Monthly Archives: August 2006

Chipotle Opening

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Posted by imolloy on August 31, 2006 – 10:11 am
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Chipotle finally opened yesterday in rainy West Lafayette. Their burritofication process was a success, and the rumors were true. Free burritos were served to all who would endure the 30-45 minute lines, and t-shirts in burrito foil were tossed, hail-mary style, from the roof to students in line. Only a few people were almost hit by cars.

During the construction of the building, it appeared as though some did not want the burrito chain to be built. I think on several occasions the front window was smashed, soon to be replaced and smashed again. My guess as always in the man with the most to loose from Chipotle opening their doors at Purdue: The owner of Moes. While Moes gave free chips, they were hard as rock, shattered in your mouth, and cut your gums. Combined with the birrages of “Welcome to Moes!” when you enter the door and sub-Chipotle food, I’ll never have to make the trek there again.

As a customer it was all worth the wait. I only wish I hadn’t forgotten my camera and had pictures…

Caché

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Posted by imolloy on August 27, 2006 – 10:22 am
Filed under Movies

Last night Alicia and I finally watched Caché, which I’ve wanted to see ever since I saw the trailer on Apple’s site.

While I wouldn’t say it was one of my favorite movies, it was extremely refreshing. Recently, too many movies have been cliché and predictable. I can often predict how the movie will unfold, or narrow it down to two or three options. At the fork in the plot, is the author going left, or right? The recent (pseudo-)exception to this was Match Point, which was written and directed by Woody Allen, my favorite do-it-all movie type. My recent luck with movies had been so poor, that I didn’t even expect Woody to surprise me. I had stopped even considering the possible directions he could have taken his story. I was so convinced I knew how the story was going to end that I didn’t even consider the last major twist. This surprised and pleased me.

The whole point of this is not Woody Allen, who can do things both great and garbage, but Caché from Michael Haneke, someone I’ve heard of, but never seen any of his work. I’m not sure I’d completely agree with the review on the DVD case “Like Hitchcock, only creepier,” but it did have its moments. The import thing to me though, was I had no idea what was going to happen next, or even what the possibilities were. I had to leave myself completely open to anything. Even though Alicia and I felt it could have had more, been more, said more, etc. I’m not at all unsatisfied.

Caché did provide a movie-watching first for me. One scene simply floored me. My mouth dropped, and all I could do was gasp “What the fuck?!” Cronenberg doesn’t even do that to me.

No comment.

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Posted by imolloy on August 22, 2006 – 10:49 pm
Filed under Dogs, Murphy

My lips are sealed, and he isn’t talking either.

Purdue CS Canoe Trip ‘06

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Posted by imolloy on August 13, 2006 – 2:30 pm
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Yesterday was the annual Purdue Computer Science Canoe Trip to welcome new students. It was a great chance for Alicia and I to finally put our canoe into the water for the first time this summer. We canoed around 2 miles on the Tippecanoe (I live in a pun) river. It was a pretty lazy trip, since the water was so high the river was flowing fast. While I think everyone enjoyed it, some people were capable of enjoying the trip and staying dry. It became almost comical at the end when the pace of the river picked up. One canoe was pulled, twisting sideways towards the shore and the group tipped, and almost everyone who tried to come to their aid had to take some form of a plunge or another.

Dog’s Life

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Posted by imolloy on August 13, 2006 – 2:20 pm
Filed under Murphy

Since teaching has ended this summer, and the CS department has taken my office in Physics away from me in the final stages of the move to the new building, I’ve been spending a lot of time at home. I think Murphy is a little confused by the sudden amount of time I’ve been spending at home with him. I don’t think he’s going to let me put a damper on his lifestyle. When I’m home with him (and I assume the same is true when I’m at class) he spends the entire day sleeping on our bed, under the ceiling fan, using all four of our pillows. While I’m sure he’s perfectly content sleeping on a hard surface like any other dog, he seems to enjoy a good pillow. Or four. The picture below isn’t the greatest since, even from a deep sleep, he can sense a human touching a camera. But you get the idea.

One night I remember waking up waking up early with a horrible pain in my neck. Somehow, my head was dangling off the edge of the bed. Murphy, it appears, had stolen my pillow late at night, propped it against the far wall of the bedroom, and, resting his head, slept comfortably.

But, I believe the reason I wanted to write this actually isn’t my dog’s predilection for pillows, but my staying home with him recently. On Friday Alicia was away at work, and I was at home with the dog. I was burning a DVD, and decided to take a walk with the dog. Since our car was broken into (they left $100 worth of iPod accessories, power inverter, etc. and stole $2.00 in change), I locked up all of the doors. Alicia arrived home early, and when the doors were all locked, she didn’t have her keys, the the dog wasn’t barking, she decided to search us out. “You were either dead, or on a walk, and I just wanted to know which.”

She found us, about a mile-and-a-half from the house. Alicia put the window down and Murphy and I approached. When he realized who it was he quickly jumped up, putting his front paws on the open window, and stuck his head in the car, tail wagging vigorously. Next thing we know, he’s decided to hop into the car, Dukes of Hazard style, through the open window. A quick kiss or two and he’s in the back of the car, ready to go for a ride. Damn I have a quirky dog.

Chip Hop

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Posted by imolloy on August 10, 2006 – 11:32 am
Filed under Music

MCPlus+ and the Empty Set have released their second album “Chip Hop”. I have to admit, they’re getting better. Should they quit their gigs here at Purdue and go full time gangsta? No. Especially not now that the nasty qualification process is over for the two main components.

The whole MCPlus+ thing has gotten a little crazy though. He’s made BoingBoing twice, Digg, Wired, and the cover of EE Times.

Random Doggy Goodness

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Posted by imolloy on August 8, 2006 – 2:31 pm
Filed under Dogs

My friend Winnie is pretty camera happy, and frequently takes pictures of Murphy. She recently visited from Chicago and went to the Dog Park with Alicia and me. I figured I’d post some of her pics from Flickr.

Hello world!

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Posted by imolloy on August 7, 2006 – 11:57 am
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Finally installed WordPress and should be able to take the faux out.