Star Trek: The Restart
No spoilers here, or any detailed review ... just a recap of what it felt like. Picture the original series on 'roids, with sharper edges and no warning labels -- what Gene would have wanted if he had bigger space-balls and thought it was possible to pull it off. The movie started with tear-jerking heroism, and culminated in two hours worth of Roddenberry boners. Part of me felt plot-raped, and part of me liked...
Video Eulogy for a Friend
http://vimeo.com/4825838 I finally got to this. I wish the people I love could have known him. He can be seen on video at http://weblogs.hollanddoc.nl/magikdood/2009/03/28/moge-de-zon-je-paraplu-zijn/. Rough transcript of my video: My name is Ken Stuczynski, and this video is in memory of Ronald Cools, who commited suicide earlier this year. I knew him over the Internet -- not the most personal medium, but...
Why is Obama still Fund-Raising?
I keep getting requests for financial support from Obama's team -- he was elected half a year ago! Is there any precedent for such a thing? Are they saving up for a "Clinton bailout"? Does the president have his own lobby? WTH???
Too many eulogies.
I'm still not up to posting a eulogy for my friend Ronald Cools from the Nederlands, and never posted about my friend and accountant Bob Kell earlier this year, but I think I can do this one for our dear pet Hastings. Hastings "Pudding" was the first cat that Merry and I got together, about 12 years ago (he was about 2 years old). To the other cats, he was "Uncle Hastings" and didn't mind the biting back-rides of...
I don’t like it when people lie. And I can catch them like fish.
This guy, Richard Dean Neff, at the Walden Superflea & Farmer's Market was selling fudge pieces for 50 cents. But that's not really why he was there. He was literally marketing a piece of paper -- www.wethepeoplework.com -- with the promise that if I made a $700+ investment (donation?), I would be granted access to his full business opportunity -- www.zoommoneymaker.com. I can't explain this more accurately...
Wish List Alert!
I usually don't get into game systems as much as PCs, but ... http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/a/alpinelegend/
Decide. Please. But THINK first.
{I wrote this on LinkedIn, in response to a discussion about Obama virtually firing the CEO of GM.} The American people need to decide between We The People and Das Kapital. But before we do, we need to educate every citizen with the common sense to know the score: We fat, capitalist Americans throw away more food than most communist and socialist countries can hope to eat. And we've been taught to apologize for...
Trivial Postings?
I just did some baseboard priming where the fishtank will end up being. Funny really ... I was thinking I had to go back to Home Depot to buy some painter's tape, but after I started without it, I remembered I don't need it -- I've got some degree of kung-fu in house painting, after all. I don't even need to wear painting clothes ... though having them on is more forgiving if I need to wipe off something, and it...
Email: Down for the Count
Last weekend, my .pst file (Outlook) reached and exceeded the 2Gb limit -- a limit I neither knew existed nor knew it was coming. I knew my saved email archive was huge, but didn't realize I had to split it so badly. Somehow, it preserved my schedule, and I recovered the address book through Thunderbird. But the email for the last couple years is (temporarily?) lost, including emails in my inbox that I rely on to...