BurningbirdLike it says, just stuff.
I, finally, heard from the Red Cross after the initial meeting where we all were warned we’d be called within a few weeks. That was, of course, months ago, but time is relative. I received a letter telling me I had to submit for a national background check, as well as sign up for various […]
I can either spend the afternoon working on another Wikipedia article, or I can enjoy the 50 degree sunny weather and the fact that I have my car today and get out of the house and maybe even take some pictures. Ah, geez. Don’t you hate it when you have to make tough choices?
Recently, I was the target of recruiters for a well known company. I wasn’t particularly interested in working for the company, especially since it meant I would have to move back to the Silicon Valley area (something I didn’t want to do). The recruiters were nice, and I was flattered. However, I was also aware […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I watched the Japanese movie The Calamari Wrestler and it meets or exceeds all expectations when you consider the premise: wrestler dies and re-incarnates as a giant squid and goes on to challenge all comers in the ring. There is no pretense about the creature–it is obviously a man in a squid […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The movie is Dogora or to give it its full Japanese name, Uchu Daikaijû Dogora (“Space Monster Dogora”). Made in 1964, it was created by the famed studio, Toho: the studio responsible for most of the creature feature flicks, including the more well known Godzilla. Dogora is about a monster from space that, […]