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Patrick Johanneson is a husband, a writer, a webmonkey, and a judoka, all in one introverted package. More details »
Category Archives: Weird
Ficlets
Maybe it torques me a little that someone’s “monetized” my works, but I have the feeling that the money involved is pretty small.
Today’s Excitement
It’s oddly reassuring to hear someone yelling “GET DOWN! GET ON THE ****ING FLOOR NOW!” Well, as long as it’s not you they’re yelling it at, anyways.
“Japan’s first robot buddy cop movie”
There’s a phrase that makes me perk right up and pay attention. I found this on the Internet, thanks to Wil Wheaton, and it struck me that whether or not it’s true, the story is awesome. And I quote: Japan’s first robot buddy cop movie, a silent film released in 1919, was shown only once, to …
Synchronicity
Currently I’m reading Vacuum Flowers, by the inimitable Michael Swanwick, for about the eighth or ninth time. In it, people’s personalities can be temporarily altered by a type of programming called “wetprogramming”, since you’re programming the wetware of the person, ie, the brain. You don’t need special training to be a dentist, or a bodyguard, …
Holiday-themed WTF
A band called “Necrotic Mutation” has done a cover of my favourite Christmas song, “Ça Bergers”. Listen in. And to cleanse your palate, the song the way I’m more used to hearing it.
Still kicking myself, a little
“Name a time, name a place Chances are I’ve had the means to be there” I could’ve been at the concert. I ended up not going for a variety of reasons. Still. I could’ve been there.
The game’s afoot
Pirates! (and not the zombie-fighting kind either)
Interesting, to say the least
I got a new watch from my wife for my birthday last month. It’s a great watch, and I like it rather a lot. Today on my lunch break, for no other reason than “because I’m a nerd”, I punched my watch’s serial number into Google, expecting to find — I don’t know, maybe its incept …
Profoundly [something]
Dead Tauntaun Cake Discovered in Official Star Wars Blog’s Flickr photostream. …where [something] is either awesome or disturbing. Awesturbing? Maybe there just aren’t words yet for what this is. Maybe the cake-maker has transcended the capacity of the English language.