Geekery

Whatever I’m geeking out about at the time.

Archives back online

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It took a while, but I’ve finally managed to get all of my old archives back online after I borked things up last month. So, for the truly bored (or possibly just masochistic), you can now use the archive links towards the top right of the page to go through a month-by-month listing of everything I’ve babbled on this site, from November of 2000 to now.

Just to make things even more scary, though — because that in itself wasn’t enough for me — all the posts are even categorized. I’ll eventually be getting little icon links up in that archives box for this, but if you (for some godforsaken reason) actually want to go through what I’ve written in a slightly more organized fashion, you can. The categories are (thank you, Vanna): Lifebits (day to day ramblings, personal bits, and what’s going on in the wonderful world of Wüdi), DJbits (anything pertaining to my self-indulgent attempts at entertaining large masses of people [and the occasional massively large person]), Sitebits (my attempts to explain where I’ve botched things up most recently as I play with my webserver), Moviebits (flicks I’ve seen or bought), Trekbits (yup…I’m a trekkie [-er?] too…scared yet?), Quotebits (quotes I’ve collected generally end up here before making it to my quotebook), Humorbits (the stuff I think is funny…your mileage may vary), and Linkbits (places around the ‘net I think are worth a visit).

Still in Hollywood

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It’s Thursday morning, and I’m sitting here staring slightly bleary-eyed at the computer monitor here at work, trying to do two things: firstly, kick-start my brain into gear after being up fairly late last night; and secondly, see if there’s any way I can communicate how absolutely cool the Concrete Blonde concert I went to last night was. I’m probably not going to be able to do that good of a job, but…(shrug). Trust me. It was incredible.

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Enterprise: Dear Doctor

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The crew encounters an alien race in desperate need of medical and scientific assistance. Phlox declines to assist them because of his ethical beliefs leaving Archer to decide whether to help them find their own solutions.

“Dear Doctor” marks not just the most recent Enterprise episode, but in my opinion, the strongest I’ve seen yet. After the on-again, off-again nature of last week’s episode, this weeks was a real treat, with a well-written and structured blend of of drama and character development, with subplots that actually worked well with the main plot, rather than distracting from it.

A solid 4 and a half out of 5 this week.

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Evolution

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It’s kind of a slow Saturday today, so Candice and I rented a couple movies to kill the day with. She’s working on homework while I watch the flicks, and the first one I checked out was Evolution.

David Duchovny and Orlando Jones star as a couple scientists/college professors who discover the crash of a metor in Arizona. The metor has punched through the surface into an underground cavern, and it brings a surprise package along with it — alien organisms that are able to evolve at a super-fast rate, letting them adapt to our atmosphere and threaten to overrun the natural life on the planet.

About three out of five on this one — cute, but it could have been so much better.

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Enterprise: Silent Enemy

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So last night was the first new episode of Enterprise, Silent Enemy.

When Enterprise is attacked by an unidentified enemy ship, the crew must work frantically to get their new phase cannons to operate. Meanwhile, Archer realizes that no one knows Reed well enough to give him a personalized birthday gift.

My take on the episode — extremely uneven. Overall I’d give it probably around 3 out of 5, but the show could have been much better.

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Bad site slowdowns

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Okay — if you’re reading this, you may (or may have not) noticed that for some reason, my website is responding incredibly slowly at the moment. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to figure out just why this is happening yet. Things were working fine earlier tonight, but when I came back to my computers after watching Enterprise, something’s obviously going on — some pages are taking as long as a minute to load, when it should be nearly instantaneous.

I’m banging my head against things right now to try and figure out what’s going on, but so far have yet to come up with any solid ideas or leads. Hopefully it’s just a temporary thing, but I really have no way of knowing whether it will be or not. I’m just kinda lost and flying blind at the moment…(sigh)…grrrr. Bleah. Pfutz.

Resurrections

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I’m slowly but surely getting all the old posts that disappeared when I borked things up put back in. It’s kind of slow going, since I’ve got to do it mostly by hand (at least I can cut and paste the HTML — if all I could do was re-type it, there’s no way it would get done), but so far I’ve got the Featured Posts working again, and all posts from today back through December ’01 back in. It’s a start, at least.

Spooky…

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

— H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu