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A night of freaky nightmares.
In this one, I was out of state in a Zipcar and suddenly realized I was two hours late on the rental return. Plus, I’d lost my cell phone.

for the coming zombie apocalypse (or Mormons)
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11487214

Yesterday, I went to see the TD Mayor’s Cup Criterium around city hall. Pretty cool.
The Herald has some good photos. The Globe has nothing, but NECN has a short clip.

Tina Pic of Colavita-Sutter Home won the women’s race.
Kyle Wamsley of Colavita-Sutter Home won the men’s.
Shawn Milne of Team Type 1 (and Beverly, MA) came in [...]

Yesterday there was a one night only,  nationwide showing in blu-ray capable theatres of a newly restored, high-def version of Wizard of Oz released for the 70th anniversary of its release. It was pretty cool. The “print” was very clear and I saw a few things that I’d not seen before. I never noticed, for [...]

Tuesday, I went to a Macallan tasting at the Cyclorama put on by Macallan distillery.  Apparently, they have these about once a year for people in the hospitality industry.
It was a very interesting night and I learned quite a few things. The presenter (from Macallan) had a pretty good patter in spite of ending every [...]

The new DSL line is in and running. It’s pretty much the same speed as the other, maybe a teeny, tiny bit faster, but well within the normal deviation between different speedcheck runs.
They showed up at slightly before 1:00. Covad said they hadn’t done the work. I think he’s right, because when the Verizon tech [...]

Verizon visit number 7 is scheduled for Monday afternoon. Curiously, this one is blocked out for noon to 5pm, not 8:00 to 5:00 and I was told to expect them at 1:00.
This one is a “vendor visit” which, apparently, is a visit by both Verizon and Covad at the same time so I guess they [...]

A lucky set of circumstances landed me at the Boston-LAA game last night for the first game pitched by Daisuke Matsuzaka since June.
Excellent game! The only downer was that Youk wasn’t playing, and a post blocked my view of Pedroia. Excellent game by Matsuzaka, excellent pitching by Rivera, Wagner, and Bard, another heart-attack-inducing outing by [...]

A friend asked my what my comic RSS feeds were. So here they are:
http://dilbert.com/
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php
http://eqcomics.com/
http://www.firmanproductions.com/
http://www.smbc-comics.com/
http://www.urbanjunglecomic.com/
http://www.yehudamoon.com/
http://www.xkcd.com/
http://www.weeshcomic.com/
http://www.savagechickens.com/
http://www.daisyowl.com/
http://www.basicinstructions.net/

James Martin thinks assaulting and injuring cyclists, causing unknown amounts of damage, then running away is so funny it’s worth writing about. Yes, the title is overstated, but only by a bit. Knowing someone, as I do, who went of the road in such a way and just barely lived to tell the tale (and [...]

Bruce Freeman Rail Trail
Carlisle to Lowell (the old Wang Towers where I spend soooooo many years!) It doesn’t look too far from the end of Minuteman.  Looks pretty nice.

I got to meet Ken Burns today. He was a WGBH pimping his new National Parks series and a friend of mine got an invitation to a meet and greet. He’s exactly the same in person as he is on TV. He and the co-producer, Dayton Duncan, after being introduced by WGBH President and Chief [...]

We’re now in week 6 of trying to get a dedicated (non-shared) DSL line installed.
Five visits from Verizon to get a good pair of copper to the CO (visit #3 of which is when they let burglars into the house), plus one visit from the Verizon supervisors to check out where the burglary happened, they [...]

[netflix] [IMDb]
Unexpectedly good. Labor Day was the last day to see this in IMAX at the NEAq, so we went. There were about 20 people in the theatre including one chatty cathy who sat right behind us. Werd, honey: you’re not that funny.
But in spite of that, I was surprised at how good this was [...]

[netlfix] [IMDb]
I really liked this. It’s definitely a more nihilistic view of superherodom. The film is very long, and it does drag in the middle. I was looking at the clock at the 1:30 mark and there was still more than an hour to go. But it picks up again.
These superheros are not very heroic, [...]

[netflix]
A collection of animated films from MTV’s “Liquid Television” series.
Aeon Flux seems to be some sort of secret agent of spy or nihilist or anarchist or something who slips into a neighboring territory (town?) to commit mayhem. Assassination, seduction and fomenting chaos sees to be the goal and slinky clothing seems to be the tool.
I [...]

[netflix] [IMDb]
I never followed Silver Surfer in the comics (not that I read comics much anyway). I mean, I know what he looks like but, really, I know nothing about him. And after watching this, I know nothing more than I did to start with. Apparently, he’s some sort of being that is (or was) [...]

[netflix] [IMDb]
A “cure” for mutants is developed, and both most, but not all, mutants are outraged at the idea. Magneto is still hell bent for war. Xavier is still opting for negotiation. Jean Grey is back from the dead but now she’s super powerful with world destroying powers and little will to control them. Then [...]

Very nice weekend. For all sorts of reasons.
I’ve fallen behind in posting movie viewings. I’ll try to rectify that because, well, it’s better than working. I hope I can remember what I’ve seen!
Very cool weekend, but beautifully sunny. A friend and I got up to Woodmans in Essex on Sunday. Or was in Monday? No, [...]