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So it was literally more than twenty years ago that I first put one of my dumbest creations on the internet: The Steven Seagal Movie Generator.
Like I seriously publicly launched that dumb thing back in 2004, and for those of you who were unaware, it assembles a title, cast and plot of a fake Steven Seagal movie from elements of his (real) bad films.
I honestly got the idea from a former-friend, who in high school wrote a comedic piece about how you could mash up the titles of Seagal films in the weird underground "newspaper" that got handed out for a few years. But I took it a few steps further, and made a whole thing.
Mostly it just sat there though, a thing I made once and never went back to. I followed it up with the Sci-Fi Channel Movie Generator (later retitled the Syfy Movie Generator) in 2008. I spent more time on that one, doing a later design update that made the "Syfy" movies show up on a fake DVD back cover.
But the Steven Seagal generator just sort of sat there, untouched.
And Steven Seagal kept making (terrible) movies with (predictable) titles. Like a lot. But the generator still only spat out movies culled from the nineties and early 2000s, ignoring all of his new stuff. There was a whole library of awful movies that just weren't in there, and it made the generator feel less relevant.
So, uh, I went and did something about that today.
First off, I redesigned the page. Now it looks like the back of a VHS tape box. Then I loaded the elements of about twenty-five additional films into the generator. And that was harder than I thought it would be, since some of the films are so obscure that they're not well documented. I literally had to do some deep research to figure out a lot of the basic plot details that are now in the generator.
But I did it.
And it's done.
And the generator is now fully loaded.
It's still useless and dumb, though.
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I currently have the newest car I have ever owned and it is 12 years old. I kind of feel called out. 🙂
….I don’t think I’ve ever owned a car less than 10 years old, though some just barely older. Had a few cars that were older than me…
My current vehicle is a 2007, so…
My 10+ year old car was pressed into service for a 5-hour drive with 4 members of our board. All of us, and our luggage, in a my Ford Escort- literally the cheapest car you could buy new from ford when I bought it.
The next year we rented a minivan instead. (We also were toting 5 people, but that was just the excuse to drop the money for the 2-day rental.)
Hey, it’s not MY fault Saturn went out of business for making good cars and making a lot of other car executives look bad, so that I can’t buy another one. And I’m not letting go of my 1998 Saturn any time soon because it still works so well if they WERE still in business I WOULD plan on buying another one.
Always wondered how it would feel not to have to work on an upcoming convention… actually it still feels pretty good! 🙂 Though I suppose if CaliFur gets a decent venue next year I may get sucked back into ConOps…
What’s this about lost spagetti privileges? Darned spagetti incidents.
It could be less that no one has a care less than 10 years old and more that no one really want to pick up Troy Harrington.
That was my interpretation, lol.
… have you seen the economy lately I’d be shocked if there ate half as many cars as board members