Bad tool -- bad!

Razzafrazzin' KVM switch. Took me ten minutes to figure out why my monitor wasn't working before remembering that the KVM (undocumented) only turns on if the machine in port 1 is on. That machine is Uruk (my home Linux server), which got knocked out by last week's power outage, and I hadn't gotten around to restarting it yet. It is *not* obvious that I have to turn on machine B in order to see machine A...

Bad tool -- bad!

Razzafrazzin' KVM switch. Took me ten minutes to figure out why my monitor wasn't working before remembering that the KVM (undocumented) only turns on if the machine in port 1 is on. That machine is Uruk (my home Linux server), which got knocked out by last week's power outage, and I hadn't gotten around to restarting it yet. It is *not* obvious that I have to turn on machine B in order to see machine A...

Okay, now I don't feel guilty about not wanting to go see The Spirit

I commend to you Peter David's review of The Spirit, which desperately tries to be positive and fails. Indeed, he doesn't even lambaste it for the reason I'm so annoyed by it (the fact that Frank Miller took one of the classics of the comics field and rewrote it to look just like everything else he writes) -- rather, he treats it as simply a Frank Miller movie on its own terms, and it *still* fails.

I mean, really, when the list of positive things you can say about the movie includes, "Everyone's diction was really clear, and no one bumped into any furniture.", you are truly damning with the faintest praise possible...

Okay, now I don't feel guilty about not wanting to go see The Spirit

I commend to you Peter David's review of The Spirit, which desperately tries to be positive and fails. Indeed, he doesn't even lambaste it for the reason I'm so annoyed by it (the fact that Frank Miller took one of the classics of the comics field and rewrote it to look just like everything else he writes) -- rather, he treats it as simply a Frank Miller movie on its own terms, and it *still* fails.

I mean, really, when the list of positive things you can say about the movie includes, "Everyone's diction was really clear, and no one bumped into any furniture.", you are truly damning with the faintest praise possible...