Sunday, December 24, 2006
Where I have seen a great many things.
Air conditioners desperately held up by wooden posts. The World of Coke, the soda.
This is a place where there’s an extra “ee” sound to my first name. A place where my girlfriend ceases speaking the English as God intended and suddenly unearths an accent [...]
Friday, December 15, 2006
And here we are:
Thinner R. Nutmeat
I think that’s a fantastic name. I think I’ve found a new use for spam. I’ll just keep the good names around so that I can use them in fiction later.
I think Mr. Nutmeat happens to be a very large man. The “R.” is short for Rotunda.
He’s [...]
Thursday, December 14, 2006
But this is a pretty convincing reason to go for a good television and HD-DVD. Basically, it’s the comparison of HD-DVD source images to DVD source images, using Fellowship of the Ring as the comparison material.
I still don’t think it’s worth it, but if you’re curious about the difference between the two, this is [...]
Thursday, December 14, 2006
They are making “Flatland” the movie.
The movie!
I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to watch the damn thing, considering a two dimensional universe is going to be hell on our three dimensional eyes. Of course, they could just cheat and do the top down thing, which is the traditional representation.
On the other [...]
Thursday, December 7, 2006
“One last try.” I pressed the button that sent electricity through the rest of the body. I imagined connections being made, electrons excited, pathways connected. I looked at the screen for signs of life.
Nothing.
“Dammit.” I reached for the button again but her hand stopped me.
“Call it.” [...]
Thursday, December 7, 2006
So Dreamhost has this great feature on their site where you can convert .avi / .mov / what have you, into .flv video for use with their streaming media server. In theory, you can embed that video and player into WordPress posts.
As can be evidenced above, that’s not always the case.
Update: [...]