All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

This could be a stretch, but the following sentence (or any variance of it) bugs me:

“Would you be kind enough to…yadda yadda yadda?”

This applies to anyone. I’d like to think I’m a nice guy, and that I love helping people whenever I can. Don’t decorate the question — be upfront and ask me! Elaborating the question is wasting the valuable seconds I could’ve already been helping you. If they ask why, then you can butter ‘em up!

I’m currently using FeedBurner Plugin 2.2 to redirect all feeds to http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllNarfedUp and http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllNarfedUpComments. But, I want categories to have specific feeds, too — specifically the podcasts. Can you please help me?

Update 3/8/2007 @ 1:05pm: I had to update the Permalink Redirect WordPress plugin. Category feeds are back in business!

A completely impromptu podcast with my friend and drummer from Phantom Scream, James Corsini. (High school senior.) We talk about food and obesity in America.

Time: 7:38

Download MP3 - Podcast #2 (5.24MB)

Notes

• For the record, I was totally guessing about the coke bottles. Maybe the criticisms in the Coca-Cola Wikipedia entry will help.
• I said “mouthed”. I slur words sometimes. Terrible.
• We realize if we do this again, we’ll make note cards.

I just noticed that Snap changed their UI so you can disable those pesky pop-ups without the hassle of going to their website. Awesome! Compare that to the old-school way: “How can I turn Snap Preview Anywhere on or off?”

Sorry if this is old news…I just saw it, so maybe I’m not alone.

Tonight, a handful of us played tournament poker at Ume’s house. (NL, $5 buy-in.) I didn’t fare too well. I wasn’t making good reads. If I did, I either had nothing to bluff or I didn’t bet enough. I also didn’t get that many good cards. At least In-N-Out and Starbucks was good.

I recorded the whole evening, which was over three hours. I’m not sure why, but it’s funny to see the guys saying weird stuff into the microphone. Of course, I’m not going to upload it. Worthless drivel and completely random.

I’ll need to read up on poker strategy again sometime by borrowing “Doyle Brunson’s Super System II” from a library. I already own “Caro’s Book of Poker Tells.”

We (Phantom Scream) were going to have band practice at Unchained Studios last night, but due to miscommunication, we couldn’t reserve a rehearsal room.

After a plethora of phone calls during my commute home, the majority of us (plus James Umemura) went to No Future Café in Pasadena. We had no idea who was playing there, because the website said “T.B.A.” Grr.

We were pleasantly surprised to Folk Rock and Contemporary night, consisting of Erin Wurtemberg, Mike Barnet, and Rande Vick. One cup of hazelnut coffee and one cup of hot chocolate and I was mellowed out. For those who know me, that kind of music is 180° compared to some of the music I listen to (which contains guitar riffs, crazy drum beats, and some screaming).

I tried to record each set with my iRiver iFP-899 (just for kicks), but I later found out that the Line-In Recording Volume was set too high (even at 12). Then again, we were at the front, so I’m not sure if even the lowest setting would prevent clipping.

This was my second time going to the No Future Cafe. Have I ever mentioned that I hope we get a chance to play there one of these days?

So, I’ve switched the blog from blogged.btvillarin.com to allnarfedup.com. If you’re reading this from your RSS reader, you shouldn’t notice any problem. I changed the URL in my FeedBurner account. I’ve also installed Matt’s no-www plugin, which makes my site Class B validated (and I don’t know what that means, but it sounds good to me).

James: The only hard part would be relinking all of the images, media files, etc (if you didn’t use relative links).

From the looks in August and September 2004, I guess I did use relative links. Yay for that not being broken!

Thanks to James Huff for the .htaccess line that’ll redirect people from the old domain to this new one, the feedback that I should just stick with one blog, and the “Moving WordPress” Codex page.

Any questions?