Zombie March Chicago

I am so, SO very excited. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've recently rediscovered a love for zombie movies. The wife and I are leaving town to go to Chicago for a few days tomorrow morning (vacation for me, training/vacation for her). Coincidentally, tomorrow afternoon from 2-6pm, an event is being held in the loop, downtown Chicago.



If I had known about this event a bit further in advance, I might have been able to come up with a costume and participate, but as it stands, I'll probably just try to get our bags dropped off at the hotel and get back to the loop with my camera by 2pm. When/if I get some decent pics, I'll post them up on Flickr and make another post here about it.

I giggled like a schoolgirl and clapped my hands at work (making my officemate noticeably disturbed).

More news as it arises!

Zombie Fest

I don't know what got me thinking about it, really... I think I found a copy of Dawn of the Dead (2004) on my jumpdrive, and decided I wanted to know more about zombie movie zistory. A quick Google search later, and I stumbled upon the following, which is an EXCELLENT resource for the aspiring zombie movie buff.

Zombie Movie History @ Best-horror-movies.com

Reading through that page gave me an insight into the long-lived history of the zombie movie, dating back as far as 1932, with White Zombie. One of my most vivid memories from childhood is watching the original Romero classic, Night of the Living Dead. I'm also a huge fan of Shaun of the Dead.

Basically what I'm getting at is I'd like to put together a ZombieFest, just some people getting together and watching a bunch of zombie flicks just for the sake of watching them. (Including, most likely, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (1978), Zombi 2 (Zombie in the USA), and whatever else.

I'll probably end up just watching them by myself, which is totally cool, but if anyone else is interested, I'm searching around to see what I've got access to (public domain, Netflix "watch now", divx, etc.). And on that note, of course, here's Night of the Living Dead on Google Video (public domain).

Oh, another really cool part of the site I visited earlier was the "Ask a Zombie Master" section. Lots of fun Q&A.

New Foresight Member

To those of you reading from http://planet.foresightlinux.org, I'd just like to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Jordan, and I'm a Foresight Linux user.

I'm a 26 year old living in the United States, in Frankfort, Kentucky. I am a Network Analyst for the Kentucky Department of Education - Cabinet for Workforce Development. I support mostly Windows servers and a few Solaris/Unix servers. I have been using Linux full-time since February of 2007, but sporadically since 2001. I had a roommate in college who showed me that there were other things out there besides Windows, and though I couldn't make the switch full-time until just recently, I feel that Linux has been a big part of my life ever since then.

I first heard of Foresight from etank shortly after he started using it. I decided to give it a shot on my new laptop, since I had just purchased it and certainly didn't want to be using Vista. From that time I realized that Foresight has a community that I could grow to be a part of, and a development environment that I can actually participate in. I began working with etank and mkj at the Foresight 20/20 conference in April, and haven't looked back.

Yes, I realize that most of this post was directly copied/pasted from my Foresight wiki page, but it says a lot about me without having to retype.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to doing more as a member of the Foresight community (and hopefully as a developer eventually!).

Posting from Lynx

I'm testing something at the moment... I'm SSH'd into my Ubuntu box at home, running Lynx, and posting here.
Looks like it's working well so far. If this does work, I may try it more often. It's a little weird to look at, but definitely functional. For those that aren't familiar with it, Lynx is a command-line web browser, so I'm not seeing any graphics, just a lot of text.

Foresight membership

The Foresight higher-ups had a FOCUS meeting today (Foresight council meeting).

In this morning’s FOCUS meeting, three new members were approved: jkeyes0 (me!), Zinden, and LanceHaig.

I’m glad to be a part of the Foresight community, and I look forward to contributing in any way that I can.