To Boldly Be Sad Where No Man Has Been Sad Before

September 27, 2009

Well, not exactly. I suppose someone else was sad first, for they made the site: U.S.S. EXCALIBUR MEMORIAL.


Go there. Go there now.

But be prepared to be saddened, as I was, for that is a memorial site to dead Star Trek actors. At the top, it's got the biggies, like DeForest Kelley and James Doohan, but then it proceeds to list what can only I imagine is a complete list of everyone else who ever acted on any Star Trek series and is now deceased.

I dare any Star Trek fan to scroll through that list and not tear up. Especially you TOS fans.

What really got me, though, was the actors who you know mostly from other things, such as...

...Kevin Peter Hall
(who played both the predator in Predator and Harry in Harry And The Hendersons)


...David Graf
(who played Officer Tackleberry in the Police Academy films)


...Andreas Katsulas
(who played so many great characters, such as G'Kar in Babylon 5)


...Vincent Schiavelli
(who also has played many great characters, such as John O'Connor in The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension)



All dead.


On Vanity And Trackbacks

September 26, 2009

[Note: This is a rant, instead of a triumphant return to blogging. Sorry, Lin.]

Have you ever looked at a blog's comments, only to see lots of comments that are merely quotes of the article, or quotes of another blog talking about the article? Those are trackbacks.

I've never really understood trackbacks. Sure, I get that it's nice to know who's talking about your blog and what they're saying, but do the readers have any interest in that at all? I think trackbacks are pure internet litter for everyone except the blog's author. Shouldn't the blog author(s)/admin(s) be the only one(s) who can see all the trackback junk? And even then, wouldn't it be more useful to have the trackbacks appear as some sort of RSS feed?

And, more existentially, how do the trackbacks even get there? Surely a blog doesn't spider the web for mentions. Do bloggers add trackbacks by hand, then? Or do the popular blogging systems just go and post trackbacks automatically? I don't think I like the implications of automatic trackback posting. Is there some way I can avoid doing that?

Trackbacks should be disabled on this blog. If you ever see one appear, tell me about it, please, because it probably means that I accidentally enabled it in one of my messing-around-with-the-site binges.


Fleeting Desires, Narrow Escape

September 13, 2009

5 seconds ago, I almost deleted this whole blog. On purpose.

Then I didn't.

However, I still want to. I think.

What will the future hold?

...

On second (or maybe fourth) thought, fuck it. No deletion. This blog is still for people who know me well, or those who stumble across it and enjoy it. I briefly flirted with the idea that I wanted to have a nice and respectable and well-manicured blog that I could refer to in sentences like "Hey, you should check out my blog!" or "Oh? I just made a blog post about that. Go check it out!" But I don't actually want to say those sentences. So I think I'm OK.


This pointless post is now complete.

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