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If I picture is worth a thousand words, then I think I know what this one says:
for (1 .. 1000) { print "Quaint"; }
Nova is so awesome.
EDIT: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) scavgraphics is always telling me that I sound like a douche when I use the word "trans-human" in discussions about super-heroes. For what it's worth, I agree with him. I sound like a douche, but in my defense, when I look at comics like Iron Man and Birds of Prey, I feel like a douche, because I want to be that guy, the Mary Sue, in the room who's listening to them argue and suddenly just mouths off how in the time it took them to argue about the morality of something, he used his Whatchimacallit-Ray to Technobabble the solution, and if either of them weren't so stupidly backwards when it came to cybernetic implants, they could have had this discussion about a thousand times faster. So, yeah, I'm a douche, no arguments here.
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:13:45 GMT
Tony Bedard has inspired me! Here are some glib, tasteless sound bites that YOU can use next time some whiner tries to bring YOU down about how bad the world is:
"Racism and sexism aren't all bad. They remind us that anything in life worth having is worth working for." - me.
"Killing women is not a bad thing. It reminds us how much we loved them when they were around." - me.
"Homosexual marriage doesn't need to be legalized, because it's a great reminder that no laws can stop true love." - me.
"Hilter wasn't so bad, after all he liked dogs. That reminds us there's good in everyone." - me.
"A malignant brain tumour is just nature's way of reminding you of all the good years you had with someone." - me.
"HIV is just a reminder of all the good times you've had with others." - me.
I'll be sure to add more as I think of them.
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:17:20 GMT
It's times like these that I wish I posted to message boards, because because I just came up with the most awesome quote for a .sig: "I think [Oracle's] become a better, stronger character, and a reminder that our setbacks and challenges are where true strength comes from." - Tony Bedard, author of Retro Rocket It takes a brave man to admit that his creation was actually the misguided story of a coward taking the easy way out. I mean, if Retro Rocket were half as strong as Oracle, he obviously would have kept fighting as a charred corpse as opposed to meching up. *beats head on keyboard*
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:14:51 GMT
Tony Bedard says, "I'm for keeping Babs as she is. I think she's become a better, stronger character, and a reminder that our setbacks and challenges are where true strength comes from."
Wow. I guess that makes Vic Stone the wettest, soppiest pussy ever. I guess that makes RetroRocket the suckiest beeotch ever. If Oracle's being stuck in a wheelchair is a "reminder that our setbacks and challenges are where true strength comes from," then what kind of spineless shit opts to use a mechsuit?
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:35:23 GMT
Bots!
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:18:01 GMT
Back in the JSA issue of "Our World At War," Stargirl told Power Girl that she wanted to be just like her when she grew up.
In various issues of Batman/Robin, ToyMan II has been shown to have a crush on Power Girl.
Am I the only one who thinks the combination of these two facts might be the basis of a Courtney/Hiro pairing?
I probably am.
Oh, well.
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:06:55 GMT
khamon told me Natalie Portman was going to be a judge on Project Runway tonight...so, you know, I'm watching Project Runway. Fifteen minutes in, I have two observations:
1. "Flaming" suddenly feels like a subdued description.
2. Karalyn is a goddess.
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:15:48 GMT
So, I was browsing my comic shop today, and saw a trade paper back edition of Grant Morrison's Seaguy book. I've heard good things about the title, so I bought it. I read it on the way home. Now I just have one question.
Why is Adam Warren not the god-king of comics?
Seaguy: That story makes no sense. There are narrative leaps that make no sense, transitions that completely break the story. The ideas presented don't even really make sense because they're never explained. And to top it off, the characters are all...idiots...twats...stupid. It's like Morrison managed to get a DMT hallucination published.
Which brings me back to my question, how is it that Morrison can basically jerk-off an out of continuity story for DC that makes all the heroes dicks and makes all the villains twats and makes DC boat loads of cash, but when you let Warren loose in the Marvel universe and he actually figures out a fun way to bootstrap comics into the realm of 21st Century scifi, all people can say is, "It looks like anime!" What do people see in Morrison's work that they don't in Warren's?
This never ceases to amaze me. After today, I'm swearing off Grant Morrison. Both Adam Warren and Bil Watterson do everything Grant Morrison does, and they do it in a way that doesn't suck. Why don't people realize that?
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:18:07 GMT
1. I'm not a big Avatar: The Last Airbender fan. Nothing wrong with it, I've just never really watched it. indigoskynet's post today made me curious about the finale, so I've been watching it on Nicktoons this afternoon/evening. There is one aspect of the show I do like, feel very strongly about, and am glad to see the finale only strenthened that opinion: Toph rocks.
2. Photobucket is sweet. Even sweeter because they offer FTP uploading. Even sweeter because PHP has some killer FTP functions. Even sweeter because by combining those two things, I don't have to kill myself trying to understand their horrible API docs. I will say, their PBAPI code is pretty snazzy, I learned a couple of things getting what grasp I have, but they could use a few more examples. Their PHP coders are obviously (and I am not being sardonic) so brilliant, their client code is so easy to use, it's ends up being alien compared to what I'm used to seeing.
3. Screenbucket, my project for the day. It's an ugly hack, I admit, but it works. I'll go back and document it some day.
4. I love extract(). PHP is amazing!
5. No idea why, but I have a FriendFeed account now.
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:33:18 GMT
I want to see a British super-hero named London Fog, who's powers come from the cloud of utility fog that surrounds him.
If he needs to swing from building to building, the fog floats over to a grappling point and coalesces into a line. If he needs to catch someone who's falling, he can reach the cloud out and form a slide for them...or anchor them to himself. If he needs a weapon, it can materialize from the fog into his hands.
He can't create complex things like cars or laser guns. He can't heal wounds by rebulding someone from a genetic level. He pretty much has whatever he can program and macro. His cloud is very, very beta-level, it's a fantastic device, but its limits are the limits of his time, talent, and skills.
London Fog. Someone get on that!
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:04:09 GMT
I have this idea for a Stargate: Atlantis story starring Lady Lawful and Doctor Developer, kind of. I doubt I'll ever get around to writing it, and really don't want to fanfickize ASH characters, so here's my idea...with apologies to Stuart Moore.
Atlantis gets a call from the Travelers, saying they need help repairing their ships, calling in their marker from "All My Sins...", etc. After a bit of convincing, Sheppard gets Woolsey to sign off on a couple of people to go help them out. It's a low priority thing, but (a) it makes nice with their Pegasus allies and (b) it's a good opportunity to do a bit of intelligence gathering. After a bit of looking through files, he has the perfect pair:
1. Cameron "The Other" McKay, a recent addition to the city's populace. He was requested by the IOA, because of his expertise in system automation and technology synthesis, as someone who could (finally) figure out a way to better integrate the Ancient database with Earth systems. He wasn't born with the ATA gene and the gene therapy didn't take with him, which makes his work a bit harder. On top of that, he's become rather fascinated with Wraith technology and no one really likes going to his lab, what with all the tendrils growing around his equipment.
2. Jennifer Blair, a historian and cultural anthropologist who's been working on Atlantis for almost a year, cataloging Lantean, Athosian, Genii, and any other cultures she can to better understand the history of the Pegasus Galaxy. She possesses the ATA gene naturally, and as such, she's had a good bit of mission experience. Woolsey taps her to go with Cameron because they can pass her off as his assistent to help with any Ancient technology, but the majority of her mission is to interview, study, and better understand how the Travelers society function.
Once they get to the fleet, equipment in tow, Cameron begins getting a feel for the ships and Jennifer begins integrating with the crew. Jennifer/Cameron stuff happens, obviously, but the action picks up when Jennifer discovers that there was a Traveler civil war several hundred years ago, which caused a small faction of the group to break away. This comes back to bite them in the butt when the breakway group, who've become more pirate-like, attack the fleet and take the Atlantis duo captive.
The story plays out with the two of them sabotaging the pirate ships so a couple of Cameron's Wraith devices can infect the ships' systems. They ultimately escape, get back to the fleet, blah, blah, blah.
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:17:54 GMT
How do you download and install network drivers to your wireless laptop when your wireless laptop has no network drivers?
There's never a spare 100' ethernet cable around when you really need one.
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:14:26 GMT
So, looking ahead at Gateworld at the "Brain Storm" episode. Look, I'm willing say that having Keller become "Jennifer McKay" and then die is a coincidence. I'm even willing to chuckle at the synchronicity of seeing the future-possible "Jennifer McKay" cocooned in mutant tendrils. But, come on...now she's being taken as a date to see the unveiling of a weather control machine built by one of Rodney's colleagues? Come on! That's practically an LL&DD story right there.
Let's just get this out in the open. Someone on the SGA writing staff is obviously a fan of dvandom's ASH universe. And who could blame them?
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:23:36 GMT
From here: AC: I don't know about appropriate, but it does seem like the right costume for the character. She should be in black... it's in her name. And leather is very tough... it saved my brother's skin (literally) when he laid his motorcycle down at about 80 mph (He doesn't do that anymore. He's a very good Dad now.). If she's gonna have baddies coming at her with knives and swords etc... the leather isn't armor, but it's damn tough, and it's easier to deliver some good kicks if it's a body suit and not pants. Was your brother wearing fishnets "when he laid his motorcycle down at about 80 mph?" I doubt it. So if leather is such a great thing to wear in a fight...and I agree that it probably is for hand-to-hand combat...then why is a third of Black Canary's body exposed? You want to say "some girls just like fishnets," fine. You wants to make the same, stupid crack about guys staring at her legs, fine. But then don't go on about how from personal experience you know how wise it is to have a heftier material between one's skin and the elements. That's just...AURGH! AURGH! I've tried to just ignore this, because frankly I think that Barbie Canary looks more like Lord Fanny than Dinah Lance. But when someone goes on about how great a thicker material is for a fight and then all but says, "Except for her legs, because how else are the villains supposed to tranq., cut, stab, or claw her in a fight," my inner geek won't be quelled. The only Black Canary figure I'll ever own is the one with the Butch Guice costume. That thing had everything: full-body protection, no fuck-me heels, utility belt, and pockets. Doctor Developer: I like the fishnets, but she's wrong about, ah, how her legs, um, "offer a great distraction ... before delivering a round-house kick to the head." Why would you get close enough for her to deliver a kick when you can, as you say, hit her with a dart from across the street.
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:22:20 GMT
(Cross-posted to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) adam_warren)
Cory Doctorow visits Secret Headquarters, and while showing off the manga shelf, look what appeared:
 They didn't mentioned Empowered by name, but I still thought it was crucially kewl that it showed up.
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:09:05 GMT
People always rag on Chuck Dixon's Birds of Prey story where Dinah fell for Ra's al Ghul by saying, "Why didn't she recognize him? Dinah would have recognized him." I was just thinking about this...trying to choke down how Oracle could have "sunk every penny" into her building, and afford blimps and mini-jets...and I think I figured something out.
Lois Lane never realized Clark Kent was Superman because he wore glasses. The most intelligent investigative reporter in the world couldn't tell the difference between the man she obsessed over and the man she SAW EVERY DAY because of a pair of glasses.
I'm revising my "yeah, it was silly" opinion of that story, because if "wears glasses" can mask someone you see every day, then I think shaving off/adding on thirty years, shifting accents, and not raving about how you'll take over the world might be enough to slip past Dinah.
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:28:23 GMT
I'm using Slicehost's DNS management system to handle the subdomains for a domain registered at Yahoo!, which is being used for a website hosted on my Gate.com VPS. Slicehost's awesome never stops.
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:41:21 GMT
Oooooh, yes. :)
This lodge meeting is going to go swiftly.
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:09:25 GMT
It's probably not just my computer when the Blizzard Support line is busy...and then their accounts page vanishes...and then the problem goes from "won't authenticate" to "won't connect."
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:06:23 GMT
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