I Didn't See This Coming

UPDATE: Brickshelf is staying.

Update: Brickshelf is going to be temporarily up until July 31st. Go get your stuff now!

So... Brickshelf is down. Or, to be precise, has "discontinued operation." No reason has been given.

To be honest, I haven't used Brickshelf in a while. After one whole folder randomly got deleted, and after experiencing one site problem too many, I turned to its sister site, Maj, and have used it ever since. Maj generally runs smoother, and is also not restricted to Bionicle content, which probably explains its popularity.

But even for those who switched to Maj, many still kept galleries of art, MOC photographs and other graphical content on their Brickshelf accounts, as leftovers from the days when Brickshelf was the site for Bionicle-related image hosting. Not all of these were backed up on hard drives. Some of them were irreplaceable digital images which could never be re-scanned or re-photographed.

So... now Brickshelf has discontinued operations, whatever that means for its account-holders. If it means that all that was in there is now permanently gone, this is going to be a terrible day for many.

We'll have to wait and see how this plays out over the next few days.

Concerning Genius

"Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede — not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen. " - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There are many words to describe people like Lichtenberg. None of them are polite.

But they are always spoken in a tone of admiration.

Update IX: Crunch Time

A lot of things are suddenly coming together for these few weeks - well, pretty much until August, so I probably won't be around for a while. For now, some quick updates:

- Yesterday Star Movies was showing Jurassic Park, so I watched the first part just for the heck of it.
The verdict? Even after fourteen years, the movie still is great. In an age where Bill Nighy looks like he was born with tentacles on his face, the dinosaurs remain as visually convincing as ever

- The Transformers movie was well-received by my classmates, even those who didn't originally know that Transformers can morph into vehicles. Or anything else about them, for that matter.
One friend has a crush on Optimus Prime. Or maybe just his eyes. It's a little difficult to tell.

- I think I broke my PowerPoint. It's running slower than before.

- History is important and should not be erased. That includes the awful art which was all you were capable of three years ago.
... I'll never get why so many webcomic artists feel the need to reboot their work. Wait a couple of years and they'll be even better - and then what? Another reboot?

- As usual, xkcd totally gets it.

- I wish people would stop IM-ing me nonsense in the middle of class.

- Even though I have an entire category dedicated to Bionicle, there are only three entries in it. This must change.

- I need sleep.