Remi's Bloglet - Monday 3 March 2003

Get Your War On does Mr. Rogers. Beautiful.Ï _
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05:08:29 PM, Monday 3 March 2003

A number of people have been playing NationStates, and it has occured to me that an actual International Relations game played with Johnnies and attendant folk would be a lot of fun. So I got together with Mr. Gillen, and we are working on creating just such a creature. It's called Islands and in the game you will control, well, an island of your own design. The game will be played via e-mail, and the turns will be once a month. Each turn will be equal to a year in game time. If this sounds like something that you might enjoy, the initial island creation guidelines can be found here. I'm looking forward to this game quite a bit, see you there! _
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07:16:17 PM, Friday 28 February 2003

My quasi-suicidal attempt to get fired did not work. Thank God. _
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04:53:31 PM, Friday 28 February 2003

Well, I'm getting stressed out over my job, but I think it's an avoidable stress. _
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11:03:40 PM, Wednesday 26 February 2003

Yay! New blur album. I'm curious what the band is like without Coxon. However his guitar work was certainly overshadowed by the massive sound producer William Orbit gave 13, so it may not be noticeable (this is me being naively hopeful). _
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07:54:38 PM, Tuesday 25 February 2003

Everyone knows TV dinners are bad for you, right? This is true, but Swanson's new breakfast takes it to a level which previously could only be achieved by eating entire alternate universes made only of prosciutto.

Ah, X-Entertainment, how I missed you. _
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06:56:33 PM, Tuesday 25 February 2003

The Federation of Silent Assasins joins Mr. Gillen's 'Commonwealth of Unitas'. _
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11:06:00 AM, Saturday 22 February 2003

The stupid takes form. _
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12:13:59 AM, Saturday 22 February 2003

More Stupid!
NINJA Toilet Paper: Wipe Out Your Foes!
NINJA Cooler: Put the Severed Heads of Your Enemies on Ice!
NINJA Belt: Holds Up Your NINJA Pants
NINJA Pants: Show Off Your Sexy, Sexy NINJA shoes!
NINJA Shoes: A Home For Deadly NINJA Feet! _
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10:14:58 PM, Friday 21 February 2003

Because it's THE WEEKEND, I'm going to be up for a while this evening, if anyone wants to play (MIRABAI or MOIRA or ANNE or NEIL, especially, MARTIN, I'm leaving you out because you're already on), let us rock. _
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09:55:21 PM, Friday 21 February 2003

The stupid, she keeps a'comin':
NINJA Paper: Stealth Paper! Great for Secret NINJA Memoirs, or Deadly Papercuts.
NINJA Sweater: Keep NINJA Grandma Happy, Don't Catch Cold!
NINJA Tape: Stick Like A NINJA!
NINJA Asprin: With Unbreakable Child-safety Cap!
NINJA Deodorant: Makes Unpleasant Body Odor NINJA Vanish! _
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09:16:59 PM, Thursday 20 February 2003

A review of the 1974 release of D&D in a wargaming magazine. I find it interesting that a lot of the blinders that this particular wargamer has are similar to ones that are hurled at modern RPG's that try to do something new (the comment about the art/content price ratio was lifted pretty much verbatim in a critique of Nobilis, which, I will repeat, is among the most beautiful books I own) _
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07:06:24 PM, Thursday 20 February 2003

So during break today at work I took some Post-It notes with me and drew all these silly singe-panel Ninja advertisements. They were all normal household and office items with NINJA tacked on the front.

NINJA Flashlight: Like a Normal Flashlight, with a NINJA!
NINJA Frying Pan: Perfect for Dinner Parties and impromptu Assasinations!
NINJA Keychain: Locked Out of Your Car? Grab Someone Else's!
NINJA Pencil: Lead Poisoning on the Cheap!

Sometimes the stupid ideas come at a dribble, sometimes they pour out. _
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04:48:16 PM, Wednesday 19 February 2003

Spent the evening repairing and defragging the ol' harddrive in preparation for a bevvy of new software. Most exciting is Photoshop 6, which is super-tasty. Yay! I'm only one revision behind, now! PS6 has great text support, a new contextual tool bar which has all the right options, and far, far better integration with Image Ready. I'm sure as I use PS6 it will unfold like a subtle flower, allowing me further and further into its well-designed depths. Anyway, HotB (Moss! I Hunger For Commentary!) will be the test-run for both PS6 and the newly-acquired InDesign, just because I want to see how far the crazed integration goes, and I want to play with my new toys.

Oh, and thanks, Dad. _
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10:42:42 PM, Monday 17 February 2003

Google bought Blogger! Wow! Metafilter's Matt Haughey comments, Cory Doctorow from boingboingweighs in as well. _
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05:38:44 PM, Sunday 16 February 2003

We went to Five Star for their excellent Sunday brunch, and on the walk there, there's this big 4 story parking garage, and the facade is steel mesh with very large, square holes. The garage was empty, and the wind was blowing sort of along the front of it. The effect was an extremely loud, sustained whine, like a giant coke bottle, complete with occasional overtones. Truly strange. _
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04:54:30 PM, Sunday 16 February 2003

At Five Star, I asked what was in the fruit salad, and the girl at the cash register said, "Lots and lots of seeds!" Then she and Liz engaged in a prolonged bout of cruel laughing. It's nice to know that both my gastroentorogical problems and I have become regulars at that place. _
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04:54:19 PM, Sunday 16 February 2003

Does the government realize that if people actually did manage to seal themselves inside a room before getting blitzed by a gas attack they'd probably run out of air before they ran out of food?

I can see the newsreports, Geraldo-style, opening up thousands and thousands of little air-tight rooms with the people inside dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. A far higher death total than if they had just stood around on the street, statisticians will say. _
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07:31:33 AM, Friday 14 February 2003

The 25 Laws of Japanese Animations. Hey it has a 'Law of Phlogistatic Emission', go read. _
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01:47:10 AM, Thursday 13 February 2003

Well, I passed the Grader Test. Now I can throw away someone else's future, too. _
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04:44:25 PM, Wednesday 12 February 2003

Grover is bitter. _
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08:04:33 PM, Monday 10 February 2003

I want to resurrected by the beat. _
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07:30:54 PM, Monday 10 February 2003

Apparently, in Japan, "I'm looking for bars where sailors hang out" doesn't have quite the same meaning as in the US. _
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08:57:15 PM, Sunday 9 February 2003

Neil has reminded me. People participating in Heart of the Blogmass:
If you don't send me your CD's by Monday, the 17th of February, you will not be participating. The actual CD will be going out no later than the 27th. _
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08:32:35 PM, Saturday 8 February 2003

Eminenya. Yeah.
[via russcon] _
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02:32:42 AM, Friday 7 February 2003

Tonight's game is cancelled. We'll try it again next week. Sorry, folks. _
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09:17:34 PM, Thursday 6 February 2003

Kickass! The Lysistrata Project, organized readings of Lysistrata as a form of peace protest. How wonderful! I note that there's not an Athens event scheduled, hmmmmmmm.
[via Ariadne's Blog] _
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10:03:52 PM, Wednesday 5 February 2003

Neal Pollack thinks we should go to war, NOW!. "I have a modest erection," indeed. _
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08:41:01 PM, Wednesday 5 February 2003

I read the final paragraphs of Invisible Cities and I was reminded of the feeling of hopelessness that Neil, and I, and I'm sure others, have felt recently. In the face of possibly endless war, the erosion of our rights, the new rise of fashionable hatred, and the degradation of our humanity to little more than couch potatoes with wallets, the passage I linked above gave me perspective and hope. _
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04:56:47 PM, Wednesday 5 February 2003

Crude, but amusing. _
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01:45:51 PM, Wednesday 5 February 2003

From Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities translated by William Weaver:

"Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong and their figures are unable to describe the heavens, or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters." _
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12:38:32 PM, Wednesday 5 February 2003

It's not just any test grading job, it's a test grading job with the UGA Test Scoring and Reporting Services. That's right, I'm working for the Tsars. _
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07:36:22 PM, Tuesday 4 February 2003

Magnetic Fields, Mountain Goats, Max Tundra. I hadn't realized I was pillaging the 'M' section of my mind for new albums. _
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01:20:00 PM, Tuesday 4 February 2003

Geek readings, rising. Must. resist. silly. SHIRT! _
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10:51:35 AM, Monday 3 February 2003

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