I found a source for all but one of the missing Myth Adventures books! Of course, it is the website for a store that always has a huge booth at Comic Con, but hey, for all I know they didn’t bring those issues with them.
Month: July 2004
The things you see on LJ…
A couple of interesting items:
First, from metaquotes: Posted on the fridge at Xavier’s School for the Gifted (metaquote thread)
Next, sclerotic_rings on prosthetics that don’t just mimic the body, specifically artificial heart pumps designed with the fact the important part isn’t the method by which the heart pumps blood, but the fact that it keeps it circulating. We have plenty of experience with simpler ways to pump fluids than by imitating heart movements, such as, in this case, a constantly rotating impeller. What’s interesting is that people with this pump have no pulse!.
Future Con
Hmmm… a co-worker has informed me that he just made hotel reservations for next year’s Comic Con (this year’s having ended yesterday)… and that some of the nearby hotels are already sold out!
alenxa and I pre-registered for next year’s convention yesterday (avoiding deadline issues and saving $50 over the at-the-door price for a full membership). It might be worth planning further ahead…
Revenge of the Sith
What do you think of the recently-announced title, Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith?
- I love it!
- I hate it!
- Eh, it’s OK, but I would’ve preferred something like Rise of the Empire – 1
- Who cares? It’s Star Wars!
- I wish they had gone with something classy, like Vader Lives! or When Sithspawn Attack! – 3
You might be a redneck…
Beer bottles? Check.
Alligator? Check.
Trailer park? Check.
Potato. Hot.
The challenge: A piece of any genre, 200-350 words or thereabouts, in incomplete sentences. Also questions under six words.
Without further ado:
Despair for the arts
One of my co-workers noticed my coffee mug today, and asked about the picture on it. “It’s Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh,” I said.
He didn’t recognize it.
Catching up
This morning alenxa asked me if I’d posted anything on comic book time (the effect by which Superman and Lois Lane are roughly the same age now as they were in 1938). I’d actually started writing about it a while back, but never finished it.
Around lunchtime I took a look at the Drafts folder on my keychain drive, and I found it — a lot shorter than I remembered, and a lot more recent. I also found an epic I had written ages ago based on another of our conversations — one wondering about the dearth of sci-fi art films. This thing is several pages long, deals with defining sci-fi, fantasy, and related genres, and doesn’t even get to the art film issue, and predates our group blog by several months. In fact, it’s old enough that the first line starts off, “My girlfriend and I were having a conversation about movies….”
There was a footnote about popular derision of science fiction vs. popular consumption of it that I thought was worth posting on its own, although since it dealt with top movie grosses, it needed a bit of updating. This piece of weblog history can now be seen at Viewing the Impossible.
I dashed off some thoughts on several other half-finished pieces (including the time issue), as well as a new one I’d been thinking about while drifting off to sleep last night (or maybe drifting off to consciousness this morning). I figure on finishing and posting them over the next few days. Maybe I’ll start breaking up the epic and post that too. With a new opening line, of course!