movie 2 cents

lost in translation was...nice, but ultimately, a lot to sit through for the fuzzy pay-off at the end. i still think american splendor was awesome, so nanner nanner glen. mystic river is my vote for most awesome movie last year. without lord of the rings money, and cgi, it tells a good story. it could be cited in an argument against capital punishment. it's my personal opinion that everyone should watch "the gods must be crazy" at least once a week. that way, if you are human, there's no way you'd consider hurting another human. perhaps that's a little dreaming. oh well, "we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams." that brianna's cute as a button. can't say i've seen any cute buttons in my life, so let's say she's cuter than one. look out when we get kobe back.

The biscuit

We saw Seabiscuit last night. It is a good story with solid character development. Special effects, gratuitious violence and chase scenes has to be cut for a lack of time.

I got lost in Lost in Translation. People wondering around looking confused. Can someone explain why Bill Murray is nominated for an award on this one? Maybe if I had just seen it in the original language, I wouldn't have been so lost.

Movies

Beth, Kyle and I watched Lost in Translation last night. Beth and I both liked it, but for different reasons. I thought it captured what happens when people drift spiritually and emotionally. The characters were using this vague relationship to give direction or substance to their experience. Beth wants to see Mystic River next. We rented Jet Lag a couple of weeks ago. A movie similar in someways to Lost in Translation. A french movie focused on chance meeting and relationship confusion.

a word from the nerd

hey everyone. i think that just includes steve and glen right now, but hi if you're not one of them and you are reading this. this is more or less just a test to see how this is going to work. so far, so good. so....um.....seen any good movies lately........anyone? i will now attempt to upload a picture.

Nicely done

Way to go Steve!

Testing Picture Posting

This is Brianna eating her dinner.

web space

I am not using my web space at this time. I can set up that site so that anyone could ftp to it with the password. I will look up the address and find the password.

New Address

To remove the Christmas limitation to the blog. I have changed the url for our family blog.

Now I have to figure out how to let everyone know the new address.

A place to FTP the images

Since I no longer work at the same place, we may loose access to the server where I have the photographic images stored. Does anyone else have access to a server for that purpose? I think, if we are really clever, we could also ftp all of the content to another place so we would not have Blogger advertising at the top of the blog. Any suggestions?

hmm, one other thought is that I think we could pay a fee to blogger.com to upgrade the service to remove advertising and have storage space from images.

I will look into these. Let me know if any of you computer geeks have any ideas.

New Blog Title

I have taken the word "Yule" out of the title. This may help people know they can blog outside of the Christmas season. I will try to change the URL to be more season inclusive. I don't know it that kind of change is allowed. I will try to figure that out.

New uses for the blog

I think there should be more uses for this family blog. But that means people will have to blog!

A friend of mine who just went to work in Bangledesh has started this blog. I'd like to say that I got him started and coached him through his first posting of the images. --because I did do that!

I think we should keep up the postings. Especailly when something interesting happens. Like my work with MEDA was mentioned by some of our clients on KCET's "Life and Times" program last night. I don't know how long they leave it up there but today you can listen to the program on their web site: here.

what's up

just checking to see if anyone else checks the blog. is there more purpose than just at christmas?
take care
steve