Tag Archives: Personal Blather

I’m pretty wired right now, and I’ve only had one cup of coffee. Of course, that cup holds the contents of an entire pot. I made sure to make a second pot for everyone else though.
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Prepping for an open house at work. We’re giving away two iPods, one Nano, one Shuffle. All faculty & staff are eligible to win, except for me and my direct co-workers, obviously. I’ve preloaded them with music by two of my co-workers’ bands.

Also: made a rigged demo of our new work website. Basically, it’s set up as a slideshow. Each page will automatically refresh with the next page after 10 seconds. Rigged demo slideshows are a fun use of the META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" tag.

Tonight will be cookie baking and decorating time. And maybe washing the sizing out of the new embroidered shirts with the office logo on them.

Sleep may happen at some point too. No guarantees on that though.

Got a couple of Smithee-worthy and related things for y’all to read. First off, here’s an excerpt from this brilliant review of the movie BloodRayne:

…If I find out that you went and saw this film after I told you not to, I’ll phone your friends up and tell them to go to your house and pour ants in your bed. And when you wake up screaming, covered in ants, you’ll think “at least I’m not still watching BloodRayne.”

This led the reviewer (one Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary fame) to do some poking into the background of the guy who directed this film… Turns out he’s a German by the name of Uwe Boll, and he deliberately makes bad moves to exploit a loophole in German tax laws. There’s a Cinema Blend article describing the whole sordid situation.
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One of the lesser known plagues afflicting Egypt was the plague of Old Dudes.

And yeah, when you compare it to things like locusts or having your sea turn into blood, a plague of Old Dudes seems quite minor. But it’s a big deal when it’s happening, believe me.
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Drove on down through the rain and fog. No snow. Just rain and fog. Not much rain either, apart from some little spritzy misty stuff just barely on the rainy side of the line dividing rain from fog.
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Happy new year all! And a big “Hi” to the first reader of 2006, who came here via a Yahoo Video search looking for a 3D Hypnotic Spiral. And to the last visitor of 2005 who was reading about Speed Writing over at my Wife’s blog.

Log analysis can be fun sometimes…
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Went out to Thai House restruant tonight with the family and with Rob. He’s going to be translating some of our gifts for us – we have new treats to do JSFR of. Many of them are untainted by English labeling, so it’ll be a bit of a fun grab bag.
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Hello from the frozen wastelands… We made it fine, and we haven’t forgotten about you all. In fact, the December Challenge is still on, and we’ll be post-dating entries madly once we get all set up and ready to go. I’m just posting a bit to test the network…

It’s working.

Goodnight!

I don’t know if it was ever an official “Rich Hall” Sniglet, but we were treated to a live example of evangelonging at my grandma’s home this morning. If you don’t know the word, it’s the practice of evangelists (especially on television) to emphasize a word by stretching out the middle (e.g. Ga-aaaaahhhhhh-d).
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I swear, Tetris has trained a generation of Americans to feel incredibly tense when they hear balalaika music. I wonder if was intentional on the part of the programmers… A way to give themselves an edge on their competition by subtly controlling mood through background music. All I know is that hearing a few bars of Russian folk music gets the adrenaline pumping for half my office mates.

It’s an almost Pavlovian response.

Hm….