Styleboost

Ever since I was a whee-little designer, I’ve wanted to be featured on Styleboost, and guess what? ;) Oh yeah, seems my entry is the center for off-topic discussion. I love it. :D

PS: Flock’s on there too.

My Squeaky Kitty

Just watch it. :)

Conflict.

I hate it, but sometimes… especially in my new position, it’s part of the job. It still sucks though.

506 Pieces of Fun

I got a new “toy” two nights ago.

Yeah, I feel accomplished.

Tosca

I brought Jenni to Champions on Ice yesterday and I was stoked to see performances IN PERSON by awesome skaters such as Sasha Cohen, Michelle Kwan, Victor Petrenko and this one by one of my new favorites, Evgeni Plushenko. If you can find the version of “Tosca” played by Edvin Marton, I’ll love you forever.

Shuttle Begins

wordpress.com/blog/2006/08/03/new-login-page/

More information there. I really am glad that I’m starting to make some changes to the back-end. But this is just the beginning. There’s still a hell of a lot of work left to do.

First Bug Fix!

Aha! First bug fix with the Automattic team! Fixed a bug concerning a shitty looking admin bar in Hemingway and other themes. Still have to work on Fauna, talk about overriding. Now to do some research to see if any of the suggestions are worth implimenting.

More info: wordpress.com/blog/2006/07/27/new-admin-bar/

Return to Dance

Really trying to get back into Dance Dance Revolution. It’s been hard after being away from it so long, trying to go while at Facebook and failing miserably, etc, etc. So I went with Stammy and Phil Freo to Milpitas Golfland last Saturday to check out the new SuperNOVA machine they had. I liked the new song choices – there were a lot of old favorites as well as ones to check out. Paul happened to take a video of me dancing to “V (for Extreme)” doubles/expert. So I’ll just put that right here.

There happens to be a tournament on the 11th at the same place. It’ll be the first time in a long time that I’ll be going to one of these. You’ve probably seen my older videos at Avalonstar, but those are obviously 3+ years old.. you know, when I was still, 20. It’s been about 2 years since my last tournament, so it’ll be interesting to see if this 23-year-old still has it in him.

If you’ve never heard of freestyle or don’t know how it’d be judged, here are the criteria usually applied at any given freestyle tournament.

Judging

Judging will be based off of five (or six if couples/groups) categories: Preparation, Style, Originality, Interaction, and Complexity. Couples and groups will also be judged in a sixth category, “Synergy”.

• Preparation: How prepared the routine looked (this includes, but is not limited to how the person’s body and face looks while performing).
• Style: How the style of the freestyle routine fits the song.
• Originality: How original the routine is.
• Interaction: How the person interacts with the audience and judges (i.e. does he perform for the audience/judges or for the machine or ground?).
• Complexity: Did the player use basic movies when s/he was able to “do more” with the steps of the song s/he selected?
• Synergy [Couples/Groups Only]: This category will only be judged for couples/groups. This is based on how well the duo/group interacted with each other (are they together, are they not supposed to be together, etc.)

So, I have about 11 days. Don’t know how much I’ll actually get to practice, but I am pretty much decided on the song. Does this sound familiar? Either that or a song named “A Stupid Barber” that I’ve wanted to dance to, but I don’t have the song on hand.

Mmm, smells raw.

God damnit, I don’t need another blog. But then again, I need to post content that would never see the light of day on Avalonstar, at least not in this point in the game. Things have gotten really serious over there, and I guess I can’t risk ruining the reputation that it has gotten over the past few years with my mindless ramblings. Who knows what might come out of this, but all I know is that whenever I can’t post something there, I’ll post it here.

Look at it this way, you’ll actually see one-liners from me, because I don’t have a layout to ruin. And, you know, since I now… work for Automattic, I should be putting this blog to better use. So you want to know about what really goes on in my head? Then I’d keep this place bookmarked if I were you. And make sure not to tell Avalonstar anything about this, we have a very delicate relationship.