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TheShaggyFreak
Centreville, VA
Interests: Music, video games, anime, movies, etc
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My friend Phil Hofer (AKA Frumph) is a Wordpress developer and is a great source of information for anything concerning it. He's helped me out a number of times over the past few years and I'm sure you'd benefit greatly from his wisdom. You can reach him via his website at Frumph.net or via Twitter/Facebook.
Treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home.
In 2001, blogs were very new things. In fact, as much more time was spent arguing talking about what blogs even were, and where they fit into the media landscape than was spent actually, you know, writing in them. In fact, I don't even think the word "blogging" existed back then, and whenever it...
I'm such a HUGE fan of Wallace Shawn. He ranks right up there with Robert Picardo. Last weeks episode was certainly one of my favorites this season. Great acting...great writing...just all around fun and enjoyable. Keep up the awesome work!
William
#TeamFargo
Eureka: This One Time At Space Camp
In a few hours, I will be picked up and taken to the set for my last day on Eureka. Though I've known this day was coming for a couple of weeks, and I've been trying to prepare myself for it, I'm not ready. I don't want this to be over. I don't want to say goodbye to my friends. Monday, we had o...
I guess there are just some people who live in such a delusional state that they believe people on TV aren't human. It's pretty sad and I for one believe you acted with all of the dignity of how a person should. That woman got everything she deserved from you and that was absolutely nothing. She didn't respect you and that puts her in the category of 'being a dick'.
if you cut me, i will bleed
Pretty much all of Comicon was awesome. However, there was one thing that was decidedly not awesome, and though I had initially decided not to talk about it in public, it's bothered me since it happened, so I wrote about it on G+ earlier today. I'm cross posting it here, though, because it's imp...
My cat's litter box is just outside my studio. I swear they time their usage of the thing so that they take a massive dump ever time I just get started on the days work. It doesn't matter what time it is. When I sit down in that chair, it's suddenly poop o'clock to them.
With our cat Echo it's not such a big deal. With Ryo-ohki, though, it's completely different. Her mother never taught her to bury things properly, so she just leaves it right on the surface to fester. Instead of doing the right thing covering it up with all that nice litter, she sits there and scratches on the side of the box for about five minutes. She then has the nerve to come up to me looking for attention right after the fact.
I love my cats but they can be tricksy. As far as allergies go, I'm with you 100%. I love trees but sometimes I wish they'd calm down with the sex. It's like getting stuck in a hotel room next to the young couple who get it on like a pair of rabbits. No one gets to get a decent nights sleep.
this is really gross. you have been warned.
There is a tree near my house, that has probably been there for years, just doing its tree thing, watching patiently as families come and go, empires rise and fall, and Isengard is flooded. I'm sure it's a beautiful tree, cheerfully trading carbon dioxide for oxygen, providing shade, and most li...
I had Highlights for years as a kid but I never liked reading it for some reason. I always thought they were particularly boring and ended up playing with Legos or something else instead.
in which Highlights for Children is discussed at great length
Last night, on the way home from dinner, I asked Anne, "Do you remember Highlights for Children?" "Of course I do," she said, "I remember how I hated going to the doctor when I was a kid, until I started reading Highlights in the waiting room." "Turn right at this intersection," I said, "and Tra...
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a very limited (I mean VERY limited) autographed book lottery
Yesterday, I said: I found nine hardback copies of The Happiest Days of Our Lives that I must have put there when they first arrived at my house a couple of years ago. They look as perfect as they did the day they were taken out of the box. So I have this idea to sell them, that goes like this:...
I actually still own my copy of E.T. and it really is that bad. For some reason, though, I didn't think so as a kid. I'm not entirely sure why.
the most beguiling, horrible, opposite-of-fun experience I'd ever had
Reader G.M. e-mailed this picture and said, "How the f**k I ever believed that THIS was E.T., I'll never know -- but I still played it for hours and hours." The picture unlocked a memory I haven't thought about in a long time, but wanted to share: Around 1982 or 1983, before City Walk at Un...
Looking forward to it! Eureka has come across as a very smart show in my eyes. It's nice to have a decent series on SyFy that does take itself too seriously.
Eureka!
I'm heading up to Vancouver later this week to shoot an episode of Eureka! The SyFy (I know they're my new employers, but it still pains me to write that) Channel put out the following press release this morning: Actor, author and blogger Wil Wheaton of the popular television series Star Trek: ...
I approve! And the animated version had me staring at it for an hour. I think I'm going to need therapy.
about that recursive wil wheaton t-shirt...
I'm guessing a non-zero number of you have seen this picture: I further imagine that some of you have seen the animated version. (Warning! May cause seizures, nausea, trips to Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite.) Like all awesome things, this comes with a story. Paul (of Paul and Storm) texted m...
Wish I could have been there but I knew that I couldn't survive a convention after spending a week in Japan. I think that would have killed me. Actually, I'm sure of it.
I wish we had in flight internet during our 14 hour ride to Japan but I had to be content with my PSP and iPod. Actually, it's an iPhone but it might as well have been an iPod since it was in flight mode. The on-flight entertainment thing was pretty nifty, though. Safe journey home!
greetings from the future (and 38000 feet), with a quick story from PAX
I'm posting this from an airplane that is currently 37966 feet above Port Stanley, Ontario. It's -78 Fahrenheit about 7 feet from where I'm sitting. And I am currently on the internet, while my position is updated on Google Maps in front of me in almost real time. There's just enough turbulence ...
It's kind of strange, ya know? I remember sitting at a friends house watching Star Wars on Laser Disc and I thought, "Can technology get better than this?" I remember being in awe of movies like Tron. Technology is a wondrous thing, isn't it?
My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20. 5K of RAM! Next I had a Commodore 64 with 64K! Every step I took, I kept telling myself, "How can this get better?" Now the average person can own a computer that has the ability to produce realistic 3D animation or record an album that is as good as any major studio. At the age of 35, I feel rather lucky to have lived through such great leaps in technology. I think we tend to have a better appreciation towards what we can create with these machines.
Geek in Review: The Musical Future
My Geek in Review this month is all about how weird it is for me to have existed in the world before and after ... well, here, let me just quote myself instead of trying to rephrase myself: My kids have never seen a floppy disc, heard the sound of a modem connecting, blown into a NES cartridge ...
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