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.\u00a0 Much like the first 5 minutes of The Sims.\u00a0 Unfortunately, unlike the Sims, there’s nothing to DO with the character\/avatar thingie you just created.<\/p>\n
Watched the Incredible Hulk ’08 tonight.\u00a0 Pretty good.\u00a0 Fun.\u00a0 Silly.\u00a0 Explodey.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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 \u201cthat wouldn’t work\u201d fight in email.<\/p>\n
Seriously.\u00a0 That argument was a lot of fun to watch.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 People were arguing that it was impossible for anyone (even Der Hulkminsterfuller) to throw a tank by the barrel like that.\u00a0 It would shear off, one side of the argument said.\u00a0 You’re forgetting about centripetal force, the other side said.\u00a0 Gotta love any email thread with “centripetal” in it.<\/p>\n
\nUnlike when I was watching Snakes On A Plane, and wondered aloud why they wouldn’t just turn off the heat, and the snakes would fall asleep.\u00a0 My thing about the Hulk and his friend there?\u00a0 Drowning.\u00a0 There’s nothing about them being so incredibly strong they don’t need air.\u00a0 Also, I keep running into movies where there’s \u201cThe Data\u201d and \u201cThe Data\u201d has to be given to \u201cThe Scientist\u201d so he can \u201cResearch\u201d it.\u00a0 Why do they always leave The Data on The Media instead of pumping it into a Gmail account somewhere?\u00a0 Or, worst-case scenario, getting a blog account, uploading the data as if it were a blog post, and then hit Publish?<\/p>\n
No, that’s not what happened today with the previous \u201cI’m funny\u201d post.\u00a0 That was just a mistake.<\/p>\n
This is how my brain works, constantly.\u00a0 I’m a problem solver by nature, and a puzzler of things that most folks don’t waste their brain cycles on.\u00a0 I walk through those gates in a video store, and before I have my hand on the door, I got six ways (I think) I could defeat the system.\u00a0 Maybe I’m just a devious bastard, but sometimes I like to think it means I’d be good at working for a security firm of some sort, playing devil’s advocate for new systems.<\/p>\n
There are other people out there who are WAY better at this stuff than I am, of course, and it struck me this morning while listening to an interview on radio that there’s actually a job out there for people who do things like that, and they do it all day.\u00a0 It’s the job they have, and it’s what they trained for.\u00a0 When they meet people like me they feel like I do when people who don’t get what I do say things like \u201cI want to be in computers, like you are, can you teach me this stuff?\u201d<\/p>\n
I can’t teach you.\u00a0 I can help you learn, and point you in the right direction, maybe, towards things that would come in handy sooner rather than later, but if you’re not interested in, and maybe already doing some of what I do in a day, I can’t put that drive in you.\u00a0 Working \u201cin computers\u201d is like being \u201con drugs.\u201d\u00a0 It’s big in there, and if you’re not sure what you were thinking you’d be doing when you started out, you’re going to end up spending the whole trip hiding under your desk, and telling people how much easier\/faster\/prettier everything would be if there was some … uh.<\/p>\n
Wow.\u00a0 What the hell am I talking about?\u00a0 I’m tripping, as in wire.<\/p>\n
As Stephen Colbert would say: Moving on.<\/p>\n
Finally, my very super eenie small camera my mom bought me from ThinkGeek finally broke.\u00a0 Well, the camera itself didn’t die, just the case around it, which brings me to tonight’s question:<\/p>\n
If you have a camera about the size of a little box of matches, with a mini USB connector, what would you hide it in, so it doesn’t look like a camera any more.\u00a0 Preferrably something that could sit on my desk, in plain view, without looking like a camera.<\/p>\n