The Election – A Goodbye
Thanks for joining me on this month’s storyline. Chapter Four is over, but Chapter Five starts Tuesday!
Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
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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yea she won’t be missed
not even bothering to tell your long time BF you were thinking of leaving town. that cold
door..hit…ass..out.. etc.
I don’t know – “I took the job in Chicago” implies Tara had told Lynn there WAS a job in Chicago she was trying to get. Lynn just didn’t know that Tara had gotten an offer.
bf= boyfriend not best friend sorry if that wasn’t clear
Ah. I guess since that was so long ago I didn’t think about it.
wow… in hindsight she wasn’t with the con very long.
Four years isn’t that long? That’s not atypical for college town cons.
It’s rather interesting how the plot ends with someone who was one of the main cast leaving.
Chicago’s too far to staff a con in Wisconsin? Wow.
(No no, I know most cons are very local. For Anthrocon though, we presently only have one of our ten Directors in the same state as the convention, and he lives a 4.5 hour drive away. We email a lot.)
Bork Con is run in a fictional town in north western Wisconsin, about five to six hours away from Chicago
and since BC holds all their board meetings IRL thats not feasible to do weekly