• Long-winded answer to a silly question.

    Back in the distant mists of time, namely the mid-1980s, there was an animated series which ran on American television. And yea, it was good. And by “good” I mean “rather melodramatic, with uneven animation quality but a surprisingly compelling storyline.” This series was known to us as Robotech, though most diehard fans went on to discover that its origins were interesting and complicated.

    The minds behind Robotech envisioned a follow-up series, one not born of Japanese content but instead wholly original while attempting to retain the storytelling panache of its lineage. Characters were drawn, scripts were penned… and music was composed and performed. Sadly, their efforts failed to bear the desired fruit, so the project known as The Sentinels only made it to print form and to a lone music track on a CD devoted to its predecessor.

    Of the music that survives, one segment was to be used for a scene depicting the wedding of two of the principal characters from the first (and arguably greatest) segment of the original series.

    I hope that answers yesterday’s question to everyone’s satisfaction…

  • Ceremonial Silliness

    Well, they went and did it. Mari and Doug are joined together, yadda yadda yadda. The ceremony started a bit late, and there was something critical to deal with on a fairly regular basis to make it all happen, but all things considered it was one of the better events of its type I’ve been to. I chalk that up to being in some of the best company to be found, anywhere.

    Yes, I did cry. Just a little bit.

    Mind you, I also had to bite my knuckle to keep from laughing out loud once I recognized Mari’s choice of processional music…

  • Of Sushi And Mice

    Dawn and I picked up Erica this afternoon for a fun-filled romp around Lloyd Center. First we did lunch at the sushi-go-‘round outside the mall, during which even Yours Truly tried some things I would normally avoid at all costs. Then came a bit of mallrat time, during which shirts and games were purchased. (Okay, so Erica got a Go board. That’s all the gaming we got into today.) Finally, we saw the Hitchhiker’s movie.

    (Short review: Funny overall, only sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, with several glaring unresolved plot threads and some not-quite-right characterization.)

    Now we’re resting up for the main event of the weekend: Mari and Doug’s handfasting. Will we be ready? Will everything work as planned? Stay tuned and find out, folks…

  • Good Friday (the 13th)

    It’s a good sign of things to come for the weekend when your girlfriend’s Amtrak train arrives precisely on time. Speaking of time-related luck, Dawn’s transfer this evening covered from the time we left for dinner clear until the time we got home from dinner. I love it when the bus drivers are generous, don’t you?

    Tomorrow: lunch and a movie, if all goes well…

  • Things that make you go, “Huh?”

    As I prepare for a couple of presumably-deserved days off, here’s the sort of stuff that I’m running across today:

    • Videoblogging, or “vlogging,” is… taking off? Maybe, maybe not, but it is at least of mild geeky appeal. Perhaps.
    • For your amusement, if you’re a sysadmin that is, we offer up this list of things you do not want to hear from your server admin.
    • They’ve gone and made me the “owner” of the Portland Bloggers group over at Yahoo. Be afraid, be very… well, okay, maybe not afraid. Amused, perhaps.
    • I have the Program Director of 94/7fm to thank for giving me the chance to listen to Paul Anka covering Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun.” (In the previous sentence, by “thank” I mean “punish,” and by “listen to” I mean “suffer.” Just for clarification, you understand.) The guy’s putting out an album of modern rock and pop tracks done in a big-band swing kind of style. No, I am not making this up. (I admit that I’d almost pay good money to hear his take on “It’s A Sin,” though.) Scary, truly scary.
    • I’m taking tomorrow and Monday off from work, ‘cause a particular wonderful lady is coming down for the weekend on account of a particular special occasion. Yay!

    And this is only Thursday the 12th. Can you imagine what Friday the 13th will bring? Can you? Wowza.

  • Random Geeky Bytes

    Let’s have just a good old-fashioned roundup, shall we?

    • When I put my Neuros on the charger last night, I expected it to actually charge the battery. Instead, I discovered this morning as I tried to turn it on at the bus stop, the battery had been discharged. Argh.
    • GeoURL is back. Finally. Note the return of the corresponding sidebar linky goodness.
    • Being one of the offices that’s cut off from the offices that haven’t been upgraded to the new VPN-based WAN sucks. A lot.
    • Spending three hours cleaning particularly virulent adware off of a company laptop (that, of course, had never once been in my possession until now) sucks quite a lot as well.
    • Backup Exec is really starting to annoy me. It refuses to actually behave in accordance with the settings I change, and it (ir)regularly gives a cryptic error when it tries to verify the backup. (If it would simply accept my “don’t try to verify the backup” setting change, I’d stop getting those errors, of course.)
    • There just aren’t enough hours in the day to do all of the things I’d like to. (This isn’t specifically a “geeky” statement, but still. Ugh.)