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Accomplishments #8.666 – Mid June 2011 Edition

Monday, June 20th, 2011 at 12:53 am

Shows / Movies
X-Men First Class – Done
Green Lantern – Done
House – Done
Glee – Done
X-Men Cartoon (entire series) – In Progress
The Office (last season) – To Do
Either: Jersey Shore or Game of Thrones or Community or Parks and Recreation or Modern Family or Mad Men or Chuck

Books & Manga
Harry Potter Books – To Do
Azumanga Daioh – To Do

worldofwarren.com
Remove Portfolio and Resume – To Do

warrenshea.com
Complete this site – In Progress

Gaming

Web Development and Design
Start Smashing Magazine Book 1 – To Do
Start Smashing Magazine Book 2 – To Do
Start ASP.NET 4.0 book – To Do
Start my HTML5 book – To Do

Other
Learn my Mac OS

Notes
Month is 2/3 over. I’ve been working a lot on warrenshea.com. The weddings are done. My weekends are still busy, and work is going to be pretty busy this week…I hope I can get back to being productive.

oh? hai! i forgot all about you!

Sunday, June 19th, 2011 at 9:29 pm

Yes, it’s true. Despite the fact that I occassionally checked the site, I’ve been MIA for a week.

The nights have been…busy lately. Basically, the last few weeknights, I start watching Glee and develop my professional site, warrenshea.com (yet to be released). Once I being developing…I don’t stop until late, late at night. There’s always SOMETHING I want to improve on, or do…I never found time to even think about my blog.

The last few days have been busy, since
Thursday
12am-3am: Green Lantern
3am-3pm: Sleep

Friday
5pm-2am: Karaoke w/ co-workers
2am-7am: Coding w/ music + singing to myself….so wired!
7am-3pm: Sleep

Saturday
3pm-7pm: Code/Get ready for TFC Game
7pm-10pm: TFC Game w/ co-workers
10pm-3am: Patio BBQ w/ co-workers
3am-2pm: Sleep

Sunday
2pm-5pm: Code/Get ready for Taste of Little Italy
5pm-8pm: Taste of Little Italy
8pm-?: Blogging…

Thing I’d like to blog about in the near future:
Reliability + Passion: The Keys to Success (basically, re-writing an old post of mine in a more professional manner, so I can reference it in my professional site).
Accessibility
Accomplishments #8.645161 – Mid June 2011 Edition
Singing + Karaoke
Music. My Music.

Things I want to do in the near future:
Photography session of some of my recent toys
Karaoke Song List – So many awesome songs I missed

God…after that Karaoke session, I can’t stop singing. Like, I’m singing to every song….quietly singing as I’m walking on the street….playing music over and over…singing to it. Maybe I’ll even record and post some, so I can improve….

Anyways, I’m gonna go clean my hamster cage, put on some X-Men Cartoon (because I finished Glee Season 2).

Oh right: Glee Season 2:
Let me say that I really like the show, Glee. But not because of the musical numbers. Not because of the high school drama. Partly because the humor. But mostly, I like Glee because occasionally, they deal with realistic, difficult issues. In season 1, they dealt with a lot of issues. So much so that I didn’t think they had more. But I was wrong. This season brought out inner beauty. It dealt with poverty, death, difficulty of coming out of the closet, and more…

What I love about Glee that it’s a show about Acceptance, and finding it. It’s about being an outcast, regardless of how pretty or handsome you are, how nice or mean you are, how popular or unpopular you are. It’s about friends that are close like family…and being able to be the person you are and still be accepted. And loved. I think almost anyone can watch this type of show and relate in some way, to someone. When you watch Glee, you’re a part of their family. Their drama.

It seems like a strange comparison, but I compare Glee to the X-Men in a lot of ways. Each member of the group, damaged in their own sort of way. Hated by everyone around them. Trying to be accepted by being better people, rather than by force. Living by example. Supporting each other.

I really thought Santana and Brittany were stars this season . As always, Kurt is given some of the most difficult situations. He’s a star in his own right but…I find his fight to be one of the hardest. Acceptance for him seems to be an impossible journey……but one he never gives up on.

I look forward to Season 3! I might even re-watch Season 1 and 2 again…

glee

Monday, June 13th, 2011 at 2:25 am

I started watching Glee….right now I’m on Season 1 Episode 20. It’s a good show, not a great show.

The musical numbers are pretty good. Sometimes.

The high school drama is…. repetitive. It’s less dramatic than say, Dawson’s Creek or One Tree Hill.

I think Dianna Agron is very nice to look at (and I enjoyed her appearance in I Am Number Four, despite being a terrible movie). But she sounds like she’s always got a cold. And also, she can’t act. It’s like watching January Jones in the X-Men.

I think Lea Michele is a great singer. But her character is SO OBNOXIOUS.

I think Matthew Morrison is like an older, less vocally strong Justin Timberlake. He’s good…but…not spectacular.

Anyways, what I really enjoy is that every once in a while, they’ll do a fantastic musical number. It’s nice just sticking around for that…

Also, every once in a while, they deal with difficult issues. I love that they have a physically disabled character in the show. The group has a lot of ethnic diversity. I love that the group is filled with all the cliques; jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, goths, geeks, and homosexuals. The group deals with all the issues that a cast of misfits like these would deal with. Racism, teen pregnancy, sexism, homosexualism…and well, just dealing with jerks most of the time. Every once in a while, they give me a show that makes me feel something, while the rest of the show is just…well, a series of events where I have no emotional attachment to. It’s more real now than it was at the beginning, but it’s still so…..high school. Most of the time.

Anyways, I should sleep…just wanted to write a bit about this show now that I’ve almost finishes Season 1. After that: Season 2 and then…who knows!

Great day – Formal day-before-wedding party!

Saturday, June 11th, 2011 at 3:40 am

Let’s start the day off.

Went to work at 9:30am. I had a previously scheduled appointment for 3pm today….so I was only in part of the day. But my boss wasn’t in today. So at 12, I went out to lunch with my usual crew + more. About 15 people in total. Very awesome because Z took today off so she was able to eat lunch with us. At 2, (2 hour lunch!), Z and I left for our appointment. Spoiler alert, we had facial appointment :P Microdermabrasion. The suction out your pores and remove the dirt and oil and stuff…and then they close the pores. Anyways, when we were done, we decided to go to Eaton Centre to look for a dress for tomorrow. By we, I mean Z. I went to Indigo and was looking at Manga, Video Game Guides, and Graphic Novels. At 4pm….we found out about a formal dinner…for 7pm that day O_O. In 3 hours!? And we were downtown, unprepared, unformally dressed….crazy! We went home, got home around 5:15….got ready until 6:15 and then went to a banquet ball for the party. Funny thing is that even though we got there are for 7pm….the bride didn’t really come in til 9pm. So we kinda just…chilled for 2 hours! All that rush for nothing. 9-12 was basically eating and drinking. I was going to drive, I only had 1 beer tonight until like 12, when the bride’s dad started to make people drink. So I took a shot. But since I took that one shot, there was no way I was driving home. So in the next 10 minutes, I had 3 more shots :) Didn’t affect me quite as much as I would have liked. 3 shots of tequila, 1 shot of vodka. The Shot Theory is really working out well!

Stupid me, there was one point where the bride asked me to dance in the middle of the floor and I declined. But you never decline the bride…(tho technically her wedding day is tomorrow). I had spent much of the night making other people do what the bride wanted but when it came to me, I wussed out. Weak. And VERY bad.
But….luckily, before the night was over, I redeemed myself when she asked me to go dance in the center of the stage with her…and I did :) I’m very glad I did because if I didn’t, that would have plagued my life. I tend to dwell on stuff like that.

I went to sleep around 2am, after my internet died in the middle of writing my blog post. I think I slept for about 30 minutes before…waking up! And then I came out to blog more. Weird how I didn’t just, yknow, sleep through the night. (And note: I didn’t wake up to puke). Ugh, I can still taste the tequila in my mouth. I like vodka more.

Anyways, I should sleep now…3:30am :/ Need to wake up at 11am tomorrow for lunch, ceremony at 2:30pm, break and then reception at 7:00pm. Another long day tomorrow. But I absolutely had a blast tonight :) Totally love (as a friend) the bride and I had so much fun at my first muslim wedding….the music is….different :) but I’ve been educated!

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Also, I’m a super happy drunk. Alcohol really brings down my generally high walls, it brings down my inhibitions, it lets me be free. And I love it. As long as people are there to keep in me check from doing something too bad…I’m good. Though to be honest, I’ve never been super smashed ever. No drunken puke yet. No memory lapses. No passing out. Even when I try to get smashed and push my limits, it seems that those limits have not been yet. My power is OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Dragonball joke]

Okay. Time for bed :) Did not proofread….will proofread tomorrow :D

My 2 most favoritist anime intros

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 at 11:39 am

I caught up on House a couple days ago…rewatched all 7 seasons. I’m not doing that again…it was fun the first time. Tedious the second. And I won’t rewatch it ever again. That’s not to say I won’t watch some episodes…but yeah, House isn’t something you re-watch.

Since I caught up on House, I’ve been watching some anime….Gundam Seed Character Theater, which I apparently missed for years. And that led me to start listening to anime music again. I haven’t been lately…I’ve been doing radio and pop music. As I went through my anime intro list…these two songs still resonate with me as the ones I can never get tired of. I love Gundam Seed Destiny Opening 1, and other Gundam Seed Intros…I like some Naruto ones…but these two just hold a special spot on my list. I get this…intense feeling of incoming epicness when I listen to Clannad and I get a tranquil feeling of serenity when I listen to Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu?. Anyways, just thought I’d re-post so I can listen to them easier at work :)

Clannad After Story (Season 2)

Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu?