Ah well…



  1. Condolences on the data. I recenlty lost a work PC as a direct result of carelessness, and a years worth of collected AP images and art photos I’d been collecting. No “important” data, but I understand the loss.

    I have promised myself I’ll get the Futurama DVD sets if I continue to shut the TV off right after Samuri Jack ends.

  2. Where is the future that was promised us?

    To paraphrase Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs, computers will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

    Am I the only one who finds it ironic that while your computer was broke you spent your time watching cartoons about a futuristic technologic dystopia?

    Where’s my flying backpack? My personal replicator for my afternoon Earl Grey tea? My Orgasmatron? (And while we’re at it, world peace?) And I’m still waiting for George Jetson’s job (which, apparently, Homer Simpson seems to have got).

    You’ve got to come over for a movie night of JUST IMAGINE, a science fiction MUSICAL made in 1930 about what life would be like in New York City fifty years later (1980), which you can bet Matt Groening and friends had in mind when creating Futurama. From the plot summary at IMDB: “New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars, [which] is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.”

  3. Yeah, I had to do a similar ‘clean install’ some months back. It does give one perspective to be computerless for a bit – it’s pathetic how much time I allow it to suck out of my days.

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