Sunday, March 04, 2001
404
Curiousity got the better of me, so I decided to see just how bad my gratuitous list of people I know had deteriorated.
It's not pretty.
“404.”
“Oh, where you expecting a page here? 404.”
“We're sorry. The URL you clicked up is no longer in service. Please back up and try your click again. 404.”
“Busy. Busy. Busy. Busy. Busy. Busy. Busy. Busy. 404”
“The URL you have clicked, aitch-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash … has been disconnected. Please back up and try your click again. 404.”
“We don't need no steeeeeking URLs. 404.”
“You step in the stream / but the water has moved on. / This page is not here. 404.”
You know, if only the actual error pages where that amusing.
smug
In trying to track down members of Generation-X that I used to hand out with (on alt.society.generation-x and it's mailing list (which I'm still on although the volume has dropped since the heady days of 1996 with 200+ messages a day to it's current trickle of maybe 2 messages a quarter)) I came across Leslie Harpold's homepage.
I remember back in 1996 (give or take a year) that she wanted to start an online magazine. I had similar notions at the time so I registered a domain (actually, MediaWeave.com and MediaWeave.org) and thought maybe we could collaborate. She declined, as my purpose (multi-media) wasn't her purpose (not multi-media).
It didn't matter since I had only registered the name; I never did get around to paying for it. Nor did I ever get around to actually doing the site. But Leslie did: Smug. Which appears to currently be on hiatus.
But she's also gone on and done other stuff, like her prepacked homepages (such as the goth girl package).
Odd factoid here: Not only were we both born on the same day (we both share the birthday with Elvis Presley and David Bowie) but we were also born in the same town (Royal Oak, MI). Not the same year though. Not sure why I mention this, other than I think it's a neat fact.
Another odd factoid: The word factoid is not a real word.
Yet another useless factoid: you were spared a rather poor pun in the original edit of this entry.
Maybe Smug will eventually return.
all your game are incomprehensible to us
Mark, Kelly and I are over at JeffK's house playing Dreamcast games. They start with this fishing game (fishing game? Like that would make an interesting video game?) and they keep pestering me to play.
I refuse. “I just want a simple shoot-em-up game,” I said.
“Well, I have this one shoot-em-up game,” said JeffK. “But it's nearly impossible to play.”
“Let's see it.”
JeffK loads the game. No idea what it's called, since it's all in Japanese, but it's this wierd overhead scrolling shoot-em-up game where a bazillion objects, enemies, bullets, lasers, power-ups, shields, explosions, the background, are all moving in six different directions at once and it's impossible to actually be anywhere on the screen for more than a second without being killed and we're all wondering This is a game that can actually be played?
We then moved on to a taxi-cab driving game.
And I thought Burger Time was a bizarre game.
Anthony Hopkins wasn't the only person to portray Hannibal Lecter
After playing video games, we rented Manhunter, the first film in which Dr. Hannibal Lecter appeared. Of course, this time he's played by Brian Cox and not Anthony Hopkins. But the plot is similar to Silence of the Lambs: an FBI agent calls upon Dr. Lecter to help track down a serial killer.
It's not a bad film but it isn't in the same league as Silence of the Lambs. It actually comes across more as a very well done student film than a slick Hollywood production—the music is a bit loud and the mixing is rather jarring at times. But it's an interesting story and it's not revealing anything to say that Dr. Lecter does not escape.
And it's not nearly as graphic in the violence either.
It's worth a rental.
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