Listen to some old time horror radio for Halloween! Vincent Price! Orson Welles!
Month: October 2006
Planet Tokyo
Not that I’m planning a trip to Japan any time soon, but Planet Tokyo is a pretty interesting site with a bunch of info on visiting Japan. Maybe some day I’ll head out there.
eEye Blink
I tried out the free Blink Personal Edition software from eEye today on my home computer. I have a lot of respect for eEye, so I was hoping this would be a good piece of software. Unfortunately, I had compatibility problems with a couple of apps right away, and a noticable bit of system slowdown. If I had time to work through this stuff, it might prove to be a good app. I really don’t have the time to mess around with it much right now though. For now, I’m still just using F-Prot anti-virus and Spybot S&D for spyware.
Grant Morrison Disinformation clip
Comic book writer Grant Morrison talks about, um, many things.
Dare to Be Stupid
“In defense, praise, and unrelenting awe of the increasingly vital Weird Al.”
from the Village Voice (via archive.org)
Tokyo Fiesta
This event sounds like it might be interesting. It’s running Oct 27 and 28 at Grand Central. Some traditional Japanese stuff (bamboo screens, spiral lanterns, etc) and some modern stuff. I wonder who came up with the name, though.
too much anime
After buying 25 anime DVDs from Right Stuf’s Geneon sale a few weeks ago, I went back and bought another 10. They just showed up in the mail, so I now have a pile of 35 anime DVDs to watch. Between the stuff I just bought, plus some stuff I already had in my pile, I now have complete sets of:
- Last Exile
- Paranoia Agent
- Ikki Tousen
- Stellvia
- Master Keaton
- Popotan
- Captain Herlock
- Burn-Up Scramble
- Big O
…all waiting for me to find the time to sit down and watch them! I suppose I should declare a moratorium on new DVD purchases until I put a dent in the pile. (Actually, I have watched most of the Master Keaton DVDs already, and some of the Paranoia Agent and Stellvia episodes.)
Iggy Pop
This concert rider for Iggy and the Stooges is hilarious.
Ray Noorda
I just found out that Ray Noorda died today. The linked article calls him the “father of network computing,” and I guess that’s accurate. I used NetWare for years, starting with version 2.15c, I think, in the early nineties. I earned my CNE certification when NetWare 3 was big. I switched allegiance from NetWare to Windows NT grudgingly, in the late nineties, and by that time, Noorda was gone from Novell.
The obituary on the Canopy site says “In lieu of flowers, the family requests that each one of us put in a little extra effort today to enable someone to reach their fullest potential in their work — that’s what Ray would have done.” I’ll try.
Images of Japanese Vending Machines
Some great photos of weird Japanese Vending Machines. I wish we had all these cool vending machines here in America. All we have at work is one boring Coke machine. Maybe I can convince the boss to put in a rhinoceros beetle machine!