All Things Chill

Fox Searchlight Pictures has had great success with the movie Sideways. It’s been out for 18 weeks and has been coined as a ‘dramedy’ by some. It looks like a smart flick. Here’s my breakdown of some the film’s more notable cast:
PAUL GIAMATTI
You remember him as the stressed out/twitchy guy with big [...]

Sony is coming out with a new flash based mp3 player soon, and its pretty hot. I hope the ‘blue’ that they’re talking about is a metallic “omg BMW 325i” slate blue. But the nagging question remains… do i need it? (YEAH JASON, DO YOU NEED IT?!?!!? LOL)
Here’s the diddy from dapreview.net
Sony [...]

If you’ve ever been to college/been broke as hell, you’ve had it. That tall thin box. ‘Old blue’… Kraft’s Macaroni And Cheese. It was for those times where you didn’t really have anything else to eat, or didn’t want to put forth the effort of actually cooking. Face it… we all [...]

They found us. M$ has unleashed “A parent’s primer to computer slang” to the general public. They dropped knowledge on us, yo. Run and hide!!! LOL.
Key points for learning leetspeek
• Numbers are often used as letters. The term “leet” could be written as “1337,” with “1″ replacing the letter L, “3″ posing as a [...]

I step into the Bay Area and immediately I feel like I fit in. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know. It’s just what beeing in NoCal does to me. Don’t know, now, if I could stand another wintry Chicago January.
Amen Alice, Amen.
35 days until SF!!!
~Spec

Gene Kelly Morphed in Golf GTI Ad via Jalopnik

Nike Women “Keep Up ‘05″ Ad Campaign via Joey Tomatoes

United Bboys Breakin’ Video via Myspace.com
I’ve had these links on my post queue for a while. The Gene Kelly ad is pure geekiness. Just thinking of the time taken just to RENDER his face on that [...]

Naruto got licenced today. Supposedly it’ll be on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block coming this 3rd quarter. What does that mean for the people that watch subbed releases of the current Japanese episodes? I dunno. Narutofan.net has more info.
Shit.
I’ll update when I get a handle of what’s going on.
~Spec

Finally… I get to post some geek Chicago love on this blog.
Simon Carless via Gamasutra.com (Free Reg. Required) writes:
The interactive exhibition Game on: The History, Culture and Future of Video Games, will make its North American debut at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry on March 4, 2005. This major [...]

If you like really high voices, cats and semi-cute flash animation… Click here. Follow any of the links, they should all work. The original page was taken down because of copywright issues. Watch it while you can!
I gotta get out of this ‘bad post’ slump. I guess I haven’t fully recovered [...]

roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you
I couldn’t resist. I made the picture, but I took the poem from the discussion from /.’s latest poll.
~Spec

I made a new “Hello I’m pretty” front page. You can find it here (allthingschill.com). Most (if not all) of you come directly to my blog homepage, so I wanted to let you know.
It’ll be a portfolio site someday… I just need to take the time to sit down and really think of [...]

I’m lonely.
I’m @ 74%… Getting better every hour.
~Spec
EDIT: I can’t believe I posted this one day before Valentine’s day. WHOOPS! LOL. How very embarassing.
Sigh.