Month: April 2008

Five words

When I heard this news I didn’t think of a civil rights activist or a well-regarded actor. All that came to mind are these five words:

and these ten: “I suppose that means we can have his gun now.”

BANG!

Here’s the dialogue from the video in the previous post. It’s unlike anything else you’ll hear on television, and it demonstrates why The Big Bang Theory is currently my favourite sitcom: I know these guys. I am these guys.

  1. LEONARD: See, the liquid metal Terminators were created in the future by Skynet, and Skynet was developed by Miles Dyson, but that future no longer exists due to Dyson’s death in Terminator 2.
  2. SHELDON: Okay, then riddle me this: assuming all the good Terminators were originally evil Terminators created by Skynet but then reprogrammed by the future John Connor, why would Skynet, an artificial computer intelligence, bother to create a petite, hot seventeen-year-old killer robot?
  3. LEONARD: Skynet is kinky?
  4. SHELDON: Artificial intelligences do not have teen fetishes.
  5. LEONARD: All right, wait, they use it to…
  6. SHELDON: [makes buzzer noise] Too late. I win.

Web work

I’m currently involved, in one form or another, with the development or redevelopment of four websites. Every one of them is stalled in some way.

One, a simple reworking of an existing site, has received an exorbitant quote that’s in danger of being accepted.

One I’ve created myself from scratch, and I’m actually sort of proud of it. It’s completely live except for the home page, which redirects to one of the “social networking” sites, so in effect it doesn’t exist either… and still it’s the very first link for the subject out of the almost 2000 results that Google returns. That one’s been ready to go since Christmas, it’s just proven to be impossible to get the necessary people to review it, let alone approve of its publication; the way things have gone recently I’m wondering if I’ll ever be able to turn it on. Got an answer: nope.

I’ve offered to redevelop another—the live version of which has been dormant for two months—and I’ve even started building it “on spec” so it wouldn’t take as long to ramp up, but it’s been six weeks since I’ve heard anything about it. Movement today.

Worst of all, one is supposedly “live” but has been broken for over a month: links to the new functionality—which were the entire reason for the redevelopment—are pointing to an application that’s completely missing, a big step down from the incomplete version that was present the last time I was able to see it.

If I had more hair, I’d have less of it today.