Gecko Bloggle

I wonder if this means I’m getting a cold or something. All evening, I’ve been feeling like I’ve got the attention span of a hummingbird watching blipverts on fast-forward.

Drinking too much coffee, and not eating enough food during the day leads me to this state, I think.

Work? Tried to get ODBC for a SQL 2000 server running on Vista 64bit. Oogly. Thanks to Somechick for the tips, but I still couldn’t get it goin’.

Surfing tonight? Weak.

I can’t upgrade to the latest & greatest WordPress 2.1 (the software that’s showing you this page right here), ’cause my installed verison of MySQL is ancient. Poop.

So… I looked around at some movies I might like to see in the near future (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Prestige, Russel Peters, Children of Men), tried to figure out how I could listen to the fantastic James Brown Respect show done at SolidSteel (but it’s now an “Archived Show” at TotallyRadio. Bombed around looking for old computer emulators (C128 running GEOS, anyone?). Ran through some of my links saved at Del.icio.us and then just sorta… flailed around.

Watched some Mythbusters. Ate some yummy Rice Crispy Squares that Arwen made. Narmo

…oh, and that new Sam Rami film, “The Messengers” gives me the major heebie jeebies, even though I’m sure the scariest stuff is in the ad (much like “The Grudge”).

I haven’t done the “What I Got For Xmas” post that everyone else did, but Arwen got me some really squippy shirts, and here’s one of ’em:

which is from TShirtHell.com (probably the only thing from that site I could actually WEAR TO WORK without having something really really bad happen to me).

I also go three really awesome shirts from Threadless, which does some really neat stuff.

and then I uh… some stuff.

Nope, no drive. I’m tired, I think. Maybe.

Next shirt I need to get myself, (’cause it’ll go with my “ObeyTheTube” shirt, and my “Obey Gravity, It’s The Law shirt,”) is one of these, even though I really don’t understand what it is exactly these folks are up to, really:

Maybe I’ll be less… lossy tomorrow, and I’ll do a *real* post one of these days.

So we did it again: Got together on a Monday night and yammered for a while, played with some audio gear (this time we actually had LESS than last time, and it sounded BETTER somehow), played some music, drank some gunpowder tea, and then put it on the Intarweb, ’cause that’s what little dudes do…
Click on the link for Unknown Origins Podcast #4 (right click to download).

• TalkyBit 1
• Tom Waits – Step Right Up
• Porno For Pyros – Pets
• Badly Drawn Boy – Once Around the Block
• TalkyBit 2
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Honeybear
• Aimless James – 1996
• The Dears – You and I Are A Gang of Losers
• Talkybit 3
• Holly McNarland – Elmo
• Hot Chip – Colours
• Talvin Singh – Mombasstic
• Talkybit 4
• Lionrock – Snapshot On Pollard St.
• The Herbaliser f. Latyrx – 8pt. Agenda
• TV On the Radio – Wolf Like Me (f. Katrina Ford)
• Talkbit 6
• Gecko Temple – Shea’s Lounge
• Hollywood Meat Slammers – Dubbest
• Bonus Bloopers/Your Hosts – Hot Buttered Robots (Phlegm Ball Remix)

Don’t forget you can put the following URL into iTunes, it’ll download our Podcast automatically for ya:

http://www.geckotemple.com/blog/?feed=rss2

I gotta say, I’m really diggin’ Sony’s Bravia ads for the “Color Like No Other” campaign. This one’s just sorta… Pretty.
The Hole – video powered by Metacafe Nice little tune, too.

Pretty awesome. Here’s the playlist from YouTube of the videos as posted by my buddy SkonenBlades while he was at work (a Yaletown gaming company that rhymes with Stocksrar). Don’t know if his video’s all over TV yet, but he emailed it to our YahooGroups list just after 3pm.

Check it out.