The Net Monkey

I think I need one of those!

It was a bit of a fiasco getting to Kansas City, but it was a lot more relaxed once I got there. I had a good fun and it was really great to spend some time with Mac, who I haven’t seen in a good year and a half.

Good times included eating just about every ethnic food one could have in a weekend: Chinese, Thai, Indian, and Mexican. We also spent a good part of an afternoon at the University of Kansas, where I took a bunch of photos. It reminded me a lot of Bloomington, actually, and I had no idea it was so hilly. I assumed it was all flat!

Here are some snapshots.

Another highlight was making it into Kansas City itself to see the Plaza, which is this outdoor shopping mall created back in the 1920s. Here are some shots from the area, but nothing specific of the mall itself. I guess I forgot to take pictures.

The last highlight I want to mention is that we saw Iron Man at the movie theatre Friday night. I thought it was a fantastic movie (except for the blatant product placements). I highly recommend it if you feel like hitting the movies in the near future.

Photo Set: Kansas City - May 2008

This is brilliant!

This morning I’m flying to Kansas City to spend the weekend with my good friend Mac (like the computer). I had everything packed and my clothes laid out for me to wear, and my intention was to simply wake up and head out the door to the airport.

Somehow I managed to sleep through TWO ALARMS (my phone and my regular alarm clock) and somehow woke up suddenly at 7:20 AM, about 25 minutes before my flight was scheduled to leave.

I rushed to get here like a madman, and managed to pay just $25 to change flights. I thought I was going to be on standby, but Northwest apparently had seats available so I’m all confirmed and ready.

Whew!

I’ll be making it to Kansas City just a few hours later than I expected, thankfully, but now I have to fly through Minneapolis instead. At least I get to fly direct on my return trip.

I’ll post some photos when I have them.

Bon voyage!

Title: Sunday Wine Night

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BRAINS!

Today, after visiting with my family, I went downtown with my camera. It’s been a long time since I’ve spent time walking around our many urban green spaces.

On my way home, I dropped by Steph and Stephanie’s house in the Old Northside. My friend Jonathan was there with his two dogs, Jackson and Jefferson, having a cookout with them. Not too long after my arrival, Dan and Doug showed up to pay a visit, too.

As it was getting dark, Stephanie decided to make some brownies. Have I ever talked about how much I love chocolate?

Anyway, at about that time, Steph and I started obsessing over history, architecture, etc. It turns out she has an historic postcard collection of Indianapolis just like me! Sometime soon she and I will have to do some card trading. Nothing fancy — just your average nerd fun.

After getting home tonight, I watched the Darjeeling Limited. I’m definitely a fan of little esoteric films like that. Have you seen it? What did you think?

We got bored at work the other night.

Anyone out there using AT&T U-Verse? If so, what do you think of it?

It’s been a while since I’ve shared any music on here.

Cut Copy - Lights & Music

This is the first single released from Cut Copy’s new album: In Ghost Colours.

Bat For Lashes - What’s A Girl To Do

The bunny masks and bicycles remind me a bit of Donnie Darko.

Goldfrapp - Happiness

This is the second single off of Goldfrapp’s recent album: Seventh Tree. This might very well be my favorite track on the whole album, but I’m not sure yet.

Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor

This is off Hot Chip’s recent album: Made In The Dark.

Beatles in Indianapolis (1964)

In keeping with the British theme, I present to you parts one and two of the Beatles performing here in Indianapolis back in 1964.

Quicken Mac 2007 sucks!

I’ve switched to using Quicken 2008 (for Windows) which I’m using on Windows XP running VMware Fusion.

I wish I could get a refund.

I’ve recently started using FriendFeed!

FriendFeed aggregates your online social networking activity on sites like YouTube, del.icio.us, etc. Basically, anything that allows you to share data on the Internet can be brought together into a single feed accessible by either a web browser or RSS feed.

Link: My FriendFeed

So, every time I share an item in Google Reader or post items to Flickr, you’ll see it in my FriendFeed. They also offer Facebook integration so you can see my feed in a profile box.

I finally have some grown-up furniture here in my condo.

I asked Andy P. and Laura to model for me.

I’ve migrated the email hosting for netmonkey.net over to Google Apps recently.

For those of you who aren’t in the know, this is Google’s offering of Gmail for domains. Since they offer a basic package at no charge with IMAP support and lots of storage, it made sense to switch over to them from Tuffmail. It’s just me and my mother using netmonkey.net, so I don’t see the point in paying someone for something I can get for free (and still keep my domain).

(By the way, I have nothing bad to say about Tuffmail because they’ve been an extremely reliable hosting company for the past three years, but it is time for me to move on.)

Anyway, the only difficult part of the migration was the migration itself.

• DNS hosting for all of my domains, including netmonkey.net, was handled by Tuffmail at no cost. Since I’m canceling my service, I had to move to a new provider. Fortunately, GoDaddy also offers free DNS services, so it seemed like the logical choice, for now.
• I have a lot of email! I did a manual migration using Apple Mail which worked just fine, but it look quite some time to complete. Ideally, I would have used a migration script, but I didn’t feel like doing it.

I had to get used to the way that Gmail handles its IMAP folder structure, but so far I don’t have any complaints. It works exactly as it should.

I recall reading some rumors about a year ago that Flickr planned to add video support, so I was not one bit surprised when it finally launched this week.

I think this is a great idea! I love the idea of having my videos and photos in one place.

So, here are a couple of videos I’ve posted. They’re nothing special, but it’s nice to get them archived up somewhere.

Thunder Over Louisville 2005

I was in Louisville with my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew for Thunder Over Louisville back in 2005. We were on top of a parking garage in downtown. It offered a pretty good view of the 4th Street Bridge over the Ohio River.

Back Home Again in Indiana by the White River Jazz Band

The White River Jazz Band was performing back in 2005 for the annual Strawberry Festival in downtown Indianapolis. I filmed this on the southern steps of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument.

I went up and talked to the banjo player.

She kept asking me whether she should smile or not while I took her photo. I hope she’s still performing; it was great to see her play and capture the moment in my photo stream.