Friday, September 01, 2006

Gee, Zues will $ave $ave $ave!!!

It's the first day of spring. Nothing is different to the last day of autumn, except an arbitrarily new phase of the year to be in. By the time I finish writing this, it will be spring everywhere south of the equator, except most of south america.
MODAL DIALOGS. If you are designing a user interface that lives in a windowing system, please find some way to get the users attention other than putting up a modal dialog that steals focus. I want my focus back.
My name is Racket Samurai, you stole my focus, repair the sky.
I had an awesome dream the other night with giant spiders, and an alien parasitic infestation and high-rise appartments. When the zombies come, I'm gonna go skiing.

I think there is a lesson in that for all of us. If you dream about worms crawling into your friends and turning them into mindless zombies who reign destruction* upon the earth and you wake up with a twitchy eye, go skiing.
Or to Japan. That would be cool.
I could train with the grand master, buy a new gi, travel on a rail system at hundreds of kilometres per hour and find out why the JSDF needs to recruit small boys to pilot giant robots against their will. I mean, Andrew would kill to pilot a giant robot and he's really good at it and has a badge and everything.
I wonder if Skyla will be piloting giant robots when she grows up. That's the kind of world I want to live in.
If you want to live in my kind of world, do something about it today. Complain to your friends that other countries are run by morons. Write a letter to your local shit-ball rolling popularity competition winner about how you should be getting government support because the gardener doesn't pay himself, you know. Line up at the supermarket and complain how much the government wants to run your life and point out how much anarchy is the solution.
You see, when the earth changes come and the mystery planet arrives heralding the arrival of peak oil society will crumble because the number of polygons video cards will render will not increase any more and all games made from then on will suck.

I've got to get this stuff out of my system more often. That left a burning sensation that is a little uncomfortable. Damn eye twitch.

*You know, when destruction is in charge. Like in that song. Do you think Zeus and Odin hung out together? Who had a better car? How did they play Doom before computers?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Why not the Time Cube?"
The only reason is educated stupidity.

Anonymous said...

"I am Antikas Karios, priest. I always make a difference."

- Winter Warriors

RIP David Gemmell, 1948-2006

Hugh said...

I think that before computers, Doom used to be called Doing Nothing Useful.

Anonymous said...

Hey, this post is hella old.

Make a new post.

And mention zombies at least once.