i am easily amused – poke an abc executive repeatedly in the eye

things are looking good for the new gene roddenberry show andromeda. looking forward to this more than any new star trek show (berman can’t take a long walk off a short pier).

SC: Do you have a “Planet Hell” set [the crew nickname given to the standing guest planet set on Star Trek soundstages]?

RHW: Yep but we haven’t named it. We call it “the corner of the stage with the rocks in it.” [LAUGHS] We also discovered that in the Andromeda universe humans use Lodge Pole Pines as one of their primary terraforming plants. So a lot of planets have pine trees in our universe whereas a lot of planets were desert and scrub vegetation in the Star Trek universe. [LAUGHS] My reasoning is that if you are terraforming a planet and you want a large oxygen producing plant that is hearty and can survive in a wide variety of climates, what better plant than a pine tree?

SC: And it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you’re shooting in Vancouver?

RHW: Oh nothing. It has nothing to do with the fact that we have several million acres of pine forest readily accessible from here.

SC: Which you moved in at great expense.

RHW: Yeah. They planted them special just for us. [LAUGHS]

SC: So you’re the first show to actually do terraforming here on Earth.

RHW: Exactly and I have to thank the BC Film Board for their willingness to plant large expanses of pine forest for our convenience.

really been diggin groove armada recently.

their site also has two of their videos online. yummy.

i think i’ll be getting a pair of er-25s before i lose too much more of my hearing. precision labs incorporates a snap ring to the earmolds for the filters, which might come in handy, but unfortunately, their ordering instructions aren’t that friendly (no price online, and their earmold order form for non affiliated audiologists doesn’t seems to have check boxes for the er plugs).

metafilter on the election – the 2000 election is likely to tip the balance on the supreme court. i do not want a “conservative” court presiding when ucita or the dmca, or any other number of the looming copyright, privacy, and civil rights issues come up, but then again, that’s just me.

oh yeah, in case anyone cares, this is what i did this weekend. yeah i’m a nerd.

also, i took some photo’s of one of my housemate’s cats. although i’m not particularly found of em (and i’m sure i must be getting hives or something from em) i have to admit that watching them just moving around and doing cat stuff has been pretty amusing. here’s a pic i snapped of one of the cats, romeo, rolling around on the warm concrete in the back yard. being a cat is an easy life.

well, the text is too small and scrolls too fast for me to read it, and the flashing / blending text stuff doesn’t help either, but it certainly does look cool. the music loop thing is also cool. sorta like something the limey did (lost his url, doh).

in other design related news, i found out one of the kick-ass designers working at zenimax (parent company of vir2l), philipp koerber. funky site at plasticbag. not too fond of the many tiny popup window design philosophy though.

also, read the sympathy for the plug-in article on a list apart. pretty weak. there is room for rich media on the web, though. it’s called svg. not only will it have all the fancy doodads designers want to play with, and the tools to make them with, but it’ll make programmers, and web heads (like me) happy too – it’s xml-based language, which means it fits right into the dom. full scripting and document interaction! (not to mention the ability to churn out your own svg’s from custom scripts – fuck generator) so, if you’re reading pg 2 of the article where peter talks smugly about being able (oooh, i’m impressed) handle query strings and pass variables, get a load of this. um, yeah, so, that’s my spiel. rah rah for the semantic web

from webdesign-l: “You can’t make a folder called “prn” on a Windows machine – 95, 98, NT (Workstation or Server).” wild… just tried it on w2k and that’s also true. good thing all of the is very well documented (can’t wait for some of penfield’s ruling to take place).

interesting /. comments in response to a dumb mac article

wow, i’ve never been to InfoDesign before. i will have to make my way through this (eventually).