Everything CNN's web division does is the most obnoxious thing possible, except this:
Friday, September 26, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Lets Test... Pictures
Chloe is not happy to see you.
My blog still has a little something for the discerning Wing Commander fan.
Avril is not happy to see you.
Shawn Johnson-flavored coke.
Friday, September 5, 2008
The air conditioning is broken at work and I've already had to be here extra hour today. The building manager doesn't know when it will be fixed. Five more hours to go. The only work to do today is intricately unravel enormous HTML tables that five preceding generations of people who don't know what tables are have somehow mashed into existence.
I want to go get a grocery store sandwich, but what right to I have to bring a grocery store sandwhich into such a terrible world?
The first fish in space was the mummichog. This keeps me sane.
I want to go get a grocery store sandwich, but what right to I have to bring a grocery store sandwhich into such a terrible world?
The first fish in space was the mummichog. This keeps me sane.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
1000/1000 in Civilization! I think my next target is the Tomb Raider DLC - I need to clear some shelf space before Rock Band 2 and Force Unleashed later this month. I finished Civ early, giving me a chance to watch the Republican speeches.
One quick observation: did anyone notice the executive name-checks? All Democrats! Governor Lingle quoted LBJ and Governor Palin talked about Harry Truman. That's a strange departure from the ordinary Lincoln/Roosevelt/Reagan talk we usually hear at these things.
One quick observation: did anyone notice the executive name-checks? All Democrats! Governor Lingle quoted LBJ and Governor Palin talked about Harry Truman. That's a strange departure from the ordinary Lincoln/Roosevelt/Reagan talk we usually hear at these things.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
I Can't Believe I Eight the Whole Thing
My big task this morning was to remember to sign up for Air and Space Museum lecture tickets at 10 AM. All three of the Apollo 8 astronauts will be speaking together in November, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of their mission. Mission accomplished!
Apollo 8 is probably the single most impressive American space mission. It's somewhat forgotten in popular culture, coming just before the moon landing as it did... but I think it's a better story. NASA, worrying about Soviet plans to orbit the moon, planned and executed the mission in a matter of months. It was only the second manned Apollo launch and the first to use the Saturn V rocket. It was a lot riskier than the other flights which were planned years in advance and had their hardware tested in across a step process.
The mission went flawlessly (so no Hollywood movie) and was full of amazing firsts and wonderful moments, from the famous reading of Genesis on Christmas eve to the 'Earthrise' photograph that everyone has seen before. Fancy historians will sell it even better, telling you that it was a high point for makind after a year that was full of high profile assassinations, violent protests around the world and military disasters. I generally don't know how much stock to put into that level of psychohistory, but it's hard to watch the Christmas Eve broadcast without that in mind.
So, I have four tickets! Hurray! (November 13, downtown in the evening.)
Apollo 8 is probably the single most impressive American space mission. It's somewhat forgotten in popular culture, coming just before the moon landing as it did... but I think it's a better story. NASA, worrying about Soviet plans to orbit the moon, planned and executed the mission in a matter of months. It was only the second manned Apollo launch and the first to use the Saturn V rocket. It was a lot riskier than the other flights which were planned years in advance and had their hardware tested in across a step process.
The mission went flawlessly (so no Hollywood movie) and was full of amazing firsts and wonderful moments, from the famous reading of Genesis on Christmas eve to the 'Earthrise' photograph that everyone has seen before. Fancy historians will sell it even better, telling you that it was a high point for makind after a year that was full of high profile assassinations, violent protests around the world and military disasters. I generally don't know how much stock to put into that level of psychohistory, but it's hard to watch the Christmas Eve broadcast without that in mind.
So, I have four tickets! Hurray! (November 13, downtown in the evening.)
A Thick Veneer of Civilization
I lost a weekend to Civilization Revolutions (as you can see from the handy gamecard to my left). I'm two achievements away from finishing. One is annoying (unlock every Great Person; I've said it before and I'll say it again: up yours, Sophocles) and the other will require some strategerizing (win on King difficulty before 1000 AD).
I still can't believe that they've created a faithful and nearly flawless version of Civ for a console. Now if they could just figure out RTS games... (sorry, C&C3, you sort of suck).
I still can't believe that they've created a faithful and nearly flawless version of Civ for a console. Now if they could just figure out RTS games... (sorry, C&C3, you sort of suck).
Monday, September 1, 2008
Introduction
As you will recall in our last chapter, you had just foiled the Sariens fiendish plot to rule the galaxy by using the Star Generator as their weapon of destruction.
You became a hero by saving countless lives and returning the Star Generator technology into safe hands.
Life Was Beautiful
But heroes come and go and people soon forget. Your celebrated herodom slowly fades leaving you, once again, a janitor.
The promotion to head janitor was no consolation. (Especially since you are the ONLY member of the janitorial staff.) Nor was the transfer to Orbital Station 4.
Sweating like a pork-beast in a presure suit while relocating space debris in zero-gravity, just wasn't your idea of a good time.
Life Sucks.....Again
You became a hero by saving countless lives and returning the Star Generator technology into safe hands.
But heroes come and go and people soon forget. Your celebrated herodom slowly fades leaving you, once again, a janitor.
The promotion to head janitor was no consolation. (Especially since you are the ONLY member of the janitorial staff.) Nor was the transfer to Orbital Station 4.
Sweating like a pork-beast in a presure suit while relocating space debris in zero-gravity, just wasn't your idea of a good time.
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