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Archive for September 2002 I must have done a great job on my short story Springboy, as everyone who's read it has been depressed and sad afterwards. Why is that? Is it that you weren't expecting the ending? I felt sad writing it... I tried to keep it simple, like a little boy would think. The name "Springboy" is even dumb, but I figured that's how I named things when I was four. But I didn't expect such a wave of sadness. The more I think about flying, the more I hate it. I'm sort of having a hard time thinking I'm not doomed after Wednesday. I'm trying to think of things I want to do the weekend I get back, so it's concrete to me. I feel like there's nothing after this trip, makes me think that's it, that's the end. I think it's a good idea to dope myself up during the flight, because (1) obviously I'll worry less, and (2) depending on how doped up I need to be, I'll be loose in the case of a crash. You know how people seize up before a car accident, and end up getting hurt much worse? Another thing. Seat belts in airplanes... as I understand it, the belt is there to keep you in your seat so the body can be identified. In a crash, the belt would break your spine/pelvis. In the case of a crash, wouldn't you want to have your back facing the impact? In fact, for any accident, isn't that preferable? We can't do it in cars, but let's do it in planes! I wonder if there's any backwards-facing seats. http://www.petitiononline.com/sprmn5/petition.html I don't know if it's a hoax or no, but if you ever liked Superman, you may as well sign that petition. In the first draft of the new Superman movie: *** SPOILERS? *** - Superman ignores danger to flirt with Lois. - Superman's enemy, Lex Luthor, is actually Kryptonian and has super-fights with Superman. His plan is to destroy the world. (Huh? He's a capitalist!) - Jimmy Olsen is gay. - Superman's powers come from his SUIT, not Earth's sun. - The fights are Matrix meets Dragonball Z. ****************** I don't care if it is a hoax. If it is, you wasted sixty seconds! If it's not, you may have helped shut down this Schumacherian nightmare! Read some guy's spoiler-laden take on the leaked draft here: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=13350 I don't even care about Superman very much, but this is pathetic. Okay. My work is sending me to Charlotte, North Carolina next week. New information: the trip was supposed to be Tuesday only, but has been changed to a two-night stay, Wednesday night and Thursday. I return Friday night -- I don't know what this is gonna do to the comic, but c'est la vie, cherchez la femme avec le dowrie, etc. So if you're a stalker of mine living in Charlotte, here's your chance to kidnap me. I'm sort of looking forward to going, but not looking forward to flying. At all. I hate flying. I'm going to ask my doctor if I have to take any special precautions when on the plane. (Special prescriptions is more like it.) Two pictures have surfaced from perhaps two or three years ago -- must be two. They were in an otherwise-unused directory here at Nightlight Press. Oh, what secrets! I've only had the site for about two years and even I have forgotten what's in all the directories. Anyway, these must have been taken about the same time, Halloween of 2001, I think. (I'm Jeff Lynne.)   You can look in the directory, but that's all that was in there. Dad and/or Kurt and/or Mom dug up my Dr. Science tape from 15 years ago and I watched most of it tonight. I think there's about three hours worth on there. I think. I need to check. Part of me wants to put the episodes on the internet, but I learned my big-file-lesson recently. All morning, a phone here at work has rang every 30 seconds. Every 30 seconds. Every 30 seconds. It rings once, and no more for another 30 seconds. Another 30 seconds. Another 30 seconds. Another 30 seconds. I'm going to go find it right now. I don't wanna bring down the Chex news ticker with this, but I debated doing today's strip because of 9/11. I had this joke on the books for a while, and goldurnit, if I can't have Chex accidentally vaporize his own home, then the terrorists have won. Why didn't I have the same compunctions about Hitler? He's not exactly a softie. Well, I figure if you're the type to be offended, you probably got offended by something in CN before today anyway. I think there should be a D&D-playing D&D module. For example: "My character wants to be a wizard. He rolls for strength. He gets 15." "Roll for it." "9. I got it." "Okay, your character has a wizard with strength 15. The DM says you start off in a castle, with no idea where you are." "My player asks the DM what else is in the room." "The DM says your wizard can see a rope leading to a bell. He'll have to jump to reach it." "My player makes the wizard jump. The DM rolls a 7, and the wizard falls." "Roll for it." "3. Damn." "The wizard grabs the rope in time and starts climbing. Your character is getting thirsty." "I ask the DM for a soda." "He says you can go to his fridge to get one..." My bandwidth is almost consumed. 20 GB in five days. Just think, if I used my smallest file format for the Switch ad, it would have been consumed in ten. I hope you'll have Checkerboard Nightmare for the rest of the month, folks. If not, be sure to bookmark the forums for updates if the whole thing comes crashing down around me. I need mirrors, people. If you've got the 'width to lend, provide it! I'll link your site (so you can get even more traffic -- okay, not much of an enticement). Penny Arcade linked my Switch ad today, which explains why I burned about 300 MB in under an hour. That's about 150 views. I need to add another mirror, I think. Canaca.com, you better hold up your end of the bargain. In other news, I got a spam saying "President Bush Pushes Faith-Based Funding - Are You Ready?" It contains links to "religious" "group" "organizations" that apparently are focused on finding great hotel deals for conferences, hosting, and other resources. Uh, okay, great. Go to hell, guys. From the ELO mailing list: what does Jeff say in that verse from Video? Oh, look at me now / I'm burning up the steely wires One fan says they always heard "Beleaguered enough / I'm burning up the ceiling wires." I forgot that most of the other fans listen to ELO by having it piped into a vat of Silly Putty, then plunging their head in after inserting a small beetle in either ear. Apparently Jeff Lynne is one of the producers behind George Harrison's upcoming last album "Brainwashed." What the hell kind of fan club is getting run here? Rob Caiger has been intoning for at least two months that Jeff was "very busy in the studio, wink wink." Was this the product of that business? Are we so information-starved that we have to cling to that? I mean, Jeff producing George is obviously a big deal, especially when George apparently joked that Jeff would not be doing the album because he'd try to make it sound like ELO. So finally, when (1) we've decided that Jeff can't be working on any of his stuff, and (2) Jeff said a new ELO album was probably coming, I'm assuming "hey, maybe that's what he's up to." So instead of "you never know....... ;) ;) lol," how about "Jeff is in the studio working on George Harrison's last album" or "Jeff is not in the studio right now." I'm tired of the super-secrecy revolving around ELO's projects and Jeff Lynne. No wonder all the community does is pore over whether or not he sang "these" or "those" in the background of The Whale at 1:32:41. Other bands have websites with announcements on them. "Anthrax is putting together a new tour for fall 2003." NOT "something special is coming, stay tuned..." It's back! I'm posting from DSL! Hooray! It must have been an old routing table that wasn't being updated. I'm king of space future! Hello. I'm looking for an official host for my Switch ad. The file is about 2.1 MB. The problem is, it's gotten a lot of views, and since it's so topical, it's going to get a lot more. As of September 8, I've moved 1.3 GB. Most of that is the Switch video. At that rate, I could blow my 20GB/month limit, especially considering no Apple parody sites have linked me yet. So if you're in that biz, and have bandwidth to burn, contact me? It's not that the site has been down. Everyone I know can get into it except me. I had to connect via dial-up to do this edit. Why can't I see my own damn site?? Two theories: either my host is blocking my ISP, or my ISP is blocking my host somehow. It's not proxy settings or cache problems or anything simple. It's beyond my control. I don't think it's the former, because each time I connect, a new IP is generated. Why would my host block all SBC Global customers? Why would SBC Global block Nightlight Press? Ah, they probably aren't -- someone suggested it was a routing table issue. Pretty messed up if you ask me. All it does is inconvenience the hell out of me. Stupid stupid stupid. This better get resolved by Sunday night. ----- Meanwhile, I'd like to announce something special. If you've seen these Apple ads, you might appreciate my version. (1:10, 3.2 MB, requires QuickTime to view) A little tidbit: I filmed this thing on the PC, and needed to transfer it to the Mac. This was like an acid test or something. Eight hours and two nights later, I realized video editing and the PC should be kept as far away from each other as possible. It was frustrating as hell. Then I used Melissa's PowerBook to edit it in iMovie. Ahhhhhh. Windows has NO right to brag about anything. Not only that, but part of the transfer involved swapping out Zip disks. Windows crashed with each new disk. Mac didn't. If it wasn't for the dearth of games and Apple's cloying ads, I wouldn't own a PC. Recently, Airsick Moth has been jampacked with Leonard. Now with more Leonard than ever before. [American] and H.R. Puffnstuff is a..thing [AirsickMoth] i know what pufnstuf looks like [AirsickMoth] what's with those bags under his eyes? [AirsickMoth] was he on heroin? [Myrth] no, he was high on life! [AirsickMoth] and crack! [Myrth] well.. that too. [AirsickMoth] that's an old leonard/kris bit. [AirsickMoth] all the comedy frontiers are gone. yribsybknpva vagrenpgvba cnvaxvyyref (ROT13ed) http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html This is awesome. Real-time 3D display of satellite positions. You can also project the path onto Earth and see where stuff will be "visible" (or at least where it'll pass over). It was the recurring infection again, so antibiotics are back for three weeks. Otherwise, nothing new, except it was becoming very distracting. Hopefully this round (plus another, maybe) will finish it off. http://crummy.com/pix/2002/0708-adam-and-kim's-wedding/ Leonard has pictures of Adam and Kim's wedding. Check out that one picture "kris-and-sumana." Damn, I look hardcore. I thought I was going to jump out of the picture and start breaking things. When I wasn't lying down, I recorded two songs. http://www.nightlightpress.com/4000/5morrowind.mp3 (400 KB) This one is a 40-second cover of a theme from a game I like. http://www.nightlightpress.com/4000/banjo.mp3 (4 MB) This song I did for Leonard's birthday, or rather I wrote it for his birthday and wound up doing it a few months late. About 4:30 long. If you don't understand who and what, it's because they're in-jokes from college. Meanwhile on the illness front, you may remember that I had a nasty abdominal infection early in the year. If it's not killed outright, it returns. It can be chronic. I think I have it again. Without getting too specific, there are no symptoms other than pain, and no horrible dangers from it, but I gotta go through the same rigamarole to get rid of it. I just finished three weeks of antibiotics to no avail -- often they prescribe six. I'll try to see a specialist late this week or early next, but I might just go to the ER and demand more antibiotics, as this is starting to become very distracting. Britney likes the lesbian porn, apparently. Whee! Lavish her with praise! But she's still a good little virgin! http://www.suntimes.co.za/2002/08/25/backpage/back01.asp Does it bother me? Did I think she was really a good person? No, there's lots of sinners in music. But she claims to be different. That's the Betrayal of Britney. Read about it in my new book. |
