You hear that, Mr Andersen?

Noises, Hoff, Music

Phrases that I am resolved to insert in conversation, either written or spoken:

"Escape goat". "Blasé faire". "Thank you for randomly giving me $500."

Also -- I see that Penny Arcade's Gabe has realised that when teaching your children animal noises, there's no reason you should restrict yourself to real animals, when there are things like zombies and werewolves that they can be imitating. All I can say is -- the Grand Vizier says, "Bwah-hah-hah!"

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When the BBC feels it needs to investigate whether or not The Hoff helped to end the cold war, something odd is going on with our culture.

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If I ever redo my kitchen, this seems like the kind of gadget that I'd need -- a transparent toaster. Except I'd kinda prefer to toast more than one slice at a time, I think.

Oh, and on the "very cool visual effect" side of things, here's a way to make a black-and-white picture appear to have colour -- until you move your eyes, that is. Hunt around the site, there's some nifty image-related stuff there.

And there's the ever-nifty Tricks of the Trade web-site; where you can learn such terms as the "Sullivan nod" and the "praise sandwich".

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In my ongoing effort to block out some of the terrible singing and inane chatter that goes on in my office, I've been listening to a lot of classic disco. While I don't think I was listening to much of it while it was going on, many of the tracks evoke various things -- some remind me of movies (Short Circuit for "More than a Woman") or TV (Barry White's "My First, My Last, My Everything"), others remind me of games that I've run. (People who were in the big Buffy game will hopefully remember "It's Raining Men" fondly, for example.)

I think that there's something swirling around in my head that relates to this, the fact that some people still remember some of the songs done for the big Vampire larp several years ago, the possibility of getting Musical in the 48 Hour Film Competition, the barbershop quartet that appeared in the movie that won our heat this year, and seeing how songs seem to be used in "The Mighty Boosh"... maybe I just want to write lots more catchy, insidious songs? :)

Oh, and I had a fairly nifty idea for Musical -- the "Behind the Music" retrospective of a made-up 90s band. After all, if we can easily and
automatically make mindless 90s synth-pop, why not take advantage of that?

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The Tao is like a stack:
the data changes but not the structure.
the more you use it, the deeper it becomes;
the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

Hold on to the root.

-- from the Tao te Chip

Posted by svend at June 21, 2006 4:51 PM