| Monday, August 30, 2004. |
10:28 PM - Gleep. I have no words. Really... just links. RPG Brainstorming Blog.
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| Sunday, August 29, 2004. |
12:59 AM - OK, I want pictures of these spiders cuz if they are true, they would creep people out much more than my own spider pics.
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| Saturday, August 28, 2004. |
8:42 AM - Yep, you know it's truly spreading when you hear it as part of a random street conversation.
"...but that would be a blog. I don't want a blog, what I want is a..."
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| Friday, August 27, 2004. |
9:44 PM - Hey! The previous Beatnik reminded me of Noah Grey. Thanx !
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9:42 PM - Last night I mentioned to James that I don't really read alot of the GTA Bloggers because a) I am lazy and b) because I am a snob who often closes a window quickly if designed bad (without a fabricated reason to stay :) Thus I am glad that the design of BeatnikPad is so snazzy because even my own bad habits won't stop me from reading it.
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9:30 AM - A number of neighbours in my building are in a battle with the management company of our apartments. They recently had pesticide sprayed on the lawns (which have always been pretty green to me) that are used by the handful of kids and dogs that live in the building. The owners (of the kids and dogs) are furious they were not consulted and that the warning signs were taken down only 24 horus after they went up. They claim the lawns will be unusable for 6 weeks. I wonder if I should give our Super a copy of 10 Steps to Non-Toxic Lawn Care ? (via envying ed)
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| Thursday, August 26, 2004. |
9:40 AM - OK, the lil fucker was squirming but at least posed.
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| Wednesday, August 25, 2004. |
9:59 PM - Took this on the way home tonight (visiting work *frown*) and I am rather fond of it.
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9:02 PM - The Gmail invites are free flowing again.
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8:28 PM - Weird. I just saw a mention o Lethal Skies II on a TechTV(G4) show and it flashed a "bonus mission" that happens to take place in Cape Breton. I wonder where that choice came from...
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12:29 PM - As you can tell, I recently bought my long-lasting-envy-purchase -- the digital camera. I wondered how I would react when I got the thing; would I go back to being a camera buff and spend most free hours snapping away. Or would the entry-level point-and-shoot nature of what I could afford curtail my creativity. Or would I run out of money buying batteries?
I don't know. But we did spend 4 hours on the Toronto Islands on Sunday past. I snapped off about 90 flicks with a mostly-dead battery. I haven't decided if I want a photoblog for purely dumping image-thoughts or just occasionally plunk something here. What I am considering is whether small or large. Small gives you nice peeks while large is how it is meant to be seen; problem is that it's not the greatest cam in the world thus focus, blur, etc. is apparent. And photoshop can only help so much.
Still, looking forward to the fun I have been waiting years for.
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10:18 AM - I don't read Stephen King anymore. There was a time when I raved about him to anyone who would listen. Sure the stories were schlock but the way he wrote was magical. Things started to change, and it's a change that I imagine many genre writers (and songwriters for that matter) fall into -- once an author has stopped living around the life he once wrote so passionately about, the writing changes, sometimes for the worse. If what you loved about the author were on the street level, dirty and real seeming, when the author has only seen their own expensive house and book tours for the last 25 years, then things are changed. Bruce Springsteen doesn't write songs that interest me anymore because he doesn't have access to the topics I liked in his songs.
That is why Stephen King is so much better at writing about writing these days.
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| Tuesday, August 24, 2004. |
7:46 AM - Who needs content when you have cats?
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| Sunday, August 22, 2004. |
11:33 AM - Last night, J and I were talking about pathetic men and their needs for a Dutch Wife (warning! not work safe!) or a Real Doll. She was of the opinion you could just buy real sex and I countered that some men were just too shy / frightened of real women to try that. Not to mention diseases. And the delivery of a large plain brown box is not as embarrassing.
Now, what about Imaginary Girlfriends? It's essentially the camgirl concept but you pay to have them interact on a VERY personal level with you. Sort of like a fictitional LDR. How pathetic does some one have to be to not only simulate sex but also simulate love?
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11:00 AM - This annotated comic strip reminds me of some games of D&D where I have stopped DMing in order to consider & discuss the sociological ramifications of the introduction of a plot line. For example, out planet has enough trouble dealing with only one intelligent species. What do you think would happen if there were a dozen seperate species with different life spans, unique characteristics and attitudes towards each other? (via a 20' by 20' room)
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| Friday, August 20, 2004. |
10:35 AM - Since no one thought I was now changing the paradigm in posting cat pictures, I thought I would go back to the usual and post this sniggery item on instructional tomfoolery.
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| Thursday, August 19, 2004. |
11:34 PM - Obligatory new digicam pics:
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| Tuesday, August 17, 2004. |
6:36 PM - Hmmmmm, do I have low morale? Maybe meh. Thanks Simon.
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| Sunday, August 15, 2004. |
10:49 AM - Meanwhile the first panel of this one makes me think of the Count.
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10:42 AM - I don't know why but this comic made me think immediately of mukey. He'll know what I mean.
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| Friday, August 13, 2004. |
9:23 AM - I had a dream about waves lapping on a clouded-over shore line and woke up feeling very very different this morning. With the dream lingering, I was caught between imediately quitting my job and catching the next flight home to place my hand into the Atlantic ocean and just catching the next subway downtown to find my way to a beach on the lake.
I drank coffee instead and the real me is seeping back.
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| Thursday, August 12, 2004. |
7:30 AM - Uh oh, it's only a matter of time before Bush labels D&D as a Tool of Terror. Yup, a person in authority tried to confiscate an RPG book because it was inappropriate.
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| Wednesday, August 11, 2004. |
2:00 PM - I dropped a resume to these guys a while ago. And today they were in my referrers. I wonder why?
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| Monday, August 09, 2004. |
7:34 PM - Neat !! Roommate From Hell is the fictional blog of the main character in Jim Munroe's new novel, An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil.
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7:29 PM - Mrphl. I guess the folly of having so many images accessible to the internet general public is that they are going to be "borrowed" at regular intervals.
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| Saturday, August 07, 2004. |
11:14 AM - Why don't I write more than blurbs these days? Because other people write other schtuff so much better.
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| Friday, August 06, 2004. |
9:14 AM - Via a Geek Ent (tree with nerd glasses) I give you a giant post consisting of a link, a massive list and a lack of a 'more' button.
All I can say is... I saw a lot more movies in the 90s then I do now.
1. Miller's Crossing
2. Safe
3. The Sweet Hereafter
4. Lone Star
5. Heavenly Creatures
6. Waiting for Guffman
7. The Hudsucker Proxy
8. Babe: Pig in the City
9. Dead Man
10. Fearless
11. Bound
12. Chungking Express
13. The Straight Story
14. Searching for Bobby Fischer
15. Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
16. That Thing You Do!
17. Dead Again
18. Sneakers
19. Zero Effect
20. The Butcher Boy
21. Truly, Madly, Deeply
22. In the Company of Men
23. Devil in a Blue Dress
24. The Red Violin
25. Cemetery Man
26. Hamlet
27. Breakdown
28. Welcome to the Dollhouse
29. The Apostle
30. Eve's Bayou
31. Hard Eight
32. Defending Your Life
33. A Little Princess
34. Bringing Out the Dead
35. Hana-Bi (Fireworks)
36. Jacob's Ladder
37. The Spanish Prisoner
38. Pump Up the Volume
39. Beautiful Girls
40. The Double Life of Veronique
41. Very Bad Things
42. Richard III
43. October Sky
44. Strange Days
45. My Neighbor Totoro
46. L.A. Story
47. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
48. A Bronx Tale
49. The Limey
50. A Perfect World
51. Before Sunrise
52. Bob Roberts
53. Dick
54. Raise the Red Lantern
55. One False Move
56. The Ref
57. Exotica
58. Sonatine
59. Joe Versus the Volcano
60. Matinee
61. The Ice Storm
62. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
63. Croupier
64. The Winslow Boy
65. Girl on the Bridge
66. Bullet in the Head
67. Darkman
68. Cannibal! The Musical
69. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
70. Smoke
71. The Last Days of Disco
72. Fresh
73. Eye of God
74. Flirting with Disaster
75. Bottle Rocket
76. Ashes of Time
77. Fallen Angels
78. Great Expectations
79. Kundun
80. A Midnight Clear
81. Deep Cover
82. Ravenous
83. Twin Falls, Idaho
84. The People vs. Larry Flynt
85. Quick Change
86. The Secret of Roan Inish
87. Beloved
88. Big Night
89. Topsy-Turvy
90. Living in Oblivion
91. Jesus' Son
92. Glengarry Glen Ross
93. Chaplin
94. Dead Alive
95. Jude
96. Cradle Will Rock
97. Proof
98. The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
99. Titus
100. Mystery Men
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| Thursday, August 05, 2004. |
6:23 PM - Dis neat.
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| Wednesday, August 04, 2004. |
10:38 AM - Eeeek! This Official D&D Flashie seems more like a spoof taking jabs at Playas rather than a true demonstration. P.S. Click the bottom left hand button.
"I nailed it for 4 points !!"
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10:33 AM - Y'know, I used to have something to say.
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10:29 AM - I am sure you could do a Canada version of the Fool's World Map and have it all based on American misunderstandings.
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| Tuesday, August 03, 2004. |
6:16 PM - So is Second Life a chat room, a MMORPG or something else entirely?
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7:57 AM - Holy crap!! The perfect Tee folding !! I am going into the bedroom right now and trying this !!
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| Monday, August 02, 2004. |
8:50 PM - Because I wanted to do it before someone else did.
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8:16 PM - Most of my cartoons made from Spam subjects would be about gambling and the size of my wally-knocker.
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