Archive for the 'Assorted Musings' Category

The Island

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Michael Bay is apparently the creator of utter crap. He did Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, and most recently, he did The Island.
I haven’t seen the first two I listed but I just watched The Island. It’s a very interesting and original take on dystopia. It’s also a highly highly flawed peice of cinema. I am going […]

Correction: Don’t Save the Internet. It’s unnecessary.

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

I can’t believe I got so caught up in a massive fearmongering. I had this on my web-site until a few minutes ago.

The feeling of a need for network neutrality is actually kind of stupid. It cripples the internet’s potential for the future.
The fear of a non-neutral network comes from the idea that it’ll make […]

Two Things

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

In movies and television, there have always been two things that bother me.
First, no anonymous character ever has good aim. I just watched a scene in a television show where five people burst into a room with machine guns and trained their guns onto a single character. The character they were aiming at stood there […]

The Beloved Asshole

Friday, November 25th, 2005

The other day, I said that there was a certain type of arrogance that was funny. This may sound kind of stupid, but you’ll probably agree.
I’d expect my audience to be familar with Homestarrunner (www.homestarrunner.com) and as such you porbably know Strongbad. Strongbad is utterly full of himself and that is why we love him. […]