The Episode of the Beast

Yesterday was June 6th, 2006 – 6/6/6 – and naturally, the entertainment industry was full of devil love for the day. The entire pointless remake of the Omen came out; Slayer kicked off their Unholy tour; and Doctor Who woke Satan. The Doctor and Rose interview Sauron to replace Rose’s ex-boyfriend Mickey, left in a … Read more

GMail

We have severe problems with e-mail at work. We use Outlook 2000. Named not for the year it came out, but for how much mail you can have before Outlook sticks a revolver in its mouth and pulls the trigger. Pass 2000 megabytes of mail, and it's gone. Corrupted. Without a hope of retrieval, unless … Read more

Rakuraku Dinokun!

A long long LONG time ago… like half the rest of the world, I was crazy about virtual pets. My favorite? Rakuraku Dinokun (or Friendly Little Dino). My old blog from around 1996-2000, Penultimatum, was disappeared (and the domain name stolen, STOLEN, by someone else!), but the Internet Archive had bits and pieces… including some … Read more

EQ2: The Death of Darathar

In Lavastorm, working on some bits for the Lost Legend of Lavastorm, when I came out of Maiden’s Gulch and saw this… what a money shot… Dina… bard… conqueror of the world… There was to be a pickup Deception raid to finish off some folks’ prismatic weapons, and I was scrurrying around Lavastorm desperately trying … Read more

Star Trek Enterprise: Revisited

Well sure, I’m going to watch the whole season. Why not? And I have to admit, after the Nazi disaster, the season improves. They have an episode arc; episodes do effect the episodes after them. Of course, nobody important ever dies. They’re still Star Trek, you know. Only unimportant characters die. The whole bit about … Read more