Depp and Hoffman will take this to the next Bat-Level.

And then for Batman 4 please cast Daniel Radcliffe as Robin.

Batman and his “ward.”

Spin off Daniel as Nightwing.

This is the cinema that will finally overtake Titanic.

Titianic was every teenage girl. Robin is every teenage boy.

No srsly.

In fact, I founded a user group.

View my page on LG Dare Users

very dark. almost The Dark Knight kinda dark. Comes out this November.

Of course the book was the most disturbing of the series. See HP6

Compare and contrast: The Joker and Voldemort.

TDK the movie is 3.5 hours. Reading HP6 took what? twice that? Maybe 3x.

TDK is now receiving more repeat viewings than any movie since Titanic. TDK is also on track to out-gross Titanic as the #1 all-time box office draw.

For Titanic, the repeat viewers were teenage girls. For TDK, they are all ages.

PG13 across all ages.

Christopher Nolan interpreting Frank Miller interpreting Bob Kane interpreting all our childhoods.

Christopher and his co-author brother Jonathan Nolan are the new Wachowski brothers. Memento was their first Matrix film except more cyber dude.

To the extent that cinema explores the human condition, TDK impressed me more than any film since Clockwork Orange .The Nolans are the new Kubrick plus they write their own works.

Contrastingly, I was unprepared for how taken I was with Wall*E. I was so not going to see this film. I was anti-disney. And then the reviews came in universally saying go see this film.

This is the best transplanetary science fiction love story since Stranger in a Strange Land. I remember thinking how much the kids would love this. so glad you took them to see it. just imagine, a feature length film and the only dialog is WALL*E EVAH. And the kids turn that into a whole new meme.

Tyler told me about your time at the mall. I applaud you for the stance you took.

We live in a time when touching or taking a picture of a child in public makes you suspicious.

I remember as a child throwing a 3-day nonstop kicking and screaming all out protest breakdown because my parents did not understand me.

When it was over they still did not understand me but I was ok with that now. I was grown up.

Childhood is all about discovering how you become powerful enough to be an adult.

How from his trauma Bruce Wayne becomes The Batman becomes The Dark Knight.

How 1968 becomes 2008. Camp becomes Noir. Bob Kane becomes Christopher Nolan.

POW! KA-BOOM! OMG! WTF!

Welcome to Light City!

Many of the graphics are gone, but most of the text is retained.

Hosted by the original maxbliss.com

Now living on maxbliss.net

Preserved forever on art.net

Apparently web pioneers get eternal web storage for free forever!

In one generation, Microsoft overtook IBM and then lost to Big Blue.

Apple has nothing to do with this. Apple is Prada.

The future is the hardware independent open source choose your own GUI share data thin client green server era.

All seeing is all knowing.

Who do you trust?

Coast-to-Coast Yost on YouTube

My thanks to Tyler, Amanda, Mike H. and Mike A. for their help with the kite flying, balloon engineering, and filming.

For more info about the project, see JJE Yost 47951.

When I was in college in Bloomington, IN, I sent a letter to J Yost 47951 and he got it.

I listened to a new Norah Jones cut tonight. I am convinced she is the new messiah.

putting in my will that she must sing at my funeral

and David Bowie

and Tom Waite

This weekend we journey to the Oregon coast to bestow Yostie on the Pacific Ocean. Via kite and balloon.

While attending a bachelor/bachelorette party for my older son and his new partner and their closest friends at a beachside condo on the Oregon coast with hot tub and sustained kite flying winds.

I will serve Whiskey Sours with maraschino cherries, Ponka style in a short glass filled with ice.

We will dine on oysters and crab.

Tomorrow, I will shut down my computer and go meat world so that we can fly kites over the Pacific.

I printed your photo of the Yost home, Nick’s Pub, George Ade, and us, my fellow perpetrators, to show them.

The Yost home

Applying ashes to the Yost brick outside Nick’s Old English Hut in Bloomington, Indiana

the George Ade home in Brook, Indiana

The perpetrators

I was relieved to see that it is not just me who became a waist size 52 upon reaching age 60 after being rather slim for most of my life.

I will post here after we get back from the coast. This trip, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, will be the longest I have not been connected to the Internet in more than a year.

1. If you are standing still and some other bot generates nearby, you will EXTERMINATE that bot in a flurry of fireballs.
2. If you both generate at about the same time you will mutually self-destruct in 85% of the time.
3. To gain the upper robotic hand, you must run away, find someplace safe to generate and then SNEAK up on other bots to EXTERMINATE them with FIREBALLS.
4. Rule Number 4: If there are three bots active, all the above rules are declared null and FIRE BALLED!

Imagine: Teams of Bots!

If you are in a team, your Clockworks are in a team. They can be buffed. Yes, we are talking Power Word: Fortitude, Power Word: Shield, the whole twinkalicious spectrum.

According to WoWWiki:

This pet can be buffed, “healed” and otherwise have beneficial spells cast on it like a party member. Rocket Bots have a very small amount of health, however, and very nearly all attacks from other Rocket Bots will kill it outright. Due to it being considered a party member, Power Word: Shield can be cast on the robot, allowing it to survive several simultaneous attacks before falling over. The attack that breaks through the shield can, at times, be reduced enough to damage the bot without destroying it, showing that the bots do in fact have more than one hit point, and that rocket attacks do a small amount of damage rather than being a scripted ‘auto-kill’ attack.

So naturally I am seeing that team totem buffs apply. Pally buffs. How long can you keep a pet with 5 hp alive?

Because then we can talk about raid-sized teams of Clockwork Zombies advancing on Brill or Ratchet.

Nerf Alert! As of Jan. 2, my priest can no longer buff his bot. Dreams of world domination dwindle.

Look! This blog was picked up by WoW Insider today!

Wondering why Blizzard would stealth nerf Great-father Winter’s gift, several commenters suggested that it was because bots were targetable in PvP Arena and this messed up combat there. Bots remain targetable, just not buffable.

So perhaps the whole team-buffable thing was a mistake?

Personally, as an engineer who has been suckered into building rock em sock em robots, the clockwork bots were a huge improvement. First because more people have them. Second because they had better special FX as they destroyed each other.

Furthermore, dear Blizzard, the social aspect of buffable bots with team based combat running rampant in the Auction House was a breath of fresh air and fair commentary on how PvP can make or break a game.

We can only hope that, just as Blizzard stealth nerfed our beloved bots on Jan. 2, they will see right to restore bot buffability on the surprise rolling restart patch at 4 AM on Jan. 5.

News flash! Blizzard broke the bots! It is not just that you cannot buff them, they stopped shooting other bots! They have become a plain ol’ vanity pet. Worse than that, they have become a broken vanity pet. They used to shoot rockets out of their arms and now they just stand there and make cute robot sounds.

OK, I can understand that buffing them was a problem. But these bots reason for existence was to shoot rockets at other bots! World of Botcraft! Now they are like retired baby boomers who won’t protest any more and are just like “get off my lawn.”

According to my figures, there are 8 million broken Clockwork Rocket Bots out there. Grandfather Winter will be hearing from me and my lawyers!