despite a compelling premise (and a decent start), titan ae ended up sucking. the semicool elements couldn’t withstand stupid characterizations and a ridiculous plot. actually, the characters seem to do mysterious flip flops to conveniently move the story along, and too much of the stuff just happens for no good reason at all, including the premise — if anyone can tell me why exactly the energy aliens destroyed the earth in the first place, please do tell.

hmm, interesting. i have 110 dcom enabled applications running on my system. cmd prompt: ‘dcomcnfg’ to find out how many you have. if i were cool i would have written a form you could fill out to have a dcom application # poll (figuring out avgs, mins, and maxes) but i’m not cool, so here’s a link to bruce schneier’s june 15 cryptogram which initiated this whole train of thought.

note to self: spend more time hanging around barnes and nobles’