"My official new years 2006 photo"

For all of the new iPod owners

Click here to get the tutorial I made for everyone that got an iPod for the holidays/birthdays. It is a PDF file. The are probably better instructions if you go to the help menu in iTunes.

I saw The Chronicles of Narnia last night. The CG was really cool, but other than that, the movie wasn't that great.

Now I have to go and practice making Macaroni Salad (my favorite!).

It's about time!

I updated my side bar (that thing to the right of this blog). I got rid of the link to my cafepress store, because nobody was buying Cock of the Rock t-shirts and greeting cards with pictures of me eating liver. I also replaced the Commenteers section with a friends section. I have more friends than that but I only listed those with websites. Where are the rest of you? Get crackin' on those sites! Or you could even be like Lawrence and just squat on a domain name without even building a site. I need to encode of current demo reel and replace the ancient versions that are linked in the side bar. Its late and I'm going to sleep.

"The British Flyer"

Lobster on Christmas Eve

Happy Holidays

Have a:
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah
Crazy Kwanzaa
Tip Top Tet

{post #500}

The End of The Beginning

I had my last animation class at NYIT yesterday. I have my last class at NYIT for my M.A. tonight. I have been there for five years. And so...

Thank You

To Paul, who has been my mentor and my friend. I hope one day he will be my coworker, employer, employee or collaborator. I'm not sure where I would be without him. I would not have an M.A. for sure. Thank you for everything.

To Ellen, for being my honey monkey kitten button.

To Lawrence, for being my friend and encouraging me.

To everyone whom I ever helped in the lab, and all of my current and former classmates. You taught me a lot.

Contradulations

To all of the students graduating this December. Lawrence, Jamell, Ann Marie F, and probably a few other people I am missing.

To Rhonda and David, and their baby to be.

To Bryan and his new wife.

Life on Mars?

I wonder if the NYC transit strike will effect my going-to-the-Heidelberg-for-my-birthday plans.

I always thought that the lyrics to "Life On Mars?" went "Now the workers have struck for fame / 'cause Lenin's on sale again" but it keeps coming up as Lennon instead of Lenin everywhere I look.

This seems very useful

Now that I have finished all of the homework I will ever have to do, I found a good Common Errors in English.

I met Santa last night!

I'm not sure why he has a garbage bag and not a red sack. Maybe he's trying to tell us something.

When all else fails...

... visit the Cute Overload Blog

via boingboing

The TriAnnual Drawers and Doors Festival

step 1) Open every single drawer and cabinet door in your kitchen.

step 2) Take a photo.

"Vespa P 200 E"

A Pilgrimage

I finally got to go to the other Croxley's in Rockville Centre. Perhaps the most notable attraction of this Croxley's over my local one is the presence of Franziskaner on tap; well worth the extra milage just to meet with that great white beer. The wait-staff at Rockville center also seemed twice as nice despite appearing to be three times as overworked. I had the usual bangers and mash AND ¢10 wings. In addition to my Franziskaner, I had a Brooklyn Hefe-Weizen, which I must say has completely redeemed the Brooklyn Brewery in my eyes, after they had soured me with their lager, pilsner, or whatever it was I drank that time. The Brooklyn was a slightly less cloudy weiss bier, but good nonetheless and had strong fruity overtones. Not only all of that, but the Rockville Centre Croxley's is right across the street from Waterzooi, an establishment I have yet to visit but hold the highest hopes for. The are also many "common bars" in the same small area.

Funny Google search

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The part I find funniest is the "Did you mean:"

{That's four seconds of your life you'll never get back}

My new goal

I will be a duck. Feathers. Webbed feet. Bill. The whole nine yards.

Travels with Chapstick

December 9th was Ann Marie's birthday. I went with Ellen's family to a restaurant called H2O. I had seared Chilean sea bass, which was served on top of cooked spinach and a potato pancake with a tomato-caper sauce. The Bass was very flakey and it was good. It was on the really expensive side, so I am not sure if I'll get back there anytime soon.

On Saturday, Ellen and I took my car to the Port Jefferson ferry, and took it to Bridgeport, CT and drove up to Boston to see the Boston Pops. On the drive up, we stopped at a Roy Rogers. All the Roy Rogers places on Long Island closed years ago, and I hadn't eaten in one probably since I was five years old. I was rather disappointed in my meal on Saturday, and it was, by a wide margin, the worst fast food I have ever eaten. It was only by some miracle that both of us didn't get sick from all of that disgusting grease.

But on to Boston. We stayed at the Hilton in the Back Bay area, not far from Symphony Hall. We got to the city a little early and had some time to kill. Looking trough one of those books/guides/advertisements you frequently find in hotel rooms, we decided to walk to the International Poster Gallery on Newbury Street. It turns out Boston is really cold in the winter (who would have thought that?), but we were sufficiently bundled up. What we were less prepared for was the treacherous sidewalk conditions. The main problem was stepping off the side walk into the street when crossing, where large lakes of deep slush had formed. I got a nice sneaker full of slush at one point. Some of the sidewalks also had nice layers of slush and snow packed down and dirtied by heavy foot traffic, making for an interesting walk. Newbury St. is a very interesting area and tourist destination. There are a tremendous variety of stores and boutiques packed in to the first floors and basements of brownstones and rowhouses. The International Poster Gallery is one such store. They display and sell actual vintage posters, which are in amazing condition from the looks of things. They have gigantic ones that seemed to hover around ten-thousand dollars all the way down to little ones in the hundreds of dollars, all of them vintage prints. I was really cool. We walked back trough the slush to the hotel, stopping to take a few photos as the sun set.

After we were ready to go to Symphony Hall, we decided it might not be a bad idea to take a taxi. Walking trough the Boston slush was hard enough in sneakers and boots, let alone shoes. We sat at a table in Boston Symphony Hall, and we ordered some snacks. The show was a lot of fun. They had an opera singer for some of the songs, and that was fairly amazing. There was a sing along at the end, which I tried to take part in. It seemed I knew the first few lines of each song and not much more. After that, I mumbled along when I knew the tune, but I mostly sat there quietly. Santa Claus even made a visit to the hall, carrying a big sack of what might have been his laundry. After the show, we walked back to the hotel (only a few blocks but sit very difficult in shoes). We decided we had had enough of the Boston winter, and went to the restaurant inside the hotel, Boodles.

Boodles is advertised in every hotel elevator, in several places throughout the room, and elsewhere as well. I had already known about it from my searches for brew-pubs and restaurants in the Back Bay area. We had some expensive Lobster salad sandwiches, which were awesome and worth every penny. I also had some Allagash White, a hefe weizen from Maine. It was really good. So good, in fact, that it could go toe to toe with its best Belgian or German cousins. There were even cute little pouring instructions on the bottle, to make sure you got the full flavor of the yeast that may have settled on the bottom (see Wheat Beer). Boodles is a go.

As we fell asleep (or tried to), it seemed like there was a riot going on on our floor. There must have been a wedding party. The ride home was uneventful. We didn't take the ferry on the return trip. It was a fun little excursion.

Newbury St., Boston, MA

An awesome animated ode to Motion Pictures

{click here}

The Parts I Love:
* Metropolis: Really cute!
* Saul Bass: Beyond cool!!!

via: I can't remember

Hubert J Farnsworth

Tomorrow I start teaching associates degree students at Katharine Gibbs in Melville. I am replacing a professor (and former NYIT student) that left for another job with three weeks to go in the semester. The place kind of reminded me of high school when I was walking around. I guess I'll get to see if I like it in these three weeks.

Of course, professor Fauvell gave me all the secrets to getting a job wherever I want, so...

Test 123

Testing

My First Italian Beer

Scott's Holiday & Birthday Wishlist

Tour of the Franziskaner and Paulaner breweries in Munich, Germany.

Z Corp Spectrum Z510 full color high definition 3D Printer.

Sony HDR-FX1 HDV high definition 3 chip digital video camera.

A week in Disney World.

Canon Digital Rebel XT SLR or a Sony DSC-F828

To know how to draw.

All expenses paid trip to Earth's Moon

The uncancellation of Futurama.

A house and job in San Francisco, USA.

To make all of the people happy, all of the time.

And now for
Scott's Realistic Holiday & Birthday Wishlist

A trip to the Heidelberg Restaurant, New York City to drink Franziskaner, Paulaner, and eat assorted meats.

A job (and one I like).