Willo O'Brien

This week’s been crazy. Monday afternoon my Powerbook’s HD crashed. Sadness! Luckily I had a full backup from the previous Wednesday, but I’d done about 4 or 5 hours on an animation on Friday night that is totally gone now. However, things could be worse, right? This is the 2nd time I’ve been able to completely restore my computer using my Retrospect backups. I frickin love that program. However having a PC as my backup computer is completely worthless if my backups are in Retrospect, so I am going to get myself a mac mini or something to use for when this crap happens again. And just use Virtual PC for the only thing I ever use my PC for anyway: Cross browser checking.

So the whole HD Crash of ’06 sucked away roughly 2-3 solid work days this week. ug. BUT fortunately I have super nice friends like Kristin & Michael who happened to have an extra G4 laying around they could lend me. YAY!! And, again due to Retrospect’s kick ass backup system, I was able to completely load on my computer to a drive of their G4 and I’m back in business. I heart mac’s for this reason. Everything’s just as it was on my powerbook… icons, bookmarks, preferences, everything. SO FRICKIN SWEET. The only thing really missing is the dual screen action I set up w/ my flat screen & the powerbook next to it, the higher MHz (this one is only 533 compared to my PB’s 1.25GHz) and the FireWire 800 ports. Good things to keep in mind as I buy a backup mac. The Mac Mini’s don’t have FW800 either, but apparently the newest ones are shipping w/ the Intel Chip.

Anyone wanna buy my supped up PC? It’s actually pretty sweet! I just have no use for the thing anymore. I’ll write up the specs here eventually, but let me know if you’re interested (interest would really help me get down to business with listing out the specs on it :p)

OK, so the next few posts are going to be my catching up from the last 10 days. :)

Ted & I got a tour of Pixar on Monday! It was so fun!

Update: OK, I got to posting these photos faster than I thought. It actually happened out of something called procrastination, but shhh, don’t tell anyone. :)

Ted, Sulley & me!

kid in a candy store

raaawwrrr!

UPDATE: Here’s a link to the full photo album from our visit.
(Thanks for catching that, Sávio! I can’t believe I forgot! :p)

Thanks for inviting us over, Gabe!!

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Photos also posted from the Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins show last Friday night!

I heart Jenny Lewis!!! I scored tix at the last minute (from a very cute boy, I might add) and was thrilled every single second to be sitting there listening to her beauuuutiful voice! Jonathan Rice, the opener and who also played guitar with her & the Watson Twins, was really good, too! And can’t forget props to the Twins & Farmer Dave.

These photos suck cuz it was super low, red lighting – but it was beautiful in person. Candles everywhere… no photos could replace the memories in my mind & heart from this awesome show!

the lovely ladies!

Vietnamese Power! a/k/a Cutest photo ever!

We ran into Mai outside as she was walking home. I love small town instances like that. yay!

Again, here’s the complete photo album from this show.

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Saturday night’s show was great, too! My brother Max was in town for the SF Gift Fair (for his company, Om Gallery) with his business partner, Christopher. So we all went out to dinner w/ Mario, Holly, Ali & Ali’s friend Nick who was in town for the SF Indie Fest. The seven us dined at the new Chez Maman on Cortland & it was pretty good!

I was stoked my brother came out to the show w/ me, too. And what a line-up! The openers Lemon Sun were great – Ted had one of their songs on a compilation that I liked, but live they were really fantastic! Then my favorite boys Hijack the Disco rocked us with their kick-ass-ness!

Love these boys!

(skipping over Tartufi all together cuz I wasn’t paying attention) And then the headliners are another fav of ours, Scissors for Lefty! Who were awesome as always, and charmed a certain bad apple to the core! :) YAY!

Photos from this show are here!