The Pixies are kicking off a reunion tour in about two weeks. This is for you, Robert Alexander!
Archive for March, 2004
LikeGhost Town is finally back online with updated photos.
Elena is a woman who lives in Ukraine. In her spare time she enjoys driving her motorcycle. Around Chernobyl. And the nearby town of Pripyat.
Apparently it’s safe as long as you stay on the roads and don’t get too close to the reactor.
I wouldn’t do it.
But the photos and commentary are mesmerizing.
This week’s Album Of The Week over at Basic Hip is Del Close’s infamous How to Speak Hip. Grab it while ya’ can.
Marty Sklar is one of the few remaining ‘old timers’ at Disney for whom I have a tremendous amount of respect. In countless old Wonderful World of Disney telecasts you can see him standing and working right alongside Walt back in Disneyland’s early days. He has been with the company for at least 50 years and since 1974 he has been the Vice Chairman and Principal Creative Executive of Disney Imagineering, a department that by all accounts has been downsized to the point of irrelavance by Michael Eisner.
His glowing support of Michael Eisner in an OC Register (u:socalscan p:socalscan) commentary over the weekend has me scratching my head.
Most of us park watchers are expecting Marty to retire on or around Disneyland’s 50th birthday next year. I personally was hoping he would stay with the company for as long as possible to help restore the declining quality level of attractions in the parks, but alas, it appears that’s probably not going to happen. Disneyland hasn’t gotten any new innovative, ‘industry-first’ attractions since Indiana Jones opened up in 1995 – almost a decade ago.
Between his article above and some comments he made back when Tokyo DisneySea opened, it’s looking more and more like Marty has more of an interest in watching the bottom line than he does in engineering new guest experiences. Which is fine if you’re a corporate officer. It’s his job I suppose.
He’s in a tough spot, sure, being pretty high up in the company and all. But to just come right out and say that Michael Eisner is doing a great job…I dunno man. He does work with the guy, and I’ve never met either one of them.
It’s just sad.
In the ‘Questionable Holistic Medicines’ file we have the Nasal Pot.
Click the photo of that lady for a real treat.
I see carpool lane cheaters every damn day.
Yesterday was probably the worst day at work we’ve ever had.
We were the target of a DDOS, one that was so large it overwhelmed our routers. Our upstream providers were slow to react to our requests to filter the traffic, so that only made things worse. Every site that we hosted was up – but unreachable.
We have many pissed off customers right now, and all of our employees are frazzled. Everything’s fixed now, but it’s going to take a while for us to regain our customers’ trust. We really appreciate our customers, and there are plenty who understand the situation, but some are just really mean and hateful.
It seems to me that if your site has been hosted with us for three years without fault – and then becomes unreachable for the better part of a day – you probably don’t need to threaten legal action (which is overruled by our terms of service anyway.) Our admins busted their asses to get things up and running again while customers left profanity-laced messages in our voicemail and flooded our fax machine.
So the search for a new router is on, and hopefully Black Monday won’t ever happen again.
If you’d like to start using Windows Update v5 before XP SP2 is ready, now’s your chance. Tell it that yes, you are already a beta user (second option) and you won’t have to register or anything.
The coolest movies seem to be coming out of other countries lately.
First Casshern from Japan, and now Immortel from France. Check out the trailers if you haven’t already.
The Immortel trailer is actually in English with French subtitles.
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