Its December which means time for end of the year donations. Here is the list of my favorite charities and worthy causes.

Child's Play: Most of you know about this one I'm sure. Help give sick kids a Christmas filled with Nintendo goodness.

Fisher House: When our soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen are wounded, Fisher House allows their loved ( Read more... )

Testing new software

With the announcement that AIG will be bailed out with taxpayer money, I am now convinced that nobody in government understands how capitalism works. The whole idea behind Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" was that people are going to be greedy bastards no matter what, so let's at least reward the smart and greedy and... here's the crucial bit... ( Read more... )

Avatar is over. It was a great ending but my inner fanboy really wanted Toph to just crush everyone.

Trying to figure out what to do with this LJ. Do I try stay current with it again, use it as a dumping ground for my brain, or have it mirror twitter and my semi-pro site.

Damn you
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Damn. No prosthetics in the Olympiad it seems. I have been watching this with interest for several reasons. I think it would be awesome to have the bionic man competing and crushing the puny humans around him. If the committee really thinks technology as an advantage is an issue, then ban it all. Get rid of the sharkskin suits for swimmers and the ( Read more... )

I find it unsettling when the real world peeks into the story notes of my current project and then manufactures this. Stupid truth. Always being stranger than my fiction.

Tonight at 2am (yes yes, its technically tomorrow. Piss off) TCM is airing Otto Preminger's psychadelic disaster "Skidoo". I've always been curious about this film (Gleason + Channing + Marx??) but to my knowledge, this is the first time it is getting any sort of wide showing since its initial release.