April 25, 2010
Posted by dan
I need to fix that text for the titles, way too big. I also need to migrate all my posts from tumblr to here. But first, Japan.
Coding and sleep make bad bedfellows.
June 17, 2009
Posted by dan
Test
Victoria, Kris, Saiv, Peter, Matt and myself headed out to Algonquin Provincial Park for 3 days of camping this week. We mostly sat around and played with fire, but we did see some pretty cool scenary and taught chipmunks tricks. Here’s the pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danpaulson/sets/72157619885204018/
June 9, 2009
Posted by dan
So Thomas, Lauren and surprise Chris came to visit last week. Here’s the photohighlights:
I don’t hate them any more or less after spending a week with them.
I changed the layout of the site, I kind of hate walls of text on the main page. I’m thinking of trying out Vimeo for uploading my videos, Flickr chokes and dies uploading anything more than a few seconds.
April 8, 2009
Posted by dan
Blogs are stupid. With the array of technologies that alert your friends, family, enemies and general public of your every slightest move, I feel like a blog is really just this huge pain to keep current. This is why I’ve added my twitter feed to the sidebar; I have never felt the need to talk to anyone for more than 140 characters at a time on the internet. Even then I don’t update very often, but at least with it there I can feel less badly when I visit my stupid old blog posts.
All that said, I suppose I should do an update. Victoria and I have secured a job in Korea, which starts July 14th or around there. The job is located in Janghowon, which is a suburb of Icheon (not to be confused with Incheon). The city does not even have a Wikipedia article yet, so I am pretty excited about being their Neil Armstrong in that arena. Before that, I will be in Toronto again starting April 15th. What we will do for 3 months is undetermined, but I can only assume it will have to be mad cheap.
I failed the One Picture Every Day thing. I might start again when I head back to Canada or to Korea. There’s no time like the second time to fail.
January 2, 2009
Posted by dan
So I’m not going to join a group on Flickr. I’m also not going to take a self portrait of myself every day, I get sick of looking at me just thinking of it. I doubt I’ll actually be good enough to go out and take pictures every single day. I will not be making a scrapbook.
What I am going to do is attempt to upload a recent, decently well taken photograph for every day of the year. My initial goal is this year, but by adopting a 4 digit numbering system, I could hypothetically go for a bit over 27 years before having to delete everything and start again. On a related note, if danpaulson.com is not available in 27 years, I’m going to kill a farmer.
You can track my failure of this endevour on Flickr. Now stop saying I don’t post anything.
So I figured a post for the new year was in order. I’m still doing fine in the frigid north, though only about a month remains before my glorious return to the States, and the subsequent trip to the Cayman Islands, and finally setteling in Korea. Christmas was good, I got stuff, as one would imagine. One of the stuffs was a camera, and I’ve been uploading lots to Flickr so you should probably check that out.
I’m not very good at this consistent blogging stuff, but I am going to try to make a point to post a bit more in the coming year as I travel all about. Like right now, I’m going to type three new years resolutions in a list format. See how that goes.
Worked out pretty good. If I didn’t think new years resolutions were totally retarded, I could come back here and observe what my past self thought my present self should be doing. But I do, and I won’t.
So for my first week I’ve mostly just been hanging out, coding a bit and relaxing.
When I did go out this week, it was to TIFF. Apparently this is some kind of big deal in filmland, and a cultural event for Canadians. Brad Pitt was here, and I imagine many other stars that I don’t really care about.
The first movie we saw was the world premiere (I think) of The Dungeon Masters. It’s a documentary about gamers, and not like, Counterstrike gamers. There was a lot of larping, storytelling, dudes with no jobs sitting around playing D&D writing fiction books. It was actually pretty funny sometimes, and not just because the people were so lame. Beyond that, it was also interesting to see how people completely consumed by something like this go about their lives and how their loved ones react to it . I wrote enough to wrap around the image.
The second movie we saw was the North American premiere of The Good, the bad, the Weird. Apparently this is the biggest budget, highest grossing, omfg best ever movie in South Korea. Starring people like Jung Woo-sung (?) and Lee Byung-hun (??), how could you go wrong? But seriously, people were going crazy over the guys, there were hordes of fans not seeing the movie that were just lined up outside to see these fools. So I guess they’re pretty popular. JIN TELL US.
The movie itself was well done and all, an action / comedy / western that was probably about an hour too long (130 minutes running time). It was fairly stylish, but had a kind of simple story and lots of semi-repetitive action sequences. It’s still a decent movie, but I wasn’t all “I have to go download that right now.” Also the subtitles barely had a drop shadow, and when you’re shooting in the desert, it makes for a lot of bright scenes. So I basically missed about half of what was being said.
Ok now about crap you care about. Before the last movie, we went to this Korean BBQ. For $12, you get unlimited rice, steak, pork, chicken, beef, ribs, salmon, squid, and I think it was flounder. Also included is some weird Korean vegetables. So all of this comes to you raw, and there’s a little flaming grill thingy in the middle of the table. You get tongs, and just go at it. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten that much meat in my life, and whoever comes to Toronto to visit gets that.
I still smell like meat and I love it
