Month: October 2002

Randomness…

Something just occurred to me. I was watching the news last night and there was yet another report about US President Bush and his calls for pre-emptive strikes against Iraq and I got to thinking… wasn’t it just last year that he was quoted as saying “we will not rest until Osama Bin Laden is brought to justice”. Now here we are, a little over a year later from when he said that, and there isn’t hide nor hair about Osama in any of his speeches or his goals.

Apparently, the ten-second attention span of modern teens also affects modern government as well. Yet another example of why the US government doesn’t know it’s head from a hole in the ground.

Anyways… Just thought I’d share.

Are You Prepared?

Maybe it’s just that All Soul’s Night and Samhain (pronounced Sah-whin for those non gaelic speakers out there) are fast approaching (collectively known as Hallowe’en for those among you who aren’t savvy with pagan druidic beliefs – I won’t begin to discuss the Christian idea of stealing and sanitizing pagan holidays. That’s another rant entirely.. but I digress.) , but I’ve noticed a hell of a lot more Zombies in the news lately and I’m starting to get concerned.

First, it all started on a dark and…. yeah, I didn’t believe that one either. Nevermind…

First, there was the inevitable whacked out conversation between myself and my friend Felicia about the comparative benefits (and detriments) of using Zombies or Pumpkins (yes, the garden variety. I told you this conversation was whacked) as minions in your evil empire.

Then came a link on the Onion about the benefits of an all-brain diet (I’d link to it but it has been archived and is only available in print form. Volume 38 issue 35 if you’re interested).

And now… a few days later I come across THIS link.

I’d suspect a conspiracy but the copywriter seems to have forgotten the word don’t in the following quote and that just ruins the whole product.

Most Americans use and value their brains — the natural food of zombies.

Still. I think every family needs at least two or the world will end next Saturday around teatime. If you don’t believe me, just ask Agnes Nutter. She’s a witch.

Ignore This

Doing one final test of the commenting system to test a theory. Just ignore me.

Turn Me Over, I’m Done… For Now

Okay. Everything is up and running again. Looks like I didn’t break anything important.

Got the Comments Page fancied up and thematically in line with the rest of the site. I haven’t checked the functionality of things in all browsers yet and probably won’t because it looks good to me as is in NS7 and I can’t be bothered to tweak it if it doesn’t work for you.

Let me know what you think.

The next task is to see if I can import the old comments from YACCS. I doubt I will be able to but I’ve got a copy of them saved just in case.

Wheeeeeee.

Breaking Stuff

Found a new commenting system. Going to test it out here in a minute. I’m currently playing with the code and will upload it in a few minutes. Things may be broken for the next little bit while I tinker, so bear with me.

PS – All the old comments will go buh-bye when this goes live. I expect you all to do your moral duty and respam me with more once things settle down.

As You Were.

Grrrrr…

Okay. I know I’m personally getting sick and tired of the current comments extension to the blogger due to its continual inability to stay up without having the host site crash or be unavailable due to bandwidth issues. Everything is too slow and seems to be getting slower every time I turn around. Things are definitely becoming annoying, so I’m on the hunt for a new commenting system/program that isn’t so bogged down. If anyone knows of one or has seen one they like in their web-travels, please let me know.

Thanks

I’m surrounded by Fricken’ Idiots!!!

Are you an Evil Mastercriminal bent on world domination? Do you have continual problems with finding useful and competent henchmen? Do you need a new secret lair where you can develop your next diabolic scheme of mass destruction?

If you’ve answered yes to any of the above questions then you need Villian Supply.

This public service announcement brought to you by Evil Geniuses everywhere and by Uberdeity Greg – Dictator for life in his own mind.

Grrrr…

Don’tcha just hate it when you watch a movie trailer and pretty much the whole plot is given away in that 2-3 minute timespan?!?!?

Today I watched the new trailer for the upcoming James Bond flick Die Another Day, and I almost feel now that I don’t have to go see the movie because everything was explained/ruined/shown in the trailer. – Okay. Okay. It’s Bond, of course I’ll still watch it. I just get infuriated when a trailer, which in essence is just supposed to entice and allure you to see the movie, instead leads you down the garden path stopping along the way to shove all the plot devices and twists down your throat without so much as a “by your leave” sort of thing.

I really can’t understand how/why movie marketing “gurus” (and I use that term in the loosest sense of the word) believe that by showing us the entire plot, we will want to see the movie. I mean c’mon, that’s just like going around a library and telling people how the books that they’re reading end. It’s just not cool. I suppose some idiot somewhere figures that with the ten second, attention deficit disorder generation, you have to cram as much in as possible or… heaven forbid, the lemmings will, *gasp*, go see a different movie!

Give the viewing public some friggin credit and stop advertising to the lowest common denominator for once.

And another thing…*pause* No, actually I think that’s it for now. The rest can wait until I’m less grumbly. There’s enough negativity out there already, and it’s a damp, cold and dreary Sunday so I’m going to go get some hot soup and relax for awhile.

Pax

Viking Kittens…. Beware!!!

Okay. I’m really not to sure what to make of THIS, but I figured I’d inflict you all with it anyways. You’ll need Flash to view it. And if after viewing it, you don’t really know what to think, just keep telling yourself it’s educational because now you know the lyrics to Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song.

Enjoy.

Because The Gnomes of Zurich Would Approve.

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