One Convenient Location

I'm in Atlanta this weekend, and while Nicole was out, I stopped by the Atlanta Comics Expo. It was only three blocks away, so after walking about 15 blocks to find it (I went the wrong way), my feet were sore enough that all I wanted to do was sit down and have lunch.

But once lunch was out of the way, I went on over and looked around. Never been to any sort of comic show before, but I ended up walking out with 65 comics. Lots were $0.50-$1.00 each, so I bought whole runs of a few things, and got some old comics I had vague memories of from when I was a kid. Like the Human Fly and the Invaders, both from the late '70s. Still not sure how I got back to the hotel with that many comics in tow, or when I'm going to read them all.

RegisterFly TRO

ICANN gets a TRO against RegisterFly. Of all the companies out there on the Internet, RegisterFly has caused me and everyone I know who has used them (like Jason) more problems than I ever thought possible, so the demise of RegisterFly is good news for anyone lucky enough to have gotten out in time. A lot of the details of how the Internet works are still based on good faith relationships. This isn't a bad thing, but sometimes it seems like it is when things like this happen.

Sorry, I know this is boring, but I do DNS for a living, so what can you expect?

I am a machine vastly superior to humans

Colossus: The Forbin Project is a terrifying tale about free will and what it means to be Human. Nicole of course, thinks the computer is awesome and people shouldn't make their own decisions. Sort of an "I for one welcome our new computational overlords" thing. I think that she espouses this viewpoint just to get a rise out of me, but regardless, she will be thrilled to know that Brian Grazer is slated to produce a Colossus remake.

What I didn't know is that the author wrote a follow-up book, called "Colossus: The Fall of Colossus" which never got made into a movie. Can a movie re-make have an original sequel? Will they change the Russian computer to a Chinese one? Will it suck (note: probably)? Will they use an iPhone to hack into W.O.P.R. (hint, the password is "Joshua")... oops, wrong movie.

I'll know it when I see it

Anyone who's worked with me extensively (Andy, Brandon, Nicole, etc) knows that I often resemble the little cartoon shown on this post at LifeHacker.

"Now make it look like it's made of chrome.... no, that's not it either. Try making it round. No, the other kind of round!"

I owe Uncle Sam

Taxes filed. Thanks to Nicole's Prius tax credit we only owe a crappy amount instead of a monstrous amount. <sarcasm>Freelance work is great!</sarcasm>

A minor event

Last.fm added an events section that is really nice if you don't have someone cool making a great list up for you like those lucky bastards in Chattanooga.

Speaking of events, Signal - The Southeast Electronic Music Festival starts next Thursday (April 26). I'll be in Ft Lauderdale, Florida on business, but it looks like it will be amazing. Ernie mentioned that Negativland will be there(!!), so I'm kinda bummed I'll be gone.

I Think I Need A New Bookmark Manager

Recommended - Ma.gnolia and the Social Bookmarks plugin for quicksilver, especially since OmniWeb bookmark syncing sucks. Now my bookmarks are synced and tagged and always available. I wish the search functionality was better.

Completely unrelated: I just saw a Cesar Dog Food ad (in High Definition no less), where "I Think I Need A New Heart" by The Magnetic Fields was playing in the background. At first I thought it was a Target commercial. Probably old news, but it was still crazy.

Hi

'Sup.