Okay folks, I Know Peter Jackson and LoTR is gonna get dissed this year - AGAIN. All this crap about Scorsece’s dismal #5 placing fic-tory, and all the buzz how it took him twenty years to get it on screen and all that horsecrap… they’ve practically handed it to him already. No one wants to see it or it would have made more

I said last year if Jackson didn’t get it for the first LOTR he never would, sci-fantasy gets no respect. BUt Two towers is SUCH an awesome film, I’m doing my part to pass the propaganda back in Jacksons favor. The fact that he’s seen such fabulous sucess, being a nobody dipped out of virtual obscurity, that I’m sure voters has a chip on thier shoulder and will vote down the George Lucas of our Generation in favor of local blood who they can kiss up to. So….

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It’s not much but hell, it’s all we can do.

OK, watched the Screensavers “mac only show”.

It was nothing but a collection of previous mac segements joined into one big show. First class case of half assed lip service if I ever saw one.

They showed one guy who made his own G4 becasue he couldm, he even said it was toomuch trouble, and alotof extra work, and you dont save much because several elements you can’t BUY from Apple (like dual processors), so he’d have to use a upgrade processor, and jerryrig it to a heat sink (rubberbands?) and, get this, attached the motherboard to the case with… cable ties since the screw holes of course dont match. Verdict = get a real mac, boy. Just cause you can, doen’t mean you should.

They showed the teenage (sophmore in HS) icon artist who did all of the Watson app. Not bad, but he’s no Iconfactory, and I bet you he lned everythign from their apps and tutorials. He was a ier choice as he was a dorky teenager.

TechTv - still hating macs after all these years.

Applefritter is a site just saw on Screensavers mac ep. This is mac-only modification site. I’m not sure I see any improvements, the mac hardware is pretty awesome by itself, but I know ther are alot of PC weenies out there who like thier machines to glow of blue neon and have a gay window (::cough:: Chris! ::cough:: ) to show off the :interesting: innards.

Just poking around, I ended up at The official Duran Duran website, I made it a habit to stop in every six month or s it seems. Found out Warren Cuggurullo has left to reform his old band Missing Persons, wait thats not the news.

If you know anything about DD over a decade ago members began to peel off - Roger had a breakdown and left the biz, Andy got an ego and went solo and was never hd from again, they picked up Warren, then John gave up coke and found himself and went solo and did some acting…(you might have seen him last year on “That 80’s show” suddenly Duran was completely Taylor-less. Well, thats all over it seems.

The orginal Duran Duran members have united and reformed and are working on an album. Even the Garbo-like Roger. I dunno more than that.

But the old die-hard durannie in me is oddly excited once more.

I need to go out now and find some black jelly bracelets, see ya!

The impossible has happened. The Screensavers on TechTv is doing an All-Mac show tonight. 7pm, and hear Woz is gonna be on.

I expected cyborg monkeys to enslave the planet before that.

Mac Addicts to the Rescue - This is a pretty NEW story. You’ll prolly see him on the media channels soon, if not already. He might have discovered a connnection to organised crime as well. All from getting ripped off from his selling his Powerbook and reporting it it to a online forum.

Moral: DO NOT mess with mac users.

Fly guy is much flashy fun, be sure to ly over objects - most do things. It’s a Xmas card, so just fly up up and away (hint).

Fly the Friendly Skies… or else…

Got the hots for a hobbit? Stand in line is a good article on the hunky ones of LoTR. (Mark me down for Aragorn please!)

But what seems to surprise them is women liking the films. Most in the industry think women don’t like scifi/fantasy, that it’s the only the realm of 18 year old boys. Surprise - there are celar surveys pointing the other way.

What’s important to remember is story. Farscpe’s audience was over 50% female, why? The story (OK, Crieghton is a hottie too,) - the plots and interweaving storylines really kicks ass. They pull dirty tricks on you and you like it.

I am so gonna miss that show - those bastards at scfi. I have the last half of this last season starting on the 10th, and I’m gonna be damned sure to buy the DVD’s since scifi doesn’t get any of that money, just the Henson Company.

It just hurts to think of it going off the air. Babylon 5 ending (was not cancelled - it had an end) hurt real bad, this one will too.

Leave me out of the Ally Mcbeals, Sopranos, NYPDBlues, West Wings and Sex in the City’s of the industry. Not interested. And please dont make me watch them at your house, or ask me to watch them when you visit, I’ll go in the other room.

Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 (Alertbox Dec. 2002) - only ten?

No kidding, I do!

You guys know I love em. Here’s one everyone can play with.

What Moby would look like with hair? I did.

Last year I bought a camera/laptop bag from a company called Crumpler for a trip. They make great BIG bags for multiple items, so you only need one bag.

Well, I obviously signed up on a mailing list as they just sent me a email xmas card - of a naked foot race. (Pic is NOT safe for work!) You don’t get gif’s of wagging willies everyday from ordinary companies.

Now, these guys are Aussies, and by all appances nuttier than Mr Hanky on a Planter’s bender. Which I like! The American Crumpler site is fun to read too. The bag is freaking awesome, top notch, and I have to say a sense of humour is what sold me on the item after I found them. Who can’t laugh at those bag names?

Evidentially, the link provided is for a Aussie music festival that has a charity (I think?) naked footrace called “The Famous Meredith Gift”

Just thought I’d share. Nothing says Christmas like Foster’s induced nudity.

Lisa over at Daily Illuminations has a review of The Two Towers - not for those who don’t like to know what’s going to happen, simple, don’t go. Don’t whine to me.

She has some problems with the movie, but then she’s read the books. I haven’t and had no such problems, only that I thought the dream sequences of Aragorn and Arwen meeting and breaking up should have looked more dreamy-sequency. More fog, more butterflies, a few cyborg monkeys… something.

Otherwisewe are going this week to see it again.

Yeah, I got kinda mouthy with the security cow. I admit it, but I can explain!

After 8 hours squeezed in a seat too small for a sardine can, waddling through customs with an passport guy who was slower than hell and older than the mummies we saw at the British museum. We made way baggage claim.

Then it was the tiring task of trying to find on of the advertised carts, getting the bags off the crowded carousel, then walking 30 feet the end of the concourse and being told we can’t have our bags just yet since the international flight gates and baggage claim are behind the metal detectors, and we had to to RECHECK THEM. They would “be at the baggage claim at the main concourse before you get there”. Oh that’s making me feel alot better.

So, now the twenty minutes we spent trying to find a baggage cart, and load it, was in vain. They weren’t allowed past this point.

We throw our just acquired bags on the same ‘recheck’ belt system with the other people on our flight who were connecting to other flights, (two lines - local and connecting - but the same belt - like that makes sense) ensuring a high probability we’d hear our luggage would end up in Anchorage without a trace.

We proceed towards the main baggage check a mile (and a useless tram) away, but first have to nagivate the Tensor ribbon maze 20 feet away - to pass through another metal detector, the main one for the airport.

They stood directly in front of you so you couldn’t walk through unguarded. And you were not allowed to walk through until given the “wave”.

It went off. Of course.

What set off the metal detector alarm to warrant the sch? No idea, didn’t go off at Gatwick and god knows their security is better and has been for decades. (They didn’t even make me remove my laptop out of the bag, or start it up, for the xray line there.) I was wing no metal, even had a plastic zipper on my stretchy skirt. Must be those alien implants. Yup.

They guy after me got set off too, he was steaming, he was already late for his re-scheduled conneeting flight.

Our plane had been 2 hours late arriving at Gatwick, so before we could leave it had to be refueled and such first, adding more time. Most of the other passengers were connecting elsewhere and had already been rescheduled on other flights. This guy was missing the one they had rescheduled for him. Now he set off the alarms, and like me he was exhausted, cranky and incensed. he looked at me and shook his head, “I’ve never been to this place before. They dont deserve to land international flights here period, this is insane. This is the worst airport I’ve ever seen. They dont have a clue hwo to do this.” I agreed whole htedly. Blind retard monkeys had obviously gotten to plan the international arrivals routine. It made that little sense.

The jumbotron security matron approached me like I was felon in cell block D. She held this long tapered scanner that looked like a giant version of those trigger candle lighters. I said “I hope that’s not going where it looks like it goes.” She was not amused and growled back “WHAT?” with that tone that said if you say one more word you’ll be in shackles and beaten like a two bit whore. How dare I speak to her indeed.

“Oh god, just get it over with.” I growled standing there, arms thrown out like I was being crucified. She made me sit and they scanned my shoes and my COMPLETELY BARE calves (I was wing a skirt and no hose) and even took that wand up my skirt a bit. They made me stand on the little feet on a mat, (as if I was too stupid to know to stand with my legs spread) and did it again.

Then, and I sw I am not making this up. She tweaked my boobs, sw to god. Took fingers and lifted them! She felt the underwires in my bra (plastic), and reached around to feel the closures on the back - all while sneering with complete detest at me like I was a cow for slaughter. (I don?t recall there ever being one single female hijacker, ever)N And I’m not even going anywhere but to the parking lot to go home. I’m not connecting to another flight. I’m DONE. I have to do all this just have to get out of their stinking airport!

All this groping was out in the open, no screens no nothing. I was getting felt up in front of 200 complete strangers. I was a bit more than angry, cranky and humiliated, and when that happens I get even mouthier.

I was about ready to raise my shirt over my head and let them see ‘the girls’ since she was showing so much interest in them and just get it over with. But, I knew I’d get a world of pain from it so I just went “Ooooh, you’re good! Call me.” with a snotty sneer. And walked off. Grrr!

We went to the completely useless tram to baggage claim. (I think it goes a few hundred yards) A few moving walkways would have been much simpler if you ask me. We did actually find our luggage at baggage claim #2 of the evening. And for the first time in the airport, someting nice happened - our shuttle to the distant parking lot service was RIGHT out front. I almost kissed the driver. Ten minutes later we were driving home.

All my future international flights will be out of Columbus. CVG sucks donkey butt.

Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There? though, beats anything that happened to me, but knowing my temper, it’ll happen someday. Yup, I’m convinced.

Looking to interactivate your holiday? Try this Make your own Xmas tree program! for OSX users. Make it, use it as a screen saver, share it via email or pdf… pretty fun to do too!

2029 Web Design… in the category “most needless and criminally overkilled and underdone, plain ugly Flash page”

(my guess is “2029″ is when they graduate highschool - in that case not bad for a pre-embriotic fetus)

But maybe you get what you deserve… as this Christmas card shows.