Jan 23, 2009 by Rochelle
Oh Blog!
Yesterday appeared to be a slow blog day. I kept checking my Bloglines but wasn’t getting much, which was especially painful because I was in a lot of boring meetings with my laptop just waiting to read something knitty or scrapbooky or foody or funny or Baracky. Sadly though, there just wasn’t much. By last night I was fed up with Bloglines after I kept getting a couple of errors on blogs that it wasn’t getting the feed for. So I kept trying to repair it but it wasn’t getting repaired. I then decided that I was sick of Bloglines. I’ve been using it for a long time and there are a lot of features that I like, but I felt like maybe I wasn’t getting all the feeds that I had subscribed to.
So I went through the tedious process of switching to Google Reader. Perhaps there was an easier way to do this, but I didn’t try hard to figure that out. Instead I just went through my Bloglines and clicked on each Blog’s website to grab the URL, then subscribed to it through Google Reader. I can’t tell you how much I was missing by using Bloglines. It wasn’t pulling at least 10% of my feeds. So that’s like 15 blogs I haven’t been reading for a long time.
Anyway, I’m now all set up with Google Reader and pretty happy. I like supporting the little guy (Bloglines), but the technology company that is slowly taking over my day-to-day Internettin’ (Google) just does it right.
Poppy Seed Massacre
So I am a sucker for poppy seed bagels, even though they make a huge mess and poppy seeds get stuck in my teeth. I just find them so tasty and therefore put up with it. Today though there was a complete poppy seed disaster at my desk. I picked one up this morning at the student center’s cafeteria and much to my dismay the bagel slicer was MIA. Needless to say, slicing a poppy seed bagel with a knife at my desk made for quite a mess…
Pineapple Boat
Last night after work I went with Mike to Asian Fusion, my new favorite place for Chinese. Once again it was completely awesome and delicious. I told him I would buy him dinner and it turned out to be like $50. Well worth it though! We’ll be able to eat leftovers for lunch today too, so at least we’re getting a couple meals out of it.
Oscars-Shmoscars
I am thoroughly disappointed that Revolutionary Road didn’t get the nominations I thought it deserved. I realize that the movie isn’t for everybody and most people who see it either love it or hate it, but at the very least the actors definitely deserved nominations. I’ve seen all the nominated Best Picture movies and I’m just feeling kind of blah about it. I thought
Frost/Nixon was completely lame and had nothing special about it. I liked the movie, but it didn’t scream Oscar. I would have been just as well off watching a documentary on the History channel about it and then the actual interview. I really believe that when Ron Howard makes a movie it automatically gets nominated and that just pisses me off. Frost/Nixon made me want to do two things…
1. Watch The Queen, since the guy who played David Frost is the same guy who played Tony Blair. What a good movie that was.
2. Watch Pride & Prejudice for the millionth time because the guy who played John Birt played the scrumptious and adorable Mr. Darcy. And we all know how I can’t resist Mr. Darcy.
I have mixed feelings on Slumdog Millionaire. Someone I really respect, Jim Emerson, ripped Slumdog apart and I sort of agree with him. Jim is a great critic and works with Roger Ebert. Since Roger has been ill the past couple of years Jim has taken over at the Conference on World Affairs here on campus. I can’t wait until April when he comes to campus and does his Interruptus. I have a feeling that we might be watching Dark Knight, which is a movie he doesn’t altogether love. Last year we did No Country for Old Men and he made me learn to appreciate that movie so much. He’s great.
The Weekend Ahead
I’m going to do lots and lots of laundry. I’m going to hopefully get back into writing my story, which I’ve had to put on the backburner this week. I also want to try a little scrapbooking and knitting. Sunday night I have another birthday dinner to attend with the birthday crew, so that should be fun. And of course, I’ll blog!
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