http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php Tales from the life of a Geek Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:07:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've disabled comments. I'm sick of weeding trhough spam. I don't update this thing anymore. I think this blog is over. I'm going to (maybe) make a new site (eventually) and if you poke around, there's already something very unfinished on the server. Thanks for reading. http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/i-think-the-blog-is-over/ I thought I'd follow up that video with something a bit more fun and frivolous. FIVE PROBLEMS WITH SUPERMAN RETURNS 1. Superman is incredibly lame. Superman is a boring character. He's close to being utterly devoid of personality and he's too strong for any character who doesn't have a contrived method of hurthing ... http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/10-things-to-say-about-superman-returns/ Here, I have for you, a video that just amazes me. This woman, Wafa Sultan has a lot to say and she speaks with eloquence and authority. I feel like I'm unfairly judging Muslim culture by putting this video up and agreeing with what she says so much but really ... http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/amazing-little-piece-of-al-jazeera/ Due to an excessive amount of spam I need to delete, I from now on, forcing all comments to be queued before they appear on the site. Comments will no longer instantly appear. I'm sorry if that bothers anyone. Sadly, the spam bots have "contributed" more to this site than I ... http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/notice-regarding-comments/ Pictures From Rappahanock County, VA I took a bunch of pictures. Everything there is under the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.5. Enjoy them and make good use of them. http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/photos-from-around-my-house/ 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 ... http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/the-island/ I tried again writing song lyrics. They're not perfect by any means but I'm not at all ashamed of them. BEHOLD FOR THEY DO NOT SUCK! Some people try to tell us that we'll burn. In Hell, we'll suffer for the freedom that we yearn. IN Hell, we'll burn after we die. But we'll burn ... http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/song-lyrics-again/ Ah, I haven't really written much for this blog in a while. I know it's lame, but I'm just lazy. Also, in the summer, I don't think that much, and not much happens so there isn't too much to write about. Well, I've got something. The outdoors are at their most beautiful ... http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/beautiful-morning-light/ This time, instead of being on a hand-created GooglePage, they are in a procedurally created Google Picasa Web Album. There are 177 photos there including all previously uploaded screenshots. BEHOLD! It is glorious. http://picasaweb.google.com/Ayavaron/VagrantStoryScreenshots More screenies may or may not be added later. I don't really like the game very much aside ... http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/even-more-vagrant-story-screenshots/ My friend Scott made this paper on Lord of the Flies back in the 7th grade. I find it hilarious and have highlighted the best/worst parts. Bonus points if you can guess what score it got. Scott Campbell English The Novel The Lord of the Flies follows a traditional plot structure. The main conflict ... http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/a-paper-on-lord-of-the-flies/