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Poor neglected blog.

That’s ok, not much of relevance has happened since Hugh Jackman stood for all of us who hate people who don’t turn off their mobile phones in a theatre. Thanks once more Wolverine.

Now for the real, and random, updates…

• jordanmendenhall.com, a former home of this blog and my main site, has been updated. Now in a much bleaker grey tone. Hefty thanks to CSS-tricks for the inspiration and code.
• PHP – currently trying to tackle this programming language; reading through the excellent manual and trying to learn through experience with WordPress and SimplePie. I would have some SimplePie sites done by now but it is being frakin’ annoying and not working how I’d like. More to learn I guess.
• Restarted my search for work. If it doesn’t pan out by January, will more than likely be heading to Thailand to work for an NGO, finances be damned.
• The best days are those in which new books arrive in the mail. Today I received The Infrastructural City, Fell Vol 1: Feral City, and To The Holy Shrines. Will probably be the first and last purchases for the year as my stack(s) are already overwhelming.
• I don’t think the beef in my Mongolian beef from the local Chinese place actually comes from Mongolia.
• Still posting at WhyWeWorry. My posts are here.
• Thinking of doing my first NaNoWriMo. Ok, not as cool as running a marathon but I guess it’s a marathon of a different sort. Might be a bit of a spur to be disciplined for once.
• Was in a car accident my first day off from my laymen home nursing duties putting my squarely back at home and car-less for the past three weeks. Fingers crossed, it will be back tomorrow. Just another sign that my time back home in Redneckville should be coming to an end.
• Movies: Watched Fires On The Plain last night. A single Japanese soldier crawls across the shattered landscape of the Philippines in WWII witnessing gore, disease, and cannibalism. Excellent, to say the least. Carlito’s Way and Oldboy are the only other ones that stick out for me this month. Carlito’s Way of probably being the last great dePalma and Oldboy surprisingly fresh with a sick surprising ending. Also watched The Painted Veil, which was pretty decent, not great.
• Craig Ferguson remains the King of Late Night, despite all the attention lavished on the others. Conan is struggling a bit in his time slot and I enjoyed Jimmy Fallon even more than Conan until I was turned onto Craig Ferguson. Conan is starting to get into Letterman mode where he has one monologue joke for the week and rolls with it. Ferguson has no ’standard’ monologue, or format for that matter. He has, I guess, what you call a cold opening, a break, then goes to a monologue, then to a sit-down, then to the interviews. He doesn’t keep them on a strict PR play-by-play that you can tell is rote (Conan is getting especially bad at this) and will let the interview meander wherever it leads. He also has authors, which I’ve never seen on a real late night show before. Letterman and Leno I could really care less about, especially Leno. The commercials for his man on the street stuff before his show premiered seemed at best condescending and mostly insulting.
• The LA Cycling Map got a redesign. The map is loading properly but Google has been acting weird the past two days so who knows. Will take a closer look after doing some more cover letters. A cover letter done and problem figured out. Should work fine now.
• Update: Found some great techdork and theory pieces at this area of the Adobe site called the Think Tank. Check it out.

That’s about it. Hopefully good news to come, either about work or life or getting away, soon.