Zannah had originally posted about this months ago, but I somehow missed it. Last night when browsing around I found a page about 1000 blank white cards, one of the more interesting cardgames I’ve seen in a while. Zannah also has her own blank card game page. Now I need to get some blank cards.

Posted without much comment for my friends who write fic:

Scooby Doo/Cthulhu crossover fan fiction. A fanfic crossover made in the nether-hells:

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Our careers began in the late

sixties and early seventies when one of Fred’s fraternity brothers tried

to sacrifice the entire fraternity and its guests to Shub-Niggurath during

a fraternity party. The four of us were forced to lock the doors and burn

down the building. It killed a few frat boys, but even Fred agreed that

frat boys were easily replacable.

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Mmmmmm. Scooby Snacks.

I.B.M. to Run a Venture to Rent Films Over the Web. MovieLink, the planned venture by five Hollywood studios to rent movies over the Internet, has chosen I.B.M. to operate the service, which is set to begin by the end of the year. By Barnaby J. Feder. [New York Times: Technology]

I wonder how popular this will really get. With the advent of DVD I know I’m much more aware of video quality these days. Unless I was able to download something that was at least of equal quality (both visual and audio), I don’t think I would. I at least wouldn’t expect to spend much on it.

Since I’ve lived in Cambridge my car has been broken into twice. The first time was very obvious, window bashed in and everything. The second was more subtle because they just broke the lock on the passenger side door. If my car wasn’t normally messy I would have noticed (and there hadn’t been much in there at that time. I mostly learned my lesson). But since then I make a slight effort to park the car where I might see it at night from my window.

This morning in a fit of wakefulness I wonder Just what the heck would I do if I saw someone out there in my car?. Would I yell? I’d probably call 911. But I’d feel so weird being a visible shadow in a window watching it.

Mae West. “I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.” [Quotes of the Day]

Dr. Splatt teaches kids about roadkill. Students count dead animals along road  A dozen sixth-graders in this northeast Ohio town are searching for clues to life’s mysteries in the form of squished raccoon, cats and other animals they find along the side of the road.  [Exploding Cigar] [jenett.radio]

Now why couldn’t I have had more classes like this in school?

I have this urge to write something here today. I don’t know what I want to write about really, but I just feel like something is trying to get out. Part of it is this whole being unemployed thing. It’s hard getting momentum again. I kind of hit an emotional wall about a week after the layoff where I just stopped for a few days. And it just feels so hard to get moving again.

There’s some consulting work on the horizon, but it isn’t anything that will necessarily be taking off right away. So I still need to look for work. Well, I need a ‘real job’ anyways. Benefits are too important too me right now. The hard part is deciding what I want to do. Do I still want to live in the sysadmin world? The consulting stuff I’ve been helping on is more system design kind of stuff and I’m really enjoying it. Also, at the time I stopped working I was doing more management type stuff and less day to day things. I still did them, but I wasn’t in the thick of it. And I’m not sure how much I like the idea of going back to the day to day stuff.

I think I need a road trip. Anyone got any suggestions on cool places to go that aren’t more then 12 hours away from Boston?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery. “Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” [Quotes of the Day]

FLCL on DVD is a good thing. And it is purty too! Synch-Point did a great job with this title. I want to go back and watch the sub now as I heard it was quite good. Then I wanna rewatch with the director’s commentary.

I just hope we don’t have to wait as long for #2

Well, this sucks. I just woke up from a nap to read that Farscape has been cancelled. In typical internet geek fashion I went and scanned around for other info on it. Slashdot has a bit about it, where I found a link to Caitlin Kiernan’s Journal with a post about it:

I’ve surprised myself, getting so upset at the cancellation of a television series. But I am. I think maybe Farcsape had come to represent, for me, the hope that something good can come of the system, of the meat-grinder that is mainstream pop culture. Television is a wasteland. There’s a clichÌ© for you. It’s as true now, or truer, than when Harlan Ellison was writing the “Glass Teat” columns back in the 1970s. The crap floats, the cream sinks. This is especially true for science fiction and fantasy programming. And, in the midst of that, we were lucky enough to get four brilliant seasons of Farscape, a series that has defied convention and expectation and has been truly intelligent, truly witty, at times profoundly dark and moving. In short, too good for television.

I caught Farscape from the 2nd or 3rd episode. I really wasn’t sure to expect. The episode was “Back and Back and Back to the Future” and I was just kind of blown away by it (it’s still one of my favorites). Yes, I did feel that this season was a little uneven. But I also felt like they were taking interesting risks with the kinds of stories they were trying to tell. From the sound of it we’ll get to see the rest of the remaining season and it will end. I do hope to hear more official word about this. Right now it’s real trippy to go to SciFi’s Farscape page and see their gushing about how great the show is.