Well, I just finished watching Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. While I rather enjoyed it, I can see why it didn’t do too well at the box office. I can’t imagine that there would be a lot of people nostalgic for the old “futuristic” serials of the 1930’s; this was a well done nod to them, though.
Moving right along…
In my time at Mortal Kombat Online, I’ve run into a pair of rather weirdass coincidences that sometimes make me wonder just how small of a world we live in. These are both true (if not a bit scary) stories that just came at me right out of nowhere.
Nearly three years ago, I got an email in my MK Online inbox from Kyle DeHaas. (Yes, for those who know him, that is Kourt’s brother.) It turned out he had been doing a Google search for a certain character name he had invented, and found that in some official MK Online chat some guy named “DArqueBishop” had referred to it in a chat. Now, this character name was so off-the-wall that it was almost impossible that someone else had come up with it independently, so he was emailing to find out how to contact me and find out who the hell I was. By the time I had gotten the email, he had found his way onto the #mortalkombat IRC channel and was asking about me. I went ahead and told him who I was, and I think I shocked the hell out of him. It’s still funny to kinda laugh at these days…
What made me think of that and the whole “small world” thing, though, was something that happened yesterday. I got a message from a Midway employee who will remain nameless, asking for my help. It turned out he had been doing a Google search looking for an old college friend of his, and the only valid result he could find was on… well, Sean MC’s site. However, Sean had no email address listed on his website. What WAS listed, however, was a link to MY website… and the Midway employee recognized it as belonging to the same person from MK Online. :-) So, he asked me for help… and with Sean’s permission I obliged. Hopefully Sean was able to help…
It’s funny. Like I said, it’s coincidences like these that make me realize how small our world gets sometimes. Still, they happen infrequently enough where it’s a surprise when it DOES happen. Either way, it makes for decent conversation later…