Babylonian Bull / Reindeer

A pic of a critter.

Toa Party

The Joan of Arc post-coffee post Solaris party.

recent additions

The effect of the CSS is "chibi" spines. I amuse myself. Still doesn't work in Opera.



Jerry Goldsmith et alThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Trevor JonesRichard III

Joel McNeelyStar Wars: Shadow of the Empire

Miklos RozsaThe Seventh Sin

Danny ElfmanRed Dragon

How to Open a CD

An amusing, but too-large animated GIF.

The short version of How to Open a CD

Nomad vs. Sauron

Who would win? They seem pretty well matched. Nomad can sterilize an entire planet. Sauron can destroy all of Middle Earth. They are both very focused on their goals.

First CSS from scratch

A very long time in coming and now only by accident - I have written a few (and no doubt inelegant) lines of CSS. Only five years or so behind everyone else. The results can be seen at my infrequently updated soundtrack comments page. The effect is reasonably accurate, even modified for my column format.
UPDATE: My CSS does not work in Opera. It is faulty. I am faulty. This unit will execute its primary function.
UPDATE UPDATE: Opera is faulty. A really smart co-worker has demonstrated this. I am somewhat disappointed in Opera. But only a smidge.

FSM-Style Spines

I finally got around to making spines for my CDs (my spines are easy to read and have only the needed info and their design happens to be copied from the Filmscoremonthly CDs) and so represent recent-ish purchases in an approximate way. My formatting is accomplished by crude CSS. You have to imagine them away from my narrow column formatting and instead spread across all 5.125 inches of CD jewel case spine.



Jerry GoldsmithThe Sum of All Fears

Seamus EaganThe Brothers McMullen

Danny ElfmanDick Tracy

Randy EdelmanDaylight

Danny ElfmanA Simple Plan

Bruce BroughtonFor Love or Money

Mason DaringMen with Guns

John WilliamsHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

John BarryEnigma

Isaac HayesShaft

Trevor JonesDesperate Measures

Michael NymanRavenous

Richard RobbinsRemains of the Day

Howard ShoreThe Game

James VenableThe City of Soundsville

John WilliamsA.I.

John WilliamsMinority Report

David ArnoldThe World Is Not Enough

Hugo FriedhoferThe Young Lions / This Earth is Mine

Jerry GoldsmithNemesis

John WilliamsThe Fury

Truly Awful LEGO Things

Companions to the Toa Maiden? Or mindless slave drones constructed from the shattered parts of those she has defeated?

Ginny on 'Millionaire'

Argonath bookends

"I've spent the entire Third Age greeting travelers upon Anduin. I can't afford to give a bad impression."

2003 Sneak Preview

I look forward to these sets. Nifty parts. The pics were posted at this page but have since been removed. (I retrieved the pics from my browser cache and I added the swirly bits with a paint program.)

Want List

Probably not complete:



Waxman - Rebecca (re-recorded)

Goldsmith - Papillon (remastered)

Williams - The Fury (remastered)

(I think I spot a trend)

Bernstein - The Story On Page One / The Reward

Goldsmith - Sand Pebbles (remastered)

Deutsch - The Maltese Falcon

Mizzy - The Night Walker

Vaughan-Williams - Scott of the Antarctic

Ottman - Trapped

Howard - Panic Room

Waxman - Sunset Boulevard

Murderers! Assassins!

Never walk into a circle of glowing rock.

Odd imagery from webcam.

I have no explanation for this image. I guess I'll know when I get to work tomorrow morning.



UPDATE: The cam had been moved to the top of my monitor. See the magnetism.

Bruce Campbell:Actor, Author, Nerd.Not a Little Monkey

I attended a book signing tour by Bruce Campbell. When asked, "What's your favorite movie?" instead of ripping the questioner as he had just about everyone else, he answered, "Bridge On the River Kwai. It has a great story and a great film score. Not a soundtrack, a film score. And William Holden."
Heckler: "Can you whistle it?"
Campbell: "Am I your little monkey?"

Royal Canadian Mounted Moose

Whitney went to Canada and this is the result:

Sculpey

I bought some Sculpey brand plastic clay to make my own masks* for my Lego action figures. These are my first trial results. (The blue mask is an actual Lego mask for comparison.)



I tried to be clever and carve out eye-holes on this one. The result was not salutary.



The reverse. The knob in the middle is where they mate with other Lego pieces. It is a join peculiar to masks, designed to facilitate game play which involves knocking the masks off the action figures. It makes sense when you see the toy in action, trust me.





A close up. I made these by first creating an inverse mold of a Lego original from Sculpey. Now I can mold dozens of parts! Muah ah ha ha!!



The next step is to make designs with greater Lego-ness. Legosity? Also smaller and thinner.

* "Kanohi" to you Mata Nui cognoscenti

Now that the Toa Nuva are here, what of the Toa ... Senex?

Aaaaaaaaargh!

All these emails from Yahoo! were delivered at the same time. Today! Right about the time that my new host was submitting the new DNS. The hell? Well, screw 'em anyway. "...change this password to something you can remember!" Gaaaaaaaah! Idiots!

New password issued. Please reset your password! You have recently requested a new password for your Yahoo! account. Your new password is . We encourage you to change this password to something you can remember! To do so sign in here using the password above. You will then be prompted to change your password. http://edit.yahoo.com/
NOTE: To avoid possible sign in problems please enable cookies on your browser and make sure that the date and time is set correctly on your system clock.

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You can always change your password by: 1. signing in to any Yahoo! service 2. clicking on any "Account Info" link 3. choosing "Change Password." If you cannot find an "Account Info" link you can find a "Change Password" link in the following ways. My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) or Yahoo! Chat (http://chat.yahoo.com) Click on "Account Information" on the upper right corner. Yahoo! Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com) Click on "Options" in the left column. In the next screen select "User Information" from the main screen. Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com) Click on the "My Yahoo! View." On your My Yahoo! page click on "Account Information" on the upper right corner.

New password issued. Please reset your password! You have recently requested a new password for your Yahoo! account. Your new password is We encourage you to change this password to something you can remember! To do so sign in here using the password above. You will then be prompted to change your password. http://edit.yahoo.com/
NOTE: To avoid possible sign in problems please enable cookies on your browser and make sure that the date and time is set correctly on your system clock.

************
You can always change your password by: 1. signing in to any Yahoo! service 2. clicking on any "Account Info" link 3. choosing "Change Password." If you cannot find an "Account Info" link you can find a "Change Password" link in the following ways. My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) or Yahoo! Chat (http://chat.yahoo.com) Click on "Account Information" on the upper right corner. Yahoo! Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com) Click on "Options" in the left column. In the next screen select "User Information" from the main screen. Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com) Click on the "My Yahoo! View." On your My Yahoo! page click on "Account Information" on the upper right corner.

New password issued. Please reset your password! You have recently requested a new password for your Yahoo! account. Your new password is . We encourage you to change this password to something you can remember! To do so sign in here using the password above. You will then be prompted to change your password. http://edit.yahoo.com/

NOTE: To avoid possible sign in problems please enable cookies on your browser and make sure that the date and time is set correctly on your system clock.

************
You can always change your password by: 1. signing in to any Yahoo! service 2. clicking on any "Account Info" link 3. choosing "Change Password." If you cannot find an "Account Info" link you can find a "Change Password" link in the following ways. My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) or Yahoo! Chat (http://chat.yahoo.com) Click on "Account Information" on the upper right corner. Yahoo! Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com) Click on "Options" in the left column. In the next screen select "User Information" from the main screen. Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com) Click on the "My Yahoo! View." On your My Yahoo! page click on "Account Information" on the upper right corner.

Dear Yahoo! User This email is being sent to the email address on file for the Yahoo ID "kyle_beatty". As a security precaution this account has been locked for 12 hours due to too many failed login attempts. You can wait 12 hours to login again or you can click this link to login now: http://login.yahoo.com/ If you have forgotten your password we recommend you visit our forgot password page at: http://edit.yahoo.com/ Thank you for using Yahoo! --Yahoo! Member Services

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Dear Yahoo! User This email is being sent to the email address on file for the Yahoo ID "kyle_beatty". As a security precaution this account has been locked for 12 hours due to too many failed login attempts. You can wait 12 hours to login again or you can click this link to login now: http://login.yahoo.com/ If you have forgotten your password we recommend you visit our forgot password page at: http://edit.yahoo.com/ Thank you for using Yahoo! --Yahoo! Member Services

Dear Yahoo! User This email is being sent to the email address on file for the Yahoo ID "kyle_beatty". As a security precaution this account has been locked for 12 hours due to too many failed login attempts. You can wait 12 hours to login again or you can click this link to login now: http://login.yahoo.com/ If you have forgotten your password we recommend you visit our forgot password page at: http://edit.yahoo.com/ Thank you for using Yahoo! --Yahoo! Member Services

Gali Nuva interviewed

Slide Show Teaser

A Rat

I bought a SUV!

Doodles

320 x 240 Is Not an Acceptable Screen Resolution.

During my Half-Life session, switching between game and desktop resulted in a nasty half hour wherein my desktop resolution was reduced to 320 x 240. In full color. Amusing for a moment but a bit of a bear to fix.

Wasted Sunday

On a whim, I downloaded the Half-Life demo for some first-person shooter fun. That was fine, bit it's just Quake. I did manage to get myself gibbed in a way that allowed me to look at my own head. I guess the post-mortem period is actually more of an out-of-body sort of experience. Sorry for lack of screenshot, I was anxious to get back to playing hand-grenade catch with the extra-dimensional myrmidons. But here's something I learned: don't show mercy to the "enemy" soldiers by giving them a quick death. You need them alive to distract the ceiling monsters. Pity.

Hey, Whitney!

"Break from the herd," indeed.

Click on the thumbnail below for the entire screenshot. Painfully inappropriate juxtaposition.

If a Flower Falls in the Garden, Do I Have a Vase?

No, but I do have a Dickel Commemorative Bottle (aka a Saurian brandy bottle).