It’s pretty safe to say that since I’m roughly twelve thousand words behind in NaNoWriMo this book isn’t getting written anytime soon. But you know what, that’s ok I guess. I spent a lot of time thinking about a really lose idea and sorta started mushing it together into a loose kind of dough ball in my head and even got a couple hundred words down. One day it might make a tasty pizza.

I’m going to paste what I have below the cut, for shits and giggles.

The general idea is that the world has ended and has been (or is in the process of being) repopulated by the forethought of some scientists that set up a computer system that would wake up in the event population dipped under a certain number and start a cloning process. Each clone would have some kind of built in memories. I’m thinking the memories could be either like…all from the 40’s (because maybe that’s when the process was started/thought up) or they could be from all over the place because the dna that was cloned was collected from various places. So you could have 40’s type detectives and dames, 60’s stoners, 80’s punks all mixed together.

I also had the idea that “the plan” was to have all these clones hatch and create a wonderful utopian city called something like Ellay (ie: L.A.) where everyone was very materialistic and beautiful (a la Brave new world) but the have-nots decided not to stick around. So they leave and make their own city leaving the utopians to deal with the everyday tasks. All of that would just be flavor and humor background, but at the core it would be a pretty simple murder mystery.

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Saw an 18-wheeler today with the company name: “A. Duie Pyle”

I probably got 10 minutes of giggling out of that

I could survive for 1 minute, 19 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

I have to write a style guide for the website I designed at work and I found myself designing the style guide. Then I started thinking, “the design for this style guide is all over the place…I need a style guide for the style guide.”

I spent too much time on it and ended up just spitting out a basic PDF that I’m not at all pleased with. But it beats the previous version of the guide, which was three Jpegs.

See, I created the design of the site in photoshop and someone else is building it. They asked me for a style guide. Ok, sure. I started writing the guide in Word but found the layout tools wanting. So I fired up Photoshop. This way I could have a “before” and “after” and then a block that defines the styles. But the text layout was shitty and without multiple pages I had to send out three jpegs. That wasn’t cool. So I start up InDesign. It had been awhile since I used it last, but I started to pick it back up and now I’m laying out and popping in graphics and all that good shit. But then I started to ponder the design of the style guide. “Well, I used a blue box for that one, but this one has blue text so I should use a different color. Ok, I should probably use the font of the website in these boxes then a different font for the descriptive text. Which font? Hey, maybe I’ll do landscape, that’s always fun….But what if…hmm…I need a style guide for this.”

It’s a slippery slope, people. Beware.

(from xkcd )

I assumed I was going to do a write up on the Dark Knight, but…well what else can I say that hasn’t been said? On one hand I hate having the media do my talking for me on the other I don’t want to rehash what’s already been squirted all over tv and the net. It was a great movie. As a fan of the comics and a big batman fan in particular, I loved it. I love that the Joker was a perfectly blended cocktail of chaos, insanity, and dark silliness.

I never liked the campy joker, in the same way I never like it when Darth Vader was used as a punchline in commercials. I forget the exact commercial I’m thinking of (which should say something about the message) but it was essentially “tee hee, even Darth Vader likes it!”.

The previous attempt at a Joker tried way too hard to explain the “why” and fell far short. He wasn’t even KINDA creepy…and I’m fucking terrified of clowns. Oh, but Ledger’s Joker, oh my…You have no idea who he is, why he does what he does, you have no idea what he’s going to do second to second - shit, HE doesn’t know what he’s going to do second to second. I rolled my eyes when he went into his “know how I got these scars?” bit the first time (please don’t try to explain this, I thought) but then he told the story different each time. That’s perfect. That’s perfect chaos. And masterfully executed.

It’s a pretty good time to be a comic book fan. Starting with Spider-man, then Iron Man, a rejuvenated Hulk…X-men Origins: Wolverine is looking great and sets up a whole host of possibilities for Origins movies. Origins: Magneto is in the works, and a rumor is floating around about Origins: First Class, which is sounding like the first students of Xavier Academy (ie: cyclops, jean grey, storm…).  Watchmen…fuck man, I’m set until at least 2011. Bring ‘em on.

…well shit, I guess that was a leaked trailer for The Watchmen or something because the link doesn’t work anymore and their site says see it on friday. Oh well. Here’s the link to the page: link to the page

It um…looked awesome!

Like Joss Whedon? Sure, we all do. Watch it. Twice.

This is a pretty sweet shirt.

That is all.

We got a sneak preview of some of our wedding pictures.

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