Axodys

Less than three hours until I commence my big novel writing marathon. I stumbled across this personality profile oriented site. The heroic archetype profile quiz was particularly interesting to me because I’m planning to write a fantasy/adventure novel.

At this point I’ve got a couple ideas about characters and setting, but I’ve got a ways to go. Time to do some more brainstorming.

I did a crazy thing yesterday. I joined with thousands of other would-be novelists and signed up for NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo, for the unititiated, is actually an abbreviation for Nation Novel Writing Month and it’s basically a fiendish writing plot first launched by a guy in Oakland named Chris Baty way back in 1999. Since then participation has grown by leaps and bounds and this year somewhere around 5,000 people are taking the marathon writing plunge.

That means that starting Thursday I’m going to attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. That means roughly 1700 words a day. Guess I’d better come up with some characters and a plot in the next couple days

Who’s Afraid Of The CLI?

Yesterday afternoon Mary and I caught a showing of Bandits at the downtown AMC theater. Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchet were quite funny and there were plenty of twists and turns to keep things interesting.

On a cool trailer-viewing note I saw the new Fellowship Of The Ring trailer for the first time yesterday as well. Very impressive. Between the cinemotography, the cgi, and the quality actors I think we’ve got a serious blockbuster on our hands. I am so looking forward to this movie.

Of course in the meantime with at least two or three movies out there (K-Pax, Corky Romano, Riding In Cars With Boys) that I’d still like to see and a couple more opening Friday (Monsters Inc., The One), I think we’re going to have our hands full for a while. And considering Harry Potter’s only a couple weeks away it looks like this November/December could be some of the most exciting movie going months ever.

Levitated is unbelievable! Mindboggling use of Flash. Cool. [via Adam Vandenberg]

Looks like there’s a new php4/mysql based weblog management tool code named B2. More information can be found here. Had I not just switched over to Movable Type I would have been especially interested. Based on my brief perusal of some of the B2 documentation the combination seems fairly elegant— template tags are actual php code and all the pages are dynamic.

I found out today that Ben and Mena, the cool folks behind Movable Type, have already made it really easy to activate weblogs.com pinging support. So starting with this post weblogs.com should always reflect when I’ve updated. Super cool!

I wonder how much longer it will be before they add xml-rpc support? I’m really looking forward to that feature. Incidentally I should really make a donation for all their hard work.

This is a great column about the Mariners and the season they had this year and just what it means to be a fan.

Sure I’m disappointed with the outcome of the playoffs, but I’m still proud to be a Mariners fan. The Yankees won’t be on top forever.

Okay, Apple’s got a seriously awesome entry into the portable MP3 player market in the iPod. At $400 the price seems kind of steep for a mere 5GB of space, but it’s certainly an appealing pack of card sized device. I want one and so will everyone else if they own a Mac. And that’s certainly the catch at this point as it requires MacOS X or 9.2 and a computer with Firewire.

It’ll be interesting to see if the iPod is the kind of thing that can persuade users to jump on board the Macintosh platform. I’m sure that’s Apple’s hope.

So how long until we get the first warranty flaunting web page detailing the innards of these babies? I predict that in less than a month some will have figured out how to add a bigger harddrive. Well, maybe not. Based on the width measurement of 2.43″ it must have a smaller hard drive than most notebooks come with. The one in my PowerBook is more like 2.75″ wide.

Nothing like a like a little online quiz fun.

I AM 33% GEEK.

I probably work in computers, or a history department at a college. I never really fit in with the “normal” crowd. But I have friends, and this is a good thing.

Take the GEEK Test at Fuali.com!