Wednesday, June 28, 2006
  Random amusing slashdot discussion:
Slashdot recently ran an article on Semiconducting Nanotubes, and this discussion followed:

posted by nog_lorp:
This is disgusting! Until it can be proven that carbon atoms are not alive according to God, these evil scientists must be stopped from experiment on them!

To which another slash-dotter (Chris Burke) responded:
You're right, so I asked God. He said no, carbon nanotubes are not living beings in His eyes. Then he said that skin cells were, and I was going to Hell for so brazenly sloughing them off by the thousands right in front of Him. He sounded really angry, and I got really scared, then He told me he was just kidding, cells were part of my body and their deaths were a natural part of my life. Then He said that viruses were not part of my body, and that most of my white blood cells were going to Hell. He vanished before I could ask him if he was joking or not.

God has a weird sense of humor.


So does slashdot.
 
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
  SPIDERMAN!!!!
if you haven't seen the new spiderman 3 trailer, click here. Then read onwards.
Topher's looking a little more Brock-ish with the dye job, but it's still difficult to equate the "That 70's Show" geek with the classic Eddie Brock look: Old School Eddie Brock.
Eddie's just gotten bigger, too. Lookit:



I just don't see it.
Other than that, the new costume's pretty fun. Not the same black and white from the comics, but it blends well with the movie mythology. And if you're not geeky enough to freeze frame the preview, here's a few tidbits you may have missed:
1) Peter's flying through the air trying to catch a wedding band.
2) Harry Osborne shows up in the same scene, also uncostumed, and fights him in midair.
3) Gwen Stacy's totally hot. As she should be.

So, yeah, I'm hyped. Only a year to go.
May 4! Finals week will be rough in 07.
 
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I can't wait to see it. Let's get a group and go.
 
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
  Lost, anyone?
Anyone have Lost season 1 on DVD? I've got a friend who's starting to get hooked, but is understandably confused about the whole thing. Naturally, my solution is to have a massive marathon. I've got the important bits of season 2 videotaped, but season one's not around. If you're in Murray, email me @ my MSU addy.
 
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I'm actually down in Dresden, but you can get the whole season at EBay pretty cheaply.
And it's awesome. Absolutely brilliant and you see more than you do during the first run.
 
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  Star Trek News
Big Orange Michael, a blogger off the Nashville is talking blogroll has a great write up on J.J. Abrams' plans for the next Star Trek movie. Amid the juicer bits is the rumor that Abrams considered Matt Damon for the part of young Kirk. I agree w/Big Orange here, not such a wise thought. Then again, the whole prequel concept doesn't really appeal to me anyway. If we're going into the past, give me an Enterprise movie or, better yet, a little more of the First-Contact-past era.
Still, it's exciting to have new blood and new ideas in the Trek waters. Without rumors and hopes, these seem like dark days for those of us who still have plastic phasers sitting around.
Read the whole story here
(thanks to Sarcastro for posting this on NiT)
 
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
  Morning Coffee
So, Little Dell's power cord shorted again. This time actually up on the cord part, which is easily replaceable, but still. I'm calling Dell tonight, getting yet another cord sent to me, and hoping yet again that this one will last more than 6 months.
In the meantime, I've rebuilt Liz's old computer, now running on what was it's second harddrive before the primary died.
Little Dell's hard drive is hooked up to the USB, and all is well.
While going through the migration, I discovered a fun firefox addon called Morning Coffee. I tell it what sites I visit every morning, or which ones I visit on which mornings (like Tuesday trips to Megatokyo). It sorts them so now all I have to do is click on the little coffee logo on the toolbar, and all pages open up in tabs for me. Which is good, because I don't remember much of what I'm doing before 8AM anyway, so less thinking is better.
google around to find the addon. It's nice.
Also, Opera has in-browser support for bittorrent now. Not that I'm saying you should use torrents, because they're so often used for naughty things, but if you are going to use them, maybe you should use them in Opera.
 
  thought of the day
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
- George Bernard Shaw
 
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
  TMCM thought of the day
Today's thought brought to you by Too Much Coffee Manchoose coffee!
 
Sunday, June 18, 2006
  UNMASKED!

The Marvel Comics Civil War story arc is underway, and while superheroes choose sides over the Superhuman Registration Act, Peter Parker's made a bold statement over where he stands.

In the latest edition of the Marvel comic "Civil War" on sale, Spiderman does the unthinkable and removes his Spidey mask to publicly reveal his hidden identity.

"I'm proud of who I am, and I'm here right now to prove it," Spidy tells a press conference called in New York's Times Square before pulling off his mask before the massed ranks of reporters as newspaper photographer Peter Parker.

"Any questions?" Parker asks in the final panel of the issue, amid a barrage of camera flashes.

If you're not reading this yet, start.
 
  Anti-Heroes Anonymous
So I need to update that reading list sidebar again. I finished The Watchmen and Sin City. In case there was any doubt in your minds (those of you who read comics), Watchmen is by far the superior read. Alan Moore's Watchmen is the only graphic novel to have won a Hugo and also the only graphic novel in Time's top 100 books of the century. (wiki). The watchmen is a deconstructionalist's dream, with all the nuclear war paranoia of the 80's wrapped around the decaying image of the comic superhero. It's characters are brutally real, and easily earned the comic an adult perspective. It's graphic, but not senselessly so. A comic book within the comic book ads a little more literary flare, helping this story earn its place on Time's top 100. I'm glad to have discovered Moore's contribution to literature.
And horrified to hear they're turning it into a movie.
Which brings us right around to sin city.
Anybody have some soap for my brain? I admire the artistic approach (and will probably emulate it in my own webcomic project that I hint at every so often), but the content went from tiresome to loathsome. By the time I trudged through "Hell and Back", I was ready to never pick up another Frank Miller tale. I don't want to get on a high horse about morality and comics. I understand he's going for the anti-hero, and that the nastier a hard-boiled noir story it becomes, the more of his purpose he's achieved, but come on. The stories started ok, I actually found a little catharsis in Dwight from "The Big Fat Kill". "That Yellow Bastard" was starting to go downhill. As I continued through the remaining stories, the patterns started setting in. Formulaic stories aggrevate me. And then I realize Miller's leaning a lot on shock value here. Characters react in ways that are sometimes realistic, but often one-sided. What was starting to seem a little juvenile ended as utterly ridiculous. Hell and Back isn't worth the paper it's printed on. If Miller's setting out to create some kind of post-modern dissection of a dying genre, I guess he did ok. But I can't stomach much postmodernism either.
Again, what was mild curiosity about the movies is now indifference.
And if any of my Frank Miller fans are still reading, I will give him credit for memorable characters, great style (again), and a gutsy, uncompromising approach to telling a story. It just wasn't my particular flavor.
Maybe if I was still 16.
 
Monday, June 12, 2006
  Cats and Soccer
I cat-sat for Tiffany today. She's in the lab until who-knows-when, and Katze's up here for the week while the beagles invade the white-bluff house. She's the cute little black kitten in the flickr bar, but full grown now. She's adjusting nicely, hasn't even attacked my hands while typing (though she is considering it now). She's a bit of a wild thing, so indoor life is probably ruining her.
At least it's not ruining the apartment.
So, after I got home from work (at noon, part time sucks), we played for a little while and then settled down for the world cup.
If you haven't watched the games you taped yet, quit reading.
if you didn't tape the games, or don't even know what the world cup is, shame on you. Go read a non-US news site for a few minutes.
Anyway, I wish there was more to say about the US-Czech game today. What started deceptively promising ended painfully. I had to switch over to writing articles (my other job, which I should've been doing anyway) before it was over. We play Italy next, and I don't really know enough about soccer to have a clue how we'll fare.
 
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
  WKMS and other work stuff continued...
After almost a week at WPLN, I can definitely say I am quite content with this part-time job. I have almost adjusted to seeing the world at 7AM again, though it still takes quite a bit of coffee for me to admit to it. I've made several icons and ads for WPLN, all of which give me a nice way to explore my creative side.
I'm using Blender a lot more. I created a dramatically lit 3d image of earth in about 10 minutes that would have taken hours in photoshop to do correctly. I'm working on more advanced stuff (tracing 2d images to make 3d photos), but still have a long way to go before I'm at a level to claim proficiency with this program. It's great for quick-and-easy web graphics, though, and I might be able to toss together an intro for the Greek sites with it too.
Ahhh, the Greek sites. I am SO behind on those. I'm finally uploading the final version of one tonight, sans the video I couldn't get compressed. I'm expecting things to crash, so tonight will be a late one again. Somehow, getting up at 7AM, sleeping about 2-5, working 7 or 8 til 1AM, then sleeping again from about 1 or 2AM til 7AM doesn't seem like the ideal way to divide up ones day. But hey, it's working for me. We'll see how it does when I start writing articles and quit writing HTML.
 
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