My next subject is still to be identified. I guess most famous folks are too busy with their fame to blog coherently.
Or perhaps I'm being too picky.
Maybe kevo can help.
And I do, as ever, remain open to suggestions.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Finished reading WWdN:ix for October
I just finished reading WWdN:ix for October. I enjoyed three of the posts immensely:
I've now been reading and commenting on Wil longer than I planned. I've decided to continue reading his blog, and might even comment on it infrequently, but I'm now looking for input for another famous person's blog to read for a few weeks.
Any thoughts/suggestions? I'm open to most any famous person with an interesting blog.
- October 18 (the squadron of benevolent butterflies)
- I loved this post about his Geek in Review article, The Real Revenge of the Nerds (I'll give you the same warning he put on this: "though be warned: there's a hiney at the bottom of the page right now, which is probably not safe for work, so approach with caution.")
- October 27 (TNG Review: Where No One Has Gone Before) and
October 30 (Where One More Has Gone Before) - I liked Wil's review of this episode of ST:TNG (though I don't watch the show anymore due to time constraints, I do think I'm going to set up a TiVo wishlist for this one so I can see it again).
I also liked the link to Diane Duane's post regarding the episode. Good reading.
I've now been reading and commenting on Wil longer than I planned. I've decided to continue reading his blog, and might even comment on it infrequently, but I'm now looking for input for another famous person's blog to read for a few weeks.
Any thoughts/suggestions? I'm open to most any famous person with an interesting blog.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
WWdN (a quick review): Breezing through another week of October
Well, life's been keeping me busy, and I've hardly had time to read Wil lately, but here's a quick recap on thoughts triggered by specific entries:
- October 11, 2006 (Introducing the Geek in Review)
- Ah, yes, gaming! The ultimate geek "getaway weekend"!
I remember those days fondly.
Whiling away the hours, excercising the little gray cells solving puzzles, avoiding traps, raiding hoards, and otherwise defeating evil, be it D&D, Champions, Star Traveller, whaterver. Them were the days! - October 16, 2006 (pattern recognition)
- I don't recall William Gibson's Neuromancer
as well as I'd like, but what I remember most was (a) I loved it, and (b) it may quite possibly been the first "cyberpunk" book I ever read (at least, the first that flew under that flag).
Put another way, more fond memories, and this from "a kid" nearly half my age (acutally, at the time of the first movie I saw him in (1986's Stand By Me) he was about 14 and I was 30.)
- October 18, 2006 (The Absolute Sandman
)
- Now Neil Gaiman's Sandman I do remember (and remember well!)
That was a damned fine comic book.
I don't buy comics anymore, though (in fact I still have a few I'd love to find buyers for — any takers?) because it got way to costly (in terms of $$$ & HH:MM:SS).
I also doubt I can get it through Inter-Library Loan, but watch: that will not stop me from trying!
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
WWdN:ix (Oct 10, "on the occasion of star trek's fortieth anniversary, some belated comments")
I was ten when ST:TOS (Star Trek: The Original Series) ran. Supposedly, you carry "the way the world looks to you when you're ten" away with you (for the rest of your life) as the way the world should look. Well, ST:TOS was, for me, the way television was supposed to look: striving to entertain, yet making you think at the same time. Shows have come a long way since then, but still too many of them don't even make the effort in this regard.
I just read Wil's October 10th offering, and thoroughly enjoyed it. This boy can really write well, something I haven't mentioned here before in so many words (and a terrible oversight that is, too!)
I enjoyed the way he wrapped up the post, but for me this quote really hit home:
If you're not reading WWdN:ix yet, you ought to give it a go.
Oh yeah, I will say this about the "in a way that doesn't beat us over the head with a message" part of the post—obviously, Wil can't be talking about Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
Oh, and it's election day. So if you haven't voted yet, let me urge you to do that first, then go read WWdN:ix; I'd have you do it the other way around, but I'm afraid (1) you'll get sucked in and not get around to voting at all, and (2) that I'll get accused of trying to influence you to vote a certain way—which is not the case at all . . . you get to make your own mistakes!
I just read Wil's October 10th offering, and thoroughly enjoyed it. This boy can really write well, something I haven't mentioned here before in so many words (and a terrible oversight that is, too!)
I enjoyed the way he wrapped up the post, but for me this quote really hit home:
As Battlestar Galactica shows us today, science fiction has a long tradition of holding up a mirror to our modern world, and reflecting it back to us in a way that doesn't beat us over the head with a message, but makes that message easy enough to find for those who want to see it. In the 1960s, Star Trek did this better than any other show except maybe the Twilight Zone, and it did it during an incredibly turbulent time when it was risky even acknowledge that mirror existed, much less hold it up. For that, alone, it deserves all the attention and accolade its been given in the last forty years.
If you're not reading WWdN:ix yet, you ought to give it a go.
Oh yeah, I will say this about the "in a way that doesn't beat us over the head with a message" part of the post—obviously, Wil can't be talking about Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
Oh, and it's election day. So if you haven't voted yet, let me urge you to do that first, then go read WWdN:ix; I'd have you do it the other way around, but I'm afraid (1) you'll get sucked in and not get around to voting at all, and (2) that I'll get accused of trying to influence you to vote a certain way—which is not the case at all . . . you get to make your own mistakes!
Friday, November 03, 2006
WWdN:ix (Oct 9, "Another TNG review for TV Squad: The Last Outpost")
Just read the October 9th post at WWdN:ix. A very entertaining entry this time. But then, I'm always entertained when somebody starts paraphrasing The Princess Bride. Wil's take on the Ferengi is dead on.
For anyone keeping track, yes, I did skip a post (or two?) that I felt didn't need anyone commenting on. (Of course, the same could be said for any of the posts at WWdN:ix, or any other blog for that matter. Whatever. I'm enjoying myself and perhaps someone gets something out of my ramblings. Or not!)
For anyone keeping track, yes, I did skip a post (or two?) that I felt didn't need anyone commenting on. (Of course, the same could be said for any of the posts at WWdN:ix, or any other blog for that matter. Whatever. I'm enjoying myself and perhaps someone gets something out of my ramblings. Or not!)
Thursday, November 02, 2006
WWdN:ix (October 6th, moods for moderns)
I just read Wil's October 6th offering (moods for moderns) at WWdN:ix.
Though I cannot even begin to pretend I understand the title of the post, I liked Wil's thinking in this one. Now I just need to figure out how to get Barbara Hall to see it (perhaps it isn't too late for a fitting conclusion to Joan of Arcadia!)
Though I cannot even begin to pretend I understand the title of the post, I liked Wil's thinking in this one. Now I just need to figure out how to get Barbara Hall to see it (perhaps it isn't too late for a fitting conclusion to Joan of Arcadia!)
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Visiting "WWdN: In Exile" (whitetail and blue pine)
Continuing my march through WWdN, I've just read his October 6th entry and this will be brief.
I don't watch Lost, so I don't have any comments.
This entry is just here for the sake of completeness.
I don't watch Lost, so I don't have any comments.
This entry is just here for the sake of completeness.
Filed in: Wil.Wheaton WilWheaton MyBlogs FamousBlogs Famous.Blogs TV Television WWdN Lost
Monday, October 30, 2006
Visiting "WWdN: In Exile" (October 5)
I just took a gander at Wil's post from October 5th (it's a good thing i enjoyed the tour), which was a bit of a downer, right up until the end that is.
The guy gave me a good laugh. I'll keep reading.
Perhaps I'll even call his attention to what I'm doing (that's only fair, right?)
The guy gave me a good laugh. I'll keep reading.
Perhaps I'll even call his attention to what I'm doing (that's only fair, right?)
Visiting "WWdN: In Exile"
<BrainDump>
As I mentioned yesterday, I surfed over to WWdN: In Exile (WWdN is "Wil Wheaton dot Net") and took a look at the first entry on the October, 2006 archive. He titled this entry "another brick in the wall" which, as a Pink Floyd fan, I gotta love.
Then he starts his post with "Begin brain dump:" & "End brain dump"; possibly not original, but I liked the sound of it enough to wrap this entry in "<BrainDump>" tags in an effort to "out-geek" him.
Someday, I'll grow up, I promise.
Just not today.
Now on to the content: let me start by saying that I've run across another blogger today (Missus Singapore) whose feelings I share: "keep my blog RPR-free - religion, politics and race free". I'm not saying that Wil should do likewise (someone has to be willing comment on current events, whatever they may be), but that isn't what my blogs are about (not yet, anyway, and certainly not this one).
Then there's the "Games of Our Lives" stuff. I'm very "non-geek" when it comes to computer games . . . my thinking being that it is a waste of computer resources, very practical and all that, not to mention that I don't have time for most of the things I'd really like to get done without having computer games drain my time (I spend too much time playing things like FreeCell as it is!) Short answer, that stuff didn't interest me much.
I like learning what people are listening to, perhaps because it can invoke a sense of Damn, when was the last time I heard that? so much of the time, so that part I found moderately interesting.
Congrats to his stepson for being accepted by Mensa. Sounds like a very uber-cool thing.
Damn him (Wil, not the stepson) for introducing me to Threadless. I think I see a significant drain on my limited financial resources there. Though I think that ThinkGeek is better suited to my brand of dressing to impress (the word "impress" here meaning "excessively drawing attention to my nerdiness"; FWIW, when I'm not "dressing to impress", then Eddie Bauer is my brand of choice).
As for Sufjan Stevens, I think I'm going to have to check this out further. I love most music, and folk music is a particular type I like more than some, so I followed Wil's link (the same linke I'm using above) to Sufjan's WikiPedia entry; I was able to find some mp3's that I listened to and the verdict is: I will have to track his stuff down.
</BrainDump>
As I mentioned yesterday, I surfed over to WWdN: In Exile (WWdN is "Wil Wheaton dot Net") and took a look at the first entry on the October, 2006 archive. He titled this entry "another brick in the wall" which, as a Pink Floyd fan, I gotta love.
Then he starts his post with "Begin brain dump:" & "End brain dump"; possibly not original, but I liked the sound of it enough to wrap this entry in "<BrainDump>" tags in an effort to "out-geek" him.
Someday, I'll grow up, I promise.
Just not today.
Now on to the content: let me start by saying that I've run across another blogger today (Missus Singapore) whose feelings I share: "keep my blog RPR-free - religion, politics and race free". I'm not saying that Wil should do likewise (someone has to be willing comment on current events, whatever they may be), but that isn't what my blogs are about (not yet, anyway, and certainly not this one).
Then there's the "Games of Our Lives" stuff. I'm very "non-geek" when it comes to computer games . . . my thinking being that it is a waste of computer resources, very practical and all that, not to mention that I don't have time for most of the things I'd really like to get done without having computer games drain my time (I spend too much time playing things like FreeCell as it is!) Short answer, that stuff didn't interest me much.
I like learning what people are listening to, perhaps because it can invoke a sense of Damn, when was the last time I heard that? so much of the time, so that part I found moderately interesting.
Congrats to his stepson for being accepted by Mensa. Sounds like a very uber-cool thing.
Damn him (Wil, not the stepson) for introducing me to Threadless. I think I see a significant drain on my limited financial resources there. Though I think that ThinkGeek is better suited to my brand of dressing to impress (the word "impress" here meaning "excessively drawing attention to my nerdiness"; FWIW, when I'm not "dressing to impress", then Eddie Bauer is my brand of choice).
As for Sufjan Stevens, I think I'm going to have to check this out further. I love most music, and folk music is a particular type I like more than some, so I followed Wil's link (the same linke I'm using above) to Sufjan's WikiPedia entry; I was able to find some mp3's that I listened to and the verdict is: I will have to track his stuff down.
</BrainDump>
Sunday, October 29, 2006
In a nutshell: live & learn (or you won't live long)
Boy am I ticked off.
Spent a bit of time last evening surfing over to Wil Wheaton's blog, reading the first entry at the beginning of October's archive, and spent a good deal writing about what I thought, and for what? IE6 got hosed up on me and I lost it all.
Lessons learned(?), in order of importance(?):
Spent a bit of time last evening surfing over to Wil Wheaton's blog, reading the first entry at the beginning of October's archive, and spent a good deal writing about what I thought, and for what? IE6 got hosed up on me and I lost it all.
Lessons learned(?), in order of importance(?):
- Write offline first (maybe I haven't quite learned this one yet, because that ain't what I'm about right now).
- Perhaps it is time to upgrade to IE7.
- Wil is a geek (but more about that next post!).
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
My Second Blog
Since I'm going to have a bit more free time on my hands real soon, I've decided to start yet another blog, with one with a much different emphasis from my Techsploration.
With this one I plan to spend a week or so visiting the blog of some famous person (even if it is someone made famous by being a blogger) and comment on what I agree with or not and see where it goes; after a fortnight or so I'll continue visiting the chosen blog and add another to the mix.
This may be a lame expirement, but you never know with this sort of thing unless you're willing to give it a try. Perhaps I'll dump it soon, or maybe it will be a thing of the ages.
Time will tell.
Now, who to pick on . . . er, who to visit first? I'm thinking, since I'm nerdy and loved Star Trek, I'll give Wil Wheaton's blog a go.
With this one I plan to spend a week or so visiting the blog of some famous person (even if it is someone made famous by being a blogger) and comment on what I agree with or not and see where it goes; after a fortnight or so I'll continue visiting the chosen blog and add another to the mix.
This may be a lame expirement, but you never know with this sort of thing unless you're willing to give it a try. Perhaps I'll dump it soon, or maybe it will be a thing of the ages.
Time will tell.
Now, who to pick on . . . er, who to visit first? I'm thinking, since I'm nerdy and loved Star Trek, I'll give Wil Wheaton's blog a go.
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