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Category: Blogging
Home is where the superior blog engine is
Like the new digs?
It’s a work in progress, obviously. The template is only temporary, the sidebar isn’t really organized yet, and a lot of the old posts have some crazy number where the subject line should be. But, I can live with all that since the WordPress engine kicks Blogger’s ass. It was able to pull over every post from my two old blogs, skirl and radioDan. I’ve been using WordPress at work for a while now, and I just dig it.
And yes, it’s part of the larger site. A lot of the apps on this site won’t even be visible to you — I use them to manage my own life from various global locales (like, uh, my apartment and my office)Â — but I’m hoping to spin out a few interesting things.
By the way: yes, “dan dickinson” is me. Screw this anonymous stuff. I’d take Scoble’s advice about posting my cell phone number on the blog, but I don’t have one.
Gender dysphoria, new-house euphoria and iambic pentameter
Stupid Blogger…I tried to post this Saturday but it didn’t work, so it’s been sitting in a tmp file on my desktop for three days. Also: stupid me for forgetting about it.
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We finally got to see Transamerica (imdb | rotten tomatoes) last night, which was a must-see before the Oscars given what we’d heard about Felicity Huffman’s performance. She lived up to the billing too; it must’ve taken an incredible effort to walk, move, act and react like a man who was trying desperately to become a woman. And for a woman to be confident enough in herself to take a role that requires you to play a man trying to look like a woman…that must be on the rare side in Hollywood. Good for her. If she doesn’t win the Oscar, something is seriously wrong with the academy.
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CBGB moved into their new house today; we went over and had dinner with them. Couple of drinks too, to wind down the day and help GB forget about painting. We got Vietnamese from a nearby place called Mi Mi, which was pretty damn good…pork, shrimp & chicken, beef and chicken, some with rice, some with vermicelli. There were some spring rolls and sugar cane wrapped with shrimp and some other big salad roll-y things. Anyway, it was all good, especially when mixed with a Hacker Pschorr weiss bier.
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Yay, Jen Heil. Boo, Atlanta Thrashers.
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It’s funny how, despite studying Shakespeare throughout high school, it’s only recently that I’ve caught on to what iambic pentameter is.
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