Monday, February 16, 2004
In a new trend today...
And so it is, Sean... so it is. So I'm going to start my posts this week with a quote from a webcomic I read. I don't really have any reason for doing this, but if you can think of a better way to find a beginning, then go right ahead and use it in your blog. As I was saying, smoking is cool. All the kids that did in high school because they thought it was cool? They were right. Call me old fashioned (er... again, I guess) but I think there's a certain kind of 1920s style in smoking. Maybe I've just been brainwashed by the tobacco companies and film noir movies, but smoking has its own kind of elegance that goes hand in hand with ritzy parties, high culture and badassness. This doesn't mean that I smoke though, or even that I want to, so don't get that idea. Well, I should really rephrase that, since I probably would smoke tons if it weren't for that pesky side-effect of "increased chance of death" that gets tossed in. Even if I thought there was a kind of elegance and style to shooting up with battery acid, or cyanide, or something equally lethal, I wouldn't do it. It's really too bad they can't make a cigarette that was good for you, without all that harmful chemical slurry. Because I'd buy them... you can count on it. Until then, I'll have to settle for the slightly less cool, not as stylish "breathing clean air, not bothering people around me, keeping nice teeth and breath, and continuing to do all of that until I'm like 80 or something" thing that I do. It's a shame, really.
Yay for internet quizzes!
So I was randomly whizzing around the blogsphere (what I believe is the current term for that little subset of the internet for blogs and livejournals) and I found this little quiz. You might have got in an email before, but I haven't, so here it is, as filled out by me (due to the whole "me being single" bit, I lied about the girlfriend bit. I hope you don't mind).
Choose a band/artist and answer only in song titles by that band: Monster Magnet
Are you female or male: King of Mars
Describe yourself: Powertrip
How do some people feel about you: Dopes to Infinity (it's a good thing, really)
How do you feel about yourself: I Control, I Fly
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend: See You In Hell
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend: My Life Friend
Describe where you want to be: Cage Around The Sun / Temple Of Your Dreams (I'm not picky)
Describe what you want to be: Black Mastermind
Describe your car: Ego, the Living Planet
Describe how you live: Nod Scene
Describe how you love: Negasonic Teenage Warhead (it means something, I'm sure...)
Share a few words of wisdom: Look To Your Orb For The Warning
The reason I bring this up is because it was actually kind of fun to fill out. The restriction of having to answer with song titles puts a kind of brain-teaser twist on things. So go do it yourself and email it to your friends. Despite what they say, they really do like getting these things in their inboxes. Also, make sure you make it look like it's been forwarded about 300 thousand times without having those old addresses and >>'s deleted. That only adds to the fun!
Link the drink sink
So you might have heard this, it being relatively large-ish news in the Business World, but I guess some company named Comcast tried to buy Disney for 66 billion dollars. Now I'm all for Mike Eisner keeping the throne and I support his decis- Oh wait. Never mind, he decided to axe traditional animation from Disney's "To Do" list, and since I consider that to be a move best described as "stupid beyond all recognition and a sure sign that any form of credibility Disney once had has forevermore been killed, not to mention one of the death knells for an art form (at least in the mainstream)"... Go Comcast!
So I guess there are new weapons of mass distraction out there on the intarweb. Something to do with "email bombs". I guess these little guys start at like 7kb, but decompress within seconds to sizes of hundreds of megabytes, and don't stop until your hard drive is full and rather FUBARed. Oh, and they trigger when your virus scanner tries to scan them. If you ask me, it sounds like a fun way to terrorize friends that are totally paranoid about their computer, but don't really know how it works. (Insert evil grin here.)
Why can't it be me? I'm the one who's all into stuff like superpowers and x-ray vision... when will it be my turn? Of course, living in Russia, among the wreckages of many a nuclear submarine just might have something to do with it (not that I want to imply that all of Russia is a nuclear wasteland. I'm sure it's a very nice country with beautiful fjords). At least on the bright side, there remains hope for the rest of us to spontaneously develop mutant powers (or until this girl gets debunked.)
Bonus picture! What's your high score?
In closing
Couple of things to finish up on. First, apparantly the UT2k4 demo has been released on Linux already. Not only does this rule a fair bit (since Linux really does get shafted in the games department), but it's rather shocking. Not only the Mac software but Linux as well? At the same time as PC? For demo? Wow. Maybe it has something to do with being basically an expansion of a year-old game...
Lastly, apparantly the Neo-Geo and the Genesis ran on Motorola 68000-series processors. I just think that's kind of neat because I've programmed them at school.
And now... to the dishes! Yah! ¶ 5:22 p.m.
"Brother-A, I don't smoke because of some myth of addiction. I smoke because it's cool."
-Sean, from Instant Classic
And so it is, Sean... so it is. So I'm going to start my posts this week with a quote from a webcomic I read. I don't really have any reason for doing this, but if you can think of a better way to find a beginning, then go right ahead and use it in your blog. As I was saying, smoking is cool. All the kids that did in high school because they thought it was cool? They were right. Call me old fashioned (er... again, I guess) but I think there's a certain kind of 1920s style in smoking. Maybe I've just been brainwashed by the tobacco companies and film noir movies, but smoking has its own kind of elegance that goes hand in hand with ritzy parties, high culture and badassness. This doesn't mean that I smoke though, or even that I want to, so don't get that idea. Well, I should really rephrase that, since I probably would smoke tons if it weren't for that pesky side-effect of "increased chance of death" that gets tossed in. Even if I thought there was a kind of elegance and style to shooting up with battery acid, or cyanide, or something equally lethal, I wouldn't do it. It's really too bad they can't make a cigarette that was good for you, without all that harmful chemical slurry. Because I'd buy them... you can count on it. Until then, I'll have to settle for the slightly less cool, not as stylish "breathing clean air, not bothering people around me, keeping nice teeth and breath, and continuing to do all of that until I'm like 80 or something" thing that I do. It's a shame, really.
Yay for internet quizzes!
So I was randomly whizzing around the blogsphere (what I believe is the current term for that little subset of the internet for blogs and livejournals) and I found this little quiz. You might have got in an email before, but I haven't, so here it is, as filled out by me (due to the whole "me being single" bit, I lied about the girlfriend bit. I hope you don't mind).
Choose a band/artist and answer only in song titles by that band: Monster Magnet
Are you female or male: King of Mars
Describe yourself: Powertrip
How do some people feel about you: Dopes to Infinity (it's a good thing, really)
How do you feel about yourself: I Control, I Fly
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend: See You In Hell
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend: My Life Friend
Describe where you want to be: Cage Around The Sun / Temple Of Your Dreams (I'm not picky)
Describe what you want to be: Black Mastermind
Describe your car: Ego, the Living Planet
Describe how you live: Nod Scene
Describe how you love: Negasonic Teenage Warhead (it means something, I'm sure...)
Share a few words of wisdom: Look To Your Orb For The Warning
The reason I bring this up is because it was actually kind of fun to fill out. The restriction of having to answer with song titles puts a kind of brain-teaser twist on things. So go do it yourself and email it to your friends. Despite what they say, they really do like getting these things in their inboxes. Also, make sure you make it look like it's been forwarded about 300 thousand times without having those old addresses and >>'s deleted. That only adds to the fun!
Link the drink sink
So you might have heard this, it being relatively large-ish news in the Business World, but I guess some company named Comcast tried to buy Disney for 66 billion dollars. Now I'm all for Mike Eisner keeping the throne and I support his decis- Oh wait. Never mind, he decided to axe traditional animation from Disney's "To Do" list, and since I consider that to be a move best described as "stupid beyond all recognition and a sure sign that any form of credibility Disney once had has forevermore been killed, not to mention one of the death knells for an art form (at least in the mainstream)"... Go Comcast!
So I guess there are new weapons of mass distraction out there on the intarweb. Something to do with "email bombs". I guess these little guys start at like 7kb, but decompress within seconds to sizes of hundreds of megabytes, and don't stop until your hard drive is full and rather FUBARed. Oh, and they trigger when your virus scanner tries to scan them. If you ask me, it sounds like a fun way to terrorize friends that are totally paranoid about their computer, but don't really know how it works. (Insert evil grin here.)
Why can't it be me? I'm the one who's all into stuff like superpowers and x-ray vision... when will it be my turn? Of course, living in Russia, among the wreckages of many a nuclear submarine just might have something to do with it (not that I want to imply that all of Russia is a nuclear wasteland. I'm sure it's a very nice country with beautiful fjords). At least on the bright side, there remains hope for the rest of us to spontaneously develop mutant powers (or until this girl gets debunked.)
Bonus picture! What's your high score?
In closing
Couple of things to finish up on. First, apparantly the UT2k4 demo has been released on Linux already. Not only does this rule a fair bit (since Linux really does get shafted in the games department), but it's rather shocking. Not only the Mac software but Linux as well? At the same time as PC? For demo? Wow. Maybe it has something to do with being basically an expansion of a year-old game...
Lastly, apparantly the Neo-Geo and the Genesis ran on Motorola 68000-series processors. I just think that's kind of neat because I've programmed them at school.
And now... to the dishes! Yah! ¶ 5:22 p.m.
