A few days ago I posted a television meme; I’d name off seven television series, and my readers could guess who my favorite characters were from those series. Well, that didn’t generate a lot of response. :p The five that weren’t guessed: AnimaniacsThis one was mildly tricksey. It’s Pinky, of Pinky & the Brain fame.Continue reading “On Answering the Television Meme”
Monthly Archives: November 2007
On New Avatars
Look for Allyn Gibson around the ‘net, and chances are there’s a little South Park Allyn attached to the posting. Which is fine, but I’ve been using some variant on that venerable icon for a number of years. I needed a new look. I’d branched out maybe a year ago; I started using my name,Continue reading “On New Avatars”
On a Television Meme
Seen on several friends’ pages in the blogosphere: Post a list of seven TV shows you love (current or canceled). Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each show. When guessed, bold the line and write a little bit about why you like that character. Post in your own journal. Seven television shows,Continue reading “On a Television Meme”
On Slurpee Goodness
It took an hour to get home from work tonight. 795 was a fucking parking lot, and so I went down to Liberty Road. I hate Liberty Road. Bumper to bumper. Stoplights. Stupid drivers pulling out into traffic. I saw a 7-11. After an hour on the road, I thought I deserved a Slurpee. IContinue reading “On Slurpee Goodness”
On Random Observations
Here’s a collection of random ramblings taken from recent e-mails and ‘net postings, just to keep casual readers up-to-date on the things Allyn Gibson has written elsewhere…. On Jean-Luc Picard: The Buried Age is a “Lost Era” novel. It’s about Picard’s “lost weekend” when he went to L.A., hung out with Harry Nilsson, recorded anContinue reading “On Random Observations”
On Guy Fawkes Day
It occurs to me, as I sit here drinking my morning coffee, that today is the Fifth of November. Guy Fawkes Day. The Gunpowder Plot isn’t something that Americans think of often, if ever. It’s a footnote in history books. I took a class in college on Stuart England, and Guy Fawkes got maybe aContinue reading “On Guy Fawkes Day”
On More Tinkering
And now, at last, I’m happy with the way the tag listing appears in the sidebar. 🙂 WordPress 2.3 added tags to the code core, only it didn’t really provide any good methods of working with them. And the solution that worked for previous iterations of WordPress — Ultimate Tag Warrior — didn’t work anyContinue reading “On More Tinkering”
On Grandmother Conversations
I had conversations yesterday with my grandmother. She likes to talk about trips to the ocean. How, when me and my siblings were little, we would come to visit, and then we’d go down to the shore for a week or two. These trips come up at least twice a week at dinner, and myContinue reading “On Grandmother Conversations”
On the First Space Traveller
Last month was the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik I, which propelled humanity into the Space Age. Today, November 3rd, is the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik II, the first space craft to carry a living creature — the dog, Laika. Laika died a few hours into her flight due toContinue reading “On the First Space Traveller”
On Writing Screenplays
Yesterday I mentioned some of the top search phrases for the month of October. But I’ve noticed, just through the search phrases WordPress reports to me, that people are looking for ways of writing screenplays using Microsoft Word. Fortunately, the BBC is a big help here. They offer a free template download, Script Smart, thatContinue reading “On Writing Screenplays”