The cast of an upcoming slideshow. From Ginny's side table!

Plot these data points

Edward Herrmann, David Ogden Stiers, John Lithgow, John Laroquette, Orson Welles, John Goodman, Kelsey Grammer, yours truly. Dimensions should include height / weight and a pomposity / profundity ratio. Mail your results to Graph Me!

Kitty No Awakes!

Bionicle movie trailer: Mask of Light

Oh boy a movie about Bionicle! Whee!

New Bionicle toys.

New toys on the way.

Accursed PC Architecture!

Why did I not realize that my Zip drive was my second hard drive? And that my pathetic Windows 95 box was not even a suitable second choice? Grr! I'll figure it out soon enough. One of the side effects of the hard drive project is that all my machines are in a shambles and unable to fulfill their duty of taking pictures of my Lego. So I have set up Ginny's laptop to do the honors for a day or two. The furry one, Kitty No, should be visible frequently unless the presence of a Bohrok scares her away from her window perch.
UPDATE: Look for the second IDE connector on the motherboard, idiot.
UPDATE UPDATE: I can't find it, maybe it's behind the CD and CDR cables -- d'oh!

New Computer Bits

President's Day sale at Staples: A free network card, a 40 gig hard drive for fifty dollars, a hard drive cable, a network card for Ginny's laptop, a dry erase board (matches the fridge!) and a clutch of blank CDRs.
UPDATE: Hard drive included a cable. That was unexpected.

It's ... it's furry!

In unexplored territory, the Toa Maiden and her Matoran companions come across an utterly alien creature.

Co-worker Lego Incarnation

Yoda is included for a sense of scale.



UPDATE: Co-worker complains that the Lego interpretation's hair and physique are not accurate and/or adequate. I found myself in the unaccustomed position of explaining that Lego is just a toy.

Consistent espresso

I have mastered, after a few trials, my Krups espresso maker.
UPDATE: Vince reports that the espresso produced is adequate. I am gratified.

Stupid, stupid terror. Who would want such stupid terror?

I'm in Seattle which I cynically presume is being targeted by North Korean nukes (not to mention Russian nukes but they're not evil anymore apparently) and Ginny is in London which is under threat of Al Quaeda attack. Charming.

Finished Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties

In one sitting each, no less. Which is as about as ringing an endorsement as I can give. Page-turner and so forth.

New Responsibilities Confirmed

After a longish period of mild uncertainty, my new job responsibilities have been confirmed. Hooray!

Mom and Dad have e-mail!

Thanks to one of my cool brothers, the folks now have an email appliance. Spiffy! Appropriate!

Altered States redux

Altered States homage

A couple of accidental webcam pics and a little of the ol' Photoshop and having recently watched Altered States has resulted in this:

Unfortunate Headline Aggregator

The Columbia disaster fills me with nothing but grief. And this sort of unfortunate headline composition doesn't really help. I feel guilt presenting it.

William Gibson reading

Went to Kane Hall to see William Gibson read from his new book. He also signed books and a pair of socks. A fine time was had by all.

Toa Maiden Awakes

A bit of stop motion frippery.

sketch

Been busy ... here's a tiddiest of bits.

Office floorplan.

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?