100 Posts in 100 Days: Day 49
Feb. 18th, 2012 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zolaAlmost to the halfway mark, and I've only missed a couple of posts! We were working on that update yesterday, it just turned out to be miserable because the system had updated as well, so it was a double update, and while one worked just fine, the other.... well, it was a pain in the butt.
I had intended to take the day off and ended up spending my first hour and a half of the day on the phone, so I've abandoned the idea. I'm going to work on some code for a while after supper, I have a straightforward job to do so it will be satisfying to actually *do* something and have it DONE as soon as everything is set up. Since it's my code from beginning to end, setup is very simple and it's just a matter of catching all the details.
I was reading a story today and musing on the nature of heroes. I have noticed in some books that the hero just needs ever-increasing powers to deal with ever-more-powerful bad guys. The Dresden Files, no insult intended as I enjoy the books very much, are a case in point.
We've had an in-house joke for years about this, originally spurred by an ad talking about the main character facing "The Ultimate Evil". So when said character defeats the Ultimate Evil and then next season again faces the Ultimate Evil, does this then mean he's really facing the second-most Ultimate Evil because he already defeated the Ultimate?
I mean, serious, I would think that the Ultimate Evil must be getting pretty banal by now, since so many heroes have defeated it. I would think that you wouldn't have to do much to earn the title now--maybe if you jay-walked and snickered at a fat lady walking by, that would put you right up there in the Halls of Evil.
Damn, I think I just got my next short story idea. Thanks for listening.
I had intended to take the day off and ended up spending my first hour and a half of the day on the phone, so I've abandoned the idea. I'm going to work on some code for a while after supper, I have a straightforward job to do so it will be satisfying to actually *do* something and have it DONE as soon as everything is set up. Since it's my code from beginning to end, setup is very simple and it's just a matter of catching all the details.
I was reading a story today and musing on the nature of heroes. I have noticed in some books that the hero just needs ever-increasing powers to deal with ever-more-powerful bad guys. The Dresden Files, no insult intended as I enjoy the books very much, are a case in point.
We've had an in-house joke for years about this, originally spurred by an ad talking about the main character facing "The Ultimate Evil". So when said character defeats the Ultimate Evil and then next season again faces the Ultimate Evil, does this then mean he's really facing the second-most Ultimate Evil because he already defeated the Ultimate?
I mean, serious, I would think that the Ultimate Evil must be getting pretty banal by now, since so many heroes have defeated it. I would think that you wouldn't have to do much to earn the title now--maybe if you jay-walked and snickered at a fat lady walking by, that would put you right up there in the Halls of Evil.
Damn, I think I just got my next short story idea. Thanks for listening.
