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Procrastination Nation
Man, I thought I’d learned everything about procrastination from college and then working at EA, but that was strictly amateur class. Now that I’m working from home, I’ve gone professional in my time-wasting. Before, it was The Sims 2, where I’d do stupid stuff like see an interesting house in the city and then go…
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants… Then Stabbing Them Repeatedly In The Head
It’s way past my bedtime, but I wanted to get a post in about Shadows of the Colossus before tomorrow, when Civilization IV supposedly comes out and takes up all my attention. I’m only two battles in, and the reviews are saying that it gets better as you go along. My initial take on it…
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At Long Last Zombies
Another SFist post is up, which mentions zombies in passing. That’s because today is a special day: at last, my little obsession over the past few months is over, and I’m caught up with “Alias.” TNT finally ran the zombie episode. I’d been expecting a whole zombie storyline, but they didn’t show up until the…
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Too Much Sisterhood, Not Enough Ya-Ya
My favorite review of DOOM is from Statler and Waldorf. The Muppets have a new movie review show online at movies.com, and it’s about the best thing ever. The latest episode talks about DOOM, Elizabethtown, and has a hilarious bit with Animal and Dr. Teeth explaining Shopgirl. I hope they keep doing it; I wonder…
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Knee Deep in the Dull
Man, I’m disappointed. Even with the reviews, I was still holding out hope that they got it right with DOOM. But they did everything wrong. It ended up being neither good, nor so bad it’s good; it’s just there. Boring and completely uninspired. The reviews I’ve read still miss the point; they warn how it’s…
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If You Go Out In The Woods Today
I wrote earlier about the teddy bear who’d collapsed on his way towards my apartment. Unfortunately not all the toys in San Francisco are so lucky. In rougher neighborhoods, like Haight-Ashbury, you come across scenes like this one. Mac and I had a Stand By Me moment a while back when we came across this…
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NaNoWriMo
Last night I signed up for The National Novel Writing Month, and I’m already looking forward to it. The idea is that you start writing at midnight on November 1st and stop at midnight November 30th with a 50,000 word novel. I especially like the Special Olympics quality of the event, because if you finish,…
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He Knocked Me Up and Left Me With a Subscription to Hockey Trends Magazine
Other subscriptions Sydney had to cancel: The American Journal of Stubble, and Bland Quarterly. There’s some videogame website whose motto is “A moment enjoyed is never wasted,” and that’s been a useful rationalization for a while, but there’s no way I can justify my total lack of activity yesterday. I didn’t even manage to accomplish…