I told you not to wait up

Allright, let's start this off with what I did this weekend to get warmed up.

Friday night, after failed attempts to get someone to go see Children of Men (more on that later) with me, I fell asleep. I woke up around 11:00 when my phone started vibrating. My friend's Holly and Becca were watching an apartment on the west side and having some tasty beverages and wanted me to come down. I was inclined to agree. I went down there and had a good time, but it started to snow again and I had to leave early because my Prelude, though I love it, is not agreeable with terrible weather. I went home and slept until noon.

Saturday was good because I only had two things to do. Get a haircut and clean up for the party. I would have liked to play some basketball but the weather kinda fucked that up. After a visit to Sam & Son's, the most quality of barbershops I've ever been too, I came back home and cleaned.

The party was our friend Cera's birthday. She's a cool girl and needed a place and we told her she could use ours. We have parties at our place pretty often, but this one kind of had us a little wigged at first. Between last weekends drama and the fact we actually hadn't gotten a lot of concrete details before the party we weren't too sure what to expect. But it actually turned out to be pretty awesome. There was a good turnout of people, nobody was a jerk or belligerent, everyone made sure everyone else was taken care of. It was pretty nice, no drama at all, good times to be had. And I didn't have to pay for everything and everyone cleaned the house up afterwards so I really didn't have to do anything. It was pretty awesome actually.

Sunday I slept in, said goodbye to everyone who crashed, took a shower and headed to my parents for football and laundry. (I left out watching Romo fuck the Cowboys over on Saturday. Comedy at it's finest). It was a good time and I convinced my parents to go with to see Children of Men since all of my friends proved too lame for cinematic awesomeness.

Children of Men is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time, and I've seen some pretty good ones lately. The director chose to use long shots for most of the movie (not cutting), but on a few occasions in the movie he did unbelievably complex and lengthy ones. There's one shot that I didn't even realize was happening because I was so involved in what was happening on screen. While driving down this country road, the camera is placed directly in the center of a tiny car with 5 passengers. Without cutting a single time for what must have been 5 minutes, they show an angry mob attacking this tiny vehicle, moltov cocktails, gunshots, being chased by a motorcycle, windshields breaking, people inside and outside the vehicle getting shot and injured, and the camera never cut once, only rotating on it's axis to show what was happening. It was amazing. There was a few other shots like that in the movie but that was by far my favorite, I have no idea how they did that at all. If you get an opportunity go see this at a movie theater, the big screen really helped pull me into what was happening.

Monday after work I watched the BCS championship. I figured since both teams hadn't played for about 6 weeks that the whole game was going to be close and about who made the fewest mistakes. I was wrong. Florida absolutely beat the hell out of Ohio State. It must have been maddening for everyone in Ohio. It was a mauling. And look at that, the end of the season and Boise State is the only undefeated team. If this doesn't prove there should be a playoff I don't know what will, but the BCS is a waste.

I've been thinking a lot lately about online identity. How everyone knows who everyone is, how many sign ons and emails and just how terrible things are organized. I think that's one of the reasons I like Google and Blogger, I get access to so much via a single sign on, it's always me. How much easier would it be to provide a single credential everywhere than to create new credentials everywhere. We have a drivers license, and you can show it to everyone and they believe it because they trust the issuer. We don't have anything like that online and I think we do. Someone, like the W3C needs to come up with a standard, and a way of handing this standard out so that all sites, big and small alike are capable of using it. People talk about privacy issues with this but I don't really see any to be honest. Reading information could be kept completely anonymous, but every time a user wants to sign up to participate, to play a game or to write a blog, to buy something, their identity can be verified. Maybe I need to think this thru more, but it's been going thru my head the past week.

Apple announced the iPhone today and I am jealous. The device looks amazing. I was going to pick a blackberry up in the spring but now it already looks antiquated and it hasn't even been released yet. Everything about the iPhone is everything devices should strive for. There is just an amazing level of convergence and I have no doubt on my mind that Apple has changed the game, again.