Wendy and I now own a condo in lovely Canton. What was unanticipated is the alacrity with which the previous owners are departing: We're starting to move in either this weekend or next Monday. We thought they'd be in until the 21st ( Read more... )

Gonna buy me a condo
Gonna buy me a Cuisinart.
Get wall-to-wall carpeting
Get a wallet full of credit cards.
Gonna buy me a condo
Never have to mow the lawn.
Gonna get me a tee-shirt
With the alligator on.

Only one more item on that list to get, the rest are in the bag. Haven't had a shirt like that in years, but what the hell?

Got my laptop rebuilt and mostly working finally. I have email, the web, and KDE. The rest comes later. Oh, and Java. Everybody loves Java.

Anyways, Penny Arcade has informed me that they're really, actually, no kidding, making an Ender's Game movie. Unlike the last time, when they talked about it for a few months and then nothing. The ( Read more... )

There's a very interesting article about taboos linked from Slashdot, you can find it there or go read it directly if you'd like. If it doesn't make you say Hmm you're either way ahead of the curve, or you need to take a closer look at yourself ( Read more... )

Just got home from seeing it... And I gotta say, it was certainly enjoyable. Even with the fact that more or less every point not absolutely critical to the main plotline was cut or at the least cut short, it made a damn fine flim ( Read more... )

Yea, thus do many things come to pass.

So I finally got a copy of the new KMFDM album WWIII on Monday. I've given it a few listens, and I'll level with you. It's good. But it's not as good as it should be. Their last album, Attak, was strong. WWIII has some quality tracks, but it's kinda all over. A chunk of it is more like their older ( Read more... )

Got a new icon, wanted to make sure it loaded alright, because it shows blank in my view of my icons... Makes it kinda hard to manage. If that doesn't work, I'll try from a local upload.

Not that any of you are remotely interested, but a new KMFDM album came out like two weeks ago, and I didn't get the memo. I'm picking it up tonight on my way ( Read more... )

I was stranded on a planet ( Read more... )

I'm sure there's at least two of you that might be interested in the following bit of frippery, and at least one of those doesn't read Slashdot like he should.

Go ahead, ask Neil Gaiman anything you want. Go ahead, we'll wait ( Read more... )

Yesterday, when I was pissed off, I would have posted the entire version of this account. Today, after a good night's sleep, I'll post a quick summation ( Read more... )