I am stepping away from blogging for some time. Don't know for how long. Things could do for a little respite, and some realigning, and you never know how they'll settle out in the end... but I rather believe that it will be for the better. Don't be surprised if this blog is entirely different when I return. Don't be surprised if I'm entirely different. Who knows, I might be a whole 'nother person that you've never seen before when this is finished....
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
When Bush says "I want more power", start worrying
So, President Bush is asking Congress to give him more powers in the event of major catastrophes. The article suggests that he may ask to be given the authority to:- Order mandatory civilian evacuations- Dispatch U.S.-based armed forces for emergency search-and-rescue operations- Grant wider leeway for active-duty U.S. military personnel to carry out law enforcement operations.The last one is the really troubling possibility: that Posse Comitatus...
For a few dollars more: "The Man with No Name" coming to Xbox/PS2
IGN.com is reporting that a videogame based on Sergio Leone's "The Man with No Name" trilogy is coming to Xbox, PC and Playstation systems sometime in 2006. It's possible that Clint Eastwood might be brought onboard to provide vocal talent for the game.This might be what finally gets Dad to pick up an Xbox controller ...
Episode III goof: Ring around the collar
This has been bugging me ever since I caught it the very first time I saw Revenge of the Sith. The scene where Anakin is on the slab, getting rebuilt into classic Darth Vader. Here's three cuts in succession. Notice anything wrong here?Give up?Okay, in the top image there's Anakin in most of the Darth Vader armor (for the first time I'm noticing that he's not wearing the...
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
New toy to play with
Lisa found me a 256 MB flash drive. Previously I was using a 128 MB one. I know they make them much bigger (like a gig or so) but I still think it's a pretty neat gimmick to mess around with. I find it amusing that this is 80 megabytes bigger than the hard drive in my very first computer. First things I put on it was the medium-sized Quicktime of Forcery and a Quicktime installer, so I can carry around a much larger version of my own movie with...
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Four years ago today al Qaeda defeated the United States
Osama bin Laden got pretty much everything he wanted. The country that existed prior to 9/11 is gone now. In its place is a land where no-warrant searches take place, where you can be locked up indefinitely without being charged or put on trial, where our women and children are fondled obscenely at the airport, where guns are now seized from average citizens, where Big Brother monitors all of our communications (if you don't think the government...
This church's pastor is an idiot
From KLTV.com come this heartwarming story of Christian "love":Local Church's Sign Offends EvacueesA confrontation this morning between an East Texas church and an evacuee from New Orleans. It centers around a sign out front of Woodland Hills Baptist Church on Old Jacksonville Road in Tyler, about a mile inside the loop. Some say the message is offensive."I drove by that sign...
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Interdictor blog has been the site I've most visited the past two weeks
There's going to be a movie made about these guys someday, bank on ...
It was four years ago tonight...
...that I started writing the script for Forcery. Feels so curious now, to finally have that behind me.Two days from now will more or less be the official start of pre-production of our next project. Which will be something of an experimental way to make a movie. I'm really excited about what this is going to be, all the things that are going into making ...
KWerky Productions website is still down
No, we ain't out of business (yet :-), we're just working through the intricacies of a physical relocation of our server. Should be back up soon (along with news on our next project or two). It'll be at the usual address when it comes back onli...
"It can't happen here"
Avearge American citizens are being removed from their homes by force, are having their weapons seized at gunpoint, and are being removed to government-run shelters "for their own protection", in a major American city. A federal court just ruled that the government can detain anyone it calls a "threat" for however long it wants to.All of this is happening under a Republican President, by the way. You know... the party that this kind of thing isn't...
Another Saturday so you know what that means...
Another solid piece by Kyle Williams that WorldNetDaily refuses to put atop their front page.To their credit, the pieces by Dr. Kelly Hollowell and Jerry Falwell are pretty good this week. Hollowell is contrasting the tragedy of Katrina with that of abortion, while Falwell is generously offering free tuition to students who came out of Katrina at his Liberty University, which I've heard firsthand over the years is a pretty good school, despite some...
Friday, September 09, 2005
Red Dawn over New Orleans
Well, this is a post I never thought I'd ever have to make...About twenty years ago there was a movie called Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze and C. Thomas Howell. Maybe you've seen it before (probably during one of those hundreds of times that TNT used to run it back in the late Nineties) so you already know it's horribly dated by today's standards. But if you haven't: it was about the Soviet Union dropping paratroopers into the American heartland...
I've never even watched Firefly before...
...but I found this to be pretty darned cool. Wish I had that many bricks to play with ...
Thursday, September 08, 2005
AAAAHHH it's a Crazy Frog, SHOOT IT SHOOT IT!!
This is supposed to be a big thing over in England and the rest of Europe. I guess it'll be catching on here pretty soon: every decade sees America getting some imported "cuteness" from elsewhere. In the Eighties it was the Smurfs from Belgium. Then the Nineties it was Pokemon from Japan. So Ed came by earlier tonight for dinner and afterward he showed me Crazy Frog, which...
Will the big rigs put on the brakes?
WorldNetDaily has a story today about commercial truckdrivers possibly staging a strike in the very near future, to protest the rising cost of fuel. I've heard this talked about for at least the past month or so and... well, I'm of the mind that this is altogether possible. Not to mention easily understandable given the frustrations of these truckers. Most of them are independent contractors who have to purchase their own fuel, and a lot of 'em...
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Katrina victims to get $2000 debit cards from U.S. government
From the Associated Press...Katrina Victims to Get $2K Debit CardsSep 07 3:42 PM US/EasternBy DEVLIN BARRETTAssociated Press WriterThe federal government plans to hand out debit cards worth $2,000 each to families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff, under fire for his agency's response to the disaster, held a conference call with governors of states with evacuees and described the plan. While many...
