DeeDee and I signed up our house with GreenCine tonight. I put 30 movies in my queue real quick (there’s new version Raging Bull!). I was on NetFlix a few years ago but this is waaaay better for the movie geek. Perfect to try out my new vision system on.

I especially love the Movie Primers section where you can setup your film school curriculum much easier. I’m really into the Iranian New Wave and they have a really good essay on it. They use extensive IMDB links for stuff they don't have. I once heard that they best way to get a film education was not to watch a bunch of movies by different directors, but to just pick a director and watch their whole cannon, beginning to end. I've done that with quite a few and I have to recommend it. You get a much better idea of how technique and theme work together from the perspective of a single artist. GreenCine lets you do this when you click on a director, you can just queue up all their movies. Another one I like is the new releases.

Anyhow, if you're a NetFlixer, I say switch.

There is no way to explain eye surgery. In some ways, especially if you're a sensitive bugger like me, it's easier than putting a contact lens in. You're drugged and locked down and numbed. in other ways, it's kind of horrifying. You have to watch it all and you are in charge of holding your eyeball still by looking at a light. I had my first taste of what it's like when I got a steroid injection in my eyeball. But that was really nothing. Yesterday I got a cataract extraction and lens replacement in my right eye as a result of my (in case you didn't know) cronic uveitis.

I'm now officially a cyborg. Part man, part plastic.

My vision in my right eye is 20/25 today. It may fluctuate a little bit as I get used to the lens but things are looking good.

The best feature of the new primco.org blog is the feed: XML that describes the structure and contains the message I'm sending. How convenient! Down on the lower left hand corner you can chose on the format you like best. I like Atom. If you don't how to deal with an XML feed or why you'd want to, well, I won't go deeply into that now. but basically, it turns a web blog (which is a thing where you have to go and get it), to a subscription (which is a thing that comes to you when it's ready). Here's a good intro to this stuff. If you use Firefox, it's got built in aggregation.

Well, finishing the re-design of my site is definitely worth blogging. It only took me 2 years. I'm also moving web hosts to TextDrive. The new layout is mostly css dependent with only a few lingering tables. All the content and structure is the same, just changes the window dressing. I've also added a banner for each section. The images will rotate a couple times a week.

The next steps are to actually update the content. The photo page is a few years old and I have a lot of new photos.