Sam Raimi to direct The Hobbit?

Only if there's a certain chainsaw-weilding K Mart clerk as far as I'm concerned.... This rates largely as rumor to me, but who knows.

http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1164235638

News for Nov. 22, 2006

The New Director of 'The Hobbit' is.....?

11/22/06, 5:47 pm EST - Xoanon
Word from a reliable source indicates that Sam Raimi has been approached to direct THE HOBBIT. Since Peter Jackson's (Middle-)earth shattering news that he is off the project, it seems the Spider-Man director may step into his place. Raimi was born on October 23rd, 1959 in Royal Oak, Michigan. His first big hit was 'The Evil Dead' but he really gained cult status with 'Evil Dead II'. It is his amazing work on the Spider-Man series that has propelled Raimi to the mainstream. His latest film 'Spider-Man 3' is due out this May.

While there is no word on Raimi accepting the invitation, it remains to be seen who, if anyone, will be replacing Peter Jackson!

Thinking about buying a Zune? DON'T. Read this review first.

I love the fact that Microsoft would bring out an MP3 player that isn't compatible with Windows Media Player, much less the fact that it cannot play podcasts.

http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/147048,CST-FIN-Andy23.article

And if you like fanboi rants, feel free to look over the Slashdot thread at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/26/1426240

Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Computer Upgrades, Etc.

I hope everyone out there who celebrates Thanksgiving or something very much like it had a good time. We certainly did.

And as this is a VERY long post, I'm putting it behind cuts.

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NaNoWriMo: I surrender

I wrote about 400 words while in Phoenix, I was hoping to be able to write 2-3000 a day but it just didn’t happen. I didn’t expect to be as busy as I was, then again, I never expect to be as busy as I am. I’m in the mid 22,000’s, and there’s no way I’m going to more than double that by Friday. I’m going to continue writing, and I will finish the piece that I’m doing, I’m just not going to obsess about it. I have to do six color prints, mounted and spotted, plus a Photoshop collage using a minimum of five source images, by next Tuesday. I just don’t have the time to finish by the end of November.

For me, October would be better month for me to try to write 50,000 words in. Late November is always the crunch for me finishing semester projects, October is pretty light as my previous mid-terms have been almost non-existent. I will probably finish my writing in 30 days, they just won’t all be in November.

Russet, on the other hand, has probably finished hers by now. She got a lot of writing done during the drive back to Cloudcroft and even more over the last two days. She had two last scenes to write, and that was it. I know she was over 40k, so I have no doubts that she’ll hit the big Five-Oh.

SNOW!

It's been pretty cold the last few days, and I don't really trust our thermometers, so I'm not going to say what they're reporting. We went out to the observatory Sunday for Apollo, I dropped off Russet then went shooting (I need to finish up one more roll for class). It was damn cold outside, but no snow. There were some flurries, but it was too warm for anything to accumulate. Apollo didn't happen because the sky was clouded over, still, I got standby pay for it (or will get it when they mail the checks).

This morning, I did my normal breakfast routine, got a shower, got dressed, and I just felt rotten. I couldn't get warm and was almost constantly shaking. I couldn't decide if my shakes were from the cold or something else. I was going to go out shooting and finish my roll, but I just couldn't get enough interest. I took Celeste out for a walk around 1:30 and cut it short because I'd left my heavy coat and my New England Over Shoes at the observatory. I came in and started uploading jpegs to Walgreens to get them printed for my Photoshop class. About 2:30 I drove down to the village to get the mail as I was expecting a couple of things, got back, continued uploading, and around 4pm I noticed that the world had become white!

I didn't leave for work until about 5:30, unfortunately I had planned on leaving earlier so I parked behind Russet's car instead of pulling under the covered parking, so I had a couple of inches of snow on my car.

The drive down wasn't much of a problem, though I have a feeling that we really should have replaced my tires when we were in Phoenix last week. There's a Discount Tire in Las Cruces, so maybe I'll be down there in a couple of days. We'll see how things work out.

The odd thing was that once the snow started falling, I warmed up. The shakes stopped, and I started feeling a lot more comfortable. The temperature in the house hadn't changed, it was still in the low 60's, but I was feeling better. Weird. It felt much less cold once it started snowing than before when it was just cold and windy. I've noticed it before, I still find it kind of weird when I experience it first-hand.


The nice thing is that the fire danger had been notched up to medium -- we hadn't had any real rain or precipitation since the light snow in mid-October.