Blog: Archive for April, 2004

I've decided to take the plunge and implement procmail for sorting my mail and spamassassin for dumping spam. At home, that is; I've had these working at work for months now, so I suppose that I can believe they're reliable enough to handle my personal mail.

In other news, M and I are buying a house!
Well, technically we've been buying the thing for a while now—we're busy signing our lives away on innumerable forms, all of which are written in impressive legalese and are mostly meaningless and almost impossible to read. (My strong suspicion is that a close reading would reveal that you've signed away your children, rights to your entire income from now until death, and, of course, your immortal soul.)

We've been lucky in finding a really good real estate agent (through a coworker) who was patient enough to walk us through a few dozen houses, most of which were too big, too ugly, or too near the 210 freeway to make us happy. In the end, we found the house we're buying, which M fell in love with, and I liked, so there we go.

Assuming I get my act together again and start posting more regularly, you'll probably be hearing lots more about the house in the future. We're currently looking at a mid-May move in, which will, I'm sure, be far, far too exciting.

While poking around online and reading about various 2000 AD comics (inspired by a review of the new Judge Dredd game), I looked around for information about “Halo Jones”, which I read in its original form way back when, and had found in collected form on one of our trips to the U.K.

Alas, there don't appear to be any cool Halo Jones figures, which would make nice additions to my office, but I was reminded that Halo's creator was Alan Moore, which got me poking around looking for more information about Moore's current work, and reminded me of Promethea, which I'd heard about and thought sounded interesting, but had never really followed up on.

One of the sites I found was Eroom Nala's site, which is basically a set of comprehensive annotations for the entire series. It turns out that Moore is seriously into ritual magic, and has incorporated much of his knowledge into the Promethea stories, with entire issues exploring the Kabbalah, demons out of Götia, appearances by Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, and fellow magicians, and more, more, more! Very trippy, especially for someone who was attracted to these ideas as a teen, but has pretty well grown out of believing them.

The books are attractive for other reasons, as well, with the art being inspired by many different artists and artistic styles, and incorporating pencil and ink drawings, pastels, oil paintings, and photography.