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I used to have, or atleast intended to have, a movie log here…. However, as anyone can see, and especially those of you that have been here previously, I’m not very good at updating the site.

At one point I ended up seeing so many movies that I couldn’t keep up with my log, and it dissipated into nothingness. Not that that would refrain me trying again. So I may. No, I will. The next time I see a movie, and in the meantime I may, no … I will, post on some of the more memorable movies that I’ve missed commenting on.

At least that will leave the spammers out there some new posts to spam

I have these past years tested various MMORPG games, and come to the conclusion that we will never see any MMO with truly integrating roleplay as many of us have experienced from NeverWinterNights or PenAndPaper games. There are several reasons for this, but I think I can point to two of the major reasons.
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So… my MythTV (linux TiVo, digital “video” recorder) box died a while back. When I got the hardware back up and running my software was ofcourse outdated – and the update function gave me some weird error about virtual libraries. Heeding a friends advice, I set of trying to install Ubuntu instead of my nice old gentoo… Read the rest of this entry »

Something just hit me… I can’t do bungee jumping. I’m pretty sure it would put too big a strain on my troubled back.

Now, I probably wouldn’t have done it… but the idea that my body is limiting my choices for fun or fear is rather unsettling. Actually, it pisses me off.

I think I will use this agression to work more intensively with my physioterapeut to get my body and specifically my back in better shape. Perhaps there’s other fears I can face

Well, I gave it another shot. People’ve been raving about FireFly for a while, and even though I didn’t quite “get” the first few episodes I caught a while back, with the current pause in new TV programming it was time to look at something old.

I can probably say this is the best series I’ve seen that got canned so quickly and undeservingly. Read the rest of this entry »