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Been working all day (and now night) on the Flapping Crane DVD. Here’s the thing: we shot over 4.5 hours worth of material. We want to put everything on DVD (except Skate Justice, the master of which is lost and I don’t much care) and we want to do commentary. The problem is that unless I find someone quick who is a wiz at DVD Studio Pro (or similar), this is gonna be a freakin’ four DVD set.

It really only should be a two DVD set. So if you know anyone, let me know. Soon.

Anyway, I’m kind of inspired to do this because late November will mark 5 years since flappingcrane.com went live. To put that in perspective, Youtube did not exist then. I was still in my mid-twenties, and people still referred to me as “El Conquistador” (not true at all).

Granted, we’ve slowed down our pace in the past couple years, but we’ve still got skits in the works. Eventually I’ll edit X-Lax 2000, Lazy Time Traveller, etc. There’s talk of a new Reicher. And, to top it off, we plan to relaunch flappingcrane.com this year. A big-ass new design that will probably piss people off, much higher-quality (near DVD-quality) versions of every skit and even some new skits (secret hint: one involves a squirrel).

So it’s kind of a fun time. We’re doing the disc 1 commentaries this Friday.

I’ll probably start putting up unreleased material in the coming months. Some of it is pretty good. Two songs of note which I may link to: “Professor Willoughby” and “Half-Jew in Love”.

I found my geek code circa mid-late 1990s.

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So, for fun, I put together my current one, though the geek code parameters are sorely out of date:

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Haven’t updated the ol’ blog for a while, and I figured now was as good time to.

We got married on Friday, 4/17. There were a few last-mintute crises but it all fell into place nicely.

The wedding took place on the beach at the Harbor Bay Marriott down here in Fort Lauderdale, FL. There was a cocktail hour in the presidential suite, though the wedding party lingered on the beach for photos (coming soon — if you’re my friend on facebook you may have seen some already). Nice pad. Then we had the reception in a ballroom.

It was a fairly small wedding. I suppose that’s a consequence of having a destination wedding during a huge recession. It was fun, though, because we were able to chat with just about everyone.

Now we’re officially on our honeymoon. Going to drive down to Key Largo in the morning. Good times. I’m writing this on the balcony of the now in-laws’ condo in Ft. Lauderdale overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Couldn’t ask for a nicer, more relaxing atmosphere.

We’ve got a lot of walking in, which is good because we’ve been eating a lot. I’ve had a lot of steak. We had filet mignon at the reception as well. We’re about to walk down to a place called Shooters which is right on the intercoastal waterway. It’s a fun place. I think I’ll buy a goofy shirt.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who made it down here, and a big thanks to our wedding party. We were surrounded by family and good friends, all of whom went out of their way to make this as wonderful an experience as possible.

One nice, funny story — on our way down for the pre-ceremony pictures, people around the pool gave Kelly and me a warm round of applause. We were taken aback and nearly embarrassed.

You know how when you get a new iPod or car or whatever and you’re afraid to get that first scratch? That’s how I feel about our new floors. I can’t bring myself to remove the taped-on covering yet. Granted, there’s 2 more things to move in.