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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
10:30 am	Re-Dwarf So I recently got the "complete" (until this year) set of Red Dwarf from Amazon when they temporarily dropped it to the crazy price of $50. Since I'd pretty much seen everything I thought I'd be pretty quickly jumping into the special features and commentary and whatnot, but... this stuff is good. I guess it's been too long. Being commercial-less and without visual blemishes (above the natural state of 1980s video) doesn't hurt, either. I'm more used to the rockin' montage intros used in later series, but the first series intro is pretty cool. If you didn't know the show, it wouldn't give you an indication that the show is a comedy. It just gives a great sense of scale and desolation. It's no 2001, but for a 1980s BBC TV budget it looks pretty nice. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
11:28 am	Inconsistenence So for various reasons which I've only touched upon before and won't bother to go into now, when it comes to reading licensed novels I'm much more into Star Trek than Star Wars. But after watching The Clone Wars again recently thought it might be fun to read the novelization of Episode III (by Matthew Stover), along with what were supposed to be the official direct precursor and followup books (by James Luceno). I'm about halfway through the Episode III book now, and I'm a bit disappointed by the overall experience so far. It's not a problem with either book directly, it's that for works which are supposed to be linked so closely and which came out at about the same time, there are more inconsistencies than make sense. Both expand upon what we see on the screen in valid ways, just not always the same ones. Take the character of Count Dooku. Luceno's Dooku isn't exactly shown to be a good guy, but it's easier to see him as a guy who sees himself as a good guy. He was said to have left the Jedi Order when he realized it and the Republic were on the way down and there was nothing he could do to fix it from inside. This left him open to be convinced by Darth Sidious that their visions of how the galaxy could be improved weren't so different. He's a man who seems proud of how they managed to create/teach Grievous how to be such an effective anti-Jedi fighter, and seems impressed that even in a failing Jedi Order there are still pairings as effective as Skywalker/Kenobi. Stover's Dooku is presented as a racist who hates anything nonhuman, including Anakin's replacement hand and pretty much all of Grievous. When seeing Skywalker/Kenobi in a battle situation similar to the one that impressed Luceno's Dooku, Stover's Dooku just considers it pathetic. Then there are plot points. Much of the precursor book (Labyrinth of Evil) deals with Anakin, Obi-Wan, and others trying to track down clues about Darth Sidious. They're actually getting pretty far along, including holoimages and some physical evidence. It's getting so close to things that causes Palpatine/Sidious to speed up things with that battle we see at the beginning of Episode III. However, once we get to the Episode III book itself, none of this hard evidence of Sidious seems to exist any longer. Thus, Palpatine is free to theorize that the Jedi are exaggerating or making up Sidious, and Anakin is free to consider that possibility. However, even with all these inconsistencies Stover doesn't seem to completely throw out the Luceno version, because it mentions some of the same buildings being the targets of searches--it's just that they have different, less solid reasons to be searching there. (Comment on this)
Monday, December 7th, 2009
2:49 pm	Grape Twist (Shyamalan 1999-2004 spoilers BEWARE) So Signs was part of a bundle. Amazon had a four Blu-ray bundle including three Shyamalan movies for under $30 (and now thinks it can recommand every four-movie-bundle under the sun to me). Rewatched Sixth Sense and Signs. No particular new insights or comments to make on Sixth Sense. However, one thing did stick out to me this time about Unbreakable. I think the first time I saw the movie, I didn't quite get that during his rescue action near the end, he actually killed the intruder; I thought he just knocked him out. This time the crack of the neck stood out, and thanks to high definition I was able to pause and read some of the newspaper article about the incident. Hey, you know what isn't unbreakable? That guy's neck. I don't like this so much. I mean, I've got no love for invasion/theft/murder, but neither do I have love for vigilante executions. I know David Dunn isn't a Superman-level superhero in complete control of the situation, but I would've liked an incapacitation much more. With a death, things can seem a bit twisted. We learn through the movie that David is sad, and just feels that things aren't right in his life. We're then shown that his hero activity has fulfilled this need. However, given the evidence we're shown, it could be that really what was lacking in his life was killing guys with his bare hands. Seeing these three movies so close, my mind has entered strange fanfiction territory, since all the movies exist in otherwise fairly normal worlds. When the aliens invade in Signs, does David Dunn break their necks? Does Cole Sear, having come to terms with the human ghosts inhabiting his world, now have to deal with alien ghosts? Were the people in The Village just completely boned since they had no advance warning? Going away from Shyamalan for a moment, in the Unbreakable extras it's mentioned that it was Samuel L. Jackson's idea to give Elijah a purple color scheme. I know it was also Sam Jackson's request that gave Mace Windu a purple lightsaber. Are there any other movies he's purpled up? (Comment on this)
2:31 pm	AA meeting So previously, I didn't think much of rechargeable AA batteries like the Eneloop. The main feature of them is that they're made to lose less charge over time even when not in use than do regular AA rechargeables. I mean, I'm going to be using my wiimote enough that the batteries are going to get swapped every few weeks regardless, so how much would still be there if I sat it down for six months didn't seem to make much difference. Now that I've got more devices using rechargeables, it hit me. "Hey dummy, that's why the rarely used player 3 and 4 wiimotes always seem to be on the verge of running out of power whenever they're needed!" So though Eneloops are still pretty expensive, I was comparing reviews of various types online. The customer reviews from people who are real battery nerds are actually quite helpful. I just received my order today so I can't say that the six-months-later scenario works out as well as it's supposed to, but since there's never any telling when a good deal will go away, these Rayovacs were reviewed pretty well and at a price of less than $1 per AA were the best deal I saw. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
4:56 pm	Long movie rereviews So I watched some Blu-rays recently. Star Wars: The Clone Wars Old short movie review: Tries to be both kid-friendlier, yet show more interstellar war. Story isn't much, but the action is more Episode II than Ewok Adventure, and convinces me it can work as a series. Watching it again recently, I think I like it more. As said above, it basically had to work as a pilot, and now that I've seen about half of the first season I know it led to better things. This movie doesn't stand very well alone, and watching it you can more or less tell how it would've originally been split into three episodes, buuut when George Lucas decides your project looks cool enough that it deserves to be shown on the big screen you don't argue too much. I guess that leaves the big remaining problem with it just being 3 episodes is that when you purchase it on disc, that's like 2-3x as much money per episode as you pay when buying a season set. Also, a complaint I hate to have... too much Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee. While those guys are great and I'm glad they were in the prequel movies, I like consistency. So to have them reprise their roles for just this tiny bit of the animated series while all the other episodes and games use different voice actors is just that bit off. Signs Old short movie review: Captures perfectly a family dealing with ultimate bizareness on a growing level. I heart teh Shyamalan. Seeing this for the first time in a few years, I still pretty much agree with myself. Some people get caught up with questions (SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT) about why these aliens who are weak against water invade such a water-heavy planet and seem to take no precautions. I don't really think that's important. We don't know anything about their means or motivation. They're supposed to be a strange unknown our characters are faced with. It's hard for me to actually imagine boarding up a house and preparing for an unknown attack, but the earlier stuff strikes me as true. I can totally see myself glued to the news channels and freaking out like Joaquin Phoenix's character does as things like the birthday video start appearing. I haven't seen any of the post-Village Shyamalan movies and they seem to have a pretty bad reputation, but this puts me in the mood to see them. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
2:52 am	Caught twice in one day? Lame, princess. I've beaten Super Mario World straight through in the shortest path before, but never before twice in one day. After doing it the first time and telling Austin he'd missed it, he asked me to do it again... so I did. Wasn't exactly a speed run (~20 minutes each time?), but it was watching an SMB1 speed run and looking around Speed Demos Archive that put me into the mood. (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
4:22 am	Supernumerology If 666 is evil, 6666 must be super evil. Super Mario World is super good. Going by Wikipedia, November 12 will be 6666 days since Super Mario World released in North America. What happen!? (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
7:00 pm	Neku Intact I haven't said much about The World Ends With You. But never before has a character design so suggested "uncircumcised" to me. (Comment on this)
6:51 pm	THINGS BEEN PLAYIN' Chrono Trigger DS: Still a great game. Not very long for a veteran, though. Going through all the original game's content and side quests: about 20 hours. Going through the additional content and toying with the battle arena brings it closer to 30. I'm going through New Game + now to pick up the other endings, but that'll probably leave me somewhere between 35-40 total. Actually I've just learned that I MISSED the ending with the tiniest window of opportunity. Oh well. Excitebots: It's like somebody went to Monster Games and said "Your next game should make Excite Truck look down-to-earth." Take Excite Truck, replace the trucks with transforming animal robots, and add all kinds of crazy shit like bars for the things to spin on, bowling pins, soccer balls and goals, darts... of course all which earn you stars, the ultimate goal of both of Monster's Excite games. As a Truck veteran and on the default difficulty mode, things haven't been very difficult so far. I'm crashing a lot less than in Truck, but I'm not sure yet how much credit to give to my increased Excite skills, how much to put to course design, and how much to making the bots more durable than trucks. Unfortunately this game doesn't support custom soundtracks like Truck did, but fortunately the music is a lot better. Truck had very generic rock that would put a Dynasty Warriors soundtrack to sleep, but as with the rest of the game, Excitebots goes for a much zanier sound. Major Minor's Majestic March: I love me some NanaOnSha and Rodney Alan Greenblat, but as of the first half hour of this game I'm not feeling it at all. More than a music game it seems like an endurance / music strategy game. You mostly have to keep the wiimote straight and move it up and down at a steady beat--but just how fast that beat should be depends on the wishes of the people in your band which you're supposed to be paying attention to. Also you're supposed to wave to the side to get items and additional band members, but I have not at all gotten the timing right with this yet. The constant arm up-and-down is really one of the closest Wii experiences I've come to some of the early "Your arm will get tired!" fears. (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
3:33 pm	Something old, something new, something hundreds of years early Quick notes, because to be long would take long. Chrono Trigger DS: Good port. Takes advantage of bottom screen for simple extras, map, and menu navigation to leave the top screen clutter-free. Has the PS1 FMV. During the game the FMV scenes are in addition to the old sprite scenes, buuut unfortunately the one thing that seems to have been excised is the old wait-at-title-screen demo, which seems to just play a similar FMV even after waiting a couple loops. Grand Theft Auto IV: Meh. It's hard to go to this game after playing Crackdown and even Burnout Paradise, which use Fancy HD Tech in ways I prefer. GTA IV tries so much for the pretty still image that it still has issues with frame rate and popup, though less so than its PS2 predecessors. The "improved" lighting seems worse, as the shadows are pretty hideous and it can be difficult to see at night or even in shadowy areas. Character control may even be clunkier than before, though Niko looks more realistic while slowly turning himself around. And... where's all the stuff? Maybe it's just because I'm still very early, but I haven't seen anything like the hidden packages, or figured out how to do side activities like taxi missions. Wreaking a little havoc and running from the cops is still fun, though; hopefully the rest grows on me as I continue doing that. Star Trek Legacy: I'm about halfway through, so I've only heard Archer/Kirk voicework so far... and it's pretty bad and good. It really does help sell the illusion of playing through episodes of the series that you somehow missed, but it also really sounds phoned in, and it kinda sticks out how all the other people on the ship you hear responding to the captain aren't the other major characters. It's also reeeally a stretch for 2000s Shatner to be reading lines that are supposed to be from 1960s Shatner. Overall the game seems decent if you're a fan, but not actually expecting something very worthwhile on its own. Also, being part of a big franchise is nice. Playing the Enterprise portion, it struck me that no way in hell was anyone making an Enterprise-specific game, but at least it can piggyback a piece of the action in games like this. (Comment on this)
Monday, September 28th, 2009
6:54 am	Short Circuit next? Yesterday I was listening some to songs from the musicals based on Karate Kid and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. I say: I want more musicals based on 80s movies! I've always enjoyed musicals as a format. The problem is the subject matter. If they weren't singing and dancing, I probably wouldn't put at the top of my To See list stories about Jews in fear of a pogrom, newspaper boys on strike, a rock star coming to town, or murderers who want to become stars. Give me something I'd want to watch anyway. Where are the people with time travel musicals inside them asking to be let out? Does noone have a song about the crew of a starship turning into creatures from their planets' histories? (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
3:15 pm	Sausage Confessions So I have always considered mushrooms my favorite pizza topping. I'm the kid who when allowed to place an order for some pizzas when young, supplied a party only with several mushroom-only pizzas. However, in recent years I have grown to appreciate pepperoni, too. Nobody sells frozen mushroom/pepperoni pizzas, though, so I tend to buy pepperoni ones and then toss half a can of mushrooms on top. Good eats. However, I recently had the chance to have some just-mushroom pizza, and it was... so plain. I realize now I haven't known my true self for years. I am not a mushroom/pepperoni fan, but a pepperoni/mushroom fan. Like Fabio winning the Slashie, it makes a big difference. Pepperoni is the pizza topping of prime importance. Lacking pepperoni is like lacking tomato sauce. I guess that still leaves mushroom my favorite optional topping. Current Mood: thoughtful (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 31st, 2009
7:38 am	"It's only a movie! It's only a low-budget movie!" So in 1998 an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 covered Hobgoblins, a cheesy low-budget late 80s movie. A decade later... a sequel is announced. Hobgoblins 2 finally come out earlier this summer, and I couldn't help but check it out. It definitely keeps the cheese, though it's a bit more self-aware. After watching, I'm reading various information and interviews on the web regarding Hobgoblins 2 and other work from director Rick Sloane (no relation). With Hobgoblins 2 basically only being known about online, I was surprised to find that there was nothing at ricksloane.com. If you've been reading my LJ posts here for the past year or so, you've probably guessed that I went ahead and purchased ricksloane.com as a laugh. I put up some text links to purchase his movies at Amazon; that seemed at least a better fate for the domain than ending up some random "search engine" page put up by an automatic squatter. However, I'm then surprised to get an email from... Rick Sloane himself. It turns out he used to own the ricksloane.com domain, though he didn't do anything with it. When he recently went to register it again, he found that someone had already beaten him to it, and mentioned some ways the site could be spruced up. He was glad to see someone had made a page about himself, though he had a few suggestions for improvements. Some of the things he mentioned were things I'd already considered, but it's much easier to half-ass and put things off forever before you learn the subject of the site is checking it out. So while it's still not exactly the hottest destination on the web, the current RickSloane.com is relatively spruced up now. My favorite addition is the "Did you know?" bits on the top and bottom of some pages. It randomly chooses some fact and image to display, which is a good way to make use of interesting tidbits from interviews/commentaries, and also show off various Rick images without trying to make a proper gallery of it. Also, the text currently on the front page which is headlined as "Rick Update" is actually from Rick himself, though it's written in the third person. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
5:23 am	Big Short So I recently hit a pretty big point on my wiki: a page got big enough that it imploded. After making a change... the page seemed blank. Doing a quick revert and backing up the file in case it happened again I noticed I'd hit 64K, which seems a likely enough size limit as long as one was going to exist in the first place. That page? Short Movie Reviews. Luckily its bigness appears fully intact to the outside world thanks to trickery. I split things into a page for Short Movie Reviews 2001-2005 and Short Movie Reviews 2006-2010, and then have the old main page use a plugin that displays everything from both of them. (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
9:52 am	Cracking Downheart? I got nothin'. Kingdom Hearts: What a weird game. If nothing else, the production values are pretty fantastic. Recreations of characters and locations are pretty spot-on, other than obvious textured walls around what we might expect to be visually more open areas. The use of Disney and Final Fantasy stuff is... weirdly meta. It's like, what Disney and Final Fantasy have long been doing to the world's myths and legends, Kingdom Hearts does to them. Though what Disney and FF have been doing still continues, as you're still going to get things like a humorous Hades and fire items named after Ifrit. The very combination seems hard for me to accept, though; I guess I just try to look at things more seriously than MST3K suggests. I can enjoy a good metaverse crossover event, but the subjects of this game seem both strangely wide and yet specific. Not the combination of all possible universes. Not the combination of all worlds created by a single person or company. But the union of the family-friendly subset of properties Disney owned and the Nomura-created subset of Final Fantasy characters Square owned. But what the hell, there was really no way my mind wasn't going to be blown in a game where Donald Duck and Squall Leonhart are fighting a common enemy. The gameplay seems... a bit archaic. I mean, I know it's not exactly a recent game, but sometimes it seems more 1999 than 2004. The camera is pretty bad, and it's controlled by shoulders rather than the right stick, so there's no height control. Attacks are a sort of button-mash menu-based using auto or manual lock-ons, which gets pretty hard to direct when there are many enemies around; especially when there are different types and you want to, say, direct a Blizzard spell at a particular type. Computer-controlled Goofy and Donald excel at getting themselves hurt and blowing through any potions I let them handle. Voice acting as always is a blessing and a curse. I love that voice acting allows me to know how proper nouns are properly supposed to be pronounced... I just wish in some cases I'd known this stuff like 10 years ago. Yuffie doesn't rhyme with "buffy", but instead "roofy"? Crackdown: First, on a technical level this is pretty cool to see. An open world game without apparent pop-in, or a shitty frame rate, or all cars within sight being the same three models. Next, this kind of reminds me of a Matrix game idea I had some years back. I figured that if just going on crazy chases from the cops in GTA was fun, giving both sides fancy powers and having it be agent versus rebel could be pretty cool, too. Well, in this game you do play an Agent, though in a law enforcement capacity. And he's genetically enhanced, which is their excuse for him being able to make crazy leaps and pick up very heavy things--and apparently as I use these abilities more and find more hidden items around the city, these capabilities will even further increase. Though it's in a future urban setting, the basic idea kinda reminds me of a Dynasty Warriors game on a bigger scale. In that series you're part of a battle between two sides, and a good way to weaken the opposition is to take out their leaders. Without them, the lackeys scatter. In this game the idea is similar. Your overall goal is to take out the leaders of three major gangs, which apparently you could try to do right from the beginning if you knew where to go. However, by taking out their middlemen throughout the city first, you lower the gang's resources and make the ultimate fight more possible to complete. So far I've spent most of my time just running around finding the hidden orbs and fighting low-level gang members when they show up, but my travels have brought me across the hideouts of three of these mid-level gang figures. Things get pretty hectic, but since I'm both genetically enhanced and on the first difficulty setting (manlily named Tough), I was able to take them out. (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
12:56 pm	Jump in. I'm totally 2005. So, wow. It's only been about a week since I saw the X360 deal I jumped on, and already I've got five games ordered--though all are either discounted or used, so the total price comes to less than $80. The "wow" is not so much that five games is a monster amount when they're so cheap and the system has had years to build up a userbase... it's that I still have yet to get a single disc-based PS3 game, after having it more than a year. Part of it is probably a matter of perception. I bought X360 primarily as a gaming console. I bought PS3 primarily as a Blu-ray/media machine that also plays games. Another thing is that with there always being inter-system comparisons of games, I've been a bit wary of picking up multiplatform games on PS3 when surprisingly often it seems like the X360 version has turned out better in some way: be it from texture detail, running at a higher resolution and displaying better due to X360's universal scaling, or exclusivity deals made for DLC. So some of these games I've suddenly purchased are ones I [i]could've[/i] got on PS3 long ago, just... didn't. Anyway, the games I've got coming, in alphabetical order: *Blue Dragon. I've pretty much got to give a look at what Hironobu Sakaguchi and his other big-named pals are doing at Mistwalker. *Burnout Paradise. Not something I'd have experimented with at a much higher price, but believe it or not the gushing over it by Not Alex on the Snatchcast made it sound pretty great. *Crackdown. Another I wouldn't have gone for at a higher price. Basically I wanted a cheap open-world game to try before GTA IV, and this one got good reviews and seems to have some interesting ideas. *Grand Theft Auto IV. I like GTA, and it was Amazon's gaming deal of the day recently. Had it been the deal of the day a few days sooner, I probably wouldn't have also gone for Crackdown. *Samurai Warriors 2. I've got a few Dynasty Warriors games on PS2 and they're good slightly-tactical hack-and-slashy warrior-upgradey fun. Be nice to try the series out before SW3 hits the Wii, and I might as well do it in HD. Another thing of note about getting this X360 is that due to space considerations and my X360/PS3 being back-compatible with [i]most[/i] of my Xbox/PS2 library, it's now just the current-gen systems permanently hooked up. Bye bye PS2. And Xbox, GameCube: I've got to find someplace to sit you other than on the Balance Board. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
3:46 pm	Two hundred and ninety-nine US dollars So there's a slim PS3 coming promptly, and the current models have already taken the new price of $299. Gotta say, if I didn't already buy a PS3 last year it would be pretty tempting. It's late by quite a bit, but finally it's about to the size and price of PS2 when it was new. Back in 2006 when the pricing was 600 vs 400 vs 250, PS3 looked like a pretty shitty deal. Now that it's 300 vs 300 vs 250, PS3 looks pretty good. That is, ignoring software preferences. X360 has always been the HD system that lacks Blu-ray and built-in WiFi, but now it no longer has the $100 advantage that makes it seem a decent possible trade. I myself just got an Xbox at a decent discount ($240), but add in the price of a $50 WiFi adapter (which itself is a significant step down from what they charge new), and it's almost back up to the new PS3 price again. Of course, Wii is Wii. When demand was greater than supply dropping from $250 would've been stupid. Now that supply is greater than demand and the competition isn't so massively overpriced as they were 3 years ago, sticking at this price much longer is stupid. (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
6:53 pm	Lunar Lapse So recently Right Stuf had a big sale, but to get the most of it you had to order a ridiculous number of discs. So I did. The selection was big, but many things were incomplete, and I wasn't interested in getting discs 1, 2, and 4 of a 5 disc series. That narrowed things down a bit. I ended up going with a combination of things I knew, things people recommended, and things that looked neat from the description. Moonlight Mile was one of the latter. It didn't look awful and with the 40th anniversary of Apollo XI recently I've been on a bit of a space kick, so I went for it. The starting premise is that two men have become the youngest to scale the highest peaks on all the continents. Looking for a new challenge, they decide to try for space, each taking different paths. American Lostman goes the military route, hoping to get up as a pilot. Japanese Goro goes the path of a very well-versed construction worker, knowing that there will soon be a demand for "Building Specialists" in space. And from there it goes. PROS + It's in 16:9. Didn't realize that. + Ending theme by the Pillows, though it's nothing so cool crazy as they did in FLCL. MINUSES - As if their being completely skilled at everything they try wasn't enough to prove how manly man our heroes are, each episode tries to find some way to show some brief graphic womanizing. Pretty gratuitous. - I thought I was getting the whole series... but it turns out it was split into two halves and this is just the first. Buh. So by the end of this part... they're not even yet on the moon. Really that last part is the biggest bummer. As a kind of hokey take on a possible near-future (2020s?) of space, it was interesting, and I'd be willing to watch the second half. However, I wouldn't want to spend much more than the $12 I did for this part to do so. (Comment on this)
Monday, July 27th, 2009
7:46 am	Endlame Well, I'm through Star Trek: Voyager. Now what will I watch that I can love to deride so much? So now I've seen nearly all live action Star Trek. Enterprise, DS9, and Voyager I've seen beginning to end this millenium. The Original Series I went through within the last year, though I skipped over episodes I knew I'd seen before--well, other than some of the really notable ones. The only one I haven't watched straight through now is the one that made me a fan of the franchise in the first place: The Next Generation. The vast majority of my viewing of it was daily reruns at about half my current age, so it's just possible there are a handful I've missed viewing. In fact, I'm almost certain I know of a few I don't remember watching, but only know of thanks to episode guides. So it's kind of exciting to have this "unfinished business" be back where I started, whenever I get around to it. Heck, even for the episodes I have seen, I probably haven't seen the majority in a decade. Hmm. With the other series finished and the only foreseeable live action Trek being J.J.-verse movies every few years, I'm sure watching through TNG front to back will get tempting. Though on the non-live-action front, I recently bought the Star Trek animated series. Considering TOS isn't one of my favorite series and TAS is basically a cheaper, shallower, knock-off version I wouldn't normally make a point of adding it to my collection; but at $15 the price seemed right. (Comment on this)
6:27 am	Hillary 46? So as you may remember from older posts, I have developed something of a bad habit, grabbing domain names for sometimes silly purposes. One of these is hillaryis46.org, which I thought would be funny to grab since hillaryis44.org is so crazy, and hillaryis45.org was already "reserved for 2012". Well, I never thought of anything interesting to put there, and even the IMDB-researched fact it lists about a Hillary whose age was 46 is no longer accurate, since she is now 47. The registration gives out in about a month, and I don't think I'll bother renewing this one. But if anyone has any good ideas, or wants to snatch it up before one of those services that automatically grabs any lapsed domain does, I'm ears. (Comment on this)