Author: Chuck
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Guitar Background Character
I finally broke down and spent my gift certificate on a copy of Guitar Hero. What got me was Matt’s reminding me on here that it contains “More Than a Feeling” (as made famous by Boston), and this video of a guy playing on expert. It really does deserve the hype it’s been getting; it’s…
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George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black Puppets
It was pretty asinine how Fox ran all four final episodes of “Arrested Development” in one night, on a Friday when nobody watches TV, and how they kept showing commercials for sitcoms they weren’t cancelling, and how they all looked really stupid and pandering. It doesn’t really matter, though, because I got to see all…
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The Day the Wonder Died
I’d been concentrating on the heartwarmingly awkward and comedic side of the WonderCon, and I’d forgotten one basic fact: when you get thousands of socially inept people in a building together, it can really get annoying. We went to see JJ Abrams’ talk about Mission Impossible 3 and he came across as just a good…
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That Awkward Phase
One day of WonderCon down, and the magic hasn’t really taken hold of my soul yet. I’m hoping that that’s just because it’s a weekday, and most people didn’t have the luxury of working in the morning (I actually got stuff done this morning; I couldn’t be more proud) and then finishing up later that…
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Better Living Through Capitalism
I’ve got two posts up on SFist this week, one about an iTunes promotion and the other advertising the WonderCon. Which means that in just a few short months I’ve gone from any pretense of thoughtful opinion and commentary on tech stories, to being a shameless corporate shill. As I find myself working for big…
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Warm Air Liberation Front
Whenever I get in the middle of one of my removed-from-the-human-world phases (my friend Dan called it “Chuck Standard Time”), I have trouble remembering what day of the week it is. When I went outside this “morning,” I had trouble remembering what month it is. February in San Francisco and it’s just shy of 70…
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Social Piranhas
Boing Boing.net mentioned a new show called “The IT Crowd” from Graham Linehan, creator/producer/writer of “Father Ted.” Their angle was the Electronic Frontier Foundation and that it appeals to the sysadmin crowd, but I think it’d be funny even to non-geeks. (Speaking as a geek; your mileage may vary). The first couple of episodes, and…
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BasTards™
I never signed up for the local FasTrak™ thing, even though it seems like it’d be right up my toll lane — it’s futuristic high technology of the future, using lasers and high-frequency cosmic rays to automatically detect your car; it’s tailored to absent-minded types; and it’d be another bill to pay. But I never…
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Hachijuhachi!
Continuing my fixation on things Japanesey, here’s a video from YouTube about sushi etiquette. Big laughs with two Fs. (Okay, it’s more wry than big laughs, but it’s worth the wait.) Also on YouTube is that SNL sketch where Chris Farley’s character goes on a Japanese game show. Update: I removed the video because the…
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Oil-guzzling babies (and, suitably, ghost dogs)
Considering how much I love Pom Poko and tanuki, and I got Taiko no Tetsujin mostly because it had dancing kitsune in it, I’m surprised I haven’t seen all of this stuff sooner: My new favorite website is The Obakemono Project, which is like a web encyclopedia of Japanese folk monsters and spirits. Each one…
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I was young and I needed the money
A while ago I was digging through some boxes and found the remainders of my old comic strip. I trot them out whenever anybody gives me half a chance, so some of the people reading this have already seen them. If you do a Google search on “Spectre Collie,” most of the links are to…