Wednesday, October 29, 2008

An Ideal Evolution

Over the years the "First-Person Shooter" has suffered the stifling limits of it's own stereotypes.

Enter the first-person painter.

This would, I believe, be the most creative variation on the genre I have ever seen.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

“For every problem,

there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”
-- H. L. Mencken

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Fate.

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."
-- Shakespeare (Hamlet)

Grammaculous.

Very occasionally I discover that something I have known - albeit intuitively - is true in a technical sense as well. Suffering the poor formal linguistic education quite typical of those in my genre, I have always regretified being left to my own devices to develop a crude intuitive comprehension using only teen schlock horror novels, comic books, and the subtitled complete works of Monty Python.

Returning to my original point, I am occasionally delighted to find strong technical support for a linguistic principle I had previously only understood intuitively. I present the Serial Comma.

Of course, before I get too enthusiastic, I must remind myself of my disdain for the respect and fixation by mere human beings on rule sets defined by other mere human beings. There's something belittling in being told to conform to a certain set of rules simply because "they" created them. But that's another topic.

On Comedy;

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
-- GK Chesterton.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

For the sake of balance,

I must also link to a ninja dog.

Hilarious.

Ninja Cat.

Seriously. Funniest cat-based video I've seen in ages.

Remeniscent of a particularly memorable (and genuinely unnerving) scene in El Orfanato.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Doesn't say a word about who put the "L" in it, though.

From the Wikipedia entry on "Life":
"This article is about life in general. "
"For other meanings of "life", see Life (disambiguation)."
Good to know they're keeping an open mind.