"I refuse to do nude scenes. These Hollywood producers want to capitalize on my obvious sexuality, but I don't want to be just another beautiful body."
The answer may surprise you.
This guy's the best game show host of all time, without question.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
NaNoWriMo
I was reading Lifehacker this morning when I saw a post titled "Write your novel this NaNoWriMo". It turns out that every November a bunch of people try to crank out a 50,000 word novel in a month. I thought to myself, "these people are crazy". But I explored it a bit and read some comments from people who've done it and it seemed like a cool experience, so I decided to sign up.
Sure, a couple of weeks ago I laid out the timeline for the next phase of my thesis work and had a bit of a "Holy crap I've got a lot of work left to do" moment, and wondered if I'd have any kind of social life in the next 10 months, but I kept reading about how rewarding it has been for the people who've done it and got excited.
Truth be told, I've had a story floating around in my head for the last few months and was considering formalizing it a bit. I never really considered writing it as a "novel" though, I actually had thoughts of making it into a game, which would have given me some good programming experience in a different domain (along with a chance to tell a story). I always put it on the back burner though, seeing it as one of those "I'll do it some time down the road" projects. I ultimately decided, though, that this writing would serve two purposes. First, it would give me a chance to formalize the story so that whenever I actually do the game it will already be hashed out. Second, in about 6-8 months I'm going to be under a serious writing crunch working on getting my thesis done, so this will be good practice for deadline-time writing.
This may prove to be an insane undertaking, and I may decide two weeks in that I just don't have the time, but right now I'm looking forward to see what I can accomplish.
Sure, a couple of weeks ago I laid out the timeline for the next phase of my thesis work and had a bit of a "Holy crap I've got a lot of work left to do" moment, and wondered if I'd have any kind of social life in the next 10 months, but I kept reading about how rewarding it has been for the people who've done it and got excited.
Truth be told, I've had a story floating around in my head for the last few months and was considering formalizing it a bit. I never really considered writing it as a "novel" though, I actually had thoughts of making it into a game, which would have given me some good programming experience in a different domain (along with a chance to tell a story). I always put it on the back burner though, seeing it as one of those "I'll do it some time down the road" projects. I ultimately decided, though, that this writing would serve two purposes. First, it would give me a chance to formalize the story so that whenever I actually do the game it will already be hashed out. Second, in about 6-8 months I'm going to be under a serious writing crunch working on getting my thesis done, so this will be good practice for deadline-time writing.
This may prove to be an insane undertaking, and I may decide two weeks in that I just don't have the time, but right now I'm looking forward to see what I can accomplish.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Line Rider
Proof that the best things in life are simple:
Line Rider
Draw a line, press play, and watch the guy crash!
Line Rider
Draw a line, press play, and watch the guy crash!
Monday, October 16, 2006
Flashback Time...
They can make all the fancy DVD board games they want, but they'll never compare to this:
Or this:
Or this:
Friday, October 13, 2006
Music Renaissance?
Maybe it's just because I've been listening to different stuff recently, but it seems to me that there's a ton of good rock music out there right now.
Bands like Breaking Benjamin, Avenged Sevenfold, The Mars Volta, Muse, Blue October, and Snow Patrol have got me really fired up about music right now.
And in November we get the new Incubus album, the Raine Maida solo effort, and the OLP greatest hits CD. I'm a very happy music freak.
Bands like Breaking Benjamin, Avenged Sevenfold, The Mars Volta, Muse, Blue October, and Snow Patrol have got me really fired up about music right now.
And in November we get the new Incubus album, the Raine Maida solo effort, and the OLP greatest hits CD. I'm a very happy music freak.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Where are the locusts?
Ten minutes ago it got really overcast and dark....then it started to snow...and five minutes later it stopped.
Now it's a bright blue sky with white cumulus clouds high in the sky and dark grey (almost black) cirrus clouds below them (that's white puffy clouds and grey wispy clouds for everyone other than Scott).
I'm expecting it to start raining frogs next.
Now it's a bright blue sky with white cumulus clouds high in the sky and dark grey (almost black) cirrus clouds below them (that's white puffy clouds and grey wispy clouds for everyone other than Scott).
I'm expecting it to start raining frogs next.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Monday, October 02, 2006
Random Randomness
- I'm still laughing my ass off over Windsor losing the new arena to Tecumseh. This stupid city.
- Raine Maida (of OLP fame) is working on a solo project (www.myspace.com/rainemaida). He's posted his first composition, and it's definitely not typical OLP. It's more poetry set to music. I have to say, after a couple listens, the chorus is getting stuck in my head. It should be interesting to hear more.
- I draw way too many flowcharts and diagrams...I have a drawer by my desk in which I keep nothing but scrap paper
- Lost starts back up this week!
- Hockey Night In Canada starts back up this week!
- I'm not going to get anything done this week!
- Lewis Black is almost as funny as George Carlin
- I was in a store this weekend that had Christmas decorations for sale. Someone should tell these people that it's the 12 DAYS of Christmas, not the 12 WEEKS of Christmas
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