Day: October 24, 2005

Not sure what’s wrong with Verio right now, but my pencoyd.com e-mail is down for the count right now. Can’t send or receive. Filed support notes via two different methods, but the toll-free numbers just warns that only limited support is available due to Hurricane Wilma, especially if your servers are hosted in Boca Raton. My website is up, but my e-mail is not, so maybe they are hosted differently/separately. My original account was with Best Internet, back in 1996, but they were bought out by Verio long ago, and while I’ve severed the DNS ties and a few others, I haven’t left Verio for this main domain. This kind of incident doesn’t encourage me. If you sent me something at home and were expecting a reply, be patient… or send it to my work address, first name dot last name at cnet and then a dot com. Hope to update this entry with good news in the morning.

Update: Back up again on Tuesday morning, with no response from Verio.

After three months on the shelf, making money for Netflix, The Iron Giant DVD finally made it to the player on Saturday night. The final selling point on taking the film of the shelf was its length: the movie is less than 90 minutes. Perfect for this tired parent.

What I knew before watching: animated; good reviews; director is Brad Bird, recently more famous as director of The Incredibles

What I knew after watching: animated; fun for adults, but fine for kids, although not sure it’s worth it for a five-year-old; surprising folks do the voices (Vin Diesel (!) does the Iron Giant’s voice, Jennifer Aniston does the mother, etc.)

If you watch the DVD, make sure to check out the short feature on the making of the Duck and Cover short which appears in the film. Funny at the time, and even better to hear the whole song.

Metacritic score: 85 out of 100.