23.5.05

"The door is open"

Ok, this is probably just another example of me jumping in late on an internet event, but what the heck:

The Dionaea House

This is one of the better marketing ploys I've seen online in a while, and it's also a great read - heck, I read through the whole darn thing at work today and even in broad daylight it's pretty creepy. I do have a feeling this will eventually be made into a (at best) mediocre movie. Sigh. The potential is there, though.

Anyway, read this in the dark, when you're alone, and I guarantee the goosebumps will come.



Hmm, I wonder if I can learn something from this...?

18.5.05

Hard right, over Crest

(This commercial break is brought to you by.... me)

If you haven't checked out my hard-rockin' amigos (and amiga) in "The Crest" yet, you owe it to yourself to do so now: these days, their long awaited second album, "Vain City Chronicles", hits the streets - or rather, webshops - and if you like melodic, guitar based dark rock (let's stay clear of the somewhat overused "goth"-term) you NEED to give these guys a listen.

You should be able to pick up the CD in respectable webshops like Amazon, CDON and from the Season of Mist e-shop.



They're having a releaseparty here in Oslo, Norway next Thursday, so if you wanna buy me a beer for giving you this indispensable information, I'll be more than happy to oblige.

Look for the guy in a bright, multicoloured shirt among the horde of rockers. I'm kinda easy to spot.

15.5.05

Somebody owes me a pillow

"Dear Mr. Banjong Pisanthanakun and Mr. Parkpoom Wongpoom,

I had the not too pleasant experience of watching your motion picture "Shutter" this evening, and would like to make the following statement:

Whereas I can tolerate being scared silly (once more) by creepy, pale asian girls, outstanding use of dynamics in sound (I guess you guys listen to Ravel's Bolero a lot), an intriguing storyline and several jump-in-the-seat scare moments, I will not tolerate the kind of colateral damage your movie has caused on my furniture. If you make a movie that's so creepy that it'll make me chew up my pillows and my Ikea sofa's armchairs, you should bloody well say so on the cover.

Therefore, please find enclosed my receipt for the following item:
1 large, comfy pillow (good for sleeping on, resting your back against, or chewing on during scary movies)

I'm expecting you to act responsibly and replace my now chewed-to-pieces pillow within a reasonable period of time.

I don't mind a cheap Thai pillow, as long as it matches my sofa.

Yours,

Bit"

4.5.05

Birds, commercials and crap dance music

To the person(s) who got the idea for the music for the new Mentos commercial (the one with the birds):
I know that reviving the "No Limits" tune by 2 Unlimited (sic) might have seemed like a good idea at the moment. It's catchy. Maybe even infectiously so. The young 'uns haven't heard it before and think it's cool. And I'm sure that if you chew enough Mentos, you'll feel like there's no limit to what you can do. Or possibly the ad agency O.D'ed on Mentos when they came up with the idea. Whatever.

Now hear ye: bringing back that song is much like what Dr. Herbert West did in Re-animator - and nothing good will come of it. That foul thing is dead and should remain so. I don't know what unholy ritual you performed to bring it back to life, but you crossed the line, man. What you have done, you will eventually pay for. Oh yes.

However, since it's my birthday today and I'm feeling generous, I'll give you a couple of days headstart before I hunt you down and play you "Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil" until you beg me for forgiveness.

Fear me, for I am Geek. And happy birthday to me, dammit.

1.5.05

Shiny things

I like shiny objects. Shiny objects and blue LEDs. In particular, I like the shiny object that is my PowerMac G5. It looks good (outside AND inside), it plays well and it darn well feels good, too. I installed a second internal harddrive in it today, and had to contemplate for a few minutes just to grasp the beauty of it: all I needed (except for the drive itself) was right there.

On my PCs, installing a second harddrive usually meant getting the disk, finding some screws, fidgeting with the drive bay to fit the disk, realizing that the IDE-kabel didn't reach it, repositioning the drive (often accidently unhooking some innocent looking cable somewhere in the process, wreaking havoc on my setup later on in the process), realizing the disk was set as master, desperately searching for the miniscule plastic jumper that got lost in the process, restarting, formatting and Bob's your father's brother.

Now, the same procedure, G5 stylee: get the disk, get the four screws that are conveniently placed next to the drive bays, fasten these on the disk, put the disk into the bay (which then simply locks the disk in place), fasten the S-ATA and power cables (which, once more, where conveniently placed just below the connectors on the disk) - et voila! - Disk installed. I'm telling you, this should be a frickin' standard on ALL PCs, Macs or otherwise. I'm really starting to like my Mac.

My brand new livingroom floor looks pretty shiny as well, although it's not brushed steel and hasn't got any blue LEDs.

Yet.