I went down to Andrew’s house this past weekend to deliver his Robotron machine, which had been living in my basement the last couple of years. Andrew managed to bribe Paul into driving the machine down to Andrew’s new place in MA. I came along for the ride. As a bonus Andrew and Patty cooked us up a feast and we got to check out their new house. Instead of reading about it you can checkout the pictures:
Another movie to avoid
Planet of the Apes, the recent remake. Ugh. I’m used to Tim Burton movies having incomprehensible plots, but usually you can count on them at least being visually interesting. Not so here. An abomination of a script, unexceptional special effects, a killer ‘what the fuck were they smoking when they thought that up?’ ending, a long running length, and performances from uneven to awful all conspire to make this move a piece of crap. The makeup work for some of the apes is the only redeeming quality this movie has. Stay away, star far, far away. That’s my 2 cents.
If I was a barcode…
Terrific series on the fall of Enron
The Washington Post just completed an excellent 5 part series on the fall of Enron. It’s literally been years since I found myself turning to a newspaper for news. This piece has reminded me why newspapers actually have value in the modern information flow – the in depth investigative piece. Well worth a read if you’re curious how and why the current business scandels are taking place.
Beach vacation photos
I spent the weekend plus a few days down on Long Island. Two of the days I went to the ocean and boogie boarded and body surfed. It was awesome. I put together a:
Check it out if you’re interested. Note that I’m still using Image Rodeo for the galleries. I love the software but not the templates to the pages look like…well….ass. But the photos are cool 😉
Photo album for Jesse
The family has conspired to make a little photo album for Jesse’s amusement. Feel free to scope it out if you like here:
Though it’s mainly for family and no one else is likely to appreciate its goofy sense of humor 😉
New weblog…
In case anyone’s interested, I’ve got a new weblog running here:
Which I’m using to track the adventures we have in Neverwinter Nights. The game completely rocks. The same cannot yet be said for the weblog but I have my hopes 😉
Plus there’s an account, somewhat pathetic, of our first full adventure there to check out.
Best line in a videogame…
….ever. To date anyway. I keep forgetting to post this. I had great fun working my way through Freedom Force which is a great homage to the old golden age comics I grew up with as a kid. Towards the end of the game the heroes are confronting the ultimate bad guy. Straight out of an episode of Batman, he launches into a long screed about why he’s done all the evil deeds he’s done. He concludes with a manaical laugh and a declaration that:
I want to live…..Forever!!! [mwu ha ha ha ha ha]
To which one of the heroes responds:
Good for you. Join a gym
That cracked me up like nothing in a game has in ages. The whole game is full of great Batman-esque dialog; that line takes the cake though.
Geez, do I ever need to fix the stylesheets or what
Posting that pic of the spider below has reminded me, my stylesheets are a mess! Maybe I’ll find it in me today to work on them.
Or maybe not 😉
When spiders attack
Check this guy out. With his legs stretched out he’s as big as my hand. He just moved into my bathroom. At first I was going to boot him outside, but I have an insect problem in the house every summer anyway, so maybe he’ll help get them out of the bathroom.
