The Haiku
The house is up and
Jesus was given glory
- now to find pictures
Casas – Day 3
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Casas – Day 2
“Seeing doors where there are windows.”
I am determined that if I ever go on a motivational speaking tour, this will be the title.
But for now it is what I said after being exhausted while trying to drill.
No cute pictures of my daughters, but I do have some ones of me working. (Sorry, Mom.)
The Haiku
I fulfilled a goal
filling the concrete slab but
failed in “Non-Psycho”
Cloverfield Taunt
My friend just sent me this while he’s watching the movie:
My friend’s review?
Spoiler: he’s big,
and he destroys lots of New York City.
Casas – Day 1
The Haiku
Getting ready for
bed while listening to the
new “Be Still” playlist
This is new with the whole newborn in a hotel room thing.
Cloverfield Eve
The Haiku
May all of your dreams
of monsters and rampant phones
come true in the night.
WiiChess
WiiChess comes out this Friday…in Europe. Online play and local multiplayer, woo!
Here’s a video. But I find the comments face-punchingly hilarious:
The graphics here seem to be on par with the N64 to be generous. More like the NES.
You do realize you’re talking about chess, right?
And you don’t even need skill to master chess anymore, nowadays its just memorizing moves and positions of your pieces.
I have found Bobby Fischer and his screen name is lruryu.
Unwind, Some Funny Comments, and an Angry Will Smith
Unwind by Neal Shusterman just came out. (Okay, mood totally broken. Pandora just brought up ‘Daytripper’, but it’s Sergio Mendes’ version (Lincoln on piano). I need a martini and a green carpet. What do you expect from the ‘Slick Barbarian Radio‘?)
So, back to intense scariness. If you are a fan of being weirded out, read Unwind. So good, though. Hopefully it’ll get some 8th graders thinking about politics versus ethics. I already have a wait list for this great sci-fi thriller. As I was writing my review, near misty-eyed at the Fahrenheit 451/Brave New World of the ending, Will Smith’s (yes, I have a Will Smith Pandora station) “Tell me Why” came on. Pretty appropriate for the end of the book. Here’s the lyrics:
[INTRO] – Why, why, why, why, why. Why
[CHORUS]
I really wish I could explain it baby (why),
It’s just the world is kinda crazy baby (why),
Ain’t no pretty way to paint it baby (why),
Don’t cry, dry your eyes
September 11th, I woke up about 7am, west coast time, French toast and my
Turkey bacon, taking my time, awakin’, turning my TV on
To my surprise, saw what everybody in the world saw
Me & my children, images were chillin’
My son said, “Daddy were there people in that building?”
A cold sweat, frozen with a lump in my chest
I heard his question, couldn’t bring my lips to say “Yes” to him
That night at my son’s side, he cried & prayed
For the one’s who died in the World Trade
His palms to God, seeds and qualms with God
He just kept on pressin’ me, wanna know why
Then one week later our bombs were dropped
We seein’ them on CNN, they just won’t stop
The infrared images of brutal attack
He said, “Daddy now we killin’ em back”; (right, right)[CHORUS - (2x)]
[BRIDGE - Mary J. Blige:]
Mmmmm, souls are captured
Dreams are stolen, hearts are broken
Evil blatantly rewarded
Hate surrenders, Love exalted
Hope elated, negativity is shorted
Why is the bomb always getting the last word
& why did her uncle have to molest her
& why did all them cops have to be shootin’ to kill
& why did all them priests have to act so ill
Tell me why did James Byrd Jr. have to be touched
Tell me why did Malcolm & Martin depart from us
Tell me why did that sniper make the little boy shoot
& why does human life always denied for loot
Tell me why did Mandela have to live in a cage
Why did my brother Sterling have to die at that age
Tell me why did Reginald Denny deserve his fate
& why the …. can’t love seem to defeat hate
Tell me why is it so hard for all the children to eat
Why did Pac & Biggie Smalls have to fall in the street
Tell me why did Jam Master Jay have to go that way
Please what am I supposed to say to my kids when they say ‘Why?’[CHORUS - (2x)]
[VERSE 3]
Can’t explain it baby, life is just really crazy
I mean if it’s world wars or the life of a little baby
We got more stores than they got rice under Buddha lazy
You live four scores & still it be driving you crazy
But for me I try to see the bright side
Sometimes it’d be like the goodness be tryin’ to hide
Then try to flee, but it can’t it’s deep inside
Sweetie, you be the light for the others, make ‘em believe in God[BRIDGE - Mary J. Blige:]
I’ve not heard too much of Will Smith: Angry Edition, but it fit the political mood I’m in.
(Although it’s tough to be too convicted while piano samba is playing in the background now.)
People are still searching for Wii and finding/commenting on an article I wrote last April. I find it funny. But the comment that struck me the most was someone’s link to the MacBook Air blurb. I checked out their site and I pictured Nelson and a “Ha Ha!” point because they copied and pasted my stuff but included my “iPhone made of hot cheese” Haiku.
The Haiku
If you copy a
man’s haiku make sure that the
man is not crazy.
Boba Fett in the New Star Wars TV
In the new Star Wars Insider it was confirmed that Boba Fett will be in the new show, as well as other bounty hunters. It was also stated that many of the main characters of the movies would not be featured. Perhaps we won’t see Tatooine 90210.
Rumors abound that we’ll see the son of Baron Papanoida (blue-faced Lucas) and the dad of Kyp Durron (hopefully separate characters).
Look for the show in ’09, especially if Lucasfilm negotiates their own World Wide Pants-esque writer’s contract.
MacBook Air?
The Haiku
Now that the MacBook
is made of air the iPhone
is made of hot cheese
Yahoo/ABC News had a story about people trusting their GPS car navigations too heavily and all I could think of was Michael Scott driving into a lake and then he and Dwight going on a mission to reclaim fruit baskets.
Cloverfield Stats
I wonder what the site will look like this time next week, ’cause wow! Lots of people looking for Cloverfield stuff:
You’re a warrior! That’s a warrior!
More like, “Please don’t sue us!”
Last week a woman got taken out at Powerball. Now Adam got taken out during Powerball. Will the event be pulled forever?
The Haiku
I never knew that
after all of these years the
lottery’s fatal.
My crazy weekend
The Haiku
Did you know that Pope
John Paul was on the Harlem
Globetrotters one year.
It’s interesting that I got schooled by Pope John Paul II and Henry Kissinger as being the first white Globetrotter. It’s not the first time that Henry Kissinger has schooled me.
Seeing the Globetrotters was Friday (I’m waiting on a cool picture that they’re supposed to send from the arena). On Saturday we tried out Star Wars: Saga Edition of the role-playing game. I find it interesting that of all the iterations this is my first straight-up Jedi. (I love what they’ve done with the Jedi character creation. When I have more time I will give more details. Right now I’m obsessively on someone else’s iMac at their house.)
My pick from CES – The Eye-Fi
There are some really cool gadgets, but the Eye-Fi is my pick to be the big one from CES this year.
A couple of friends and I were talking about DVD-R speeds (because that’s how nerdy we are) and a friend suggested that burn speeds would get crazy fat just like CD burn speeds.
I don’t see as much incentive, though. (I used to have to start a CD at night and then wake up the next morning, only to find that my 15 tracks of Weird Al and Men in Black had burn errors.) With iTunes, Out of the Box, and all the TiVo you could need-o, hard drive space, and making them more portable, is going to be the next big technological…ahem…drive.
The Eye-Fi allows you to store 2GB worth of photos, but now comes with a miniature wi-fi chip and software to be able to wirelessly sync to your Mac (or PC, if you’re twisted(okay, so you gotta check out this tattoo)) or to a Facebook/Flickr/Typepad/Snapfish/Picasa/Photobucket account.
Pretty flippin’ sweet. Right now it’s $99, but I’m sure that a year from now we’ll see them for $30.
A world without cords, baby! Tesla is smiling at his tea party with Sasquatch.
What’s better? Oh, like you could name a polar bear or something? Like that would happen.
Did you hear that the PS3 is getting less backwards compatible? Here’s from engadget:
At the end of this month, Sony Japan will no longer carry the 20GB and 60GB Playstation 3 SKUs. Instead, they will focus their energies on promoting the relatively hot selling 40GB model — the only model available after January. That means no more backward compatibility for PS2 games in Japan.
The Haiku
Sony really does
not want to do well this time
with video games.
Basketball
The Haiku
I wish that I could
pass a basketball with my
nose to a team mate.
API
The Haiku
I went to sleep last
night muttering, “but what of
the API, Doc?”
Military Macs and a Driving Emoticon
Have you seen the driving emoticon? Cool stuff. Here are more details.
Also, I received a message yesterday about how the military is switching to Macs.
While the American military often focuses on buying the lowest-cost systems with the most software, recent security threats have prompted a new turn towards the Mac in the Army, according to a new report by Forbes.
The military branch began shifting away from a nearly Windows-only environment as soon as late 2005, when General Steve Boutelle warned that a homogenous operating system environment would expose the Army to large-scale hacking attempts.
However, these efforts will ramp up in February 2008 when a new program from Thursby Software gives Macs access to the military’s Common Access Cards system, opening up use of the systems to a wider swath of the Army’s IT network. About 1,000 new Macs are installed every six months at current purchase rates.
About 20,000 of the government body’s 700,000 systems are Macs, including a selection of Xserve clusters; despite being hard-hit by cracking attempts, many of these servers simply ‘shrug off’ these attempts as the code is designed to break Windows systems, according to Army enterprise IT head Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Wallington.
The Haiku
Now that is what I
call a good example of
some intelligence.
Tagruato.com and tidowave.com are your Cloverfield spoilers/answers!
In addition to the videos on YouTube, the two sites tagruato.com and tidowave.com are your keys to understanding what is going on in Cloverfield.
I am now beyond a shadow of a doubt certain that this is an environmentalist movie. Now I just need to know if Rob is a part of T.I.D.O. Wave and that he knew the monster was coming.
Ganu Yoshida is the CEO of Tagruato. There’s an international phone number for concerns about Chuai on the Tagruato site. Deep Sea Nectar recipe is what’s on the back of the 1-18-08.com photo.
The articles about the Hatsui satellite and the fish market only add to the creepiness of the Chuai station attack. They’re doing a great job leading up to the events of the movie. I love how people at tidowave say “message me on the phone“.
If you want a list of the characters, here you are.
The Haiku
As much as I hate
corporate forced artsiness
I dig this info.
Cloverfield Party and Tagruato Gets Hit
Ah! Have you seen the JNN update from Tagruato? Here it is in English.
Click here to see the results of the deep sea nectar!
Have you all made plans to wish Rob good luck in Japan?
RSVP on myspace
The Haiku
Argh! The DVR
did not record the big show -
will it be online?
As of 8:30pm, no Gladiators online.
Is American Gladiators as cool as Gizmodo’s egg gun?
Well, Hogan, within the first two minutes, did his “Can I hear it?” hand to the ear. It’s the same events (with some new additions) but with an insane host. It immediately equals the original from twenty years ago. (But within the first event we’ve got a single mom injured (complete with slow motion replay)) and a skater dad versus a firefighter.
But is the new American Gladiators as cool as Gizmodo’s egg gun?
How cool are the components?
The Gladiators
Titan
Venom
Toa
Crush
Mayhem
Stealth
Justice
Siren
Wolf
Fury
Militia
Hellga
and an unhealthy looking ref
(And Hulk just called the skater dad “Brother”. Oh yeah!)
The Egg Gun
Cardboard tube
Caulking gun
Some electrical tape
Butane lighter
Evil laugh
The commonality of the household products for The Egg Gun makes it more accessible, but who was ever afraid of The Big Bad Caulking Gun? Wolf and Hellga set them over the edge.
1 point Gladiators.
Song Choice?
Gladiators
Another One Bites the Dust
Egg Gun
Weird Sitar in the Garage
Any use of Queen in a sporting event bumps it up to the classy level.
1 point Gladiators
Sponsors?
Subway Instant Replay
Bad Grammar Association
Easy one for the librarian. “Make sure it fit tight”…???
1 point Gladiators
Gladiator Militia just got injured. Craziness!
Ability to Re-Create on the Playground?
Hang Tough = Monkey Bars
Butane Lighter = School Paranoia/Homeland Security Watchlist
My wife used to play with her brothers on the playground as American Gladiators. Imagine a little Jeremy yelling out, “Gladiators ready?!?”
1 point Gladiators
Similarities to a video game?
Ducking under swing demolition balls a la Pitfall/Mario Galaxy.
Egg to the back like Bubsy.
Egg to the back. “Aaaahhh!” But that firefighter ducking “like my boys and I did on the East Side.”
Tie.
Best use of a sewing implement?
Straddling a Giant Thread Spool over a Pit
Using a Scissor on a Paper Towel Roll
Depends on if you’re running. In this scenario?
1 point Gladiators
But where else could a day-care provider take on a giant Savage Manbeast?
And the guy who came back after 14 years? “Third best thing. Having my kid, getting married, and kicking your…” Wow. And then he goes on to tear off a gladiator’s helmet and jump the whistle. Double wow.
But the ref’s reaction? “Your over hear givin’ him the business.” What, is this Mickey talking to Rocky? Did Burgess Meredith just show up? The Business? That’s the “code word” we use for our dog, Indiana, to “do his business” in the backyard.
Figuring in the 6 to 1 advantage adds a 3 second lead into the final event for Gladiators. We put the two competitors through The Eliminator (how long will they last?) and see that the Egg Gun is cool if double-barreled, but is beaten in a shoot-out by Throw a Dozen with my Own Friggin’ Arm while American Gladiators will be what the next few weeks’ Guilty Watercooler Talk will revolve around.
And a 500 mile an hour tennis ball versus something that comes out of a chicken? While you’re trying to send an exploding Gladiator flying by hitting a target?
Awesomeness.
The Haiku
Fire and a giant
spool of thread make it more fun
to exercise now.
Cloverfield: Revelation or The Host?
While it intrigues me to think of Cloverfield as Biblical visions coming to pass (as one reader suggested) I think the movie has more similarities to South Korea’s The Host (Goemul/Monster) than it does Revelation, in its environmentalist-ness.
But I still hold true to my belief that Tagruato’s deep sea nectar is mutating the expanding women.