A Bit of Seoul

Cancer

Well one of my Uncles is dying of cancer. Some one in my family has died every four months for what feels like forever. I'm confident it will end eventually though because I'm running out of relatives.

Mom made me go see " New in Town" it was as bad as I thought it would be.

Other than that I've been staying off my sprang ankle so I've been TERRIBLY bored...

eye

so they brought a guy in at work to cover the end users while I was gone ( though I don't do helpdesk) supposedly he has over 10 years experience. I was working today when he asked me about someones permissions on the network. He claimed the they had domain admin rights ( the same as being God) I walked over...he was looking at the access rights she had on her own file share. I then spent the next 10 minuets trying to explain the difference access rights on a file share and access rights in the Active Directory. My eyeballs almost popped out...It's like someone telling me thier etch a sketch is a laptop.

Fuss

Well fuss and bother I know I'm not much of a blogger lately, but hey my life isn't all that intresting anyway.

Welll as far as the Sundance Film Festival goes I had a good time and did a little of everything. I wasn't as helpful as I could have been because of my sprang ankle. But there wasn't much in the way of work mid festival. Most was the beginging and end.I'll be honest it's not easy setting up or terring down equipment when you are handicapped. Walking on the snow with a bad leg was a worry too. It snowed the last few days I was there and it was so beautiful it looked fake. Some of the most fun of the festival was ease dropping on conversations. There is such a mix of people that my info ranged from polititions to industry insiders. I loved listening to it all.

Yes, I saw celebraties...no I didn't get autographs..that sort of thing doesn't intrest me at all.

I did love meeting the independent film makers...I loved the passion they feel...to embark of such a task knowing that virtually no one will see your baby is a true act of faith and love.

That people will sacrafice for art gives me faith.....

well back to real life...

Adventure

Well last night I saw a flick called Adventure Land, it was pretty good is I recomend it if it get distributed.

I ended up seeing the Inaguration through streaming video because the guys in the Volenteer lounge kept messing up the TV. The pattern seemed to be some random guy running up and grabbing the remote and messing eveything up.

We just watched it on our laptops in the IT dept...

Today is a benchamark day...( for me anyway) it's the most historic event I've ever lived through...and I know it...so as a student of History that real meaning for me....whoot....

Round Table

Well I went to a tech round table at New Frontier on Main at Sundance. The round table consisted of the guy who started U tube, the guy who started Hulu ( online TV) and the guy who started Netfix. It was on the future of content delivery. It was quite good and relativly small so you got to hang out and chat afterwards.

Of course one of the bottle necks I still see in that area is still bandwitdth...it's gotten cheaper but geeks like me who game and watch TV at the same time still use up enough to make the combo problimatic...but it's getting there.

Spread

So I went to go see a indy flick with Ashton Kutcher in it called Spread. It was a premire and a painful process. It envolved standing in line for hours in the snow in the dark..I and everyone else FROZE....after I got in and sat down I slowly thawed..eventually everyone stood up. I stood too...I said to the lady next to me," Who is it...the Pope?"

She said," I think it's Ashton Kutcher"

Shit! I was standing for Ashton Kutcher!..I sat down again.  It was bad enough I stood for hours in the snow.

Odd thing...

I was on the bus and the guy across from me says " Are you from LA?"

I said," Sometimes.....I'm there a lot"

He says," Is your last name common?"

Me, "No"

Him," I think i know you"

Me," Well maybe you know my sister...my brother in law is a Animator they get aout alot"

Truth is I may know him...he looked familiar...small world huh?

Open

Well I went to the Sundance Opening Premire...this involved much standing in line because I can't get the standard ticket for the premire..So I did the waitlist..it was fun sitting around talking to diffrent people. I started out by some young guys ( late 20's early 30's)the type that are dressed to the nines and screem...always had money. They had guess passes that they where guests of sponsors and where excited that they where going to have dinner with "Robert" it took me a bit to figure out that they ment Robert Redford...then I knew they didn't actually know him cause everyone who does referes to  him as "Bob" ( It took me days to figure out who the Bob was that every one talked about). They where nice enough guys though. One of them had spang his ankle skiing and we bonded cause I had slipped on some back ice in the dark the night before and sprang mine. ( my good leg too...so now I do ot have any good legs left) So now I'm hobbling around the mountain town. ( I should be used to it huh? And you thought I was a slow walker before) the bus has to kneel for me to get on...

I also ended up by a group of young guys who where film students..they played a game about namming people in films...thier knowledge only seemed to go back about 8 years.....god I'm getting old...

Still I'm having great FUN!

Festival

So things are picking up here at Sundance since the festival starts tommorrow. Things are of course falling apart at work back home. I had to email emergency directions back...ah, well life just goes that way. There is a big staff party tonight...whoot...I love a good party.

I've also went through and picked out the stuff I want to go to. When I was looking at the online scheduel I was surprised at how many things are wait list only. This doesn't really effect me because my tickets come out of a diffrent ticket pool.

Mean while Park City is getting crowded....and the event hasn't even started yet.

People ask me for directions all the time...funny cause the only thing I can find is the bathroom.....

Snow

Hey folks,

  This is a quick drive by....

Yes, I'm here in Park City, it's quite pretty. I wish you could see it..well you can google pictures. My condo rocks! Hot tub, wireless, flatscreen TV, fireplace and view.

Work is going well and we are ramping up...whooot!

The festival starts Thursday

Tred

Well I ordered my tredmill today, so it will be here when I get back. All the other stuff associated with leaving took all my time this evening so I've not really any time to write.

Now I'm not taking my laptop but I am working in the IT Dept, so I suppose I'll post from work..depending on time.

Anyway I'll try to let you guys know about the Festival....

Taa..have a good January