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  • Well, it's nice when a movie meets your expectations, except when your expectations are low and your hopes were high. The new Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy movie manages to fail both as an adaption of the books/radi…

  • "What is an animator?" from The Buzz -- 3. One who has a keen eye for details, a fertile imagination, a borderline obsessive-compulsive desire to recreate motion, the ego of an actor but with a withering case of sta…

  • It's time for another stupid test! (Thanks, Celia)When will someone write the "What stupid time-wasting online test are you?"? Gust ~ 40% Water ~ 85% Wind ~ 40% Earth ~ 51% Fire ~ I want to live where the sky is bi…

  • I have the best friends EVAR. Just got a birthday gift from Dennis&Laura. A 'care package' of Japanese snack foods of the sort you can find trivially in SF but which are non-existent here in AEON. I will save mo…

  • Wrote some. Cleaned kitchen. Watched "Serenity" Trailer. Wow. This is going to be smegging cool, and far too few people will see it. As with the original series, the lumpen masses Just Won't Get It. "Why's there …

  • Things I did today: a:Learned enough Intermediate Language to construct a simple loop/print construct. This is the sort of thing which is trivial to do in any high-level language, but much harder when: 1)You are usin…

  • In the "Well, I thought it was funny!" category, we have John Cleese hyping disk-based backup. May be slashdotted, so try back often. Also features a special guest appearence by Michael Dorn.

  • So, yesterday was my pre-birthday-BBQ,combined with my usual Saturday game, leading me to be driving home at 1 AM, and surviving. I'm still not 100% comfortable driving to new places; people often leave out 'obvious' …

  • WEB PROGRAMMING GOD You scored 98% on HTML Knowledge! YOU ARE ALL THAT IS GEEK! you probably hand-write web pages usingnotepad, not that shitty FrontPage. You probably at LEAST -understand-,if not use the more adva…

  • Hey, Jerome. I've always been a moralist -- my morality is simply somewhat idiosyncratic. Warning someone they're going to do something stupid is different from trying to stop them from doing it, and SOE is doing some…

  • OK, some background here. I enjoy playing online games such as Everquest 2. One of the banes of such games are "plat farmers" or "eBay characters" -- people who exchange real-world money for in-game goods and servic…

  • W00t! Today, I taught a computer to add 2+2. More technically, I taught it to take something like 1+2+(2*(3+4)), and parse it, returning the correct answer, which is different from 1+2+2*3+4. This is not going to…

  • Oh...my... I feel my arteries hardening just reading this. This is...I mean, it's...there's just... Mmmm....bacon.... Bacon...tempura. Even writing it makes you gain weight! (Thanks to Gen for the link!) …

  • So. Apparently, I have gallstones, and the appropriate (and, apparently, the only) treatment is surgery. I will be seeing a doctor this Friday to confirm, and I have surgery scheduled for 5/2. Yay! Thus far, 2005 i…

  •   Psionicist You scored 30 Holy, 52 Tactful, 2 Natural,  and 55 Arcane! Your eye flutters for a second and the world loses focus... whenclarity returns you realize that the only person in the room who wasn'tknocked …

  • Relevant to this column, which is now circulating the net at the speed of rumour and which will undoubtedly quickly become 'written by' George Carlin any time now: My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Sword of Patien…

  • Which Historical Lunatic Are You?From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

  • Awwwww! Surgeon General's Warning: Those with diabetes or cat allergies should not click the above link.

  • Three things are most perilous, Connectors that corrode, Unproven algorithms, And self modifying code. (Threes, Rev 1.1) It's the last one I'm working on. My assignment has gain…

  • Those of you who grew up in the 80s and 90s might not understand just how....silly...some comic books were in the 50s and 60s (and early 70s). If you want to waste a lot of time finding out, click here.

  • Bag Of Plagues Really, nothing to add to this, though it somehow got my mind spiralling down on paths...such as 'Who found the afikomen at the last supper?'

  •   Ultimate Gamer!! GM says drop 2d10, aanndd... you roll 85% ! What, are you a first generation gamer? Did you own the brown box?!Whatever you do in your spare time, gaming seems to be your job. Eitheryou looked up…

  • Not doing well. Spent most of today in a vague haze, either asleep or unable to focus. I tried writing and got nowhere. I can't get a decent night's sleep, so I can't get anything done during the day. The lack of abso…

  • Same results as always, it seems. What's odd is I am scoring less introverted -- I usually am 5% to 10% I to E. INTP - the Architect You scored 45% I to E, 10% N to S, 95% F to T, and 63% J to P! You are more…

  • Another weird night. Or morning. It's 3:42, and I'm at the computer...programming, not writing. Finally starting to really get into this current project, having overcome a few technical issues. Couldn't sleep, so I fi…

  • Quote from last night's game: "I'm an American! Are you a slug?"

  • OK, now this is retro: Wizardry Clone It's a nicely done semi-clone of Wizardry (the game that ruined my freshman year of college), done entirely in HTML/CGI. The interface is painfully clunky...but...here's the thi…

  • Once again, we see that on any area where I have personal knowledge, the media gets it wrong. Why should I trust them on areas where I don't have personal knowledge? From this article: "It was all part of Retro R…

  • Oh, this is just so wrong on so many levels. The article panders to CTW, of course, but it's STILL wrong. This is like Disney changing Pirates of the Carribbean to be more PC. Article Making Excuses for CTW Now…

  • Wikipedia is dangerous to productivity.

  • Going to go take my Longest Solo Drive Ever (since moving out to Indy, IAE). If I don't blog for 2 or more days, assume my mangled and charred corpse is lying by the roadside somewhere. EDIT: Made it back alive, no …

  • Not one of my better days. I'm in a completely prickly mood -- every little thing strikes me as an impossible annoyance. I've been very tired, but I can't sleep. I've been struggling to accomplish some basic burecracy…

  • Most People Too Stupid To Live, Study Finds Study Showing People Are Morons Oh, well, OK, that's not QUITE the spin they put on it. But it's MY spin. Sheesh, people. This isn't "technical jargon". It's terms used to…

  • Wrote 3K+ words detailing alien artifacts. Cleaned bathroom. Am trying to get something together for the Hackmaster game in...oh...30 minutes. All my notes are on my laptop, which is missing its primary cord and is po…

  • Today's accomplishment -- finally realized noise in computer room was not coming from outside. Carefully dissassembled and cleaned computer to make sure fan was not blocked or there were no loose screws rattling aroun…

  • Other exciting things I've done today: Cleaned up front yard, sploshed fertilizer on pretty flowers so they'd grow and be more pretty, was depressed. I have this feeling I could win a Nobel Prize tomorrow and I'd thin…

  • Working on novel. Currently writing scene featuring life-or-death struggle with mutant deer. Not kidding. Much like Cthulhu, mutant deer make everything better. In other news... Continuing my theme of 'writing ab…

  • Comments on the finale of Season 1 of BSG. Major spoilers. 4.9 -0.1 for keeping the Naked Boomer Volleyball Team in shadow. We've seen more …

  • Lizard continues to get the sprawling chaos of his life under control. Closed out 2 of 3 credit cards and got current on the third. Actually ordered a replacement card for said, since the one in my wallet expired in 2…

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