31 May 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
You know, Philip, you got a goddammed red, white and blue American right to eat cotton candy and ride roller coasters.
— John Lee Hancock, A Perfect World
30 May 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
I don’t mind if I never ever meet you
I love you just the way you seem
And I don’t mind all the things they say about you
Jealous words won’t spoil this dream
(The real world, it comes to get you)
I believe in the unknown
So I’m sure you won’t disappoint me
These home truths fall on deaf ears
So I [...]
25 May 2005 – 6:03 pm +0800
Though I’m a big fan of Robert A. Heinlein, I never read his juveniles until I was in my early twenties. I began him with Starship Troopers (okay, written with the intention of being one of the juveniles) at around twelve years old, devoured much of his adult material through the age of seventeen [...]
24 May 2005 – 7:02 pm +0800
Arbitrary.
That’s the whole movie, in a nutshell. Just about completely arbitrary.
The effects are okay, and the eye candy (of the feminine variety) is acceptable, but when you kill off every character I have any connection with and make a not-terribly-interesting anti-hero your protagonist, well… I just can’t get worked up about it.
And [...]
23 May 2005 – 9:38 pm +0800
My Àntonia — It’s public domain, and one of the great American novels.
Prodco Exec: Didn’t that get Made For TV? And wasn’t Doogie Howser the lead?
Pride of Chanur — Space opera! Cats as heroes! Implicit feminism! Battles! Negotiations! Betrayals! Now, imagine all this… as a Japanese animé. [...]
22 May 2005 – 7:10 pm +0800
…but it does turn.
I’m not out of the woods yet on the unspecified thing that’s disrupting blogging (and so much else), but the corner has been turned and things are looking up.
And that silk connection mentioned turns out to be a connection for any textile product you might want.
And I’ve been more or less asked [...]
19 May 2005 – 1:37 pm +0800
So, anyone know anyone (who might know anyone) in the textile wholesale or retail industry?
Someone who might like a line on silk or silk products, mayhap?
Silk or silk products directly from their source, and thus cheaper than through any other distributor?
Have him email me: ianhamet -=-AT-=- gmail -=-DOT-=- com.
(Maybe my luck started to change [...]
18 May 2005 – 6:12 pm +0800
Somewhere between my having little time to keep up with things online and my fourth (fifth?) InstaLanche, I realize that I have lost the capability of keeping up with all the blogs that link to mine. Or even checking them all once.
This signifies something. What, I don’t know. But something.
18 May 2005 – 12:53 am +0800
I’m a nut. Let’s just get that out of the way right now, right here. I have a history of biting off more thn i can chew and delivering much less than I had hoped.
So keep that in mind: I’m a nut.
My latest nutty idea is to open-source an old idea for [...]
16 May 2005 – 12:18 am +0800
Ray Kroc bioflick — Kroc took the fast food idea, purchased from the McDonald brothers, and basically invented modern franchising. But what you don’t know is what a badass he was. The McDonald brothers reneged on an agreement with Kroc. After a few years, they were supposed to sell the original McDonald’s [...]
13 May 2005 – 3:25 pm +0800
If you favor gun control of any stripe, please read and attempt the following:
A well regulated Intelligentsia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed.
Convince me, using only the text above,
that this sentence does not guarantee an individual right, [...]
11 May 2005 – 3:15 pm +0800
Since I have migrated off of Satan WindowsXP, I thought I’d make a list of programs for that unfortunate OS which I’ve found useful or invaluable that are either free or Open Source. So, here we are:
RoughDraft — About the nicest writing environment I’ve ever used, excepting perhaps Nisus Writer back in my Mac [...]
9 May 2005 – 3:04 pm +0800
Yes, I am mega-geeked about the last Star Wars flick.
I’ve read half the novelization in stolen moments in Shanghai’s City of Books (for a novelization, it’s pretty darned good). There’s still a few details I haven’t been spoiled on, but not many. And know what? Being spoiled don’t matter.
Although I had a [...]
1 May 2005 – 5:21 pm +0800
I’ve been out of touch for just over a week, due to reasons having nothing to do with my switch to Linux. More than that I don’t care to say.
Posting will remain spotty for the indeterminate future. Might be two days, might be two weeks, I just can’t tell at this moment.
Rest assured, [...]