Two years after cancelling production on the Firebird/Camaro and replacing them with the Chevrolet SSR roadster truck-thing, GM has now idled the Lansing, MI plant where the SSR is built. Due to a 301-day glut of SSR inventory that nobody wants, GM will idle the vehicle’s production facility for at least five weeks starting [...]

A moment of silence, please, for my Dell 486.
While my new copy of Vampire – The Masquerade: Bloodlines was installing last night (thanks Pooch!), I decided to slap the old Dell 486 back together, plug it in and see what would happen. I disconnected [...]

Well it sure sucked this morning, but things have been looking up, somewhat. Unfortunately, the OMG STUPID ad banners project has only gotten bigger—much bigger—and I’m sorry to say I’m not really dealing with it, because the only way I can keep myself from losing it today is by not even thinking about it. [...]

I don’t know what happened. I figured today would be a good day. We had a great dinner out last night, opened presents and everything. For some reason I feel like BURNING something today. I think this day has just gotten started off on the wrong foot, and it’s severely glooming [...]

I forgot to mention, last night my wife and I watched the first four episodes of Chobits, a new anime from studio CLAMP. We loved it! Ended up watching the whole disc, so I could drop it in the mail this morning and get the next volume out to us that much quicker. [...]

Also the title of a particularly gripping fourth season Voyager episode, “Year of Hell” serves to perfectly describe what 2004 has been (and what it may yet continue to be). The latest reminder is the devastating earthquake -> tsunamis in southeast Asia, the death toll from which may very possibly reach 45,000 in the [...]

Turned on the TV this afternoon to discover a huge 8.9 magnitude earthquake had struck in the oceans of southeast Asia, devastating areas of Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Indonesia and three other countries. Checked things out at an online Thai newspaper and saw some of the calamity for myself. How horrible! It [...]

God, you knew I couldn’t resist using that as the title of today’s post, right? I mean, it’s just tailor-made for the wackiness that naturally ensues when one gets out of bed at 3:30 a.m. on Christmas morning, goes to his computer and starts blogging quotes from a story he wrote about ten years [...]

I’m sitting around thoroughly enjoying the hell out of being off work, is what. Let’s hear it for holidays. Additionally, let’s hear it for the suitably clashy, goofy, Christmas-y style sheet I put up special for the occasion. (Don’t worry, it’ll be gone by the end of the weekend.)
It’s been a great [...]

Holy crap! I’ve just come from watching the first TV-series episode of Babylon 5, and it is far and away LOADS better than the pilot movie (“The Gathering”) which I watched last night. First of all, the casting is markedly improved. Lt. Cmdr. Ivanova is just kickass, unlike the waffle she replaced [...]