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September 4, 2003

Attention OSU:

Please stop pinging my firewall at work.

I know that these are likely MS Blaster infected machines. But you've had nearly two weeks now to stop this, and yet it continues to persist.

So please, do something.

Oh, and this goes for the 5 machines at Brown that are still infected and pinging me, too. Yes, I work at Brown, so yes, this is embarrassing. But not for me. We''re not infected.

We use 90% Macs, and the few Windows machines we have we patch regularly and they're only used for specific statistical software packages.

Thank you.

Julia Frizzell

Firefly to hit big screen

Joss Whedon ... is adapting his short-lived television series Firefly into a feature film for Universal Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

WHOOO!!!!!!

September 5, 2003

Beloit Mindset List

I was waiting to link to the list, because I wanted the one right on their site.

And here it is!

A few items of note:

3. Iraq has always been a problem.
4. "Ctrl + Alt + Del" is as basic as "ABC."
15. Garrison Keillor has always been live on public radio and Lawrence Welk has always been dead on public television.
21. Datsuns have never been made.
28. Stores have always had scanners at the checkout.
37. There has always been Lean Cuisine.
44. Yuppies are almost as old as hippies.

I do like the five at the bottom, for things from the current generation.

But damn, do I feel old.

September 9, 2003

Not even a teenager yet

My inner child is ten years old today

My inner child is ten years old!


The adult world is pretty irrelevant to me. Whether
I'm off on my bicycle (or pony) exploring, lost
in a good book, or giggling with my best
friend, I live in a world apart, one full of
adventure and wonder and other stuff adults
don't understand.


How Old is Your Inner Child?
brought to you by Quizilla

September 10, 2003

Stewie for Governor!

Sometimes, I wish I did live in California.

Stewie: Why am I running for governor? What business is it of yours? I tell you why I'm running for governor. I want to see tax dollars in California spent the way they are meant to be spent: On a weather machine, with which I can blackmail the world into making me absolute ruler. Does that answer your question, you filthy, wicked drag-your-tail drunkard?
That quote is at the end of the interview with Seth MacFarlane.

And it looks like they're doing a direct-to-DVD release as well! Whoo!

EDIT: Another interview here from Maxim Online, complete with sound (via Flash, and a bit distorted) bites, including quotes on other candidates, and poopy Pampers.

September 12, 2003

The latest trifecta

On Sunday, Warren Zevon passed.

Early this morning, Johnny Cash passed.

*makes playlist of Best of Warren Zevon and The Man Comes Around IV*

Also, completing the trifecta, John Ritter died.

NP: In My Life from the album "American IV: The Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash

September 15, 2003

Terror Alert Status

I must admit, I found this terribly amusing.

Terror Alert Level

But maybe it's just me.

AB Interview

I know that a number of my friends love Alton Brown and Good Eats, so I thought I'd just point you all to a interview earlier this year with our favorite Food Scientist.

September 18, 2003

d20 meets Python

Ah, RPG.net forums, you occasionally have a few gems. Not just the first post, scroll down for the Cheese Shop and Inquisition sketches. I've only hit the first page so far, and there's 5.

Though I must admit, so far, I like this seen in a .sig the best...and no, it has nothing to do with Python. or d20...

"Dear Mr Elrond.

We appreciate the fact that we had to spend the entire Third Age walking through Moria for whatever it is we're doing with the ring. But we think you're crazy for wanting to know who we think we are. You see us how you want to see us: in the simplest terms, the most convenient defintions. But what we found out today is that every single one of us is an elf, a dwarf, a ranger, a wizard and a hobbit.

Sincerely yours,
The Fellowship of the Ring."

Courtesy of Grant, who is home today with his hurricane-frightened daughter

NOT Isabel Picture

Originally obtained from here, but just in case it vanishes, gets slashdotted, or they lose power, I'm putting it here, too.

EDIT: Okay, it's not Isabel. Still cool.

September 19, 2003

Avast yer landlubber ways!

Talk Like a Pirate Day be today, ye scurvy wags!

I be the Cap'n!

You are The Cap'n!



Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any man that stands between them and the mantle of power. You never met a man you couldn't eviscerate. Not that mindless violence is the only avenue open to you - but why take an avenue when you have complete freeway access? You are the definitive Man of Action. You are James Bond in a blousy shirt and drawstring-fly pants. Your swash was buckled long ago and you have never been so sure of anything in your life as in your ability to bend everyone to your will. You will call anyone out and cut off their head if they show any sign of taking you on or backing down. You cannot be saddled with tedious underlings, but if one of your lieutenants shows an overly developed sense of ambition he may find more suitable accommodations in Davy Jones' locker. That is, of course, IF you notice him. You tend to be self absorbed - a weakness that may keep you from seeing enemies where they are and imagining them where they are not.




What's Yer Inner Pirate?
brought to you by The Official Talk Like A Pirate Web Site. Arrrrr!

September 24, 2003

Programming Hell

I want to know whose decision it was to put nearly all the programming I want to watch this year on the same night at the same time. Because, you know, I'll go stab them repeatedly.

It definitely is going to give me an up on getting another ReplayTV box. Because you can do show streaming from multiple places in your house. Whooo!!

"See, hon, we could Replay Smallville and Angel on the living room Replay, and watch them there, and then in the bedroom we can be Replaying Ed and West Wing, and then we can still watch them in the living room, whenever we have the time." (like on the other nights of the week that have sucky programming. But not Sunday. You'll not take my Alias from me!!)

Oh yeah!

Of course, that does mean Jake 2.0 is still out of the loop, having no other TV or cable box on which to record. Okay, that's not true. We do have another TV, on the floor of my closet. but UPN doesn't come in well without cable. Station's too far away.

So it'll be back to VCR tapes in the bedroom for Ed and West Wing, which we'll have to try and schedule a time to watch each week. We fell away from Ed and taped but never ended up watching West Wing, but with Carol and Ed together, Lou has more incentive to watch it now! And West Wing...we'll see how well they do sans Sorkin.

Survivor: Pearl Islands is also on the list, but will likely be VCRd in the bedroom, so that I can take the tape to work and watch it during "Survivor Lunch" on Fridays, since Anne and I will be taking our second "Writing the Romance" course at Brown on Thursdays this fall.

Anyone else out there watching Survivor? Anyone think Rupert is Survivor's own Hagrid? :)

September 25, 2003

The mind boggles

Wow. Just ... wow.

And though I am devoted to my editor, I always had mixed feelings about this process of receiving her comments and responding to them.

After the publication of the The Queen of the Damned, I requested of my editor that she not give me anymore comments. I resolved to hand in the manuscripts when they were finished. And asked that she accept them as they were. She was very reluctant, feeling that her input had value, but she agreed to my wishes. I asked this due to my highly critical relationship with my work and my intense evolutionary work on every sentence in the work, my feeling for the rhythm of the phrase and the unfolding of the plot and the character development. I felt that I could not bring to perfection what I saw unless I did it alone. In othe words, what I had to offer had to be offered in isolation. So all novels published after The Queen of the Damned were written by me in this pure fashion, my editor thereafter functioning as my mentor and guardian.

I am perfect. I need no editor.

Well, if she keeps selling as she does, there must be some truth to it. I'd heard that once authors "made it," they stopped being edited, or at least edited so much. Now I hear that it is true. At least for one.

The mind...boggles.

September 27, 2003

You will be assimilated

I give unto you the Borg MegaCube, containing every ST:TNG episode for all seven seasons. That's 48 discs. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies.

For 」449.99. Or about $750 USD.

September 29, 2003

RotK Trailer

Since the didn't show it with The Rundown this weekend (which was hysterical and I really do recommend it), I am forced to download it to watch at work.

Now, to schedule a time to see Secondhand Lions so I can see the new trailer in the theater....

Trailer courtesy of Slashdot.

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