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February 2008
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Fri 2/29/08 6:32am # Iron Man Trailer
This is going to be a very good Superhero movie. |
I want to hear your Thur 2/28/08 10:55am # Random Non-Sequiters
Reruns from the Twitter feed: Keming n. the result of improper kerning. (Think about it ;) link • Three yearold sumarizes Star Wars:
• Perspective Man - Funny 1 Page Comic... Perspective Man: Click Here
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» Mini-rant on in car DVD players (appeared in my twitter yesterday)
Tues 2/26/08 10:31am # Random Non-Sequiters
Super busy week at work is over, hooray. It's nice to come home and have enough energy to do a thing or two. This evening I worked on writing an image manager for Adam and Comfort's website. I've been working on a site with them for the launch of The Uniques their Independent Comic Book. The image manager I wrote is going to handle all the sketches, fan art, wallpapers etc. that will be available on the site (most of which is done and looking quite spiffy). I've also seen a press proof of The Uniques first issue and it looks great! The website for the comic and creators should be up early next week. The Uniques #1, 35 pages of Superhero goodness, will be available both in print and as a CBZ file for purchase when the site launches, so save up a few pennies this week in anticipation of that! Details will be on Adam and Comfort's Blog as well as here on mine, and then on finer comic blogging site everywhere (we hope)! Unfortunately, blogging on my own blog is going to be a little light again this week as I put my energies toward helping put those finishing touches on A&C's site. Things should be back to normal around here soon I hope, thanks for sticking around! |
NCW # New Comic Picks for 2/26/08
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Sat 2/23/08 11:00am # Code Talk
I learned alot about multi-dimensional arrays this morning and figured out a way to combine RSS feeds on my site so that I don't have the time delay involved in using Yahoo Pipes to do that. I also figured out how to convert the RSS timestamp strings into a unix timestamp that I then put into some code I found that will sort multi-dimensional arrays. I do not fully understand how the multi-dimensional array sorting is functioning, but it does appear to be working, so hooray for that. What does this mean in layman's terms? Besides Twitter, Utterz, and Jott posts in the mobile section, I can now send emails to the mobile section via Mailbucket.org and they all get combined into one. Combining the Mailbucket Email to RSS functionality will also let me CC my blog when I send people emails. Which means, when I email a friend a link or a note, I can choose to also have that email show up automatically on my blog. Don't worry though, YOUR emails to me won't show up on the blog. :) |
Fri 2/22/08 11:05pm # Random Non-Sequiters
It was the busy week of the cycle at work this week so that explains most of that volume drop, the odd part is, until I just looked at my blog and my last post having been on Tuesday at Lunch, I hadn't realized just how fast and how much of a blur this week was. This weekend is going to be pretty busy as well, but next week, thankfully, unless something unexpected comes up should be a much lighter week, so there should be a few more posts posted herwithin. |
Mon 2/18/08 1:00pm # 
Today's lunch time Amusement (UPDATE: I've been told it's Badminton.) |
Mon 2/18/08 11:17am # Videos The Interogator. Not Bad. (Youtube)
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Mon 2/18/08 10:22am # Random Non-Sequiters 
Joke image I made that was part of an email exchange I had back and forth with a co-worker last week. It amused me. (Pretty good episode of the Colbert Report too.) |
Mon 2/18/08 9:47am # Lyrics |
Mon 2/18/08 8:48am # Let's Go Surfing
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iBand. Two iPhones (Guitar and Piano) hooked up to a Nintendo DS running something called Electroplankton. 
A co-worker sent this Animaniacs Presidents Day Tribute. It's cute and Edukashunal.Sun 2/17/08 11:26pm # Random Non-Sequiters
I can do something today that I couldn't do yesterday, and that's cool. The code was primarily for a friends' website I'm working on, but it's also something I've wanted to integrate into my site, and I'm looking forward to that.
At the very least I hope they make a Jumper II. Don't expect a deep movie, but Go See! (Oh yeah... I almost forgot, a large part of the plot takes place in Ann Arbor, Michigan... so if that's a cool thing for you, and it was for me, then there's an extra reason to go see.)
Let's Go Surfing
Green lantern Series 3: Yellow Suit Sinestro, Star Saphire, Batman as Green Lantern and Cyborg Superman. DC Reactivated: GA Superman, GA Batman, GA Hawkman, Woder Woman. Mattel DCU Pictures Commissioner Gordon and 2 Gotham Police Officers - 3 Pack, Black Adam, Cyborg, GA Flash, Weather Wizard, Para Demons, Hawkman, Wonder Girl and Black Canary. The Commissioner Gordon 3 pack is a nice army builder package, as are the Parademons. |
» I saw Jumper at the theatre last night. As I mentioned in my Twitter, it wasn't a deep movie, but I liked it. Hayden Christensen plays an Anakin type character in this film. Samuel L Jackson doesn't so much act, but personify cool as the villain and the whole movie comes across as a delightful bit of superhero (in the general sense, as there is no spandex herein) wish fulfillment for so inclined members of the audience. I could see this movie serving as a great foundation for a TV series in much the same way as the Buffy movie did.
Sat 2/16/08 3:11pm # Random Non-Sequiters
Let's Go Surfing
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» Alot of people ask me, "Chris what do you think of Microsoft trying to buy Yahoo." (Ok, nobody asks me that...but...) I say, "I don't like it, I don't like it at all." Microsoft has quite a nice business going on right now with the OS's and the Office Apps etc., and they've been trying to be a Yahoo and a Google on their own with MSN for sometime. It hasn't been working (and that's not even true really, since lots of people use MSN, the only issue is they are not #1 or #2), so instead of continuing to compete they are trying to buy their competition. That just doesn't seem like a good thing to me.
Thur 2/14/08 9:33am # Thoughts on February 14th I think Valentines day is a lovely holiday, plus it has the decency to not take over the whole month with itself. Some holidays are absolutely hoggish with the calendar, taking up weeks, months and entire seasons. The other nice thing about Valentines day, it doesn’t drag every person or relative you know into celebrating it with you. A significant other, a kid maybe and, at worst, a sentimental mother and you're probably done. In some ways, the original commercial holiday is one of the least commercial holidays now. |
NCW # Comic picks for 2/13/08
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Tues 2/12/08 10:35am # Iron Man Adventures 3D animated cartoon. Aimed at kids, but better overall than the Direct to DVD Marvel movies have been. |
Sun 2/10/08 2:03pm # Random Non-Sequiters
As always I'm working my way though a huge backlog of RSS stared items. Most of the links below orginated in mid January on other sites. But hey maybe you weren't on the net much that week and now they're new to you.
Let's Go Surfing
Your primary objective as a modern animation feature storyteller is to get the audience members emotionally charged (i.e., distracted from logic gaps and not thinking too much) so they will be ready for your big finale. This usually consists of the hero defeating the villain (almost always by some initial violent action of the villain that the hero has “cleverly” used to boomerang back on the bad guy; real heroes never being allowed to slay dragons on their own these days) and the villain falling to their death from a great height, the only acceptable way for a baddie to meet their end in a cartoon (Gaston, Frollo, the bear in “The Fox & The Hound,” Scar, the poacher in “Rescuers II”, anyone notice a trend here?). If the villain can trip over the edge while trying to get in one last cowardly stab at the hero, so much the better. The demise of the bad guy puts everyone in a good mood, so the sidekicks fire up the juke box, or strike up the band, or simply break into song, and while the hero and heroine share a modest kiss, everyone rocks out over the end credits. |
» Watched this week's Bill Mahr Real Time this morning. The show was losing relavance last season, and this season without it's writers it's been pretty bad too. Bill went off the rails at the end of his show on his healthy food crusade topic, much to the confusion/uncomfortableness of his guests.
Fri 2/8/08 1:11pm # We don't just need change. Change is too small a word. We need a new start. These sorts of things are taking it too far. Party over country, is taking it to far. Winning over civility is taking it too far. Change is too small a word. Somehow we need a new start. |
Thurs 2/7/08 5:39pm # Googly Goodness • Google Docs lets you embed Presentations now.
You can do this at Google Docs from the publish tab.
Live results of the survey are listed below.
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• Google Docs Spreadsheets also has a Wed 2/6/08 1:34pm # Dark Knight Movie Trailer in Legos
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NCW # Comic Picks for 2/6/08
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Tue 2/5/08 12:02pm # A is for Asus Step aside Apple there is a new innovator on the the block.
I need to start saving my pennies to give them to Asus. |
Tues 2/5/08 9:30am # Random Non-Sequiters
Juno was good, but I don't think it should be an Oscar nominee for Best Picture.
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Mon 2/408 9:05 am # Superbowl Commercials I watched them all online this year, didn't have a chance to watch the game.
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Sat 2/2/08 4:18pm # Random Non-Sequiters
All for now, a couple links and a smattering of videos below. Let's Go Surfing
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