November 2007 Archives

Jeff and I caught Young Frankenstein at the Hilton Theater Wednesday night and both had to work on Friday after Thanksgiving so plans for what to do on Thursday were pretty limited. Our micro-apartment and galley kitchen isn't anyplace I want to be cooking and quite honestly, neither of us really cared too much. Even if we were able to get upstate to the house for a long weekend, the time away was more about just being away, not putting together a big feast.

So left to our own devices, we concocted a road-trip down to Atlantic City with friends we met on the Big Gay Cruise and spent the day gambling and eating at the buffet. While completely non-traditional, I have to say it was a delightful day spent with each other and friends. We also came home with some cash in our pockets thoughtfully provided by some strategic playing by Jeff. Winning at Blackjack always beats the hell out of losing. Yeah for a new Thanksgiving tradition.

For our date night last night, Jeff and I treated ourselves to the 3D IMAX version of Beowulf and WOW, WOW, WOW. So obviously, the story is the story, loosely based on the actual story of Beowulf. I think Neil Gaiman did a good job with the story over all but it didn't stray too far into unwritten territory. I think the real win for this movie is obviously the advancing technology of CGI-generated characters. Beowulf, while obviously CGI, is one step closer to not being able to tell the difference between real and not...but it's not there yet. Still, both Jeff and I were thoroughly entertained and being able to watch it not only in 3D but on the 7-story IMAX screen was incredible, especially the climactic battle at the end.

And all the naked flesh of Beowulf and Grendel's mother (A very perky, naked Angelina Jolie) was nice.

The 3D immersion technology has really come far and now that you don't have to wear those goggle helmet deals, it's that much better. Here is me in the new 3D glasses waiting for the movie to start:

So after 12 years of being at the same institution, I've finally embraced one of my biggest fears which is, for anyone who doesn't know, taking risks. I went out and found a great new job and resigned from what has been my home for a long, long time. Change is hard and I'm not one to crawl out from under the warmth of a super security blanket, but it's time to grow and try something new and risk failure but also risk actually making it work.

Being at an academic medical center for so long, I've grown accustomed to the environment, people, and how things operate so moving out into a for-profit industry is something completely new to me. Also, I'll be traveling 4-5 days a week all over the US. That was really a big selling point for me as I've always had the wanderlust. So now I get to keep Jeff AND travel. I could be coming to a city near you! We'll hang out and have drinks and you can discover that I'm much more boring then my blog would suggest.

So I'm in the final four weeks of my departure and the blog is back up and running. Yay me!

So the redesign is somewhat better then that nightmare before. Not exactly the most creative but it will do in a pinch until I can find something better or figure out how to time-travel back to before my MBA when I actually knew how to do CSS coding and whatnot.

Perhaps my words aren't enough. Maybe even static pictures of myself aren't vain enough.

The only next evolution is watching me dance the dance.

Watch Beau on the Big Gay Cruise's T-Dance. (Quicktime, 1.2 MB)

As promised, the Dodgeball adventure continued after my first attempt, documented earlier. But don't fret because as promised, here is another clip from a later game proving Gays can catch. See if you can see how surprised I when when that actually turned out to be true.

Gays CAN Catch, Dodgeball 2007 (Quicktime, 32MB)

I will eventually get around to updated the blog and fixing all this damnable CSS crap that is fucking up shit around here. In the mean time, I'm in a cast and wishing all my Vicodin had not disappeared.

Update: For everyone who asked about my cast and what happened, prepare to be bored: I developed a cyst on the base of my hand this summer that continued to grow. Seems I had torn cartlidge in my hand that was causing the cyst so I finally went in for the repair and they had to remove the pisiform bone while they were in there so the cast is one for until early December for wrist stability until everything heals. Not too exciting, I know.