Author: Teel

So, this is an interesting infographic showing the extent of the damage to surrounding buildings from various views. It gives the pertinent information immediately, and offers alternate views and levels of zoom to give you more detail if you want it. I’m not particularly interested in the subject matter, but what I am interested in is getting my hands on the software and model they used of downtown New York City. It seems to have a lot of useful information about the layout of the city, and the shapes and sizes of the buildings of the entire island.

Thinking of that, I guess if I were a terrorist, I could use a 3D map like that to plan an attack…

Right now on imdb.com, if you click on the link on the left under “Coming Soon” to the movie “From Hell“, you may find a bit of humor. Then again, they may have it fixed by then, so if you clicked on it and it just showed you this, click here to see what it linked to earlier today.

As I surf the web, I like to click on banner ads. There are so many interesting banner ads out there, I just can’t resist some of them. Just now, I clicked on a banner ad that offered to tell me what my name means (As usual, “Teel” translates roughly to “We’re sorry! The name you are looking for is not on our list.”), and then I clicked on the banner ad on that page. This second banner said “Kellogs Rice Krispies ricekrispies.com Don’t Be Square” and to the right of that had an image of what is clearly a half-eaten piece of pizza. Actually, it looked just like this:

and it led me to an interesting recipe that did in fact involve rice krispies treats made to look like a pizza. There are quite a few other interesting things they suggest you do with rice krispies treats that you might also be interested in. I know I’m thinking more and more of just going with “fat and happy” these days…

I had dismissed it in the past, but taking a closer look at City of Heroes now, I can see how it might be a lot of fun for me to play. Not in the traditional sense, of course, because just being the best superhero and fighting the most powerful supervillians seems like it would get pretty boring after a while. Instead, I would like to get some friends in on it and build a team of superheros modeled after The Specials.

If you have never seen The Specials, you should try to. It is a very entertaining movie. If you have trouble finding a copy of it, harrass Iain about it, and maybe he’ll lend you his copy. The Specials are the sixth or seventh best team of superheroes on the planet. That is what I would like to build.

Trouble is, they don’t seem to have the “bird powers” I’m looking for.

I am beginning to get used to this strange new schedule. Waking up seems to be just about as easy as it has ever been, and the last couple of days I haven’t even started to get tired until there are only five or six hours remaining before I need to get up again. Which was fine with me last night, since it allowed me to watch the two-hour season premier of Enterprise immediately after I finished taping it. If you saw it, how about that “get stripped down and grease up” scene? Out of nowhere, without even stopping the tense dialog, the attractive female science officer and the attractive male (…pilot?) get stripped down to their underthings, climb into the mood lighting chamber and rubbed what appeared to be some sort of greasy, clear lubriicant all over their own and each other’s bodies. Thankfully for the ESRBs, these two people (who from their dialog can’t stand each other) managed to grease up their own privates under their clothes (for the most part). Man o man. Then the show went on as though that were a totally normal part of everyone’s day. When they had the “aliens” that amounted basically to two erotic dancers wearing only a layer of brightly colored paint, I could at least understand how that might have something to do with something reasonable in any culture, alien or not. Well, I guess we’ll see. There’s definitely an OST feel to Enterprise so far. The captain went on a dangerous away mission and managed to trap himself with no clear means of escaping the alien space station, then got in a fist fight with an alien to save the day.