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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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…and that’s probably the healthiest breakfast anyone at the con had.
Nah, NebrasKon has a Perkins right across the street. Many a bleary eyed breakfast had there. And lunch. Several dinners. More than a few late night snacks.
I have never been to Nebraskon, but I have eaten at that Perkins. Twice.
I can confirm that Omaha does, in fact, have a Perkins.
The weird thing is, I think that’s one of maybe…two? Perkins in the entire town.
Lincoln has more Perkins than Omaha, and its half the size of this town. Weird stuff.
I go for the McDonald’s Breakfast. Sausage McMuffin with Egg, Hasbrown and a Coke.
It’s not the healthiest thing out there, but it’s better than pixie sticks.
ewww mcmuffins are terrible… biscuits all the way.
Ewwwwww biscuits?! i do prefer the egg mcmuffins, can’t stand sausage. The breakfast burritos are OK. I wonder if they still have danishes.
I once spent most of a con flying on Space Food Sticks, with occasional portions of a beef log we all chipped in on… One of a number of experiences which probably have more folks then me me wondering how on earth I managed to live into my sixties. 🙂
One of the reasons I started having a Registration Staff breakfast on Thursday morning was to make sure all my staff got a halfway decent breakfast Thursday morning.