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On Tuesday night Mary Beth and I went to see Girlhood (Bande de Filles) at Rhodes as part of some french film festival thingie. The movie was good, but it was a rocky start trying to watch it! First, the dvd wouldn't play from the menu. It kept getting some error about that action not being possible or whatever. Pretty weird, but okay. The guy finally got it to play by selecting the chapter. Okay, then he leaves the room. The movie's going on. It takes a few minutes before there's any dialog. Well, the subtitles aren't on. Finally someone gets the guy to come back. So he stops the movie, pushes subtitles on in the menu, and then starts it again from the chapter select. He almost leaves again. Well we start back from the beginning, watch for several minutes and it's back to no subtitles. So he finally figures out to push the subtitles button. Yay. It was a pretty comical experience. Anyway, the movie was really good. Before it started I got a call from the guy who's repairing my guitar amp. He said while cleaning the knobs, the numbers all came off. Anyway, he's replacing the knobs. It seemed like a more entertaining anecdote before I typed it out.
Last night I went over to Zach's to record the second (really the first, since the first was an episode zero type of thing) episode of the Memphis for Bernie podcast. This time it was just Sara and Zach talking. I thought they were really good. They had a pretty good spontaneous flow of conversation at times. And through an aside I learned that Sara, while living in Israel, was injured by a suicide bomber. Not the kind of story you (or I guess I should be speaking for myself here) hear everyday.
Today at work my little "messaging" team (formerly "jboss") finally came together as something of a real team. A couple weeks back we got a scrum master. Much of the time's been spent cleaning up our issues in jira (jargon, yeah, that's just a program/site we use to track issues). Well, while we settled on not actually going full-on scrum like most teams (since work kinda comes to us in a not-always-so-in-advance fashion from other teams it probably won't work so well to work in sprints with a set time and all that) we are doing kanban (which means we still have a board, instead of just planning ahead, it's more the issues come a little in advance and we have a system in place to prioritize the work). So we got our board up on the wall and it's like we're a real team like all the other teams. Well how about them apples? Sorry for the boring work shit, but hey. I woke up today starting to get a sore throat. I bet it was going over to Zach's last night. Damn teachers!
Last night I went over to Zach's to record the second (really the first, since the first was an episode zero type of thing) episode of the Memphis for Bernie podcast. This time it was just Sara and Zach talking. I thought they were really good. They had a pretty good spontaneous flow of conversation at times. And through an aside I learned that Sara, while living in Israel, was injured by a suicide bomber. Not the kind of story you (or I guess I should be speaking for myself here) hear everyday.
Today at work my little "messaging" team (formerly "jboss") finally came together as something of a real team. A couple weeks back we got a scrum master. Much of the time's been spent cleaning up our issues in jira (jargon, yeah, that's just a program/site we use to track issues). Well, while we settled on not actually going full-on scrum like most teams (since work kinda comes to us in a not-always-so-in-advance fashion from other teams it probably won't work so well to work in sprints with a set time and all that) we are doing kanban (which means we still have a board, instead of just planning ahead, it's more the issues come a little in advance and we have a system in place to prioritize the work). So we got our board up on the wall and it's like we're a real team like all the other teams. Well how about them apples? Sorry for the boring work shit, but hey. I woke up today starting to get a sore throat. I bet it was going over to Zach's last night. Damn teachers!
