zombie ‘07 by Misteriddles

I came across an article on how to kill a zombie. It’s really a top ten list. It got me thinking. Being a zombie would be a horrible thing. So I implore you of my friends and family: if I ever become a zombie, please kill me.

This is no joke. I would hate to live a life of eating brains, without a functioning one of my own. So, in the event that I ever become an unwilling soldier in the army of the undead, please put a bullet straight in my head. Other methods of disposal are welcome, just so long as you put me out of my (and everyone else’s) misery.

Of course, this isn’t simply a one-sided request. I want each of you, my loved ones, to know that if you were to become a zombie, I would do the same for you. After all, that’s what friends are for.

Texas Capitol

Originally uploaded by goodevilgenius

Several months ago I took this picture of the Texas Capitol. I took it while waiting for the bus to get home after a late rehearsal for a show in which I was acting at the time.

A few weeks ago, I decided to submit this photo to a contest on picture.com. Today, I received a letter from them stating that my photo has been selected as a semi-finalist in the next contest. The Grand Prize is $1000! Well, I’m pretty excited about it, and I’ll add more information as I get it.

I recently read a post by Nick O’Neill on his allfacebook blog titled Do Facebook Users Have a MySpace Mentality?. Basically he was curious if Facebook users are like MySpace users who seek to get as many friends as they can without regards as to whether or not they actually know the person. I, personally, think that’s stupid to do so. I use Facebook to keep in contact with people I actually know. I don’t have a single Facebook friend whom I’ve never met IRL. That could possibly change, but I certainly wouldn’t ever add someone with whom I had no association at all.

Well, Nick posted another entry about a new Facebook app, called One Million Friends. This app is designed to help do exactly what Nick was talking about in his other post. It’s purpose is to help you find as many people that want more Facebook friends as possible. He supposes that this is a violation of Facebook’s Terms of Service and would soon get taken down. I don’t find anything in the TOS that would disallow it, however, it is an example of exactly what he was talking about. Personally, I don’t understand the desire to appear to have hundreds of friends. However, the beauty of Facebook is that their actions don’t affect me. I can make my privacy settings such that only people in my networks can find me and add me as a friend. I can even make it so that no one can add me as a friend just by searching for me. I think this is great. So, while I think these other people are being a little bit childish, it doesn’t matter to me one bit.

Lindsey posing

Originally uploaded by goodevilgenius

I’ve been helping out my friend Geoff Yano, who is an aspiring filmmaker. I’ve been doing some behind-the-scenes filming while he’s filming some shorts he’s been developing. He’s been doing some scenes based on Shakespearean sonnets. This photo is one I took while he was filming one based on Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”). I especially liked this shot I took of the lead actress, Lindsey, in between filming.

One of these days, I promise I’m going to write about something other than my Greasemonkey scripts. Today, however, will not be one of these days.

I recently subscribed to Twitter, which is a social networking site dedicated entirely to tell your friends what you’re doing. Well, I decided it would be great if I could keep my Facebook status set to my Twitter status. I thought this would be a good idea because I can set my twitter status from just about anywhere (even Facebook). I began to search and found a couple programs (e.g. this really nice ruby script) that could be run in the background on your computer and would do exactly this. The only problem with them was that they all would log you out of another facebook login. This is fine if I’m not actually on my computer, but if I’m on my computer using Facebook, I wouldn’t want this.

So I decided to write another Greasemonkey script for Facebook that would do it in your browser, with your already logged-in facebook session.

This script will check your Twitter status every time you go to the Facebook homepage, and if it’s different than your Facebook status, it will update your facebook status with your current twitter status.

I hope you enjoy it.