Monday – 25 February 2008
Back in the saddle again. The commute wasn’t too bad, despite pea-soup fog from Enoch to just south of Beaver and again from Scipio to Mills. They have apparently “fixed” the “NEHPI” sign…

…by covering the “HPI” with a “PHI” banner. Priceless.

Stray Toasters

  • I joined LinkedIn this morning. *shrug* At least I still haven’t hopped on the FaceBook bandwagon. Yet.
  • Second shot across the bow: I will be moving all commenting for this blog to Random Access as of Saturday, 01 March 2008.
  • Justice League: The New Frontier and 30 Days of Night both come out on DVD tomorrow.
  • Check out the papercraft artwork of Peter Callesen
  • I’m diving into PHP again.  And, again, it’s for work.  Can’t beat that.
  • Salt Lake City Weekly‘s Best of 2007: Food and Drink
  • I was talking with Dwim, a little while ago, about some of the comics that we read.  He was saying how he felt that some heroes shouldn’t have secret identities.  Wonder Woman was one example.  Green Lantern was another.  I mentioned that while Hal Jordan does have a secret identity, John Stewart doesn’t – he hasn’t worn a mask in his GL identity since the 80s, I think.  Besides, would you want to be “that guy” who tried to hassle John Stewart in his civilian ID?  Let’s look at the deterring factors:
    • Ex-Marine.
    • Even more so: Ex-Marine sharpshooter.
    • Wears a ring (let’s call it what it is: “a weapon”) that can create anything he thinks of.  Anything.
    • Trained as an architect, so he can be… creative.  (Granted, Kyle Rayner‘s an artist, so he’s usually a little more creative, but that goes off along an entirely different tangent.)
    • Good knowledge of mechanics and usually “builds” his ring constructs “from the inside out.”
    • Has probably kicked more ass on – and off – Earth than you have.
    • Did I mention “anything he thinks of?”  I did?  Okay, just wanted to be sure.

    And, it’s not like he takes the ring off when he’s not on-duty.

  • Visualization: Movie box office data

Namaste.