| Friday, April 29, 2005. |
10:44 AM - OK, so the Sony Librie is the closest thing we have to a nice sciFi electric book. But why a book when you can have a duck?
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10:41 AM - OK, take a small business, like say Movie Posters, and get someone to blog about it. You can see some of the largest movie poster websites advertising on the side, and probably paying him good money. So, what small niche businesses out there would like me to feign interest in their market and create an incredibly popular blog?
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| Thursday, April 28, 2005. |
11:15 PM - While we are getting annoyed at newbs "kill stealing" from us in Atlas City, other newbs are hacking themselves.
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| Wednesday, April 27, 2005. |
4:29 PM -
Ahhhh Old Montreal. I miss walking those streets on my lunch hour. I really miss those avocadoe & grilled chicken sandwiches from down the street from here.
OK, Flickr allows you to choose templates in CSS to post these lil posts. The CSS doesn't interact well with my Blogger template so I have had to make a few changes. I have also changed from a larger thumbnail to a smaller thumbnail as that white (brown) space was bugging me.
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4:20 PM -
Guys, I am amazed at how good this looks. When I wandered into the place with it so empty and helping move around a mish mash of Ikea and inherited furniture pieces, I imagined you having quite the challenge making it look good. But that looks quite grand.
So with that said, blogging other people's photos is quite a weird idea hmmm? I have a feeling I can do that much more than my own.
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4:07 PM -
OK, the ability to upload photos, organize them and then post them to my Blog is a neat trick. But that is what my photoblog is about. Maybe my more personal pics?
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4:05 PM - This is a test post from  , a fancy photo sharing thing.
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3:47 PM - OK, I finally logged back into the community that is Flickr. And still I ask my question, "Why?" Why use Flickr? Why be part of the group? Is Flickr about those toss away photos that don't make it to your photoblog? Is it about more personal pics than artistic pics? What why when and how come?
Right now I will allow it to be the venue where you see the original, non CD Cover cropped, photo.
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11:25 AM - The antihistamines have kicked in and rather than making me sleepy this time, they have dragged me out of bed with an alertness I am not comfortable with. I hate spring colds.
*ATCHOO*
I just scared away a cat with my explosive, spray-everything sneeze. I hate spring colds.
I was reading my archives and realized exactly how long ago it was when I was last home and when I was laid off in Mtl. Feels very foreign to me, to be me. I still feel like a web-worker looking for work when really I am just another joe-schmoe in a deadend job with no real prospects. How suburban of me. I cannot remember the last time I learned something and a new towel-fold does not count. I need more than a creative outlet, I need a new life directive. Feels kind of late saying so at my age (i might not act my age but many people on the outside, especially employers, see me exactly at my age) but it feels needed no longer just desired. But how to start? I am stymied.
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12:49 AM - Oh dear. There is going to be a Dungeons & Dragons Online. I may have to forgoe having a life.
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12:44 AM - Nothing like cat butt to ruin a perfectly good kill in Doom 3.
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| Tuesday, April 26, 2005. |
11:31 PM - September? September!?! Serenity is in September!! Oh well, it will be a welcome respite from the hype and disappointment come from something that R.O.T.S.
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| Saturday, April 23, 2005. |
12:53 AM - Hrrrrm. This "Getting Things Done" might be a cult I could get into.
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| Friday, April 22, 2005. |
4:27 PM - *guffaw*
Yes, the Dutch can put beer on Mars.
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4:25 PM - So do you think I can put a Prancing Pony sign on it and hopefully find Strider inside The Worlds First Inflatable Pub ?
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| Thursday, April 21, 2005. |
12:28 PM - I like when blogger crashes like this. It makes me giggle even though it has eaten a post.
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| Tuesday, April 19, 2005. |
11:41 PM - Funny. I was just flipping through an old comic I got from Kent and I saw an ad for the original V for Vendetta series and thought to myself, "I should look for that in trade-paperback." A comic from 1988 set in 1998 made into a movie in 2005.
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10:46 AM - And thus it begins.
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10:44 AM - Bloggers are supposed to be talking about Adobe to acquire Macromedia? Meh. I will still download whatever they come up with...
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| Monday, April 18, 2005. |
8:34 AM - Most people have sidebars for toss away links. I make a whole damn blog out of them. Such as Tadanobu Asano in a coffee commercial or a new cyberpunked Futurama. (both via milo's sides)
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| Sunday, April 17, 2005. |
1:33 AM - Really, every blogger should have a series of webcomics drawn for them.
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| Friday, April 15, 2005. |
11:45 PM - Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals... is very useful, yes it is.
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| 11:15 PM - While sitting here wolverine style, on my haunches, and desiring a pen and pad I remembered I have this. I have this email device that never gets any email beyond 'u have voicemail' and it rarely has anything sent. You can gueess why I don't send a whole lot as Blogger could post this from today to one week from now to never. But it is available as a tool to create my words and send them out. Sometimes I get the overwhelming desire to create words, to produce instead of consuming. I don't desire to produce genius, just put thoughts to media. And you, dear readers, get to be the destination of that endeavour. Joy joy? I just acquired a 'new' Palmy tool, a previous generation PDA that is newer than my current model. It allows many more add-ons than what I now own, for example a keybaord. One more step closer to writing novels in coffee shops. It does lead me to pondering the tool vs the message. As it stands, I have always pondered the tools more than what I would create with them. Do I have a great Canadian novel in my head? Not at all, but I do so like the idea of living the life of a writer. Maybe short stories, poetry or columns? I cannot even write consistent blog posts. But with the right tools I should be famous by next year.
Sent via BlackBerry on the Bell Mobility network
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| Wednesday, April 13, 2005. |
11:57 PM - A weirdness about me is that I like creating forms. I am not so good at it, as in I don't know how to make them effective, but I enjoy the act of making boxes in which I will place stuff into. It's definately connected to my paper fetish and the desire to print out something and then fill it all in. Thus something about D*I*Y Planner 2.0 excites me. It's a collection of 78 pages of forms and such for controlling & planning your life. You could spend so much time playing with these forms that you would never get anything done.
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11:09 PM - A few weekends ago I met an artist friend of Josie that makes metal jewelry based on retro video game ideas such as Space Invaders rings. I think he would appreciate the Lego stylings at JacQueline Sanchez Jewelry Design.
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11:02 PM - Narf!! It's Pinky and the Brain !!
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10:50 PM - Interesting and amusing. As you remember from previous posts, I was not happy with the style & attitude changes when G4 took over TechTV. They took a number of thoughtful and informative shows, that had their own mix of irreverant internet culture within, and replaced them with glossy, inane blipvurts for major products. Most of the original people and shows are long gone and even one had to come to Canada in order to stay similar to what it was. Recently, a popular mainstay of the original station, a show called The Screen Savers was dropped and replaced with the dross that is Attack of the Show. It is not so bad, especially if you knew nothing of the previous show, but as a followup it sucks the big one.
I was interested in seeing how their community was reacting to the new show. Well, it seems they are not allowed to react to the show in any way but a positive manner. It's not censorship, more like careful marketing of opinion.
Now if I could only remember to cancel the whole fucking Rogers Digital TV cuz that sucks the big one for so many other reasons.
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| Tuesday, April 12, 2005. |
10:42 AM - OK, here is my temporary blog for the tbit electric, my GTAB SuperGroup character on City of Heroes. Yes, I look exactly like that sans the glowing eyes. No, really.
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| Monday, April 11, 2005. |
10:13 PM - The MPAA NOTICE is worth a giggle. I have actually always enjoyed stealing the hard earned dollars of the moguls of california. In fact I also steal candy from their babies' mouths. Beware. The movie police are out to get you.
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| Friday, April 08, 2005. |
9:26 PM - Lifehacker is a blog about being productive, with software help, in your REAL life. You know that life? That one that involves washing dishes?
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9:53 AM - OK, I watched Primer last night. I remember saying with a certain amount of cockiness some night of dinner & drinks that I would, "...figure it out." I usually am able to wrap my head around these Donnie Darko / Matrix convoluted plots and at least build a personal explanation. All I know about this movie is... (continued in comments to avoid spoiling)
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| Thursday, April 07, 2005. |
9:14 AM - Why are the stats at my Photoblog 99.9% referrer spam while my Textblog has none?
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8:48 AM - After my rib poking about Ashbridges Bay being the next Whitby Psyche, maybe I can influence Whitby Psyche & Naked Women to be the next Whitby Psyche?
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8:34 AM - It might be with a Holga and not a cheapo digicam but it is nice to know I am not the only one who takes shots like this.
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| Tuesday, April 05, 2005. |
7:58 PM - When I read an article like All Together Now over at The New Yorker, which is about Sony not being the innovator that it used to be it makes me think of Apple. Apple is being given the high and mighty five because of the popularity of their iPod. But they didn't invent the wheel they just reinvented it better. They made it bigger, whiter and much much prettier and then they convinced everyone that they wanted one. Thus Apple is being given kudos for making the next Walkman.
Now everyone wants to innovate, even some place I won't mention here. They want to make the next iPod. They are inventing useless gadgets and hoping to make them popular. My suggestion is to take something that is already there and make it better, snazzier and prettier. Then convince every trendoid that they need one. You will make money.
Another suggestion is to reinvent the already sooper-popular but make it have a better interface and make it cheaper. Then all those people who don't have one (iPod) will buy it. And like it.
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10:39 AM - Hey look it's a social software site that is actually about what all the other social software sites are about -- getting laid. It'a all about consumating that online friendship.
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10:00 AM - Blogs get some much air time these days, as the cover every topic and popular subject imaginable. It has gone from, "Oooo they mention Blogs -- I do a Blog!" to "Ahh gawds, another misinterpretive mention of Blogs." Still, sometimes its a way to hear about a few blogs you haven't already run into.
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9:49 AM - OK, to me Ajax is a place between Pickering and Whitby but to some people it is much much more.
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| Sunday, April 03, 2005. |
| 12:12 AM - (originally sent yesterday from a long wrong-direction bus ride) Why shouldn't a comic movie be made to satisfy the fans of the origin material? Perhaps the material will not translate well? Sin City does what few have done in accurately bringing the comic (I refuse to call a group of connected issues a Graphic Novel to make it sound legit) panels to the screen. You could hold pages up to the screen and see Miller's vision. The dialogue was almost word for word straight from the books. Did it work well? I didn't really care as seeing Marv dive straight through a car window, feet first, just made me giggle with glee. The rain and the snow, the white blood and the perfect breasts, the seductive Nancy and Marv's bandages all gelled perfectly with what I remembered from the books. The chosen Hollywooders didn't matter so much as long as thye visually fit the bill, but the skill some brought with them sure didn't hurt. Mickey Rourke was growling convincingly behind the makeup and Clive Owen did a great job despite his accent. Did I mention Alba as Nancy? Rawr. Yes, rawr. I liked and I cannot wait to own the DVD.
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