Alight you primitive screwheads, listen up!

I'm going to the Vet science halloween-themed smoko tonight. My costume rocks. Why? becuase I will have this:

Keppel!

Just booked my Christmas holidays for 2005. Yes, I'm going back to Rockhampton for a few weeks, but I also get 3 nights at the Mercure Resort with Lou, Steve & Liz, Ian, Mike & his wife. Much beer will be drunk, and drunk we shall be.

The dynamic will be different, of course. We'll have to stop cussin' and spittin' so much around the women-folk.

Holidays! (so far away... *sniff*)

It's back

Back in black, like AC/DC: http://geordie.is-a-geek.net

Over 100 photo galleries and counting.

Flight of the Phoenix

I have a diabolical (...DIABOLICAL, I SAY!!!) plan to get back my photos, rantings and MoBlog back at geordie.is-a-geek.net. I'm going to run it off my home machine...

I knew I'd find a use for that bandwidth.

Jackson Fever

I just got credited by HBO for finding an article on news.com.au about the Halo movie being Produced by Peter Jackson. Last time I submitted news on that site, I turned out to be totally wrong. I'm now breaking even :)

(I used my now-defunct XBL alias DunnyPanMan)

link

Communities are cool.

Serenity

Saw Joss Whedon's Serenity the other night. It was better-than-Good. Not Awesome. But then again, I don't know how high my own ratings system goes, so...

Then again I didn't have unreasonably high expectations, either. I liked Firefly, and thought it deserved a longer run, given the richness of the characters and setting.

Let me just quote Myself, from a conversation about the movie with a friend:

I like they way they depicted the universe in the movie a lot better than the TV version. The High-tech cities actually looked high-tech. All the guns weren't commercially available today (although I did see a Microsoft Natural a.k.a "Banana" Keyboard in there). There was a plausible explanation as to why the outer planets were so backwards. The "Mule" is now a hovercraft and not a Kawasaki quad.

...No explanation for why, in the future, they use horses or six-shooters, though.

It was sad and funny and tense. Full of broken Sci-Fi conventions. However I doubt the movie will revive this show - it's pipping the $20 at the U.S. box office right now; which is a pity. I would gladly pre-order a new direct-to-DVD season tomorrow if one were on the cards.

Right: next show to obsess about, please!

Geordie is a geek

It's back! Kind of...

I lost my "real" website a few months ago, becuase the machine I was "hosting" it on moved into a private subnet. I've resurrected the original URL, but I still don't have my 10gig of photos/videos/ramblings. We'll see what we can do about that, one day. We just need more free(ish) services like Blogger and Flickr, then I can stop designing site management systems in my head!

Anyway, welcome back, you crappy DynDNS hostname: http://geordie.is-a-geek.net

Peter-Frickin'-Jackson is Exec-Producing Halo

I don't really have the words for this, since I've only just gotten the news. Just read, okay? Here's the meat, for the lazy...

Joseph Staten, Bungie Studios wrote:

A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to partner with two tremendous Producers from Universal, Mary Parent and Scott Stuber. In the short time they’ve been on board, Mary and Scott have joined with Peter Schlessel to accomplish unimaginably wonderful things. Example? They’ve secured an Executive Producer to help guarantee the creative integrity and technical excellence of the Halo film.

And that Executive Producer’s name is Peter Jackson.

This will not be a Doom, Alone in the Dark, or Mario Brothers. Do not doubt this. The only thing that can go wrong now is that the movie is 3.5 hours long and has 5 consecutive, drawn-out endings. Or that the Master Chief will have oversize hairy feet.

Let me just say in closing: "Yay." You can quote me.

Baby steps

Okay I just made the jump over to semantic XHTML+CSS. Coz, you know, so many people come here, and it's important that those 2 people can read it if they were blind, deaf or dumb.

So we'll see what happens when I link to WE05 @ Technorati with rel="tag"... Jumped here from there? Don't see any WE05-realted content? Well I'm working on it, I just had to tidy my house in case of a flood of visitors.

I've put up what few photos I took at the event, and they should eventually filter into the main WE05 stack/group/set/whatever. My mind is still buzzing with the possibilities for the future of the web. It's kinda hard to get anything done without having an internal monologue about the best way to do something.

I'm all about the mental paralysis.

Photo-tastic

I now have a Flickr account!

http://flickr.com/photos/geordie

The boys & girls at WE05 convinced me to dive in and trust this (relatively) new service with my photos. I may even become a paying member. I'll be blogging about that event, plus all the other crazy stuff on my recent trip to Sydney (a.k.a "Mordor") - as soon as I clean up the HTML for this site!

Can't go having dodgy code around web gurus, can you. My theory is that I'm like a plumber: the pipes in their own homes are always leaky. But my pants cover my bum cleavage. Anyway, what was I talking about? Who knows, really.