http://candleboy.com The online journal of Vermont filmmaker, Bill Simmon. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:49:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tomorrow morning I will attend my first Vermont ACLU meeting as a member of the Board of Directors. That's right, I'm a card-carrying member of the ACLU and I'm on their board. So far, this has benefited me by being a really good excuse to give the ACLU donation-seekers: "um, ... http://candleboy.com/2008/11/weekend-links/ via Dear S http://candleboy.com/2008/11/heh/ Once again, San Francisco-based indy pop sensation, Blammos, is spending the month of November making music videos. In fact, the band is making and posting a new video every single day this month. They did this same thing last November and from what I've seen, this year's crop of indy ... http://candleboy.com/2008/11/blammos-is-doing-november-again/ ...where quite a few people have gone before, actually. Emily and I saw Quantum of Solace Saturday night and the much-ballyhooed second Star Trek trailer ran before the film. I couldn't let the event pass without comment since my childhood was seriously imbued with Trek canon. Before the Next Generation was ... http://candleboy.com/2008/11/boldly-going/ Once again, little Vermont is trying to save America from itself. As of now, Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders -- the two senators from Vermont -- are the only two US senators saying that they will vote to strip the chairmanship of the homeland security and government affairs senate committee ... http://candleboy.com/2008/11/vermont-saving-america-from-itself/ I wrote a lengthy post yesterday about California's proposition 8 and the definition of the word "right" as it pertains to constituations and case law and Wordpress ate it and spit half of it back up. I got frustrated and couldn't rewrite the thing. I'll get to it soon. Been busy ... http://candleboy.com/2008/11/still-here/ Yay! Gravity Lens is back! http://candleboy.com/2008/11/procrastination-engage/ I want to to take a minute and point out a couple of cases of traditional media embracing social media in Vermont. First of all, VCAM has entered the social media realm more forcefully lately. Spear-headed by my co-worker Seth, VCAM now has a growing Facebook presence (and group) and a ... http://candleboy.com/2008/11/old-media-and-social-media/ The display on my MacBook Pro died yesterday. I dropped it off at Small Dog today and I'm typing this on a loaner machine from work. The guy at Small Dog looked at my machine's stats (17" MBP, hi-res display, 7200 RPM 160 GB HD, 2.4 ghz Core 2 Duo, 4 ... http://candleboy.com/2008/11/apple-sad-face/ As MSNBC cut between New York and Chicago and Kenya and Atlanta last night following the 11:00 p.m. official call for Obama, was I the only one thinking of the montage of victory celebrations at the end of Return of the Jedi? At the risk of stretching analogies between the ... http://candleboy.com/2008/11/zub-zub/