Friday night, I introduced hrafntinna (always up for zombies) to the joys of Dawn of the Dead. We ate macaroni in red pasta sauce while we watched, which seemed appropriate.

Last night, we watched This is England, which has nothing to do with zombies, but instead relies on two amazing actors and a host of great supporting roles. It's England's North in 1983

I'm in Uppsala, Sweden, making use of free wifi in a cafe. Yesterday, I flew here from Reykjavik, Iceland, and the difference is like going from Butte to Boston.

Iceland is frontier country. It fits tiny cities in fjords and by bays, between blasted heath, basalt cliffs and long rifts in the earth. History starts in 871 A.D. (+-2 years), when the ( Read more... )

I'm trying to read 50 pages a day of my 900-page tome on ActionScript. Today was Day 4. We'll see if I can keep it up.

Today (well, yesterday, technically--it's late), I put the finishing touches on my most ambitious website yet: www.neilmacfarquhar.com. (The alias that Neil bought for it, www.happybirthdayfromhizbollah.com, is probably more memorable.) You can't really see the ambitious part--I wrote extensive database queries, in the interest of giving Neil the ( Read more... )

So, I saw the movie. Here are my thoughts, repeated from a comment on DaveRogue's lj.

Reading Watchmen changed my life, back when I read issues 1-11 in one sitting--on Ben Rosenbaum's couch if I remember correctly. I've had opinions on how the movie should be made for about fifteen years...but even if I hadn't, Zack Snyder's movie would still be ass ( Read more... )

I envy Daverogue for being able to see this at the Yerba Buena Center:

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...The yellow furry one would, in a way, make a good costume for the Creeper--in the stage production by that name.

Random phrase generators like this have become so common, but I found this one especially hilarious. Maybe anyone who has seriously considered hanging out their shingle will, too. It's seductive, is the thing--you almost want to find a real slogan generator. You know, something with punch, with pizazz, with wow--something with monkey.

hrafntinna and I have taken up playing chess. A few of those games, hilarious for their morose march toward death, have led to the idea of "zombie chess." Today, we worked out a set of rules for the game. You will need at least three cheap plastic chess sets. You can see why, partly, in the way you set it up:

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In large part thanks to Hrafntinna, we're well set up for election night: A brazier flaming outdoors, with the "plains states" and "pacific coast" logs already on and burning, s'mores, bacon wrapped around dates, and equal parts Columbus and Hood River beers. Ohio is (perhaps prematurely) called for Obama--the way it stands at this point in the ( Read more... )

It's ridiculously early here, and my polling place was already hopping. The college student in front of us in line had to go outside the room and turn his "McCain - Palin" shirt inside out, because no partisan messages are allowed. That said, another student with the brilliant "Joe" sticker (the one in the style of a plumber's name badge) on his ( Read more... )