Author: splicer

Some­times I feel I should just give up reading.

A cou­ple weeks ago, I read a Star Trek nov­el to get some cheap enter­tain­ment. It was bad. Real­ly bad. I’m a life­long read­er of sci-fi so don’t give me shit about this. I haven’t read Star Trek nov­els since I was in fourth grade. But I decid­ed to try out a Voy­ager nov­el that took place imme­di­ate­ly after the TV series end­ed; I’d been curi­ous about what hap­pened to the … Read the rest

Some­one asked me which pic­ture I liked for Best Pic­ture. I thought about it for a moment and respond­ed that I did­n’t know what pic­tures had been nom­i­nat­ed. After a few sec­onds, I added that I did­n’t think I’d prob­a­bly seen any of the nominees.

She said, “what? you haven’t seen xxxxxxxxx? and you haven’t seen yyyyyyyy?” Nope, nope.

So just to check, I went to http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nomineelist.html to see what has been nom­i­nat­ed. Turns out, not only have I not seen … Read the rest

I got my pay­check yes­ter­day. My first thought today was, «bet­ter make sure to spend it all before I do some­thing stu­pid with it.»… Read the rest

You’re The Dic­tio­nary!
by Mer­ri­am-Web­ster
You’re one of those know-it-all types, with an amaz­ing amount of
knowl­edge at your com­mand. Peo­ple real­ly enjoy spend­ing time with you in very short
spurts, but hang­ing out with you for a long time tends to bore them. When folks
real­ly need an author­i­ty to refer to, how­ev­er, you’re the one they seek. You’re an
excep­tion­al speller and very well organized.

Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyra­mid.… Read the rest

Got some cheap enter­tain­ment last night. In my dream, I went to a par­ty thrown by Mis­ter Bad and Majnoona. I did­n’t know any­one at the par­ty and I spent the time there resent­ful and jeal­ous as I exam­ined the floors and rooms of their new home (a place that to my knowl­edge exists only in this dream).

I don’t recall leav­ing the par­ty, but I soon arrived to vis­it my father. He had a nice par­cel of land on the … Read the rest

For years I went through head­phones the way that some peo­ple go through sun­glass­es or ball­point pens: I’d get the cheap­est ear­buds I could find and use them until they fell apart. And they worked fine for me until one day with mon­ey burn­ing a hole in my pock­et I decid­ed to spend fifty bucks on a pair of Sony MDR-V300 head­phones. Fifty bucks is not all that much to spend on head­phones; I can hear the audio­philes in … Read the rest

I’m try­ing to find the loud­est, least roman­tic music in my collection.

I think Fear: The Record is near the top of the list, but they lose points for their cov­er of “We Got­ta Get Out Of This Place.”… Read the rest

I think it’s true. Every time I have some sort of expec­ta­tion that some­thing will be good, it’s bound to dis­ap­point. This for­mu­la was put to the test today when I got pushed out of an air­plane at 18,000 feet.

Yeah, nice ride and all. But after all the build-up, come on. Bet­ter than sex? Get real. It changes your life? Um. Well, so does a cup of cof­fee. You leave all your fears behind? Not hardly.

First … Read the rest

My com­put­er has been down for the last few days. This stuff used to scare me when I had to make my liv­ing with this thing, but I still missed being online, play­ing music, and watch­ing TV and movies. With­out my com­put­er I have only books. Oh, and the gym.

I read recent­ly about a guy who dropped off the grid, bailed from the online world. Part of me real­ly envies that.

In oth­er news, although I already bored xris with … Read the rest