Is it wrong that my reaction to reading this Netflix description

After the face of the planet is overrun by bloodthirsty vampires, special ops squad leader Commander Tao (Steven Seagal) must extinguish the menacing bloodsuckers and save the future of the human race. But for those who have survived and taken refuge in an abandoned hospital, hope is running out — as well as supplies and food. Jeff Chase, Emma Catherwood and Skye Bennett co-star in this action thriller.

Was both “this sounds like the worst movie ever made” and “I should move this to the top of my queue immediately”?

Got more suits than Jacoby & Meyers

“A Moment of Fallout 3”

Once I figured out that there was a way to load the content w/o using Games for Windows Live (with which I’d downloaded it), and used a pre-messed-up-save, it was a good time. It just took easily 2x as long to get it installed and working as it did to play… which is messed up

I can’t wrap my head around how badly this thing is designed. It’s the worst experience I’ve ever had. Any game company that signs on for this instead of (say) Steam deserves to sell zero copies of anything.

The thing:
– there’s a Games for Windows Live standalone client. It sucks. You can log into this, but if you start a GfW-enabled game, like F3, it won’t recognize it… you have to login again.
– if you playing before w/o GfWL, and start playing it with it, you’re screwed for save games etc. Which is nutty.
– for reasons I cannot fathom, Fallout 3 will not connect within the game
– once you decide to use GfWL within Fallout 3, you have a new set of problems..

So pretty much, buying the downloadable content for Fallout 3 went like this:
– go slog through installing a stupid client
– pay some money
– download it
– it doesn’t work
– much frustration

I’m no closer now to playing this than I was when I started. I have zero clue what went wrong, or why, or what to do about it. This is horrible. The value of this expansion so far is like -$50.

“Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account” Mary Rickert, F&SF Oct/Nov 2008.

I just came across an old F&SF and read “The Tamarisk Hunter” by Paolo Bacigalupi (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 2007). It’s easily one of the better stories I’ve read in a long time… A fine farmpunk tale, since reprinted ever as it crossed into mainstream republication. Now I have to go check out his book.

… that I can believe in.

Here’s the Fox Reality channel schedule against the inauguration coverage:

I’ve written about the Clover (and Starbucks and the Clover) here a couple times, but the short version is the Clover’s this crazy drip coffee maker that well-tended produces an amazingly good cup of coffee in under a minute. Starbucks bought them out and now you can’t purchase them new.

I saw one on ebay (link) selling for $4,000 (with a buy it now price of $18k).

And I kind of stared at it for a while. I emailed the link to fellow Clover people. I reloaded a lot. I started to come up with this plan in my head for how I could make it worthwhile (“…if I had it on my desk at work, I could collect donations for cups and it would only take four, five years…”). I stared at the picture. I wondered if I’d be able to get as good with it as Trabant, say. I looked at the seller’s feedback.

And even now, having realized it’s a little crazy to have spent that much time tossing the idea back and forth, I write this up and think “well, it’s not thaaat crazy, you can see where…”.

Stupid coffee.