sushi is raw fish.

Yesterday I went to dinner with some friends I don't get to hang out with very often. Britney, in town from Texas, proposed meeting for Sushi. Sushi is delicious. But, I live in the middle of the desert. We completely lack large bodies of water, which means we don't really have a lot of fish. This immediately makes me apprehensive for any sort seafood, let alone uncooked seafood. That said, I totally learned my lesson because Sushi Gen on San Mateo is fuckin quality.

We had the all you can eat thing, which sounds pretty good at first but is also a bit of a gamble. You see, in order to keep people from ordering a ridiculous amount of very expensive food, they have a "no waste" rule. That is, any uneaten food is priced regularly on your tab. Ranging from 3-8 bucks depending on what that is that can be a little daunting. Also, the fact that I didn't realize that many of what we ordered came in 5-8 pieces and we had a metric fuckton (not to be confused with an imperial fuckton) of food.

It also gave me a prime-time position to show how I earned the nickname sloth, I am the slowest eater ever, especially in that quantity.

This is three updates over three days. I haven't written in any blog more than three times in a year. There's a reason for this. This last year I took Media Arts 210, otherwise known as Intro to Film. I love movies, I can never get enough, I watch good movies and bad movies and experimental movies. Foreign movies, animated movies, you name the kind of movie, their just awesome. And over the last few years I've begun to understand them from the technical side. I know what a panning shot is and a tracking shot and I notice things like cinematography and editing and all that noise. That's not really impressive, lots of people do, but for a certain point I actually thought about some kind of major in media arts just to work on films. That's why I enrolled in the class. I learned two things, one is that while I notice all of that kind of stuff, I really don't have an eye for anything. I'm just not an artistic guy despite my best efforts. I'm ok with that. But the other thing I noticed in the class, is that my writing skills were holding me back from the A I thought I deserved, (I got a B in the end).

Now, in skool they teach you about sentences needing to make sense and what should be in a structured essay and all that shit. But, there really isn't a lot to help (at least for me) express what I really mean. I can't really explain it, I ran into the problem at least five times just writing this damn blog entry. That's why I'm writing. So I can figure out how to more clearly state what I mean as opposed to that stream of consciousness running in that space behind my face. Also, I once heard that if you do anything everyday for three weeks it will just become habit at that point. And for the most part that's held up for me. Don't take that as a promise (especially on weekends) but I'm going to try to write pretty regularly.

Today when I got into work I started talking to my friend Mark online about websites (well, our websites, cause we're nerds like that). I told him about my decision to just use blogger instead of the normal CMS route. I spent the last week and a half setting up TextPattern before I realized, "hey, I don't want to do this shit anymore".

I had an epiphany. CMS's, and for that matter paid hosting in general, are a waste of time and money. Blogger does everything TextPattern does, and it's free and it links to my Google account which I use all the time for everything. It's convenient as hell, has an easy to use interface, and it's both free in the ad sense and in the monetary sense. Why wouldn't I want to use it to rant? That goes for hosting too. Anyone who isn't running some sort of business site is essentially wasting their money. You can get free hosting for web pages (Google pages, ad free, tripod, yahoo, etc), you can get free file hosting (DivShare being the coolest one I found recently) you can share your music (mp3.com, myspace), photos (picasa and flickr), you can share your videos,(youtube, myspace), pretty much anything you want to do, someone out there has a process enabled to let you do it for free. It's amazing. I just paid 90 dollars for a years worth of hosting for my falsefiction.com website. It was a waste. What am I going to do with it? I'm making a glorified splash page to point to my blogspot and to my claim id and host my resume.

I'm going to find someone to go see Children of Men with me tonight. That movie looks amazing. So expect something about how it met my expectations and I am satisfied or about how it went down in a terrible blaze of mediocrity. Sometimes I can't figure out if I'm an optimist or a pessimist. Realist? Sure.