What’s that loud sucking sound you hear? Get used to it. It’ll get louder the closer we get to July 4.
I swear, that there’s only a 0.0001% chance that this movie won’t suck. How can I say that based off one Trailer? Someone spent way too much time working on the robotic characters in a vacuum. Meaning that they opted to go with their own idea of what Optimus looks like – not a semi? WTF? – rather than any of the hundreds of existing references. Consider what Peter Jackson would have gotten if he made Legolas as a jade green Lucky Charms version of an elf, rather than what the fans expect to see. In the trailer, they show some little girl carrying a My Little Pony? Negative. No cuteness should be in there. Worse, some kid – assume he’s Spike The Uber Geek – gets to hold some chick’s hand? In a Transformers movie? Do I smell a romantic subplot? Sacrilege.
Yep – you heard it here first: it’s going to suck the Big Suck.
Ever stood by a baggage carousel, waiting for your second of two bags, and noticed no one else is left at the carousel? I hadn’t before tonight.
Yes, for the first time in over a decade of travel, I was left at the baggage carousel with a bag in one hand and my dick in the other. Continue reading Only The Lonely Can Play→
I went to see it – Rocky Balboa – on opening night. Yes, this would be the sixth Rocky movie, in the overall scheme of things… but to me it’s the third.
Does anyone else find it slightly ironic that I spent 5 hours in a plane to get back to NYC and it took over 3 hours to get from JFK to CT? Continue reading Cold, Wet and Sticky→
Whoa a techno-topic that’s not in the GeekStuff section? Bet your ass. It happens every now and again. Besides, this isn’t about technology – it’s about radio. In fact, it’s about one particular song and how it’s been ripped to shreds on terrestrial radio.
AOL TV News: Since 1966 WPIX in New York has had the TV yule log market to itself. Now they’ve got some competition. […] The INHD Yule log has been airing since 2003 and, since the number of HDTV owners has been doubling every year, is available to many more people each year. It will air for 24 hours starting 7 a.m. EST on Christmas. […] The WPIX Yule log will air on 10 other stations also owned by Tribune Broadcasting, and on the WGN superstation.
Creating Passionate Users: what is the meta-level for a game? Oh yes, fun. Purple Moon got the individual implementation details right, and applied all that they’d learned from the research, but forgot the forest. Fun.
Not often that I quote Kathy, but I’ve been reading the site for a long while… it’s just that this particular nugget has been rattling around in my head all morning because it’s an extremely core tenent to my job. I mean, I work in the gaming industry, right? True, I don’t work on any one one specific title. And true, I don’t work with the content of the games themselves – which is good cuz I can’t draw worth a shit! No, I work with the “non-game” aspects of the game: common technology [read: plumbing] that a typical gaming programmer won’t want to deal with and I do that across multiple titles. Even so, this notion of “the meta-level” is something that haunted my thoughts when I contemplated taking this job: Do I want to base my success at a job on something as subjective as “fun”?
Nice to know I’m not the only one that sees such a problem…
Was that a 70mph gust of wind that just made the lights flicker in my house? [Yes, we are having a wind storm at the moment and lights have been flickering all day at home and work.]
Or was that sucking sound coming from Qwest Field where the Seahawks were playing the 49’ers tonight, as the once bright hope of a return to the Super Bowl seems to dims more and more, with each passing week? [Yes, the ‘hawks lost again to the 49’ers, beyond all logic.]
Hard to tell which sound I heard, but either way: I wouldn’t be surprised to find I have no power tomorrow morning…
CNN: NYC health board bans trans fats at restaurants
I would have expected to see something like this from Seattle or LA, but New York? Especially since Seattle law seems to have no rational train of thought. A city that thinks of itself as “liberal” and there’s not only a ban preventing new strip clubs from opening [repealed] but they went so far as to try to impose a four foot border around dancers [repealed]. Or that bans outdoor grills because of a fire concern [repealed]. If it was Seattle, I would expect it to be repealed with in 12 months. Although some laws – like the smoking ban – have stuck around longer than I expected them to.
Either way, I wouldn’t have thought NYC officials had the balls to tell NYC residents what they could or could not eat.
I’ve had a blog for over five years now. I’ve hosted it on a few different types of server over the years. Each had their pros and cons – I originally switched to TypePad so I wouldn’t have the pain of hosting MovableType on my own… Long story short. The net effect of all of this is that I can’t leave comments on my own blog.
In the meantime, email me with anything pressing – TypePad doesn’t host that for me so they can’t turn that off without warning me. Continue reading I’m Aghast.→
