Month: July 2007
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Spaz Diego
Well, here I am in beautiful San Diego in about the most unbeautiful place you can imagine, the San Diego Comic Con. At one time I thought that it’d be impossible to cram as many people into one place as they do at Tokyo Disneyland. I know better now. It’s neat to be walking around…
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Lawful Good
On Monday (or was it last week?) I saw a friend I haven’t seen in a long time, and he asked how I was liking the new job. I’m so used to answering that question by launching into a string of complaints or highly-qualified compliments, that it surprised me I couldn’t come up with much…
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Damn you all to
The easiest way to tell that The Sopranos is a great show is that so far, the second season has been really good, and I’m disappointed by it. Everything that’s bugging me about it is a barely-perceptible nitpick, and each point is noticeable only because the first season set the bar so high. Like the…
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The Ending of the New Harry Potter Book
must be really important to a lot of people, if the parking lot of the Borders in Marin County is any indication! I had figured that since I was working late anyway, I could drop by at midnight tonight and gawk at all the kids. When I drove by at around 11:30, the parking lot…
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1-18-08
My Transformers experience wasn’t a total wash, though, because before the movie they ran the trailer for a new “Untitled J.J. Abrams Project”. According to the IMDB, it’s got a writing credit by Drew Goddard, who was heavily involved in “Lost”, “Alias”, and “Angel”. There are rumors and speculation up on ain’t it cool news,…
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Decrapticons
Qatar is in the Middle East! I learned that from the Transformers movie. Each of the dozen or so times the movie cut over to the action in Qatar (Middle East), there would be a shot of the desert and some army guys and a building with mosaic-lined archways and guys in turbans, and there’d…
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Miscellany Based on Cities in Georgia
Needmore! I’d forgotten the degree to which having an office job cuts into your free time. Spend eight or nine hours in an office doing nothing but writing what passes for “humor,” and the last thing you want to do when you get home is write stuff on a weblog. And somehow, I’m getting even…
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Oh yeah? Your MOM compromised national security for political retribution!
I hope everybody had a great fourth of July! I did. It’s a great opportunity to blow stuff up in celebration of what is ostensibly a democracy! “Ostensibly,” of course, because our president has apparently given up even trying to make it seem like there’s a functional system of checks and balances still in place.…
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For the Overlord!
I hadn’t heard anything about the game Overlord until its demo was released on Xbox Live a while ago. Now that’s how you do a game release: under-hyped to the point of obscurity, then a wide-release demo that builds buzz, and the full release a month later. The game itself (I’m playing the Xbox 360…
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“It Just Works”
This is going to be the last I’ll talk about the iPhone on here, at least until the next major software upgrade. Frankly, at this point, talking about it anymore would be just like, well, cuddling. My buying advice, for what it’s worth: if you don’t already have one, don’t buy one. You’ve already survived…