I went and saw Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith yesterday, and… wow. It was by far the best of the three prequel films, and the first one of the three that actually felt, I don’t know, epic in the sense that it’s carrying the weight of Star Wars history that fleshed out the first… Continue reading Revenge of the Sith
Month: June 2005
Fan fiction
Checking out Wikipedia’s excellent (as always) article on fan fiction today, I ran across the site FanFiction.net, which I hadn’t seen before. It’s a comprehensive directory of fan fiction, organized by TV shows, movies, cartoon, games, books, and much more. The amount of fan fiction out there is truly astounding; I’ve known this, of course,… Continue reading Fan fiction
A Fire Upon The Deep
The latest book I’m immersed in (one of them, anyway) is A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge. So far I’m hooked (I’m about a quarter of the way into it), it’s totally compelling science fiction. And it’s a refreshing reminder that there’s really no limit to what you can do, story-wise, with well-done… Continue reading A Fire Upon The Deep
blogfringe
monkeyinabox: “Are blogs really as mainstream, as some of us thought?” No. No they’re not. That’s easy to forget for those of us “on the inside,” but blogs really are still a fringe phenomenon. They’re getting there, though. The Journal of Accountancy just ran an article called “Would You, Could You, Should You Blog?” which… Continue reading blogfringe
10 years of PHP
The PHP programming language is 10 years old today. A large part of what I do these days is PHP development—I’ve got it running web sites, parsing web server log files, running command-line batch processes, and more. Thanks to Rasmus and the PHP community for making it all possible! For a good roundup of the… Continue reading 10 years of PHP
It only seems like I’m burned out on blogging…
But I’m really not. If I’m burning out on anything, it’s work and the daily routine of it. As a consequence, blogging takes a backseat and even though I have things I want to write about, when I’m finally at the computer at a point where I can, I just don’t have the energy or… Continue reading It only seems like I’m burned out on blogging…
Podcasting
So I dunno, I’ve been thinking about this whole podcasting thing lately… and while it sounds like it might be fun to do (and people used to tell me all the time that I have a perfect voice for radio… but not so much anymore… I wonder why that is?), I really just don’t have… Continue reading Podcasting
My semi-annual TV rant
Now that the TV season is mostly over I thought I’d post one of my self-indulgent rants on the various television shows I watched and how I’m still a slave to the tube. So, even though everything is over and everyone who was going to watch has watched, there will be spoilers. Click through to… Continue reading My semi-annual TV rant
Jake’s influencing the news
…Jake of UtterlyBoring that is. He posted an item today about our local Wal-Mart being open 24 hours, mentioned it to Barney, and a story showed up on the Z21 news NewsChannel 21 this evening. Barney confirms it in the comments. That’s hot.
June!
June already? Geez, where’d the time go? It’s not like May wasn’t a full month… some highlights: Put together a monster swingset Dental cleaning… with novocaine. I had two back teeth that needed periodontal work and scaling. Nasty stuff. My mouth was sore for days afterward. The end of the TV season (I have another… Continue reading June!