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Month: February 2008

On Vox: Job search 2008 – Search Over

Published by NiteMayr on February 6, 2008

Well, Not Yet.

Not Yet.

Here is our New Place

Jenny Looks around the neighbourhood

Jenny Looks around the neighbourhood

It is a three bedroom 3 story unit, the master bedroom opens onto the balcony you see above the garage.  I think it faces North and South, which makes for dim mornings and hot afternoons.  It has a nice finished basement which means I can hid my TV and sound system down there.  Good stuff.

I took a few pictures when we toured it, but I'll take better ones when we do the move-in inspection.  I think I will document the whole deal here so that we can be sure that no one forgets it the way it was.

This also mean that yes, I will be living and working in London Ontario.  Starting February 11, I will be working in London for a software firm.  As I don't want to run afoul of any bad luck, I won't spill anything about it.

The Office is about 15-20 minutes from the house, the house is next to a nice school.  Bonus.

There are some stores nearby, I wonder if the nearest Walmart is 24/7?  The best sign I saw was that they had about 20 Rock Band units for the 360 there.  I could have my Family band together by mid-March.  Lol.

I'll be moving in tomorrow and in the unit to LIVE as of Sunday night. 

Oh yeah, if you are in Canada and not aware, the weekend of the 18th is a long weekend.  Also Bonus.

I expect to move this PC that I'm tapping away on to the new house on Sunday, which puts me out of reach for the Internets for about 3 to 5 days.

This also sucks.

I'm gonna call my potential new ISP today and ask if I can have the service setup before my phone arrives.  Should be a fun conversation.

Originally posted on nitemayr.vox.com

On Vox: Some Short Notes on Film I have seen

Published by NiteMayr on February 3, 2008

Evening Monster

Evening Monster

So, the Cloverfield monster is not Godzilla.  It's not Mothra, nor is it the monster from that episode of Patlabor that "The Host" cribbed from.  It's something in between, I think.

I finally got to see Cloverfield and enjoyed the ride, I think that another version of it from the third person perspective might have been better though as the jackassery got a bit thick there.

The Monster was scary and the final fate of the Camera was given right up front so the ending wasn't really a surprise.  Which kind of sucks.

Speedy Ride

Speedy Ride

When I rode in this cab, the driver was Russian.  I enjoy many things Eastern European.  I imagine it is my Slavic (?) heritage (being part Polish on my Mother's Side)  that leads me to enjoy borscht and cabbage soups and Russian Mobster Movies.

Eastern Promise was awesome and I highly recommend it to people who like to watch a movie and just enjoy the acting, without comprehension of the dialogue.  There were whole swaths were I was getting by on the facial expressions alone.  Sometimes I picked up a word or phrase here or there that I recognized in contexts, but otherwise they could have been saying gabba gabba in inflected, serious tones and I would have still been transfixed.

I sussed the plot fairly early, so the big reveal later on in the movie was more of "for those of you who have not figured out this movie yet, here you go"

Vampire Willow

Vampire Willow


I was a big Buffy fan, seriously.  Still am, I guess.  I also loved "30 Days of Night" by Steve Niles.  I snagged a bunch of the books and even the "Vampire Tales" TPB.  So I was semi-excited about the movie.

Leave it to another Comic Adaption to suck the life from a good Vampire Tale (if you will excuse the pun). 

I liked Josh Hartnet.  I liked the actress who played Stella (Melissa George).  I liked the sets, I liked the setup.   Where did it all go wrong?  The Vampires, of course.

Spouting Gibberish and screaming like animals, they were scary but they were not creepy. The only Vampire that was "right" was the one that was ripped off from Stephen King.  If you rip off a Stephen King adaption for your movie Adaption, you should have your pen revoked.  Simple an plain.

Touching Memorial

Touching Memorial

Finally, I saw John Rambo.  This is not a film.  This is a long-form Gunfight with some dialogue in between.  There is little I can say about this movie to recommend it, and I would find it too easy to look at the simplistic violence and say "pooh"

If one wants to see BAD BAD BAD guys get killed in a number of graphic ways, John Rambo is for you.   If you'd like some form of cinematic Justice meted out with Reason.  Umm, go watch "Witches of Eastwick" or something.

He turns one guy into a big wet stain in about 2 seconds.  OMG.

Originally posted on nitemayr.vox.com

On Vox: What Corporations sometimes are like

Published by NiteMayr on February 3, 2008

Our Robot Overlord

Our Robot Overlord

Please indulge a short flight of fancy whereupon I delight you with a tale of Olde Giants and Vassals to the Lord.

Imagine for a moment that there are Giants that live amongst us, some small giants that are barely larger than a house and some massive giants who can step from continent to continent and their very breath alters the weather as they go.  Now imagine that these Giants crap gifts.  They excrete money and gifts.

Mmmm.

Now, to make a living people can choose to live ON the Giants.  In fact, without armies of people on the Giants to tend to their health and protect them from other Giants, our Giants would actually die.  As long as they have their little armies though, they keep on living, immortal and fairly unaware of anyone but other Giants, their armies (whom they sometimes swipe off to assuage their vanity) and their food.  They stride from place to place pooping out prizes and eating whatever strikes their fancy. 

The Kings of the Lands realize that they can't fight the Giants, but can employ Giants to fight on their behalf.  Whole human armies are supplied by the poop of a given Giant and it's own army of helpers.  Some Giants employ smaller Giants to act on their behalf, but most Giants exist by eating stuff they find lying around or other Giants. 

The Vassals all need to live off of the crap the Giants poop out, because the Lords and Kings have all given the Giants free reign to roam over the lands and people as long as they keep crapping out prizes for the ones that aren't crushed or eaten. 

So Vassals and Lords alike are held in thrall by Immortal Giants who crap prizes and eat up all the land.  Too bad.

Originally posted on nitemayr.vox.com