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November 21, 2005
The "Guide"
Just finished watching "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and rather liked it. I never read the book so I can't compare the movie to it, so if someone who has read the book would like to comment, it would be appreciated. I found the end where the pan-dimensional "mice" got squished to be rather disappointing. But then again it wasn't about them, was it? While the whole story was laced with layers of comedy the love triangle from the very beginning is what I found interesting. I just didn't like that it took Arthur that long to jump into the dimensional gateway. I thought he would have been the first to follow her through, espically at that point in the movie.
The dolphin song, "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" was quite amusing as well. So much information in such a little bit of time. Don't remember too many other songs/music from the movie, but I have only watched it once.
Deep Thought was amusing as well. When you build a giant super computer for a singular purpose and then it fullfills that purpose, what else are you going to do with it? Kind of like if I bought a DVD player to watch a single DVD and then never used it again. At least she could watch tv.
And who can forget the stunning performance of Marvin? Played by Warwick Davis (Willow) and voiced by the great Alan Rickman, who played only a slightly less depressive sounding guy in Galaxy Quest, Marvin was a great character who I personally like for his depressive/cynical comedy. One line that sticks with me is, "How am I supposed to fly the spaceship with one arm?"
Overall I found the movie enjoyable. If it were up to me, I'd buy it and watch it several times. But alas, I rented it, so tomorrow it goes back to the store. Final Verdict: Excellent
November 20, 2005
Ferret Meetup
Well the First Augusta Area meetup was today and despite the dreary looking weather, someone came. That someone was Rita Morrett from the Savannah Lakes Ferretry in McCormick, South Carolina. Aside from her it was just me and Ann, Kris and Ceaser, Kris' mom Donna, and Ann's parents, Ron and Kathy. But let's not forget all the little fuzzbutts: Lupi, Dewey, Rainbow, Skittles, Snap, Pearl, Gandalf, Samweis, Oreo, Sunshine, and Buddy. The last two belong to Kris.
Ron brought along some frisbee/disc golf discs and we played with those while waiting for people to show up. I learned that I am not very good at Disc Golf. I've decided to stick to Frisbee. Ron and Ceaser were a little better. There were some other disc golfers going around the park and they were good, there was no way I could throw a disc as far and straight as they were throwing them.
After the others showed up we talked ferrets, ate sammiches and drank soft drinks. Learned a lot about ferret stuff from Rita since she is a ferret breeder and has shown ferrets before at shows. I learned that my ferret, Lupi, is a Sable Mitt. ^.^
After an hour or so things wound down and people started going home. First Ron and Kathy then Rita, and finally the rest of us. All in all it was good day. Hopefully next time we will have more people there and can do more stuff.
Character Theme music
Why can't we all walk around with our preferred music playing in the background? And not just on an mp3 player with headphones, but a full orchestra playing our music for everyone to hear where ever we go. Now granted there are some people who's music you dont want to here, but those people probably feel the same about you.
But about theme music. Since I wrote my Story I have been listening to music and noticing how it applies to certain places in the story. I have been doing the same thing with an online RPG I started. And there are several characters in that game that I have found appropriate music for either on the radio or in my personal MP3 collection. They include, but are not limited to:
Robbie Williams - Angels - Mamoru at the end of the story
Sarah Mclachlan - Angel - Mamoru again
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood - Alucard in the RPG
Vast - What Else Do I Need - Wats Tis'Nam in the RPG
Radford - Fly - Munch-Munch near the beginning of the story
Five For Fighting - Superman - Mamoru in general
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle - Didi from the story
I'm sure I have other songs that I've picked out but I can't think of them at the moment. What I've been wanting to do but havent had the motivation to do yet is create a soundtrack for my story and RPG. I think that would be really cool, espically if I can get some songs for other parts of the story or RPG is can be like a musical story or something...or maybe just a regular sound track. If any one has happened to have read my story and had heard any songs that reminded them of any part of the story, let me know. The same goes for the RPG over at Animenation's Forums.
November 19, 2005
The preparations begin...
Since we are starting a Ferret Meetup in the Augusta area we are starting to get the things together for the big day.
Unfortunatly we haven't had anyone RSVP to us about being there, so either there will be no one else there or there will be lots of people and not a lot of food. When it boils down to it I hope there are more people than food.
Tomorrow begins the baking of cookies and stuff for the meet up. I'll post again after the meet up about how things went and what all happened.
At the moment however we are taking a break. Two of the neighborhood kids are staying the night so they are down stairs playing games while I write this. I was hoping to play Halo2 with them, but they currently seem content to play Knights of the Old Republic. From what I saw of the game, it didn't look like anything I would want to play, but I wasn't playing so I can't be 100% sure of that.
Not too much else happening lately. Still don't think I have the site style how I like it, and even if I did I would have to do more work to hook it up to the rest of my site. Since I've never had a blog before I don't really know what all to use it for. I'm guessing it's kind of like a diary only a heck of a lot less private. I suppose for now I'll use it like a soapbox and voice my opinion on various issues to anyone willing to listen. Some people may like what I have to say and some may not, but that's just how things go. If you have a differing opinion then, please, post a comment and we can start a discussion, presenting both of our sides not to convince eachother which is right but to allow others a better view and let them decide for themselves which they feel is right.
Another thing I want to do with this blog is post up my character comments which at the moment show up on the main page only: http://adrian.haager.net/ Haven't had time to sit down and find out how I will get that working but it will probably end up being the same way I have it on the main site. Wish I had those Emoticons done for the people like I wanted. Maybe that will be my next art project.....
November 18, 2005
More Updates
Tweaked the styles this morning so the site looks good in Internet Explorer. And let me just mention how much I dislike IE and Microsoft in general.
The World Wide Web Consortium had implemented standards that were supposed to make any properly coded page display correctly in any browser. The issues i've been running into being a web designed are that what I feel is a properly coded webpage that shows up right in a known standards compliant brower, Firefox, doesn't nessicarily show up correct in IE. Now normally that wouldnt be a problem but at least 80% of the world uses IE. Which means that I have to code my pages specifically for IE, sometimes causing them not to show up right in Firefox. Most of the time I can code it right so it looks good in both IE and Firefox, but it just drives me nuts. Maybe when IE7 comes out it will support the actual standards better.
I wonder if coding my pages using the Strict Validation will help any....
November 16, 2005
New things!
Hello there and welcome to my new blog! More interesting things will be said later along with more interesting stuff in general. Please check back as things can change as the drop of a hat with me in charge.
11-16-05 9:08pm -
See? Already things are changing. Working on the style of the page at the moment, deciding what I like what I dont, what needs to be changed and all that good stuff. Right now i'm debating the current background. I personally think its a little too "look at me!" but Ann things its just because there's not a whole lot on the page. Hopefully after I get this post edited we can look and make a decision.