Other Blogs Recent Comments Me My name is Bean and this is my blog. Hence the name. If you have comments or questions, just leave them in the comments area. (old search) |  Twin Picker Posted November 30, 2005 at 10:12:16 AM by in the Flashbacks category In keeping with the idea that beanblog is an archive of my life, I'm going to start putting my hazy, distant childhood memories out here. They come and go, so I'm not sure how frequent they'll be, but here's one to get things rolling.
When I was in school at Grant Line Elementary, there was this little black girl that was in the class behind me. This girl may or may not have actually been twins - my memmory is a little scetchy here, but anyway, what I remember about her is that she (they?) would scour the blacktop during recess and pick up old, nasty discarded wads of gum. And yeah, she (they?) chewed them. Gross. This girl or set of twins may or may not have also been the girl(s) who rode my bus and picked her (their?) nose(s?) with both fingers - yeilding the name "twin picker." Now I'm just effin confused, cause I don't remember if twin picker was actually twins or not and whether the "twin" in "twin picker" was from using two fingers, or actually being twins. Shit. GLE alum, help me out here. Movie Reviews: The Interpreter and Ray Posted November 28, 2005 at 09:59:54 AM by Bean in the Movies category Watched a few new movies over the Thanksgiving break.
Ray This was a great flick. Quite a tough time, that Ray had, what with the dead brother, no eyesight, po-ass momma, and everybody trying to rip him off. I can see why Jamie Foxx got the Oscar - he played a very believable Ray Charles. And I learned that the background sample from Gold Digger was a Ray Charles hit, sung by Jamie Foxx. Who knew. The Interpreter This movie was a solid "eh." There wasn't really anythign bad about it, but there was definately nothing good. A little bit of action, a little bit of drama, and nothing at all to keep me interested. I fell asleep twice during it. And to top it off - I not a big fan of Sean Penn. PS - I'm holding off until Thursday for a new Lost blog. I'm a Lifer Posted November 21, 2005 at 02:16:11 PM by Bean in the Flashbacks category I love blogging. I love blogs. I'm a blogger for life. I hit on this once before, in my How Blogging Changed My life entry, but I've thought a lot more about it recently.
The Beanblog, as it was originally created, was a simple way for me to publish whatever came to mind. It was something to amuse me, and other folks in need of a few-second break. It was somewhere I could write about the party I went to or the funny kid I saw at the ice cream store or any other meaning[full|less] experience. It was a general, multi-purpose, multi-media embodiment of self-expression. Great. But it's more. Almost 3 years of my life are now published. There is very little I hold back from this blog, and it's become the "archive" of me. In 3 years, I've blogged 388 blogs. That's 388 times (389 now, I guess) that I've sat at my computer and poured my thoughts, my views, and my feelings out for anyone to see. It's 389 times that I've taken a snapshot of myself and put in on the books. And I can go back and read them anytime I want. I can't even begin to imagine what it will be like to look back at this 20 years from now. It's great stuff - and I love the RandomBean link. It's like traveling back in time for me every time I click it. My only regret is that I didn't start blogging earlier. I am jealous of all the little kiddies out there that are blogging. Some of them will document their entire lives on a blog. I'll have to settle for the blogging the rest of mine. Paintballin' Posted November 18, 2005 at 04:05:07 PM by Bean Went to the new Bass Pro Outdoor World store today and bought some paintball o-rings for my tank. Now I can refill them shits at home. John and I both have paintball guns, but we are having trouble finding 2-player games. So far, out game list is as follows:
Lost: The Other 48 Days (s2ep07) Posted November 17, 2005 at 08:37:26 AM by Bean in the Lost category Last night's Lost was like all of season one crammed into a single episode, but focussed on the survivors of the tail section of Oceanic Flight 815. We got to see the crash, the minutes immediately following, and the then bit's a pieces of the day's leading up to the point that they met Jin, Sayer, and Mike. Here's a few highlights:
Mr. Echo Well, we now know for sure that the big black guy who called himself "Mr. Echo" WAS on the plane and not just some crazy island native or something. He was wearing normal clothes and acting like the rest of the Tailies until he ran into the "others" and ended up killing some of them in self-defense. Then he took of his shirt, grabbed a big stick, and put on war paint. Now, he's a bad-ass jungle guide. Goodwin and the Others Just like the original Losties with Ethan Rom, the Tailies had a mole. Goodwin (they guy we see with a stake through his torso in previous ep's) is one of the Others. Ana takes him out, but not until the Tailies are picked off for a good 40 days or so. Before she impales him, they have a pretty interesting conversation where we hear Goodwin say that only the "good" Tailies were taken, the kids are fine, and that the others aren't "attacking" them, but making them better off. We also get a glimpse of how organized the Others are when Ana kills one of them and find him with a detailed list of all of the Tailies that were taken. Lost Scene They've been airing a special lost Lost scene on GMA lately. To save you the trouble of watching it, I'll tell you what it is: A large crate washed up on the Tailies beach and they all gathered around to open it. Turns out it was a shipment of Austrailian boomerangs! Guess that's where all those hockey-stick-looking weapons came from - boomerangs tied to sticks. Radios We see that the Tailies use the radio they found in their hatch a few seconds every day. They were the ones talking back when Boone used the radio in the drug plane to call for help. BANG And finally, we find out that it was, indeed, Ana Lucia that shot Shannon. There was a lot of speculation that it may have been someone else due to the tricky camera angles from the previous episode, but the end of this one clearly shows the shooting scene is as simple as we first thought. Everyone was hearing voices, then the two groups met and Ana shot Shannon. Now Sayid is pissed (as was evident in the previews for next week). TRACHBANG! Posted November 15, 2005 at 04:14:12 PM by Bean I started a site called trachbang.com. It's pretty basic right now, but I'm hoping to create our own little fark.com-esque link repository eventaully, with regularly updating headlines submitted by YOU and discussed by all. You have to sign up for an account (takes about 4 seconds) in order to comment on links or submit new ones, but anyone can read the headlines and comments that have been posted.
As for the trach bang scale part of it... when you comment on a link, you get to rate it, and the ratings are displayed on the front page. Like I said, it's all pretty basic right now, but I'm hoping to make it mo betta in the future, pending intrest. Obvious outstanding issues:
Movie Reviews: House of Wax and Sin City Posted November 12, 2005 at 11:12:01 AM by Bean in the Movies category House of Wax
Well, this movie was almost as good as The Ring Two. (PS - The Ring Two SUCKED) Not really very scary - just a lot of random gory scenes. The plot revolved around two effed up x-cojoined twins that are killing innocent campers and hot women and turning them into wax statues in an attempt to create a "wax city" as some kind of sick tribute to mommy. Unfortunately for them, wax burns well - and the end of the movie see's all of their hard work burn and melt into a town-sized glob of wax. The only saving grace of the whole movie is getting to see something cylindrical go into Paris Hiltons forehead instead of any of her pre-existing openings. (Steel pipe through the head). Overall: 2 thumbs down and a big ole fart noise. Sin City First off - I knew nothing about this "graphic novel" going into it, so I wasn't really sure what to expect plot-wise. Turns out to be three seperate stories, only barely related, about rough and tough men taking justice into their own hands. Each story was good on it's own, but I would have rather seen more connections between them or one big story involving them all. Interesting, and worth watching, but not worth watching again. My favorite things about Sin City were (1) The awesome camera work which was very comic-boos-esque, and (2) the gratuitious, often sloppy violence. Big Baby B Posted November 11, 2005 at 08:50:21 AM by Bean My good friend Bilal always fights battles with his bowels. Here's a great first-hand example of some of the situations his various digestive anomalies put him in. Bilal, is it okay if I post this?
The past couple of days, I've been couped up in my apartment and I was just itching to get out!! So today, I went out with Sue to Mikado to eat some sushi mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (I LOVE SUSHI)!!! Movie Review: Crash Posted November 10, 2005 at 11:13:38 AM by Bean in the Movies category Stef and I watched Crash a few nights ago. It was really good.
It's a pretty serious movie that examines predjudice from a lot of different angles. It tosses racism at you in way that you dont expect and is a very engaging drama. There's lots of small stories that all relate to each other in some way, all takinng place in a post-9-11 NYC. Plus, it's got Don Cheadle in it, which is always a bonus. Stef wrote her thoughts about it here. Go rent it soon! Lost: Abandoned (s2ep06) Posted November 09, 2005 at 05:55:57 PM by Bean in the Lost category Lost was new last night, for the first time in 3 weeks. It was pretty good episode with some decent plot action, but I think it's more of a staging for next week. We'll finally see what happened to the rest of the Tailies. The Others are becomming more and more of a plot feature, rather than the "monster" or the "smoke" from season 1. Can't wait to meet them.
Death and Confusion Shannon bit the dust last night, shot by someone in the forrest. We are made to think that it's Ana Lucia from the Tailies, but there is some evidence that the actual shooter was someone else. Creative camera work may lead to a plot twist next week. As for what we were led to believe: Shannon and Sayid were chasing Walt (or a projection of him) and bumped into the Tailies making their way to the main camp. They were all disoriented and wiggin because of the whispers which both groups were hearing, and BANG. Who knows if that's actually what happened though. There may be other people or groups of people involved. Walt and Shannon Right before she was shot, Shannon and Sayid saw Walt, who appeared all wet and mumbled soemthing backwards. Reversed it said "They're coming, and they're close". Freaky little kid. It's confirmed in this episode that Shannon and Boone's dad was in the car accident with Jacks to-be-wife. Mr Rutherford died and more of the Boone-Shannon relationship was shown. Too bad the this episode was so Shannon-centric when all they did was kill her off at the end. Tailies One of the Tailies asked if Mr. Eko and Jin saw "the children" when they saw the others. I'm guessing the answer is yes, what with the teddy-bear and everything. Some bad stuffs must have happened to them in the first 48 days. Next week will be an "extended episode" and will focus on them. Here is a preview. Cold Room Posted November 08, 2005 at 12:30:39 PM by Bean in the Beer category Back in 2004, I built a walk-in cold room in my basement. I documented it pretty well. Here are all of the entries: Another New Blog Posted November 08, 2005 at 09:46:28 AM by Bean in the Blog Updates category I'm switching to a new blog tool. This time, I'm writing my own (you are viewing it right now). I know enough PHP and MySQL to make something usable, and I'll have complete control over formatting and whatnot. I've imported all of my blogger posts, and I'll be working on getting my old webcrimson posts in here as well as updating old blog text to clean up the links I break.
Commenting shoudl still work, so if you see any problems on the page, leave me a note under this entry. I probably won't be adding much new content until I get this straightened up. So solly. My Bar Posted November 03, 2005 at 01:53:00 PM by Bean in the Beer category Well, It's been done since July, and it's been in a few pictures from SDP and Hallobean, but I still haven't blogged a solid blog about it, so, now I am.
Beanblog followers may recall that I (with the help of some friends) built a cold room back in early 2004 to keep the beer I brew and keg cold. I put some taps through the wall and mounted them on plywood. It worked, but it looks Spriglered (People that live in my neighborhood will know what that means). 3 taps were installed initially, with room for expansion, and 3+ taps pretty much means you need a bar! Luck for me, my dad (quite the handy fella) was onboard with not only helping me build it, but even buying some of the materials. But slow down! First I'd need the basement to look halfway decent. A nice bar is a shitty basement isn't worth much, so I started putting up drywall. My basement is a walk-out, so anywhere there were studs, I slapped drywall up and anywhere there was foundation I painted it with polyurethane concrete sealer/paint. I left half of the basement unfinished and partitioned it off with adjustable curtains. It's not quite a fully-finished basement but it's close enough for me! Then came the bar. I wish I'd have kept detailed construction notes and taken lots of pictures like I did with the cold room, but I was in such a rush to get it done I just forgot. My dad and I put the whole thing together over the course of 3 evenings. It's basically a cabinet with a short-studded wall built out from it and a couple solid-core doors laid on top. There were a lot of other details involved (wiring, plumbing the sink, the under-bar shelf, trim, handrail, paint, stain), but it was not really what I would call "hard." In fact, it was pretty easy, and fun to boot! A few pics of the finished product can be seen in this gallery or live and in person the next time you come to visit me. As you can probably tell, I've added an additional tap for a total of 4 - more than a lot of restaurants in my area. My dad made the tap backer and shelves out of some oak planks he had left over from his old barn. I put in some stools, brewed some beer, and stocked the cabinet and under-bar shelf with bar-related items. End result: a nice bar with good beer and seating for 6 - all just 16 steps away! Netflixations Posted November 02, 2005 at 04:44:00 PM by Bean Stef and I are back on the Netflix wagon. I added an RSS feed of our upcoming movies over there on the right. Any other recommendations? H6 Pics Posted November 01, 2005 at 10:53:00 AM by Bean in the Hallobean category Click on thru to Hallobean to see a few pics from this years festivities. AdSense Posted November 01, 2005 at 09:47:00 AM by Bean in the Blog Updates category Yeah, I'm sure you've noticed the little google ad at the top right. It's been there for a while. Guess what - when you click on it, I get money. Really, no nonsense, 100% real cash money. I'm not allowed to tell you to click on it, cause that would violate the term and conditions of my arangement with the great google god. But man oh man, free monies for blogging sure would be keen. If you'd like to set one up on your blog, go here - it's really easy, and I'll click the shit out of it! | On This Page Categories Archives August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 Admin |
