Punch Line
Last night Stacey and I went out to a comedy club called Punch Line for the late show. I'm a huge fan of stand...
[Jul 31, Filed under Blog, 3 comments]
I [Heart] San Francisco
It is clear to me that I belong in the city. Walking around San Francisco today ó Union Square, Chinatown, the Fi...
[Jul 29, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
A Demoralizing String of Events
The last week has brought a very demoralizing string of screenwriting-related developments. Pretty much every ...
[Jul 28, Filed under Blog, 3 comments]
San Francisco Pending
Stacey and I are headed to San Francisco on Thursday (returning Sunday) for an extended weekend of relaxation....
[Jul 26, Filed under Blog, 6 comments]
Stone Imperial Russian Stout
Stone Imperial Russian Stout (beverage)...
[Jul 26, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Movable Type
Movable Type (software)...
[Jul 24, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Lateralus
Lateralus (album)...
[Jul 24, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
The Corporation
The Corporation (film)...
[Jul 24, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
The Bourne Supremacy in 25 Words or Less
Smart story, intelligent action, great chases, and a welcome world and character to revisit. A weaker ending t...
[Jul 24, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 5 comments]
Tomo Software
Earlier today I accepted a job as Assistant Game Designer at Tomo Software, a startup creating a new breed of ...
[Jul 23, Filed under Blog, 14 comments]
Progress by Inches
A bit of progress on the link color issue: All links should now appear to be mustard until they are followed, ...
[Jul 23, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
The Corporation in 25 Words or Less
Harrowing, must-see documentary roughly twice as alarming as Fahrenheit 9/11. Moments of breakout thinking ris...
[Jul 23, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
Whole Foods
Stacey and I recently started shopping regularly at a Whole Foods that just opened near our house, so I was do...
[Jul 20, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
Link Color
Links on jefftidball.com should be the same color as the text surrounding them. They should most certainly not...
[Jul 20, Filed under Blog, 12 comments]
Moulin Rouge in 25 Words or Less
Still ó perhaps more ó enjoyable the second time. How you'd go about making something like this is completely beyond...
[Jul 19, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
Yet More Progress
The comment windows are now unified graphically with the main page, as are the comment preview and comment err...
[Jul 19, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
More Progress
Whew!
The graphic design you see before you is what jefftidball.com is now supposed to look like. (You should...
[Jul 17, Filed under Blog, 5 comments]
Work in Progress
Please ignore the dump trucks and men with jackhammers. Jefftidballdotcomland is a work in progress until furt...
[Jul 16, Filed under Blog, 7 comments]
Matrimony
Stacey and I hosted a wedding at our house this afternoon: Our friend Credence married her fiancee Xavier on o...
[Jul 14, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Graphic Fine Tuning
As intimated by yesterday's frustration, I'm working on a jefftidball.com redesign. I finally have things bloc...
[Jul 13, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Hulk's Diary
Hulk's Diary (website)...
[Jul 13, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Pavitr Prabhakar, the Spider-Man
Marvel's Indian licensee Gotham Entertainment Group has announced that they will launch a "trans-created" (as ...
[Jul 13, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
The CSS Is Trying To Kill Me
Doing the new jefftidball.com layout entirely in CSS is making me crazy.
That is all....
[Jul 12, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Bad Santa in 25 Words or Less
Funny, raunchy, and irreverent. Squared. Ingeniously (and stunningly) effective in evoking sympathy for the bi...
[Jul 11, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
The Hypocrisy of John Edwards (Not)
As I read the L.A. Times Sunday Opinion section this morning — which I do pretty much every weekend because ap...
[Jul 11, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Spider-Man 2 in 25 Words or Less
The dramatization of Parker's mundane life — the mundane lives of all the "supers," really — propels this abov...
[Jul 10, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) in 25 Words or Less
Given my limited knowledge and experience of the period's films, I was impressed by both the narrative complex...
[Jul 10, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
LAist
LAist (website)...
[Jul 9, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
CSS Layout Techniques
CSS Layout Techniques (website)...
[Jul 9, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Startup.com in 25 Words or Less
Consistently fails to provide meaningful context for what seems to be a gripping story... but who'd know? Disa...
[Jul 9, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
And By "Nearly," I Mean "Actually"
In defiance of yesterday's observations about the inevitable energy siphon associated with all GAMA activities...
[Jul 8, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Nearly Sucked In Again
Today I joined the Origins Awards Task Force mailing list, hosted by Matt Forbeck. Its purpose is to recommend...
[Jul 7, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
johnaugust.com
johnaugust.com (website)...
[Jul 7, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
Royalties Make Everything Better
Even if relatively modest, a royalty check from Atlas Games makes any day a little bit brighter. Today, the ro...
[Jul 6, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Wet SUV
In case you were waiting for a news story, with a picture, about an SUV at the bottom of a swimming pool, well...
[Jul 2, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
What You Should Be Watching: Quintuplets
Although no replacement for Andy Richter Controls the Universe, which I say without hyperbole was the best hal...
[Jul 1, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Fahrenheit 9/11 in 25 Words or Less
Starts well, organizing/juxtaposing persuasive information with good context, but spirals off into an unfocuse...
[Jul 1, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]