The whole universe is out of whack today.

Seriously…it can’t get more fucked up than today has been. I’m not sure what to do about it…or how to set the universe right again (and frankly I’m gettin’ sick of doin that all the time…one of you should step up)….

I don’t know what you can do to protect yourself… but in case the shockwave of “just-plain-not-right” hasnt hit you yet… be warned…it’s coming.

This has been a long week. Thankfully it’s nearly over.

To top it off…I feel like crap today… think I’m gonna take a half day at work.

… too bad I dont have a smilie that looks like I feel… maybe I’ll add some new emoticons to cover things like “I feel like crap”.

Doug is censoring my posts on his site because they show he was wrong.

It’s one thing to censor because of excessive bad language or because a post’s sole purpose is to enrage someone … but poor poor sad little Doug is doing it because he doesnt want to show he was wrong.

So…while at the moment I’m enjoying re-posting my comment over and over again knowing he has to delete them all (I have a script that re-posts my comments for me)…I decided to also post the censored post here.

Doug just cant stand the him being “wrong” part so he’s deleted it.

sad…sad…sad little Doug. I pitty him.

Have any of you ever seen the movie Bicentennial Man? I saw it tonight … it was on TV. I rarely watch TV anymore, but tonight I took a few hours to get back in touch with an old friend … my big screen RCA.

Unfortunately this reunion was centered around the movie “Bicentennial Man”. Typically I’d launch into a loquacious and passionate and perhaps mildly entertaining review of the film … but as I sit here typing this I realize I can in fact do the movie complete justice in one simple word: BAD.

This is bad movie. Short and simple sentence for a a short and simple truth. This is a bad movie. Do no go see this movie … certainly do no pay for it in any way shape or form. If it’s on TV I suggest you change the channel … but hey it’s your wasted evening.

Now I love Robin Williams so I will grant the movie the following two compliments. It’s a good story and it’s got good acting.

But the good story has been shoved into a pitifully bad movie. And there is only so much good acting can do for a bad movie.

I watched the whole dang thing. I kept waiting for it … expecting that at any moment it was going to get good … But it never did. Same old tune for about 20 scenes.

Now I have a long standing rule about never telling anyone ANYTHING about a movie they haven’t seen … ANYTHING. But … I consider this review a public service act. If you don’t want the spoiler … stop reading … but for God’s sake do not do it so that you can then go watch this movie … it’s bad.

Robin Williams plays a robot and we watch it’s sappy and drawn out quest to become more human over the course of 2 and half generations … although through all the force feed melodrama it feels more like 5. The parts of this story that were good … that could have made some intellectual impact … were rushed past and key milestones of the plot were just handed to the audience as a gimmie … and we get this over and over again for 2.5 generations in a forcibly melodramatic Pinocchio story.

By the end of the movie the world naturally knows of his plight and everything seems to culminate in a predictably tense speech explaining that through his long life his driving goal was merely to be acknowledged as human … and that goal must be achieved if he is to have lived or is to die with any dignity.

As if the overly recognizable symphony playing some heart bleedingly longfull ballad through the whole scene wasn’t enough … the robot dies literally SECONDS before that acknowledgement is given to the world.

So the real horrific part of this waste of creative talent is that it’s a bad movie that tries to make you feel bad! So at the end of the movie … you kinda feel a little bad … but then you realize “That was the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen”. And then you’re just pissed … then you feel bad … and pissed … and bad …

This movie is not worth the shelf space it takes up in the bargin bin at K-mart people. It’s a bad movie.

Sigh … I’m actually looking forward to doing laundry after that miserable waste of time.

Hey all … as you may have noticed from various hints I’ve been dropping all week that I’m going to launch a new davidmeade.com.

There is good news on this front…

It’s actually going very well (much better than I thought it would). I plan to launch it this friday (tomorrow) … and … the photos will be back!!

Thats right, a new and improved scrapbook (to be rebranded as Galleries) will be available this Friday! And, in the new system you will be able to comment on all the photos … and even RATE THEM!!

I’ve got a working scrapbook system installed! That means the photos section is coming back!

I’ve got alot of photos to move over to the new system and I have to do some tweaking on the template files…but we’re looking good for the Friday launch!

Hey James from NY … Thanks for the 2 posts to the guestbook.

Stick around… by the end of the week there will be a whole new feature set here at davidmeade.com. I’m liking the way the new version of the site is looking so far and hope to launch it to the public by Friday.

Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever gotten so much done on the web site in such a short amount of time … nor have I ever tried to do this much!

I have some theories as to why I suddenly got inspired and motivated to finaly do what I’d been planning to do for so long … but thats a topic for a future blog … this is a Site News Article.

I’m beginning to realize that I’m going to have to launch this new improved site before ALL of what I want to get done is done … because it’s already better than whats out there now (at the time of this writing 6/14/04). (update: 6/18/04 - Launch!)

So I thought I’d toss up this list of things I’ve got on my to do list so that you can all see whats coming and how it’s coming.

NOTE: This is not a timeline or a schedule … it’s mearly a list of things I want to do with my website - eventually - when I can enjoyably accomplish it. History has shown that any implication that my website has anything even remotely like a deadline will remove the “enjoyable” part of the equation and therefore stop all forward movement on the site. So please don’t even THINK about telling me I’m behing schedule … that will only make things worse.

And as a final warining on the issue … I can now ban people with this new system

Anyway … without further ado …. My To Do List!

As I complete the roll over to the new system and continue to develop and migrate all the old feature sets into the new system we’re bound to find a few bugs. I know of a few already. This thread will serve as a place where I can post those I know about and am working on - as well as a place where you can let me know about things that are broken and I’ve not yet discovered (If I know about it…it’s on this list).

(Please don’t tell me about the things that aren’t done … I know about all of those But PLEASE DO feel free to tell me about things that are “live” and just broke.)

The Known Bug List

Ray Charles has died. I’m very bummed about this.

He passed away last week actually, but I dont watch TV anymore really…so I had no idea.

….sigh…. it’s the end of an era.

On another note … I’ve broken some things on the website. Sorry for the error messages and broken links you’ll be seeing. This was done on purpose actually. I’m in the middle of yet another site revamp. Some really really cool new features will be available to you all soon.