap I brought. I had been in the City earlier to drop Cal off at home and invite myself to dinner with him and his girlfriend (whose name I guarantee I will misspell and will therefore wait for him to read this and let me know the correct spelling).

Since I managed to find a really good parking spot, and Webzine is fairly close to Kate's place, Kate suggested I take the bus to the workshop/conference/party.

Um...

Okaaaaay...

I've never been on a bus in San Francisco before. Never needed to. Never considered it. Not used to thinking of public transportation beyond maybe taking the train to a Giants game. Oh wait, haven't gone to a Giants game this season, and it's nearly over. Hooray! Oops, I mean, "Wow."

So, breakfast with Kate this morning, catch up on team gossip (whoo-ee, there is dramm-ma on the team, and I've been missing it!), and a bus ride to Webzine 2005.

I missed my stop (the numbers increase making 15th before 16th, not after - d'oh!), and had to walk back from 17th and Market, along Market, which was awesome. Talk about a great place to people watch. The weather was beautiful, the overhead conversations entertaining, and the walk enjoyable. I'm glad I missed my stop.

Now, off to hear Messina, Matt and Andy talk about Flock, Open Source and Wordpress.

Woe is the second night in a row when looking for said "quality" television and find not one, but two bad movies you worked on in a previous life, showing at 1:15.

In the morning.

While you're wrastling cross browser CSS.

Tonight's bad movie is Turbulence. Also known as my first screen credit.

Or was it my second?

Third?

Ah, hell if I remember. It was one of those better off forgotten. It was a bad movie with crappy acting. But very very good special effects. You can trust me on that one.

You think I'm kidding.

Mike says I'm the only person he knows on IMDB. He's wrong, there are a lot of us. We just normally don't announce it.

Last night's movie was Broken Arrow. Oh, joy on that one, too.

Why can't they just show Shrek? At least that one I can cry out, "Layers!"

"Ogres have layers! Onions have layers!"

"Parfait! Everybody loves parfait! Parfaits have layers."

[23:25] <factoryjoe>	yeah but the revolution is dead

[21:38] <sepeck> there we go, joined upcoming Drupal group
[21:39] <sepeck> kitt: familier theme :)
[21:40] <sepeck> so, do you all think I should design all blue themes in keeping with the current contrib trend?  :)
[21:40] <sepeck> ahh... kitt as inthe kitt worked on drupal.gallery.org conversion kitt?
[21:41] <kitt>   sepeck that's me!
[21:41] <sepeck> I remember your post to docs and forums now
[21:41] <kitt>   uh oh...
[21:42] <kitt>   sepeck, you should design in pink! http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/45145006/

Heh.

"The Kitt worked on GMC conversion Kitt."

When I last watched Stump the Scwab, the way it worked was the show host would ask a question, "Name the last 19 men ranked #1 in the ATP rankings," and the answers would display in a list. The contestants would provide an answer in a round-robin fashion, dropping out when they couldn't provide a new, correct answer, until only one contestant (or Schwab) was left. Each correct answer yielded a point, highest points goes to the next round.

The correct answers would disappear from the list, so you could see at a quick glance the correct answers remaining.

Well, they changed it.

Now, instead of displaying all the answers, they display them one at a time as they are correctly guessed by the contestants.

Terribly annoying.

I can no longer hear the question, then cry out, "Wait! Wait! Pause it! Let me see... Safin, Roddick, Federer, Courier, Wilander, Sampras, Kafelnikov, Hewitt, McEnroe, Muster, Moya, Edberg, Agassi!, Becker, Sampras, Rios ... crap! Um, Lendl?" as Kris stares at me in amazement.

This works effectively when the questions are baseball related and Kris says, "daaaa-aaaamn..."

Not realizing, of course, that I've watched the episode already and memorized the answers.

Doesn't have the same effect without the "Wait! Wait! Pause it!"

Stupid Schwab.