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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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Every house of 20 somethings needs Ruth. I, most of the time, am that Ruth.
They only have one frying pan?
Welcome to “minimum college house kitchen assembled by a goodwill shopping trip”
This is what I get for not knowing that kind of situation too.
I first moved out of the my folks place at 20, suddenly got dumped dishes on by them (All the old ones they wanted to replace or had replaced).
10 years later I find myself with urges to go to Bed Bath and Beyond.
This is why I just go at it alone. I admit I do leave me dishes a bit dirty but I usually reuse them. I wash and scrub the old food off and reuse it again. Im sure some of you think that is gross but it is what I do. I get peeved when the dishes pile up.
Every college student should be sent off with a cast iron skillet. useful for self defense and cooking!
Imagine taking that off a burner and swinging it when it’s still hot. That’d be very dangerous