Category: entertainment

I enjoyed Thanksgiving in Menlo Park with my family — I flew in on Wednesday afternoon, we had Thanksgiving on Thursday, and we went in to San Francisco for some touristy bits on Friday.

I took my camera along and took a whole bunch of photos which I’ll post once I finish processing/correcting them. They’re mostly from Thanksgiving day, as San Francisco was a bit drizzly on Friday and not terribly conductive to photographs.

My brother also borrowed a MiniDV camcorder from a friend and filmed most of the festivities. And, unlike many consumers who are content with raw footage, Adrian edited the footage into a Thanksgiving montage (warning: it’s a 27 MB QuickTime file). He edited the file on his 12" PowerBook, I’m guessing with iMovie.

Due to the gamma differences between platforms, Adrian also recommends increasing your brightness if you’re viewing the file on a PC (though it looked fine without much tweaking on my box). And the two people you probably won’t recognize are two of Adrian’s friends who joined us for Thanksgiving, Dylan (one of Adrian’s roommates, with shorter hair) and Jason (with longer hair).

And if you’re curious about the song playing throughout, Adrian tells me that it’s “My Angel Rocks Back and Forth” by Four Tet (MP3s; album review).

I don’t often go to movies, but I’ve been looking forward to The Matrix Reloaded all year. It opens next Thursday (May 15th), but it may be a bit crowded on opening day. Perhaps the following day would be better.

An Open Invitation

I’d like to invite you to join me on Friday May 16th for eats at Fuddruckers followed by The Matrix Reloaded.

Fuddruckers - 7:30pm
Old Town Village Shopping Center
5500 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75206

The Matrix Reloaded - 9:00pm
Loews Cineplex Keystone
13933 N. Central Expressway
Dallas, TX 75243

I recommend Fandango for buying tickets ahead of time. And, this link should point directly to the buy-tickets page for that theater & showtime.

Please RSVP by leaving a comment.

About a week ago, Thomas posted to the dfwblogs-list about an event he’s having. When I looked over the announcement, I figured that it was some kind of art show at a museum or something (“An unauthorized display of other people’s photography”?).

However, Amanda cleared things yesterday: it’s just regular party at his house, with cupcakes & wine. The whole photography angle is apparently a parody of the movie One Hour Photo (which I haven’t seen, but I’ve heard is rather creepy).

I went to 8 Minute Dating last night, which was held at the Cape Buffalo Grill (a couple exits up the Tollway North). The idea is that eight guys and eight girls each have eight 8-minute dates (four dates, an intermission, and four more dates). At the end of the night, each person writes down who he/she would like to see again and, if there’s a match, they’re e-mailed each other’s contact info.

I first heard about 8 Minute Dating from a segment on Fox News. I was at the gym and I just happened to see it one one of the overhead tvs. I thought it sounded like fun, so I decided to give it a try (I had heard about speed dating before, but I wasn’t aware of any in Dallas until now). A few clicks and $28 later, I had a spot.

I didn’t really know what to expect, going into it. This group was for people 25-35 (with me falling at the bottom end of that). Most of the dates were very pleasant, though a couple girls were around 30 (a bit old for me) and there was this one crazy girl that couldn’t stop talking about NASCAR ;).

The site guarantees that each person will find someone that he/she would like to see again. As it turns out, there was someone that interested me, though I haven’t heard if she has picked me as well.

Update: Nope, no matches. Maybe next time.