"Scientists who reviewed hobbit research at a symposium here last week..."
  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/science/28hobbit.html?_r=1&8dpc


"[Hobbits] brain less than one-third the size of a human’s:"

Smeagol "Mmm shiny."
Deagol "Mine"
Smeagol "My precious"

Years pass

Frodo. "uhhh. I take the ring."
Gandalf: "It's all sorts of dangerous, dude, you're going to like go
up into an active volcano"
Frodo: "Waa?"
Gandalf: "It's like a big hot molten rock mountain. With orcs."
Frodo: "Huh?"
Sam: "What we waiting for?
Frodo: "we there yet?"
Sam: "we be back in a bit"
Smeagol "My precious"
Sam: "Don't like him, he's ugly"
Frodo: "Um. Looks trustworthy to me"
Sam: "You the boss"
Hobbits Chorus:
"Frodo's is our decider
And were a bunch of dorks
Let's get eaten by a spider
And beaten by some orcs"
Sam: "It's epic."
Frodo: "What's epic"
Sam: "where they write stuff down"
Frodo: "they write stuff down?"
Sam: "Think so, like songs."
Frodo: "You some sort of genus"

Merry: "I think I go get killed now."
Pippin: "Palantir shiny"

Hobbits:
I feeling weak at the knees
We speak in rhymes, we is a bard!
We is talking to some trees
Take these hobbits to Isengard!

Gandalf "Why did I ever leave the fate of the world in the hands of
hobbits. Middle Earth is doomed."

Epilepilogee

Smeagol
"Hee hee! Ha ha! I got my shiny thing back!
Uh oh.
Boss, I think I is not standing on anything above this big pit of fire
here, see.
Oh no, this can't be good.
Going down.
Aaaaaa!"

I had a virus. It was a small annoyance. It caused adds to pop up.
A kindly friend sent me a fix for the very same virus because he had it too.
And so I applied this fix and ran the program.
And my computer died. It killed my drive. Now all my files are gone.
No music. No writing. Nothing. There is nothing on my hard drive.
It is sad.

One of the benefits of OCD is lots and lots of backups. Still, I'm anticipating some loses.
I know I lost the outline for my zombie story, but it's still in my head, I should rewrite it soon.

Okay, the dust has settled, only the unsweetened chocolate remains, and I'm left wondering if there is a venue of online communication that doesn't suck. So far, I have yet to find it. I have discovered something that does suck however. It's called "Legend of the Seeker" which is [I have to assume very loosely] based on the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. I haven't read the books, but I have trouble envisioning that they are this bad, especially since the show makers managed to cram the first two books into the pilot episode.

It's sort of like Earthsea, without characters. The total absense of humor is a new twist for Sam Raimi, in his eternal search for mediocrity, and the result is impressively bad. It's like a B-movie, only less fun. The acting and events are only trite enough to be boring, without enabling you to laugh at them, and there's a definite derth of hot naked people to gawk at. Also a new one for Raimi. Only flat lines delivered flatly by flat characters who are perpetually making pointless bad decisions and constantly forgetting to use not only their own magical powers, but their regular mammalian powers as well.

I knew we were in trouble at the very opening, when our characters are fleeing the guards of the forces of ultimate evil, whose leader will undoubtedly turn into a giant snake by the end, and these minions who seem devoid of soul, character (okay, so is everyone else) and any capacity for reason, and who blindly charge to their death because they just love evil so much. They're like 90s goths wannabes. They have the crush on evil down, but lack the fashion sense.

Anyway, these minions are firing arrows at our characters along a straigh road. This makes out characters sitting ducks because our heroes apparently took a 1 in horsemanship and are unable to steer the creature into the forest, which is the sort of move a rabbit, with an IQ equiv of about 10 is able to figure out. So, one of them is shot in the back, and dies badly, tumbling over and over across the "that wasn't there before" desert slope. No, it's not magic, it's the new Indiana Jones and the temple of star wars / 10,000 BC rule of "change terrain at random please. (Later we will use this again to morph to moors at random, and I'm not talking about token black guy.)

Well, tumbling into the abyss, we have to have gratuitious "dying girl" scene which is the old western "dying guy" scene where great secrets of the world are revealed in a manner of "don't worry about me, I'll just wait around and get eaten by vultures in the dark,  but please, take the mcguffin to the mchero, ribbit." Our heroine reacts to the whole situation with "Oh sis, I love you, but this new seeker guy might be hot, so I'm just going to leave you to die." And that's it for princess cleavage, and we're only about 5 min in.

Given that I was really really bored, I didn't give up. I mean Terminator was on Hiatus until Dollhouse premieres, and I hadn't had sexy death and destruction for weeks. Maybe I should've skipped out and gone to a Zombie Rave instead. But, like a fool, I rolled forth through the monotony of 90 minutes of Yawn of the Ged.

Best line? I musta missed it. Worst parts: Okay, so you have a semi-hot witch, the one whose blouse our hero is peering down when the blouse of when dimwit the Wizard says something about focusing on the mission rather than on her backside. That would be the other end of the witch. Anyway, the lowpoint was instead of the gratuitous scene of the witch naked, we get a gratuitous seen of the old guy naked, and I mean really naked. Yes, I'm sure the whole audience was Tivo-ing that moment. Oh, and the dead cattle looked like blood filled handwarmers.

Honestly, our evil overlord is straight out of Pete's evil overlord list. And fantasy which steals from the bible is at a double minus. This just illustrates the need for creative control. Terry Goodkind should probably have been less good and kind, and kicked some asses, and maybe this wouldn't be marching into the jaws of cancellation. The problem with television fantasy is that TV always tries to mutate into an old testament story, and then teleport it into the future, add an overdose of political correctness, and no humor, and then be astonished that it fails. Unless they're trying to make it fail, which is possible.

Okay, now I've got my first flame. Life moves fast. Trolls, even those related to me, can de-friend me if they are offended.
The swedish twins post was a Buffy reference. For those not familiar with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it's worth watching.

There is no concept on this earth as fascist as "Political Correctness." Its very name implies that its ideas are correct, and everyone else is wrong, there is no room for opinion, thought, or even fact in this unithought mindlock zombie reality. I'm impressed that someone made it through my Audacity of Hope post to *then* be offended by the Swedish Twins reference, Buffy, Season 4, episode 17.

The Hope clip was a cut from the film Ghost Breakers, and I'm sure it's been overcirculated. For those who care, I'm a democrat, and I'm techinically still on the roles as working for them. I hold to my creed though, everyone and everything is fair game, especially ourselves.

Rage against tyranny.

Must clean room, wrap presents, and find new batteries. Ears still ringing. Happy kids squeal with glee. Hah. I'm me, and I'm online and now I can use words without being told they are like fingernails on blackboard, which, quite frankly was never that annoying a sound.

4:44 on ubuntu's easy, which should be called kindergarten for monkeys, no offense to the monkeylovers out there.  I think that sudoku without a numeric keypad is probably criminal punishment in some parts of the world, but there's the benchmark to fight against. My brain, obviously not in tip top shape. Must seek out new drugs and new stimulizations, to boldly get my head in order. Also, batteries.

Ah, boredom, how I've missed you. I've run out of Sarah Connor Chronicles to watch. At some point I might try something else. There were a couple that looked like they had potential. I hear cackling teens outside in the subzero weather. Ah, there is hope.

Monday, it's done, and there's nothing more to say about it, except freedom, and silly pagan ritual, christianized, and minus sex. Fortunately there's chocolate. Swearing off politics. If I make a political comment, It's to make fun of it. I'm an equal opportunity mockey, so I'l post this for those who haven't seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpU8sX10_4

The Audacity of Hope.

Reminds me. Been thinking about zombies lately. A dream I had has been haunting me. Gotta pick up some books, do a little reading. Let it gnaw. Also, Sirius 4 is bouncing around back there. I guess I exist in a void until I am linked in.

Cheney, on recalling the high point of his administration, named September 11th 2001.

Cheney tried to smile when he saw it happen, but only got a lip curl and a
tooth sticking out, a little bit of drool, it was his highest point in many
years. He was almost "happy." But, alas, the highest he could get was
"anxious" and then he slipped back into "disappointed"
"irritated" "unhappy" before eventually returning to his normal state of
"dead"

My updates are complete-ish. The label printer is a little quirky, and so far no stock data feed, but I have wine running and I have solved the i8k issues. I have my silent pc, still ringing in the ears, something to work on. Tomorrow is mailing day.

First posts. Solstice 2008. Happy winter festival everyone. I have to figure out how to customize this page and link to everyone. I'm working on my new homemade netbook ssd system running ubuntu 8.10. Yah, that's the creepy Ibex. I've been thinking of changing it... if I can. Anyway, completely silent computer, the first step towards dealing with that tinnitus. Hints to silence seekers: if you go powersave on your cpu freq then you cancel the fan kick on page load, and you should set high fan somewhere higher than 47. The thing kind of levels off at 43, so fan off before that, I'm thinking fan on in the 50s, it almost never runs. I'm using GKrellM-i8k for this M140, which is really an i8k. My boot from usb is not running, esp. not the windows. Anyone with any ideas, feel free to comment. I see a lot of networks available.

Lots of snow here in the winterlands. Should've gotten that soda fountain indoors. Well, I'll keep trying. Canoe, also. Anyway, I'm gnawing over going through the old things that people said "blog!" about. But for now, a little time. I'm going to try to keep up.