| Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 |
| 12:32 pm |
My 3 week trip to Japan to visit Schwab won't be happening after all. With my newly freed up vacation time I'm now planning to visit Indianapolis and see all you dudes (and dudette) from college again some time next year. Due to random work scheduling crap it will probably be near May or June. I'll send an actual email at some point in the near future when I am planning more seriously, but consider yourselves FOREWARNED. |
| Sunday, September 30th, 2007 |
| 5:34 pm |
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| Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 |
| 10:22 am |
It Begins
I've been taking a break from sci-fi and fantasy books since about September of last year and I retroactively decided it was for a year. Since in a few weeks I'm going to start reading sci-fi and fantasy again I've decided to end my hiatus with a bang. Finnegan's Wake and two reading guides should arrive from Amazon.com on Thursday or Friday. I'll have finished up my last two library books by the end of the weekend. Then begins my life or death struggle with the Wake. If I survive I'll report back how it was. |
| Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 |
| 12:09 am |
Wowio
I'm interested in signing up for Wowio, but the whole "you need to give us either a scan of your driver's license or your credit card info to sign up" thing is very offputting. Does anyone know if this thing is a scam or not? I asked Google but it was useless. |
| Thursday, June 28th, 2007 |
| 3:23 pm |
Business Proposal
Anyone want to go in on starting a cat food company based in China named "Curiosity"? (disclaimer: someone probably made that joke first, but I made it up during work today) |
| Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 |
| 10:54 pm |
New "High"
Today's Diesel Sweeties contains a Venn diagram as part of its joke. This diagram was popular with the readers of said comic and will be made into a shirt. I saw an error in the diagram so I emailed the creator. I have emailed the creator of a web comic about Venn diagram correctness. For my next trick I will email my slash Star Trek: Voyager fan fiction to Richard Stallman. |
| Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 |
| 1:08 am |
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| Monday, March 26th, 2007 |
| 2:18 pm |
Robot Jacko Strikes!
According this gossip column Michael Jackson is going to start doing concerts in Vegas year round, just like a variety of other washed up musical acts. To promote this concert he is going to build a 50 foot tall laser shooting robot of himself in Las Vegas. The concert itself will have "a stage set of a giant audience-interactive video game with human cyborgs controlled by the audience." Oh, please, please, please let this thing get built. |
| Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 |
| 11:58 pm |
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| Monday, March 19th, 2007 |
| 9:44 pm |
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| Friday, March 16th, 2007 |
| 12:00 am |
Dudes and dudettes, it isn't that tough
There are CliffsNotes for The Giver. Yes, that book that won the Newbury Medal which you probably read in middle school. I'll admit that I refer to the CliffsNotes for each chapter of Ulysses after reading the chapter and then thinking about it a little while, but seriously, The Giver? Come on. Then again.... I take it back. We should get someone on making fucking CliffsNotes for TV guide. Clearly America at large can't handle first grade spelling, let alone 6th grade reading comprehension. |
| Thursday, March 15th, 2007 |
| 12:11 am |
Japan Trifecta (Comic Book Edition)
The best written comic book I've read in years is Nijigahara Holograph. (Just do a quick Google for it and you'll find it) In the spirit of my current frenzy of Japan pop culture related posts it's a manga not yet released in the US. It's an insane nonlinear hallucinatory mystery tragedy. It's 300 pages that I read straight through, and plan to reread tomorrow night to more fully investigate its secrets. |
| Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 |
| 9:25 pm |
0xFCAF isn't the only one who can post about TV shows he's watching
I bought the Neon Genesis Platinum Edition DVD's and I'm finally getting around to rewatching the series on them. The last 5 episodes all have added scenes, at least 2 of which are extraordinarily useful to understanding the show. However, the main thing I'm noticing while rewatching Eva is how FAST the episodes are. I'm used to the more leisurely 43 minute American drama pace now, so how much gooey story goodness they pack into 23 minutes of an anime episode is freaking me out. Specifically, if you have access to recordings of Eva go and watch "The Day Tokyo-3 Stood Still" (episode 11) and watch how aggressively they cut between scenes and how pared down the episode is whilst still retaining all of the awesome. Related anecdote, having only watched Cowboy Bebop once Guy remembered "Ballad of Fallen Angels" (the church fight) as being a 2 part episode, but it turns out that the writers are just badasses. |
| Sunday, March 11th, 2007 |
| 2:22 pm |
Paprika ( trailer) is the new movie by Satoshi Kon, who made Perfect Blue, Paranoia Agent, and Millennium Actress. MP3's from the Paprika soundtrack are available from the composer's web site and I've been rocking out to "The girl in Byakkoya - White Tiger Field" for the past couple of days. |
| Monday, February 12th, 2007 |
| 4:02 pm |
Office Move Lighting Adventure
I am new in a new office at work today. When I arrived, the lights didn't turn on due to a bulb being burned out, so I submitted a service request online. A while later, one of the people who was in this office before me came by to pick up some crap they had left behind. She mentioned that the lights had randomly stopped working a few months ago, so she and her office mate had bought a lamp without making a service request or telling anyone about their lighting issue. Two hours after submitting the service request some dudes from facilities had replaced the burned out bulb and the lights now work. I like my solution better. |
| Thursday, January 4th, 2007 |
| 1:12 pm |
Still alive, still nerdy
I've been on a comics kick of late and reread Preacher and Lone Wolf and Cub. However, I've recently found a comic whose greatness makes wonder why I've been wasting time on anything else. Behold, The Enchanted Office the comic about how the new user interface in Office 2007 is going to personally save your company, marriage, and baby. |
| Thursday, September 14th, 2006 |
| 12:04 pm |
Washington is worse than Illinois in exactly one way
Definition: An "incest loophole" is when laws are structured so that if a person sexually abuses a child related to them instead of being charged with a serious felony like sexual assault they are instead charged with incest which is often a misdemeanor. Instead of jail time or loss of custody they often get parole and don't lose custody of the children they abused. Many states such as New York, California, and Illinois are passing laws that explicitly disallow charges of incest if one of the people involved is a minor. It turns out that not only does Washington have an incest loophole, it has an explicit incest loophole which says that if the person doing the assaulting had a preexisting relationship with the victim and it is likely that counseling will help the perpetrator then they are charged with a far less serious crime. So, basically, the Washington state legislature says that as long as someone befriends children BEFORE they sexually assault them they can just talk it out instead of going to jail. RELEVANT LINK |
| Monday, August 7th, 2006 |
| 4:23 pm |
LA Times Article about "Girls Gone Wild" Founder
This article about the founder of the "Girl's Gone Wild" media empire is really good, is the k-th most horrifying thing I've ever read, and is a unsettling portrait of a deeply disturbed individual. He's basically an especially jacked up version of Tom Cruise's character from Magnolia only without the personal growth and with at least one instance of probably committing rape. |
| Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 |
| 1:57 pm |
Most recent proof that 70's British Fantasy damages your ability to communicate with others
The Wikipedia article on garden path sentences includes the example sentence "The horse raced past the barn fell." The point of this sentence is that once you reach the word "fell" you realize that the underlying grammatical structure of the sentence is different than you thought it was and you spend a long time trying to figure out what is up. I on the other hand, immediately interpreted it as "the horse raced past the evil barn" and didn't understand why the sentence was tricky at all until after the article explicitly pointed it out. EDIT: Yes, my brain did try to tell me a sentence fragment was a sentence. |
| Friday, July 21st, 2006 |
| 11:36 am |
New Computer
I finally got around to replacing my computer after 4 years. I don't want to be one of those dudes who won't shut up about how much his new |30><0|2 |20><0|2Z, but Fear looks very nice. Speaking of Fear, to break in my new computer I'm alternating between playing Call of Cthulhu and Fear. If you've even been near me when I watch a horror movie you know that me playing these games implies I am spending my free time doing little fear jumps in my room alone due to imaginary little girls. So, if you feel a little depressed or unhappy right now just cheer yourself up by remembering that at least YOU aren't paying money for the privilege of being pwned by children who aren't even really there. |
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