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just got back from seeing traffic. i recommend it. it’s going to be in wide release starting friday. until then, in LA at least it’s still showing in only one theatre (if you’re planning to see it, buy tickets way early). while in line, we spotted hollywood luminaries like jack black, john c reilly (with huge hair going on), tommy davidson (pansy with friends saving his spot in line) and tyra banks.

oh course, as everyone has been saying, the movie is really good. you don’t need me to tell you to go see it.

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so i used up my free ofoto photos just now (they expire today). i used the photos to print out two large assemblies, one of them consisting of 24 photos, and one of them consisting of 130 photos (dimensions will turn out to be around 60″x52″ give or take a little).

now, creating the assemblies really really really sucked. i went through a whole bag of tricks trying to find out the best way to make them (the large one, in particular). that one is actually derived from a really really really large web page.

things i learned:

bitmap printer drivers apparently do exist, but i wasn’t able to find them

boy i really wish i had more ram.

imageready has the slicing tools but simply cannot handle large files. (it kept cycling memory ad nauseum when i tried to load the 300MB file). also the slicing and export tools for photoshop suck.

apparently you can’t scroll a scrollbarless browser window.

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from dark horizons – Spider-Man: Live in LA and want to be a part of the Spidey extras shooting at Culver City in mid-January? Metropolis Comics at 8323 Firestone Blvd. in Downey are trying to get together a group of 45 or more people aged over 16 to come to their place where a bus will pick up people from the store’s parking lot to take them to the events. In order to be a part of it, you have to sign up on the call sheet in their store ASAP.

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well, wrote a little calorie counting tool over the past coupla days (and resulting as a bonus in the little calorie box for the site). took longer than i thought (just couldn’t muster the consistent effort to polish it off in one go), but i did learn one important thing – do not use upper case letters in postgresql table names. it will save sooo much trouble later on. goodbye camelbacked prefix notation, hello underscores.