Hungry, headachey, grumpy, lazy, nervous, and some other lesser-known dwarves have all come to hang out with me today, it seems. #
Crazy CNN multi-image, multi-angle phone viewer/zoomer diver thing. Probably not especially kind to dialup. http://tinyurl.com/76mnfv#
@wendyburton The “rebuilding yourself,” is only fun if you do weird costume things, but then without lurking, how do you know what it means? in reply to wendyburton#
This is my 600th post on this incarnation of this blog. I had another one at Blogger for a while, and I think I have them somewhere, I’ll have to make sure they’re back in my archives. Maybe another 15 posts or so. Elissa is over for our quad-weekly visit and Pimms-fest. Booze-amahol is inherent in this post.
Today my brain kinda went into neutral at work. I got stuff done, honest. I got to order a bunch of something that I would normally have shot down, or suspected isn’t really necessary, which translates to “I’m worried they’ll become toys.” It’s that enough of a sort of purchase that the person at the vendor said “Oh, are these gifts for people at work, like a giveaway?”
I feel like putting stickers on them when they arrive that say “No having fun with this.” I’m such a grump sometimes. I’m a hardware junkie like the best of them, but sometimes I feel like people want things because it’ll be fun to have them. Not because they’re needed for business purposes, but because they’re cool.
The new front end on the XBOX360 (that got rammed down my throat tonight before I could watch a movie) is cute and seems like it might be fun. Much like the first 5 minutes of The Sims. Unfortunately, unlike the Sims, there’s nothing to DO with the character/avatar thingie you just created.
Watched the Incredible Hulk ’08 tonight. Pretty good. Fun. Silly. Explodey. Ed Norton managed to put a little bit of acting in there, and Liv Tyler managed to keep her lips from pulling all the light out of the room. There were only a few things (clap out a chopper-fuel fire?) that happened that were along the lines of what made a bunch of engineers and artists at Relic get into a “that wouldn’t work” fight in email.
Seriously. That argument was a lot of fun to watch. It was due to the commercial for the film that came out in 2002, and in that commercial, a tank is picked up the gun barrel and then flung into the distance. People were arguing that it was impossible for anyone (even Der Hulkminsterfuller) to throw a tank by the barrel like that. It would shear off, one side of the argument said. You’re forgetting about centripetal force, the other side said. Gotta love any email thread with “centripetal” in it.
In which our hero stays glued to CNN for the evening, watching the election, and constantly feeling like “How are they going to steal it this time?” Spoiler alert for those of you who TiVoed it: It wasn’t stolen, and Yes, They Did.
I’m not feeling 100% today. Little sore throat, a tiny headache in the side of my neck (?) but other than that a good day. Hard to complain when the good guys win, for once, though, woohoo!
Oh, and just in case you’re American, and voted, and felt like it didn’t matter much? Mr. Saul Williams would like to have a word with you (hat tip to DreamPepper) about the whole idea of history.
Dear History,
You are behind us and we are no longer looking back. We are standing on the threshold of new times, new days, new worlds, and charging forward without battle cry or trumpet, while cynicism, apathy, and cowardice take their place beside you, behind us.
Also, the HipHop-For-Thinkie-Types guy over at Ill Doctrine had some smooth stuff to say about voting, ’cause you’d feel like a real heel if you have to tell your children you sat at home the night Obama almost won.
What else? Today I figured out how to make Ubuntu perform badly on a network. Seems like the sort of thing one should avoid, but in this case it’s something we’re TRYING to create. Some “real world” networking stuff is needed to see what our all-multiplayer-online games are like when you don’t have $50,000 worth of networking gear between you and the server. I’ve been using Ubuntu as my surfing box for a year or so now, but it’s nice to actually have to learn something at work with it. Makes me push that much harder/faster to figure out how to make it do something I want to do. Good times. No, really, I enjoy that.
Okay, so I’m out bombing around the net like I’m likely to do on a Tuesday night looking for something about a particular primary religious figure being a zombie, and I come across this photo
on a page with a bunch of other things scrolling and then my brain says “what’s STRETRODRUNIAL?” and so I Google some of the words (and here they are so Google robots will find ME wondering about THAT):
The caption/title on the last one says Frank Chu, so maybe this is who does these weird signs, but my brain is just whining at me “What *IS* is though? What’s happening? Is this a thing? Is a thing happening? Tell me!”
Do you figure if I threaten to send my brain to bed without any supper, it’ll stop whining?
So when you wonder what I’m doing at 11:30 at night, when I should really be sleeping, or making lunches for tomorrow or something?
This is it.
I’ll probably search a little more tonight, but hey, if anyone can point me in the right direction, by all means, let ‘er rip.
