idioChron

Dude! Dwight got a Dell (LCD). Dwight has been looking at this LCD since it first made waves. Dwight was interested in the Apple equivalent, but ~$500 and no component input were big strikes against going that way. The LCD is beautiful, contains no dead-pixels and the only complaint with the component is that games weren’t designed to be displayed with such clarity and a current lack of means to get sound. However for a 22 lbs. HD display it shall probably make at least a few trips to provide Dwight with a better visual experience when playing multi-box X Box. Especially since the most likely location this would be almost as big as any of the TVs let alone at least two steps up in input.

Dwight’s current complaint is that it makes his PowerBook’s display look almost bad in comparison.

Dwight’s Story a.k.a. idioChron is in its 4th edition. This is run by the Typo weblogging engine. Luckily someone wrote a wordpress to typo database conversion script, so the 3rd edition is kicking it here too. Dwight was being negatively influenced by the initial switch to Typo being slow as molasses so he had not been posting, also Dwight is taking a couple of classes this summer in his efforts to one day have a bachelor’s degree (hopefully without being a bachelor). One of these classes is a full semester squashed into a half semester, but it will be over with after one more lecture and then the final. That leaves just one evening class for the summer and it should prove to not be too distracting for are venerable protagonist, Dwight.

Dwight is even contemplating making idioChron less of a brain dump, but actually spending some time doing some quality stuff. IdioChron has been a little for the readers José, Fat Matt, Billy Zane, Scotty Balls, and Dwight supposes Drew Carey at least is aware of idioChron now. Mostly it is for Dwight, and Dwight does what Dwight wants, and Dwight may just want to step up the quality around here. Dwight does not think anyone shall complain with good reason.

Dwight has a port to run this on, but for some reason Lighttpd isn’t running the Ruby, instead passing it straight to the browser as text. Dwight has been busy as of late getting out from behind the computer, but shall endeavor to get it running properly and Apache to provide proxy services such that this will run at a good clip. Thank you for your patience.

Update: Huzzah, it turns out that Dwight’s weak knowledge of regular expressions finally came to the rescue. The Lighttpd process was looking for the host ”.idiochron.org,” and Dwight was always accessing idiochron.org straight up. Removal of the leading \. fixed everything right up and this site should run at a good clip.

Update 2: So for some reason TextDrive (and some other people) are still getting the old IP address for idiochron.org, this lead to Apache to try and proxy to a port on the old server instead of this one, after a few minutes this dawned on Dwight as a possible problem and swapping in the IP instead of the host in the Apache config and we are running.

Dwight enjoyed this movie immensely. The Tim Burton Batman was good, but this was amazing. Dwight is mindful that this Batman movie probably had even given that the dollar is worth less today than when Tim did his Batman, a considerably larger budget. Dwight agrees with the person that said, “I bet they regret doing Catwoman now, cause they might have to delay introducing her to the world of Batman.” If you haven’t yet had the joy of witnessing this marvelous film you should make it a point to see it ASAP.

Dwight had a couple of favorite characteristics to this movie. First off no overly cheesy dialog. The delivery makes them palatable. Dwight can’t believe that in the trailer for Fantastic Four they have Dr. Doom saying, “let’s not fight,” to the Invisible Woman, whom replies, “no, let’s.” The delivery is over the top. The second great thing about this film was the depth of the characters. Not just the main characters, but it felt like a lot of the characters had more depth to them than could have been passable for a Hollywood film. The last thing that stood out to Dwight was Bruce Wayne was more believable than ever of how he came to be, the tormented soul, the gadgets and gizmos. All in all a great film that Dwight eagerly looks forward to owning the DVD for.