3:24 AM | •
I think Final Fantasy could've been so much better. The CGI and animation were flat out amazing. There were some scenes where the characters could've easily passed for real human beings. The plot, however, was kind of weird and didn't make much sense. The dialogue could've used some work too. Anyway, at least it was nice to look at.

7.13.2001

7:42 PM | •
I'm about to go see Final Fantasy with my roommates and a couple car loads of their friends. I don't know any of them, so this'll be interesting...

7:23 PM | •
And now, presenting my list of Simpsons store names. This was compiled through months of rerun watching. It's far from complete though, so please email me the ones I missed. I didn't include the obvious stores like Moe's and the Kwik-E-Mart, and I didn't include the "normal" store names either.

Ah Fudge!
All Creatures, Great and Cheap
Barnacle Bill's Anger Management Center
Beachcomber Barber Shop
Bloodbath & Beyond Gun Shop
Broken-Home Chimney Repair
Call Me Delish-mael
CostMo Foods
Crypto Barn: A Place For Codes
Davey Jones' Hamper
Dingo Junction
Donner's Party Supplies
Goody New Shoes
Hairy Shearers
Have it Uruguay
Hemp City
I.P.O. Friday's
It Blows: An Air Conditioner Store
It's a Wonderful Knife
J.R.R. Toykin
Java the Hut
Just Rainsticks
Karma-ceuticals
Kentucky Fried Panda
King Toot's Music Store
Li'l Valu-Mart
Malaria Zone
Miscellaneous, Etc.
Much Ado About Muffins
My First Tattoo
One Size Fits All Lingerie
Planet Hype
Planet Springfield
Repot Depot
Señor Ding-Dong's Doorbell Fiesta
Sh tkickers
Shøp
Snippy Longstocking
Sportacus
Stoner's Pot Palace
TeeJay's ZayMart
Tern for the Wurst
The Buzzing Sign Diner
The Copy Jalopy
The Corpulent Cowboy
The French Confection
The Frying Dutchman
The Gassy Knoll
The Happy Earwig Motel
The Hungry Hun
The Jerky Hut
The Kabachi Hibachi
The London Broil
The Lucky Stiff Funeral Home
The Perm Bank
The Spend Zone
The Texas Cheesecake Depository
Try-n-Save
Turban Outfitters
Ugli
Up, Up, and Buffet
What They Eat in Thailand
You Thai Now
Yuk-ingham Palace

4:34 PM | •
I didn't know Neal Stephenson's The Big U reprint was released last February. This is cool cause the original out-of-print first edition goes for around $200 on eBay. I found an online copy a few months ago and I printed it out at work, but reading a loose 8.5 x 11" book just isn't the same.

7.12.2001

10:00 PM | •
This is such a cool prank. You take an old computer, take everything out of the inside, and fill the case with concrete. Then you put it on your porch and watch dumb thieves try to steal a 100 lb concrete block. Of course, once the thieves get pissed off they'll probably chuck it through your window.

9:53 PM | •
Two Police Cars Open Fire On Each Other

"Police officers in two cars fired more than 20 rounds at each other after mistaking each other's vehicles for a stolen patrol car. Nobody was hurt."

9:50 PM | •
My math midterm wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Well, maybe that's because I actually studied for it. Thank god tomorrow's Friday. This week was way too long.

7.11.2001

10:17 PM | •
Newsweek has an amusing article about the Rise of Christian Pop Music. Apparently, Christian pop music is the hottest genre in the music industry now. It had $747 million in record sales last year. They even have their own Lollapalooza-like concert tour, Festival Con Dios (Festival With God, in Spanish).

"The kids have the option to visit the prayer area if they’re not moshing to Skillet’s acerbic din, or rocking to the Beastie Boyish raps of Earthsuit. Or they can all bow their heads together at the main stage, where bands and speakers break into prayer at any given hour."

...Which reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons quotes: "All the best bands are affiliated with Satan."

2:49 AM | •
Kimberley-Clark, the owners of the Kleenex and Scotch brands, will soon introduce coreless toilet paper rolls. Apparently it reduces the threat of running out at a bad time. But what are elementary school kids and people with Down Syndrome going to use for arts and crafts now?

2:34 AM | •
Taking the transparent, see-through craze to the next logical level, someone made his hard drive see-through. Now he just needs to find a good place to mount it so he can see his hard drive spin when he downloads new porn.

2:24 AM | •
I think a neat trick would be to show this little animation to someone who's about to go on a long plane trip. Heh heh heh.

7.10.2001

4:22 PM | •
What the hell? My stupid archive page is acting weird again. On Saturday half the entries just disappeared, and now they're back again. I wonder where they went. Maybe to another, more exciting, more popular blog.

Anyway, I'm just going to ignore the archive page from now on. If you're looking for a particular page and it's not there, try again a few days later.

1:34 PM | •
Some guy created a book-on-demand machine that sounds like it could potentially change the world. The machine is about the size of an industrial photocopier. It downloads an electronic version of a book, prints it, binds it, and trims it in just a few minutes. So you can just go up to one of these machines and get a copy of any book you want, right then and there. It sounds pretty cool, but who knows if we'll actually see it.
[ From Slashdot ]

1:16 PM | •
Damn, my math class is getting really weird. The professor started proving something today and I didn't know what the fuck he was doing. And we have a midterm on Thursday, ugh.

7.9.2001

6:37 PM | •
The new Mini went on sale in England and, from this article, it sounds like it's a big hit. I wouldn't mind driving around in one, though I'd probably get run over by an SUV right away.

3:52 PM | •
Finally, some good news about Microsoft: MSN Messenger Outage Continues

Heh heh heh.

7.8.2001

4:52 PM | •
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