- Georgia Considers Replacing Firefighters with Free Prison Laborers. Oh yeah, that sounds like a great idea… [via]
- Nobody was more surprised than me when I discovered The Human Centipede wasn’t really as bad as it seemed on paper. It’s not, y’know, a good movie, but it’s got a genuinely creepy lead performance and some decent B-movie horror scares. A sequel, though, just seems like gilding the lily…then surgically attaching it to two other gilded lilies.
- I’m not sure saying that Arthur Conan Doyle would have preferred his first book to remain out of print holds a lot of weight. He often said much the same thing about Sherlock Holmes.
- Meanwhile, though, the top 10 books lost to time.
- And finally, via John Carroll, what sounds like smart advice to me: date a girl who reads.
Month: October 2011
Tuesday
Aside from a panicked few moments this evening when the dog got himself stuck in a tomato cage in the backyard — luckily with me standing right there — and had to be rescued, today was a pretty typical day.
Song of the day
“Bottom of the World” by Tom Waits
Tuesday various
- Giant prehistoric krakens may have sculpted self-portraits using ichthyosaur bones. “McMenamin anticipates that this theory will be met with skepticism.” Gee, ya think?
- Are DVD “special features” already a quaint relic of the past? Certainly, they seem to have quickly become a premium feature only.
- Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet [via]
- Typewriter cocktail machine [via]
- And finally, If Arthur Dent Was In ‘The Dark Knight’ Instead of Harvey Dent
A paid non-holiday
For some you, today was Columbus Day. For some, it was Thanksgiving. For me, it was pretty much just a regular Monday.
They upgraded me to Windows 7 at work, which is a weird coincidence given that I’d only just seen it for the first time this Saturday when my parents’ new computer arrived. I think I can give it a resounding “Ehh, I guess it’s okay.” I’m less annoyed by some the cosmetic changes than by the things, like my internet bookmarks, that were lost in the transition.
At least I got my Portal 2 password working again.
The trains home…well, not so much. More “signal problems” delayed my train about forty minutes. Considering that I pay a little over $250 a month for a monthly ticket, and these sorts of problems are happening quite often, with little indication that the Long Island Railroad is prepared to do anything but slap a Band-Aid on after the fact, it’s quite aggravating. At least the train was reasonably uncrowded this evening.
You know, with all the people for whom today was a holiday.