Blather, Rinse, Repeat
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09:10 am
[Link] | I have been baffled by the phenomenon of random anonymous spam being put into old old posts of mine. I suppose it makes some sense if you assume that enough LJ account holders don't screen their comments for spam, and if you assume that there's enough search engine robots crawling the web, looking for content. Given those two things, it's like planting seeds. Spam seeds that grow into mighty bushes bearing spam fruit.
This post is getting silly.
Still, I think I figured out how to default my LJ account to friends-only comments. No more fake handbag comments!
This should have been an easier decision to make, given that there are maybe 5 people who will read this, and you're already on my friends list.
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10:22 am
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Meh
I understand that it brands me as a crazy person, like those people who didn't watch Star Wars until the 90s, if at all.
I haven't read the books, nor seen the movies, of the Harry Potter series.
Meh.
Oh, people have told me that they're good. You can feel free to tell me that I should read them. Hasn't mattered yet.
On the radio this morning, I heard numerous teens interviewed, and they were saying that today marks the end of their childhood. Or that Harry Potter will live forever. Or something. I'm sure they will find that there are other books and movies to consume.
Also mentioned was that Warner Brothers was going to have difficulty dealing with the loss of the HP franchise. I'm pretty unimpressed by media conglomerates not being able to maintain their year over year billion dollar monetization of a fictional world. Really, WB, if you didn't diversify your portfolio before now, that's your fault. If you don't want to develop a new franchise, I'm sure that either Christian Bale or Daniel Craig would step in as the star of a reboot.
I suggest you get Michael Bay or Uwe Boll to direct the rebooted series, since I'm not going to see them anyway.
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08:31 am
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Local film project
A bunch of recognizable locations in the pitch video for this project.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wtf/rivertown
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10:24 pm
[Link] | Two fun Jonathan Coulton videos, with lots of type. Mmm, type.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCt2nZF2nLk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sOfO8Ei1g
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10:30 am
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Writer's Block: Actual science may vary
I don't do these things often, but this one touches on a favorite gripe of mine. Humans are part of the animal kingdom, so if a product had not been tested on animals, I would wonder what it had been tested on.
I certainly hope that my shampoo has been tested on willing human participants.
Tags: writer's block
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11:12 am
[Link] | I use Linux a bunch. Not for everything, but I like it when a device that I own is running, or can run Linux. I installed Linux on my PS3, back when that's what PS3's Open Platform meant. I was excited years ago about having a car stereo that would run Linux. It's not that Linux is a great system, it's that I really dislike closed proprietary systems that presume to control how I use my hardware.
Not too long ago, I finally got a high-def display for my living room, after far too long in the 480i wilderness. Oooh, crisp details at last. I started getting Blu-Ray disks from NetFlix. Fancy!
And then Sony decided to un-open the PS3. So much for the "It only does everything" ad campaign. It seems the PS3 only does what Sony thinks is OK this month.
By the way, do you recall when Sony was installing malware on legitimate users' machines? I don't trust Sony to decide what's OK.
So, I'm in the process of building a home theatre pc. It'll run Linux, of course. Well, that seems like a natural choice, but the options for playing Blu-Ray disks under Linux are convoluted, scary, and somewhat shady.
I'm OK with convoluted (see above where I mention using Linux). I'm peeved that we're living in a world where watching a movie is a tightly controlled activity.
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10:00 am
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Comes with the territory, I suppose.
I was cruising around the internet, like ya do. I know that there's a book out there, somewhere, written by one "Dave LeCompte" that's not me, that came out in 1987, and is some sort of club self-rating guide, whatever that means. I'd be tickled to find a copy, but so far, haven't managed to turn one up.
In my wanderings, I found a review of my Kakuro book on Amazon.co.uk:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/200-Crazy-Clever-Kakuro-Puzzles/dp/0615188214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278694651&sr=8-1
Ouch.
I disagree, but I don't think that I want to write a "it is not, and you're a stinkyhead" reply. Maybe I should make some new puzzle books. Take that!
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09:04 pm
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Treadmill Theater: Trudging Through the Classics #2 - Witness for the Prosecution, #1 King Kong
Let's see. Witness for the Prosecution - Agatha Christie story, with a cranky guy tended to by a clingy nurse. If you've seen "The Man Who Came to Dinner", that part might be familiar. Not a bad movie. Twisty and turny towards the end. I called one of the turns.
I then went on to watch King Kong - surprisingly similar to the Jack Black / Peter Jackson movie of the same name. Also, surprisingly effective special effects. I'm pretty sure I had seen most of them before, being a Star Wars geek as a kid, and going out of my way to see special effects specials.
And then, to celebrate not getting anything done, I watched Logan's Run in Blu-Ray. No, there was no real benefit to the blueness of the ray.
Woo, I'm done!
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01:41 pm
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Treadmill Theater: Trudging Through the Classics #3 - Doctor Zhivago
Cue balalaika music.
I've got little to say about this one - I watched the first 75 or so minutes on the treadmill, and decided that the remaining 2+ hours deserved to be projected large instead of on my little CRT next to the treadmill, so I watched the remainder lazing on the couch.
I guess that if you live in Moscow, you pick up a British accent.
Witness for the Prosecution, King Kong still to go.
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10:40 am
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Treadmill Theater: Trudging Through the Classics #4 - Wuthering Heights (part 2)
I have not yet seen a Lawrence Olivier character that I liked.
But, really in this movie, that's OK, because I didn't like any of the characters.
Perhaps I should learn how to Schottische. It was mentioned in the film as being more "proper" than Waltzing, and I could do with some classing up of my dance.
Witness for the Prosecution, Doctor Zhivago, and King Kong. WftP should be in my mailbox from NetFlix today, but if not, it's Zhivago next. Bam, bam, bam, done.
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