December 31, 2004
Jasmine, sleeping quietly after a big day of visitors. Stacey and Jasmine. Daddy Shane and Jasmine, right before the New Year.... (read more)
December 2004 Archives
Change of plans for New Year's, as I found out that I'm now officially an uncle! My sister gave birth yesterday, and so I'm heading to Indianapolis for a few days to hang out with the family. And to get introduced to my new niece, Jasmine. :)... (read more)
December 30, 2004
After getting my ass stomped losing at poker, Justin and I headed to a nearby bar for a drink. I forget the name of it, but it's a small one on the corner of Damen and Thomas, and it's numerical or something? Anyhow... Justin talked me in to a... (read more)
Over some time, Matt has been dumping all his spare change into the same pot. Today, he brought (read: lugged) it all in to the office. It was so heavy, he ended up having to use two pillowcases, and set them inside one of those portable beer cooler things.... (read more)
December 29, 2004
Dug through my poems today, and looked over my rather shoddy tracking system for submissions. I'm still unsure about the poems I sent to Many Mountains Moving and the Antioch Review. And this shit has been out there since April of this year. I sent off an inquiry email to... (read more)
There are two different types of UPS mailboxes you can purchase: personal and business. They differ only in size and in the number of names you can associate with them. Personal UPS mailboxes are approximately $25/month (although you get something like 15 months if you buy a year upfront); business... (read more)
One equal sign means you're assigning a value. Two equal signs mean you're testing for equivalency. Gaaaaaaaaaah. I know this. I've been burned BADLY by this in the past. And I just lost 30 minutes thismorning, mucking around with my code only to realize I used = when I should... (read more)
December 28, 2004
Caught the first episode of The Elegant Universe tonight. I was talking with Juliet on IM at the time, and got sucked in to the show (I don't watch much TV, but NOVA ranks high up on my list). Wow. Also realized just now that I had mentioned this... (read more)
From: Matt To: Felix Subject: Dec 26, 2004 Hey Hoss. Just so you know, there's a place in Cowtown called Taco Ninja. It's in the bar Cafe Bourbon Street. Z... (read more)
Remember my entry a few days ago about Kung-Fu Ramen? And how the only thing that could top it would be something along the lines of Ninja Tacos? Well guess fucking what? HO. LEE. CRAP. Thanks to the inestimable Juliet, who provided the very thing that surpasses Kung-Fu Ramen! And... (read more)
Saw this on the way in to work, on the corner of Wells and Wacker. The messed up thing about this note? I saw a prior version earlier this year, in February. Today's note traces back to February 3, 2004. And yesterday's river freezing traces back to February 2,... (read more)
What am I even doing here? I need to find some coffee and fast.... (read more)
December 27, 2004
Ah, how cool is this? Go check out Found Magazine's site, and click on the Audio link near the bottom. The folks at Found asked various musicians to create some Found-inspired songs, and Dave did just that. This is a great little mp3 - go and grab it while you... (read more)
Found out that Andy has been reading over my blog fairly extensively, the past few days. Given that it's the holidays, the workplace is a bit slow. And he's been looking over old entries and getting lost in all the posts I made in 2002/2003. In fact, he stumbled across... (read more)
Around this time, the Chicago River freezes up and breaks apart. Last year, Ben was really excited to see these pictures. He was all about getting the high-res versions, and utilizing the ice/patterns as possible textures for future images. At several turns, despite my kung-fu grip on the camera...... (read more)
On walking by the Sound Gallery, I noticed that they had a ton of cardboard taped up. From the looks of things, somebody broke their window over the holidays. But, in what I consider a masterful stroke... they also taped up the album cover to Billy Joel's Glass Houses.... (read more)
December 26, 2004
After seeing my friend Dan play this week, I decided that I was going to put three songs in the audioplayer from my musician friends. And so this time I'm including work from Dan Frick, Dave Fischoff and Ben Husmann. Audio controls should be in the right module. Enjoy! Dan,... (read more)
Before I left for home, my parents gave me a box of Ramen noodles (as they are want to do). This particular brand though, is what I remember eating as a kid. Only after I got older and left home did I realize how cool the brand name sounded.... (read more)
Informative yet aesthetically pleasing. Be sure to check out Rating System, which was my favorite of the bunch. Shamelessly stolen from Ektopia.... (read more)
December 25, 2004
Spent most of today driving back to Chicago. I wanted to get back a little early, and had no desire to fight on the roads on the 26th (when I figure everyone and their brother is trying to get back into the city). Liz was kind enough to look after... (read more)
December 24, 2004
Helped move some more stuff over to my sister's place. And then all of us went to the restaurant for a Christmas meal. I got to see my cousin Andrew, along with my uncle Benny. Lots of great food and just a warm, comfortable evening with family. Hung out some... (read more)
Got a call from my friend Aaron (who I've known since 1st grade). We decided to hang out a bit today, and so I met up with him and his sister Alicia and brother Michael, over at Keystone Mall. I had my camera with me but, sadly, left my memory... (read more)
December 21, 2004
I learned that my friend Dan Frick (who I've known since middle school) will be back in the States over the holidays, and playing a show at a bar in Broad Ripple called the "Jazz Cooker." He's been living in Japan for some 4 years now, and it's been... (read more)
Heading home for the holidays. Working remotely this week, so I've got a laptop from the office (decided to bring along my keyboard from home, as I hate typing on a laptop). Ever since I started to do Flash for a living, my hands have become too accustomed to... (read more)
Gifts were given out today at work. And I must say, they were good gifts all around. Everyone was really into their presents, as well as the ones that others received. There was a lot of passing around and ogling, which is always a good sign.... (read more)
Walked in to Artisan this morning, to find the floor littered with champagne.... (read more)
December 19, 2004
by Felix Jung When the snowflakes hit, it's hard to tell if I'm the one they cling to, or if it's one another. Flagrant lovers, they'll bind at any opportunity. There's a solid inch laid down, a frosted white that makes all surface icing, all concrete, cake. Ahead, I see... (read more)
I got a call tonight from Matt, one of the many folks involved with the You Are Beautiful project. While I was unable to meet him for drinks tonight, we made plans to hang out post-holidays. He mentioned some project coming up in the summer, and the thought of collaborating... (read more)
Drop a line if you're so inclined. I miss you. All of us do. I hope you're doing well.... (read more)
I need to confess. I've been stealing links from ektopia the past week. This is one blog that I've stumbled across that I really do dig a great deal. There's good content, and it's updated daily. Consistently good stuff, and I find myself getting lost there. There aren't a lot... (read more)
Weekends, I tend to combine my errands. I take out the trash and then walk down to Gallery Cafe to grab a coffee. Before leaving, I had a brief debate on whether I should bring my camera. I decided I wouldn't see anything interesting, and left it. On walking... (read more)
I saw this guy on my way to get coffee. On seeing him, I was trying to figure out what killed him. Was it the cold, and the approach of winter? Did he fall out of a nest? Or, does his proximity to the building suggest that he saw... (read more)
December 17, 2004
Didn't feel like going out tonight. I tried to muck around a bit on the computer, thinking that I might get something done with that route, but honestly... my focus isn't there. nothing really seems to catch my attention. So yeah. I may watch some TV (maybe there's a good... (read more)
Every year around this time, the Sales Department hosts a big shindig of a breakfast, for the entire station. Here's a shot of Ben (in the back) and Nick, serving up pancakes and omelettes. There's always a big line for Nick's cooking, and eveyone leaves their ingredients in a... (read more)
December 16, 2004
Had a fun night hanging out at the Artful Dodger with Liz and Steph. I was showing off my new camera, and got the two of them to take a self-portrait. Lots of fun conversations tonight, and I found myself laughing a ton. Always great to kick back with... (read more)
Currently, at work, there are innumerable tins of chocolate and candy, sitting around. On top of that, Rey brought in a coconut pound cake his wife Chrissy made... which was freaking awesome. There's too much to eat at work, all the time. Tomorrow it's just going to get worse... (read more)
December 15, 2004
This is some pretty weak shit, right here. From the looks of it, you peeled off the two side stickers and then maybe slapped on the middle sticker yourself? Merry fucking Christmas to you too.... (read more)
Damn. I can't believe it's almost been two months since we last got an official game going. Trying to coordinate everyone's schedule is always tough, but a few of us were able to squeeze in a night before the holidays officially roll in. Left to right it's Chris, Ben.Trentand... (read more)
From: Rocky To: Felix Subject: Strong House Hey there Felix, Just doing a bit of catching up with your blog, and I wanted to chime in on the "strong house." I recently moved out of the townhouse in the background of the 12/10/04 pic. We called the strong house the... (read more)
December 14, 2004
There aren't that many things that change, drastically, in my daily walk from home to work. But this caught my eye today. Electronic parking meters - first ones I've seen. This sign is posted near the actual machine itself There are signs at several intervals, all of which have... (read more)
December 13, 2004
Ended up talking a while tonight with Clare (who I first met at Alex and Linda's wedding). Fun conversations, and we got caught up a bit. Halfway through our talking, another IM window opened up, and I met one of Clare's friends, Albie. She and I talked for a while... (read more)
I like how these stickers are getting closer and closer to my house. It still amazes me sometimes that I first started seeing these stickers over 2 years ago.... (read more)
December 12, 2004
Alain Robert: he's climbed over 70 skyscrapers, to say nothing of the cliffs. He's fractured both forearms, fractured his pelvis, fractured his nose, and suffers vertigo due to a fall. Uhm, yeah. Let's see... Today, I did some laundry. And uh... took out the trash.... (read more)
Philip K. Dick fans... this is your screensaver. When your computer goes to sleep (screensaver mode), it joins other computers to create a new "sheep" (a fractal flame). There is a new sheep born every 15 minutes, and the overall group of sheep constantly changes. You can vote for... (read more)
A really interesting series of character studies, by Michael Paulus. Hello Kitty finds its way into art a lot, it seems.... (read more)
December 11, 2004
Travelled out to the suburbs with Chris and Justin, for Rey's family Christmas party. Got to break out the camera a bit but, partly due to its newness and partly due to my shyness... I didn't take all that many photos. I knew a handful of work folks at the... (read more)
December 10, 2004
Hung out with the boys again, and we played a crapton of poker. Three games, in fact. We started around 8PM and I ended up leaving somewhere around 1:30AM. Good stuff, and loads of fun. Will threw down an impressive amount of beer. I got to meet the infamous upstairs... (read more)
In the time that I was without a camera, they did a lot of work here.... (read more)
December 9, 2004
As interesting as this looks... I really wish they'd stop fucking with old movies. Seriously - how many remakes do we have to do each year? Is there such an absence of decent screenplays out there that we have to resort to hedging our bets like this? I'm torn... (read more)
My new camera arrived. Yeah! I've got a ton of reading and experimenting to do. This thing is vastly different from my old camera, and I can't wait to try it out. So hopefully, there will be more pics on the blog now. Tomorrow, I'm planning on shopping around... (read more)
What would be great, with the new car? If we could somehow jerryrig a videocamera and mount it on the thing. I'm talking some kind of wireless camera that would be able to send images back to a computer screen. This way, we could drive the thing around the station... (read more)
December 8, 2004
I came home tonight to find my friend Dan's CD in my mailbox. What a great surprise! Dan - thank you! Ah, and I just noticed that, on his music page, he did a version of the theme song from Spirited Away!What a coincidence. A week or so back, I... (read more)
Tonight, Justin and I headed over to Danny's post-work for a few drinks. We got into an interesting conversation about film and the artistic process, particularly as it pertained to music. I was of the mind that having music first would be more of a bias, and interfere with the... (read more)
This would be the car I won at yesterday's company Christmas party. Let me insert a story here. Back when I was in 8th grade, I had a science teacher named Mr. Carlson. Among the various chemistry experiments we did, he was open to us students performing our own... (read more)
December 7, 2004
I can only assure you things will improve. We miss you. Come back soon.... (read more)
Tonight, I was reminded of the office Christmas party of 2002. This would have been my first ever Emmis Christmas party, and the one where I lost $81 to Ben on a bowling bet. I'm still convinced he grifted me. ;)... (read more)
December 6, 2004
There is a site that I stumbled across some months back, called Audible Frequency. I was (and still am) taken with the various audio recordings posted by the site's author. Some really great stuff there, and the whole site has a particularly unique view (sound) of the world. Tonight,... (read more)
I went digging through some old files this evening, and decided to add this one to the list of experiments. I made this partly as an exercise to see what I could do with just text, and partly because I've been fixated on this song for several years. A... (read more)
It's ordered. And en route. Along with a nice, juicy 1 Gig SanDisk Extreme FlashCard. Woot!... (read more)
The holiday season is fast upon us, and you know what that means... sites are coming out with their own seasonal Flash games. Check out Snowball Fight, where you can go head to head with another player online. It's just like Scorched Earth. But with more snow.... (read more)
I updated the audioplayer (over on the right there) with three flavors of Smells Like Teen Spirit. A little something for everyone, I guess. :)... (read more)
December 5, 2004
I feel like I should have gotten a little something, for hustling your Home Depot credit card in another language. I'm not asking much. Maybe one of those stylish orange aprons.... (read more)
So I went back to Home Depot today, to look for some tubes of sealant. I wanted to patch up all the cracks and drafts in my windows, prior to throwing on the saran wrap. There was a temporary/removeable brand that I used before and, unable to find it on... (read more)
December 4, 2004
My friend Juliet has started up her own site: The Daily Apple. She's an excellent writer, to saying nothing of her humor and her observational skills. Despite the fact that I have my own blog, I don't really keep up with other people's blogs. I simply can't be bothered;... (read more)
Ben's been keeping track of his progress lately, on his latest piece. A cool thing to watch, as the piece unfolds bit by bit. Definitely check out the video he made last week.... (read more)
Check out what Dipti's been up to, working as an online producer... shooting video, working in Premiere, working with HTML and Flash. Who knew she was such a nerd? Great stuff here. And on top of all of this, Dipti takes a mean photograph. Keep an eye out for... (read more)
Firing a ball of duct tape into a Doom Funnel has never been this much fun!... (read more)
I got to call up the Foxes tonight, and chatted with the two of them. Alice Fox was born last week on November 24th. Welcome, Alice! You're going to have a great time here.... (read more)
I got home around 4AM this morning. Promptly fell aspee. I've been meaning to use this weekend as a time to clean up the apartment. It's gotten pretty bad over the past few weeks, and I wanted to tidy up the place. I'm proud to say that all day today,... (read more)
December 3, 2004
Ended up at The Green Eye (a small little bar near the Western Blue Line stop. Met some interesting folks, and didn't feel uncomfortable by not knowing folks. All of the new people I met were very friendly and open, and I fell easily into conversation with almost everyone. I... (read more)
The night I attended the Found party, Jason ended up adding my name to the Found Dirty Picture Club: an email list that sent out the occasional found dirty picture. Over the years, it turns out that a certain number of the submissions to Found have been a bit... (read more)
For those not familiar with Found Magazine, I highly recommend checking out their website. It's a great collection of found objects: letters, photographs, notes, you name it. And it's all submitted by people who stumble across these things, day to day. What's so incredible about a lot of these... (read more)
December 2, 2004
Ok. So I have access to some basic site stats through my host. I sift through the info most nights, just to see if I can glean any information on how many folks are visiting and what areas they're interested in. It doesn't identify individuals, but it gives me a... (read more)
After work, I stopped off at Home Depot with Justin. I was running late this morning and figured, what the hell... and drove in to work. I've been meaning to insulate the apartment a bit more, as this place just seems to bleed heat. So: Home Depot, and a few... (read more)
December 1, 2004
This is a general rule: add some ninjas, and whatever it is... it just got better. (Sidnote: if the link above doesn't work, try refreshing the page a few times).... (read more)
Got this link from Mike today. Weird. And yet irresistably catchy. More info (and videos from iloveegg.com). Eggs, I really love you like the sky above.... (read more)
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