Which Kiss are You? Which Band Instrument are You? What’s Your Battle Cry? Which Royalty Are You? In order: Yeah. Okay. Huh? Eep! (Via Trance Gemini)…
In order: Yeah. Okay. Huh? Eep!
(Via Trance Gemini)
So there are already pirated copies of the new Star Wars flick showing up on the Internet. Oh, my God, the evils of piracy … Kutner [PR rep for the…
So there are already pirated copies of the new Star Wars flick showing up on the Internet. Oh, my God, the evils of piracy …
Kutner [PR rep for the MPAA] could not estimate the financial losses of Internet piracy to the studios, but she said they are mounting.
“There is an incalculable financial loss to (the movie industry) right now and that will only grow as the ability to pirate movies on the Internet through broadband access is available to more people,” said Kutner.
Now, really … how many audience members do you think will be lost by folks downloading Attack of the Clones from the Net? These are exactly the folks who are running off to see the film eleventy-dozen times already.
Doyce has pics of Katherine during our visit there last weekend. It’s a shame she’s so shy, anti-social, and delicate….
Doyce has pics of Katherine during our visit there last weekend.
It’s a shame she’s so shy, anti-social, and delicate.
Things going on so far this weekend: I provided some hours of remote tech support to my folks, both on the problem diagnosis below and on installing Norton the following…
Things going on so far this weekend:
Now we just have to figure what we’re doing on Opening Day next week …
Which is more unbelievable (or, if you will, scary)? That some folks actually thought that The Two Towers, the title of the next Lord of the Rings movie (and the…
Which is more unbelievable (or, if you will, scary)?
That some folks actually thought that The Two Towers, the title of the next Lord of the Rings movie (and the title of the second book, published in 1954), was specifically chosen as an insensitive exploitation of the 9-11 WTC tragedy? (I hope it was a joke. I really hope it was a joke. I desperately hope it was a joke.)
That they actually got over 1,200 people to sign their petition to Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema to change the title? (Though it sounds like a lot of the signers were poking fun at the petition, too.)
Or that Peter Jackson actually considered the thought back in September, before quickly coming back to sanity? (Nobody was responsible for what they thought right after that tragedy.)
As one wag at the petition site also suggested,
“I think they should rename New York too, because every time I hear ‘New York’ it makes me think of that day and it makes me cry. That and the words ‘world,’ ‘trade,’ and ‘center’ should be removed from our language as well.”
And people wonder why a true democracy is such a dangerous idea …
(Via Blogatelle)
Woo-hoo! My folks have been hit by the PE_Magistr.B virus, and are busy sending the contents of their hard drives off to folks with whom they corresponded (or who I…
Woo-hoo! My folks have been hit by the PE_Magistr.B virus, and are busy sending the contents of their hard drives off to folks with whom they corresponded (or who I CCed on e-mails to them) years ago.
(They no longer use Outlook Express, but Calypso instead. However, OE still exists on their machine, just waiting to give it up for invading viruses. Of course.)
Off they go tomorrow to buy a copy of Norton …
At long last, I’ve gotten ComicBase back installed on my PC. This is the world’s premiere comic book inventory database. About two years ago, I had it up and running…
At long last, I’ve gotten ComicBase back installed on my PC. This is the world’s premiere comic book inventory database. About two years ago, I had it up and running and cranking with loading comic books in. Then a reformat, and a software upgrade, and my Muse decided it was Not the Thing to Do this season.
Well my Muse is back, poking me in the butt with her ice pick, so I got ComicBase 6.0 installed last night, and then spent a while trying to get it to read in my old ComicBase 4.0 file.
(This is a great program, really, no question about it, but it has a few distinct quirks that betray its Macintosh background. Just like Mac users complain about interface oddities and rough edges on programs ported from Windows, so this program is always just a slight bit off true in its behavior, sort of like the difference between American English and English English. Only less amusing. But don’t let that scare you off. It’s a great program.)
So, anyway, my collection, when last I left it two years ago, was about a third to a half entered into the database.
The issue count? Almost 6,000 comics.
And that was at most half of them.
Two years ago.
I have some work to do …
Well, it’s not like you can blame him. After all, he’s a busy man. An archdiocese to run. Contributors to schmooze. Oh, and a Mass or two to perform. Why…
Well, it’s not like you can blame him. After all, he’s a busy man. An archdiocese to run. Contributors to schmooze. Oh, and a Mass or two to perform. Why would anyone expect a busy man like Cardinal Law to take time to follow up with his aides about one of his priests who had been accused of abuse?
And when his aides told him it was okay to transfer the guy, well, why would Cardinal Law ever think to question that? After all, a Prince of the Church doubtless surrounds himself with the best advisors he can find, just so that he can rely on their advice. Clearly that’s his main responsibility.
Those pesky letters complaining about the handling of the case, including one from one of his own bishops? Nope, don’t remember that. Probably opened and filed by one of his helpful assistants. No, wait, those are his initials and note on the envelope, forwarding the matter on to one of his aids. Well, must’ve let that one slip through the cracks.
Yeesh.
So we have one of two possibilities.
First possiblity, the man is lying through his teeth, either out of a misguided desire to try to protect the church, or to protect his own soon-to-have-diplomatic-immunity skin.
Or second, the guys is so out of touch, so insulated by bad advisors, so forgetful of such critical pastoral matters as to neither remember receiving letters nor having remembered to follow up on them, despite repeated complaints … that we ought to have pity on the gent, protest any move by the Vatican to give him a senior role there, and ask him to quietly step down.
Certainly, either way, the members of the Archdiocese of Boston can’t be asked to lend any credence to his bold promises to reform matters in a diligent and forthright fashion.
He’s already shown he can’t. Or won’t.
So that Margie, when she goes to bed before I do, can call me up from our bedside phone and make little kissy noises at me. I’ll bet Alexander Graham…
So that Margie, when she goes to bed before I do, can call me up from our bedside phone and make little kissy noises at me.
I’ll bet Alexander Graham Bell never thought of that one.
So my Mom is e-mailing me, and she mentions in passing, “Notice that the college student who was planting the pipe bombs in the mailboxes has been arrested. Love his…
So my Mom is e-mailing me, and she mentions in passing, “Notice that the college student who was planting the pipe bombs in the mailboxes has been arrested. Love his father’s statement that he really isn’t dangerous, but was just trying to make a statement about our government.”
I hereby give permission to my family, loved ones, friends, and acquaintances to say the following if I ever am apprehended by the FBI and confess to doing something like planting pipe bombs in mailboxes:
Gee, Dave always was a bit on the weird side. Struck me as the dangerous sort. Everything the Feds say about him is believable, and his confession sounds highly plausible. Not surprised at all. We always thought things would turn out bad for him, what with his oddball habits and spooky mannerisms.
No beating around the bush. No scratching your head and saying I was always the quiet sort, never would hurt nobody. Go ahead and drag out all those anecdotes about how I muttered darkly under my breath when I hit a drive at right angles to the fairway, or how I ranted and raved about weird sf books, or how I played that demonic Dungeons & Masters game. You can also refer to me as that bearded guy with the short-cropped hair, that will work, too.
Just don’t try to justify it or pretend that, even if you didn’t see it coming, it’s a consarn shame, ’cause I always seemed such a nice, friendly, harmless sort, so there must have been a good reason, which explains everything, right?
(Of course, now I will be the subject of a vast conspiracy by the Feds, the Grey Aliens, and my so-called “friends” deep inside the Earth, and all of you will have been prompted by this post to turn on me, and maybe that’s why the Voices said to write this …)
Here’s an amusing story. So there’s a datebook application for PalmOS called DateBk. It’s the standard on Handspring devices. The writer’s about to come out with a new version, DateBk4,…
Here’s an amusing story.
So there’s a datebook application for PalmOS called DateBk. It’s the standard on Handspring devices.
The writer’s about to come out with a new version, DateBk4, when all of a sudden, he discovers that a competitor has bought up the domains DateBk4.com and DateBk5.com, plastering them with advertisements for their product.
Hilarity and backlash ensue.
Some lessons to be learned:
1. Trademark your products, if it matters to you. If it doesn’t, there’s only the court of public opinion to help you.
2. Don’t underestimate the power of the court of public opinion. It is, ultimately, your client if you want to sell anything.
3. Secure your domain names.
4. Be smart about your domain names. Don’t use a domain that changes with each release of your product, fergoshsakes.
5. See #2.
For all of you who are fans of eye exams (“Which is better … number 1 … or number 2? Number 1 … or number 2?”) comes Whatsbetter.com, which seeks…
For all of you who are fans of eye exams (“Which is better … number 1 … or number 2? Number 1 … or number 2?”) comes Whatsbetter.com, which seeks to sort everything in its cosmos by the same binary choices. Of course, I don’t recognize half the pop culture choices it provides, but some of what I got to choose between included:
Hours of mindless fun.
(Via BoingBoing)
A nice note by Tom Tomorrow on some snarky reportage by the New York Times regarding the theft of a an Amazing Spiderman #1, priced at $6,500. Quoth the Times:…
A nice note by Tom Tomorrow on some snarky reportage by the New York Times regarding the theft of a an Amazing Spiderman #1, priced at $6,500. Quoth the Times:
And for the more literary-minded, it also undoubtedly raised the serious question of just how much any book could be worth when its message is conveyed through word balloons.
Tom opines:
And this, of course, is in a paper whose real estate section manages to report that shoebox-sized condominiums are now selling for half a million dollars without editorializing, and whose Style section treats the price of designer shoes and handbags with similar matter-of-factness.
(Via BoingBoing)
How I’ve decided to occupy myself during business meetings: All the trees were sticks: Suddenly, bright green leaves Cast verdant shadows.Or, on a more amusing note: Bulbs bursting, grass grows,…
How I’ve decided to occupy myself during business meetings:
All the trees were sticks:
Suddenly, bright green leaves
Cast verdant shadows.
Or, on a more amusing note:
Bulbs bursting, grass grows,
Trees leafing: How wonderful …
Crap! Dandelions!
Maybe I need a new blog category, for my poetry.
What Kind of Geek are You? What Kind of Friend are You? What Kind of Pet are You? That’s all the personality tests for today. I promise. (Via Djinn)…
That’s all the personality tests for today. I promise.
(Via Djinn)
Find Your Role-Playing Stereotype at mutedfaith.com. (Via Random Encounters)…
Which Sex Position Are You? For the sake of some modicum of discretion, my own result appears via the More link below….
For the sake of some modicum of discretion, my own result appears via the More link below.
You have to understand. They’re desperate. All they really want is peace. Freedom. Dignity. They’re only human. They’re justified in defending themselves. Live and let live. Put yourself in their…
You have to understand. They’re desperate. All they really want is peace. Freedom. Dignity. They’re only human. They’re justified in defending themselves. Live and let live. Put yourself in their place. Give them a chance.
Just be patient.
My ass.
What’s your Fellowship of the Ring Slash Pairing? Gee, that’s about as close as “conservative” and “slash” could possibly get … (Via Blogatelle)…
What’s your Fellowship of the Ring Slash Pairing?
Gee, that’s about as close as “conservative” and “slash” could possibly get …
(Via Blogatelle)
… here’s an example of someone who pretty certainly deserves it. Certainly I can’t think of any reason to leave him taking up space and oxygen. (Via JillMatrix)…
… here’s an example of someone who pretty certainly deserves it.
Certainly I can’t think of any reason to leave him taking up space and oxygen.
(Via JillMatrix)
