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The Kingdom
Granted, my opinion may be biased as I've just watched Emo Spiderman beforehand, but The Kingdom was a good movie. It was intense and felt very real. The beginning felt like it was a bit flag wavey for my taste, but that faded to the point where it seemed almost a mockery of that way of thinking, which I think is the idea. It was a balanced movie, ( Read more... ) -
Spiderman 3
Or, as I like to call it Emo Spiderman ( Read more... ) -
Strange student emails
Interesting! This was sent to the public mailing list for the course. I sent back a reply to the public mailing list. I filter out sender's emails, and this particular student did not give an indication of who they were ( Read more... ) -
Cats
Walking into the living room while waiting for more video to render, I noticed my wife watching a cat show on PBS. It was fluffy and offensive and painful to watch. It was a contest of some sort. It had elevator music and cats occasionally getting out of control. I thought it was a spoof at first ( Read more... ) -
Keep out of my bedroom
Woman sentenced for bigamous gay civil partnershipBigamy and gayness! What is the world coming to? Let's send someone to jail for it ( Read more... ) -
Newly Shorn
does that mean the hair,
is even less there?
did your tuft of fluff
catch so in the air?
pirate longboard astride
racing stripe speed implied
but further streamlining was needed
air round fuzzball does now glide
easier maintenance all around
soft to touch as it sounds
no hat hair? beacon for attention?
cute receptacle of thoughts profound -
Comment Grackler 1.1
So I wake up pretty darn early. I'm thinking about the solution to a bit of ugliness with Comment Grackler. If you want to see a grackled comment, you have to do this tedious bunch of stuff (go to config, remove banned user from banlist, reload comment thread). So lame ( Read more... ) -
More firefox extensions
My first spontaneous, non-work-related firefox extension was something I did to amuse myself, and possibly amuse a friend. But many people share the view that facebook can be pretty stalkerish. So I've written stalkbook, a simple firefox extension that currently just picks on your profile regarding being in a relationship ( Read more... ) -
Trolls get Grackled
A recent comment thread on ibtp was derailed by a troll or two. Someone was banned and the conversation was continued, and all was mostly well. However, someone pointed out a feature they'd missed from the olden days where you could indicate who you didn't like, and you just wouldn't see their comments ( Read more... )