Remi's Bloglet - Monday 8 April 2002

Exactly. _
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02:07:20 AM, Monday 8 April 2002

New Too Fat! (Hey Moss, do you think I could get my sidebar links updated and a little 'Too Fat to be a Rockstar, updates Monday and Friday on there, too?) _
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12:03:08 AM, Monday 8 April 2002

Okay, I bought De Profundis today, and it's the most frustrating RPG book I've ever read. It's dense, poorly organized, poorly written, and waaaaay too Hardcore Lovecraft Fan to be playable by the group that seems interested. I have gleaned a sense of gameplay from it, however, and feel that we could run an effective game _without_ everyone having to buy this God Damn book. So Mike, Deborah, Moss, Mirabai, and Andrew, I'll be send out an e-mail soon with more details, as well as the rules we'll be playing under. These rules will be relatively light and more for the sake of organization than moderating play. If anyone else wants to join up, now is the time. _
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03:10:29 AM, Saturday 6 April 2002

Ah, childhood, when toy companies made Rocks that turned into robots. _
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03:01:55 AM, Saturday 6 April 2002

Don't forget, Too Fat updates today! _
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12:55:54 AM, Friday 5 April 2002

So, this De Profundis game seems like a cool idea. Moss and I discussed it, and it seems like actually doing it through the mail, with real letters, would be kind of interesting. Anyone want to play a slow RPG through snailmail? _
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12:52:05 AM, Friday 5 April 2002

Hmmmmmm, perhaps this game would be more appropriate than The Baron for a Wiki-style RPG? _
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02:03:38 PM, Thursday 4 April 2002

NPR is doing a pretty interesting series called The Yiddish Radio Project. I figured, at the very least, Mirabai would be interested. _
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03:09:13 AM, Thursday 4 April 2002

Yup, that's pretty much how I feel about furries, too. _
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02:40:25 PM, Wednesday 3 April 2002

What Neil Stephenson Book Am I?
I am: Snow Crash
Funny and stylish, you almost make it to the end without crapping out. You have a wide variety of interests that you attack with equal voraciousness. Your ADD is close to the surface.
[take the What Neil Stephenson Book Am I Quiz] _
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06:34:46 PM, Monday 1 April 2002

So that's how Google works, Pigeons. _
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01:26:54 AM, Monday 1 April 2002

New Too Fat! (featuring David DiAngelo of Odd Jobs! _
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11:16:55 PM, Sunday 31 March 2002

Because it's that time of year . . . even if just for a few more hours: Someone takes on the historic medical experiment of Separating Peep Quintuplets. _
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08:08:21 PM, Sunday 31 March 2002

"I can't talk now, man, I've got some friends over . . . Wha . . . Who? Gavindra and Mustafa." _
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03:49:52 PM, Sunday 31 March 2002

Moss is not often wrong. However, he said that Arial was exactly the same as Helvitica. I disagreed, but could not muster an argument. Someone else has, though.
[via Kottke] _
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03:23:01 PM, Sunday 31 March 2002

For all you Mac gamers out there, Ambrosia Software has released the newest version of the classic Escape Velocity, it's called Escape Velocity: Nova and it takes the space-faring/trading/RPG game to new heights. If you can download the 76 meg demo (which is the shareware-crippled version of the entire game), do so, and enjoy the splendor! _
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12:54:47 PM, Sunday 31 March 2002

I already mentioned this on Debbie's blog, but seeing how it's Peep-season, check out the excellent war game Peep War, designed by the good folks at Invisible City. _
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11:38:54 AM, Sunday 31 March 2002

Apparently I wear odd combinations of colors. Apparently I run around the house in a bright orange shirt and green boxers. Apparently this offends the subtle sensibilities of my housemate. _
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09:17:42 AM, Sunday 31 March 2002

I was looking handsome/She was looking like an erotic vulture. _
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12:28:16 PM, Saturday 30 March 2002

I know Andrew has probably already read this strip, but it reminds me of him. _
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06:44:36 PM, Friday 29 March 2002

Michael Chabon, author of Kavalier and Clay takes a whack at the script for X-Men. _
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04:07:16 PM, Friday 29 March 2002

A couple weekends ago we decided we needed a poster for the wall in the living room, which was quite barren. Now, I'm not the biggest person for wall hangings in the world (the things I like don't make great posters for the most part . . . which is a totally different entry), and so the sum total of my additions to the wall adornents to the large downstairs room is a small framed drawing of Times Square in New York that my mother gave.

So we went to a poster shop, and after surprisingly little agony decided on this really neat color Japanese print by Hokusai (know for that wave poster that was so popular in the eighties and early nineties) of two guys crossing a bridge. It's the greatest poster I've ever had on a wall. The paper stock is thick and has a little texture to it, the color reproduction is beautiful, right down to the imperfections in the original, and the wall hanger we got for it rules. It's the sort of picture you look at, and stories just flow into your head, details appear, and you can dream waking. Man, I love that poster. _
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01:36:52 AM, Wednesday 27 March 2002

New Too Fat! _
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12:26:55 PM, Monday 25 March 2002

I watched Topsy Turvy last night and it occurs to me that Jim Broadbent's Gilbert is the worst aspect of a collaborative project personified. He sees the actors and musicians as soiling his precious stories, and is barely able to contain his contempt for their work. During particularly frustrating periods of Lysistrata and Don Juan in Hell, I could be heard exclaiming, "This production would be going perfectly if it weren't for the fucking actors!"
Now, I'm not so conceited as to believe that the actors held any higher an opinion of me during these frustrating times (or, in some cases, at any time), but it points to a problem with collaborative art: everyone wants their say and thinks their opinion deserves to be shouted the loudest and then accepted without question. For theater to be successful, though, it can't just be automatons running the director's instructions, and it can't be an anarchy of actors all trying to out-do one another in an orgy of egos and broken limbs with the director sitting in the wings trying to decide which plants to use and where to put them.
There has to be a middle ground to work out differences. Although there is a balance of power that can swing to the director or the actor, within limits, it needs to be carefully tended so as not to drain the energy of the cast and crew in petty squabbling. I'm not self aware enough to be certain, but I don't think I shared Gilbert's utter lack of the ability to copromise.This fundamental flaw and akwardness at sharing his vision, however, makes Broadbent's Gilbert a lot of fun to watch, as he surely sees any deviation from his minds-eye-view as a catastrophe, but he would be a demon to work with in life. I suppose a prodigious talent allows for certain . . . quirks. _
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09:38:55 PM, Sunday 24 March 2002

So, Liz and I pretty much did twelve hours of work related to her stream surveys. By the end of the day sun and fatigue had taken their toll and we were thinking of ways to put the word 'Butt' into various Star Wars names. Some of the more amusing names:

Buttress Leia
Those lovable furry creatures, the Buttoks!
The Death Butt
Emperor Palpabutt
Admiral AckButt
Butt Butthopper's master, Yobutt
Jabba the Butt
Boba Butt
Obi Butt Kenobi
and so on . . . _
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09:00:40 PM, Sunday 24 March 2002

"Because any pansy can study pretty streams"
Every endeavor needs a mission statement. _
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10:30:33 PM, Saturday 23 March 2002

Blade II would have been so good if they had just picked a villain and run with it. It took half the movie to set up the status quo, and when the actual bad guys finally show up again (after much mistaken identity, backroom dealing, and a mysterious appearance at the beginning of the movie), their coolness factor was diminished because they appeared after Ninja Vampires. Not even crazy head-splitting mandibles can compete with Ninja Vampires. The WWF Wrestling moves interpolated into the Kung Fu sequences were pleasantly bizarre, as was the new 'Vampire Death' effect. Other than that, and a few inspired running gags, the movie was overlong and a bit incoherent. _
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09:25:20 AM, Saturday 23 March 2002

Guided by Voices will be coming to Athens April 16th! And Ralph Nader will be here on April 11th! Things sometimes pick up in this 'burg. _
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09:47:50 PM, Wednesday 20 March 2002

If you have a CD burner, a decent collection of music, and some postage, is there any reason not to do this weblogger CD swap? _
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10:24:01 PM, Tuesday 19 March 2002

Well, that's it. Farewell Over the Edge game. 'Twas fun while it lasted. _
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10:12:32 PM, Tuesday 19 March 2002

Well, I just found my next CD purchase. _
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12:32:54 PM, Monday 18 March 2002

While driving home from Decatur yesterday, we passed a car that had been pulled over by the police. The car had a family in it. In the ensuing festival of making fun of the family that had just gotten pulled over by the cops, I found out that I could still do a decent 'Bobby' voice. I don't even like Howie Mandel, but I can still do that stupid voice. _
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12:30:42 PM, Monday 18 March 2002

I know I said I wouldn't, but I'm bad that way (and will probably continue to be so until I get out of this 'weekly' thing). New Too Fat. _
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12:13:12 PM, Monday 18 March 2002

Saw 12 Angry Men today. Good stuff. Funny in parts, serious in others, and a engaging whodunnit as well. _
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02:22:31 AM, Monday 18 March 2002

'cause I'm just a lame-o dittohead at heart:
Happy Birthday Mirabai! _
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07:20:12 PM, Sunday 17 March 2002

Jim Munroe is an sf writer. He wanted to use corporate names in his new book Everyone in Silico, and so, in order to head possible legal troubles off at the pass, he invoiced all the companies with produce placements in the book. Damn funny stuff.

[via boing boing] _
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05:52:40 PM, Friday 15 March 2002

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