King's Quest IX was saved

On December 9, 2005, Vivendi Universal Games announced that they would allow [fan project] King's Quest IX (now renamed "The Silver Lining") to continue.

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Crazy Dream: Karate Warrior Camp

Last night I dreamt that I was high schooler and in my final day of this "Karate Camp", trainging to be a "Karate Warrior". The camp was led by a crazy "Master Sensei". Master Sensei had a huge bankroll and bought a private pacific island solely for this camp. My roommate (didn't seem to be anyone I actually knew) and I had awoken late and had to catch up with the group in the huge obstacle course that winds its way through the Jurassic Park-like amusement park building; each building a seperate excersize in the course. ("Master Sensei would not be pleased at us," was the major thought running through our heads.) The two of us skipped the buildings, and instead looked for the group. We finally caught up with the group jogging towards the final major portion of the obstacle course. We ended up at the back of the group running down this group of stairs that spiraled down the side of the island mountain the camp was situated upon. (I don't know why, but running up/down stairs seems to be a common image in my dreams.) These stairs had a wide curve that wasn't too bad, but were rather narrow, the glass panels and metal handrails quite near to our sides (think escalator, I guess). At first we were using the handrails as leverage to gain a bit of speed on the way down, but then a warning announcement sounded the handrails slowly raised above our heads. We continued just about as fast, almost solely due to the momentum, and there was that feeling that if I tripped I would knock down every single person in front of me. At the bottom of the stairs was a water tank and scuba lines. Each of ...

The Nerdy HDTV Debate in Easy to Understand Comic Form

You've probably seen the numbers+letter soup debate involved in High Definition TV (the 720p v. 1080i debate). Nothing like a comic to explain technical jargon in down to earth pop-culture references.

Book Retirement: Wicked

I just did something that is extremely rare for me: I just pulled the bookmark out of Wicked. I've had a bookmark in it for several months now (it was a Book of the Moment in May) and realized that I just didn't care to finish it. It is an interesting character study, but it just doesn't have an interesting plot or much to say beyond an abstract painting of morality. I would hope the musical is more interesting, but the book plodded too much and failed to keep my attention, which, again, is a rare thing for me. I've had a bookmark in Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars Volume 2 for even longer than I've had one in Wicked, and although it isn't apparently much of a page-turner of a read I still find the plot interesting enough to see where it leads in those rare occaisions I feel like reading it, and thus its bookmark stays.

It's about time for me to crack open a new book or two and post a new Book of the Moment...

On 8664

This is intended as a brief summary of Mass Transit, Where are you?, for sending as a Letter to the Editor of the local newspaper as this issue has come up in a bigger way locally.

On the recently discussed plan to reroute I-64 out of downtown Louisville, it is great to hear someone thinking about something radical. The problem is that we are discussing the wrong radical plan. I-64 is not the cause of most of our Spaghetti Junction congestion. I-64 is not our most traveled downtown interstate. I-64 is not the reason for the proposed downtown bridge. If we want to talk about a radical plan to reroute an interstate, let's discuss rerouting I-65 out of central Louisville and into the west or east end! This isn't even a new radical plan, this is the plan suggested by Kentucky's own Interstate Commissioner in the 50s and 60s, where he said his biggest mistake was the current route of I-65 and even predicted this mess we find ourselves in.

Here's a less radical plan: Anyone remember the T2 project TARC was working on? A good mass transit system, whether light rail, monorail, or subway, could help alleviate most of the intra-city traffic that currently piggy-backs on I-65 (including Airport, University, Convention Center, and Churchill Downs traffic) and remove congestion from I-65. Perhaps we should reallocate bridge money back into this project that was originally meant to be completed by 2007, but cancelled due to lack of funds.