Month: August 2007

Announced on Variety.com: a live-action G.I. Joe movie, to be released summer of 2009 and directed by Stephen Sommers. Hasbro’s Goldner said that the mythology of G.I Joe was fleshed out during the 1980s through 155 issues of Marvel Comics, as well as an animated TV series. There are about 30 core characters, good and… Continue reading I’m surprised it took this long

A random collection of things that… well, the title pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? "There’s two roles I think [Steve] Buscemi was born to play. The first is Cobra Commander in a live-action G.I. Joe movie. ‘Retreeeeeat!’" source I found the trailer on YouTube for the never-released 1994 Fantastic Four movie… it is… Continue reading Geeky things that I find enormously funny

Before I get asked by anybody: No, the person who signed "Chuggy" to the "Web Rant" section at the bottom of page 5 of the latest issue of The Source is not me. I feel the need to preemptively clarify this because my own wife asked if that was me. So there you have it.… Continue reading It’s not me…

This past weekend was the annual family reunion up at Suttle Lake, and since it’s the one time of the year that we actually have to go camping, we packed up the gear and off we went. The weather sucked, though. It was windy—really windy, tent-flattening wind (other people’s tents; ours was well-shielded by trees)—all… Continue reading Suttle Lake

This article from the NY Times (link is good at the moment, though I’m not sure it won’t disappear behind some paywall at some point and be inaccessible) covers the sufficiently weird theory/philosophy proposed by Nick Bostrom that we are likely (actually, almost mathematically certainly) living inside a computer simulation. ("Living" wouldn’t quite be the… Continue reading Simulated reality

My goodness, I’ve certainly been neglecting this site. Most of my blogging energy has focused on The Brew Site and Hack Bend, but I’ve also been neglecting other areas of this site—the projects page in particular needed cleaning up, and I needed to catch up on PHP code fixes for my HTML2Text class and Word… Continue reading Housecleaning