Tom Cruise's Cousin is Creepy

William Mapother is Tom Cruise's cousin. I'm sure that's not why he has a growing career in TV and movies, although it's probably helped some. He's very talented. He was in Minority Report - I'm not sure, but I think Tom Cruise might have had a small role in that movie, as well.

It's not because he's Tom Cruise's cousin that he's an actor. As I said, he's talented. He's talented, in so far as, in the creepy roles he's played, he's extra-super-omni-creepy.

He was the guy in Lost who kidnapped Claire and Charlie and hung Charlie by the neck for his pursuers to find, after he warned them to stop chasing him. He had superhuman strength on that show, before he was shot to death. (Sorry if I spoilered anything for people who haven't seen that yet -- it was months and months ago, but people are still buying DVDs and catching up.)

Now, he's in the new CBS show, Threshhold. This show is already way high on the creepiness quotient. You throw in William Mapother, his (probably just special-effected) superhuman strength, and his penchant for hunting down other residents on the island, or in this case, people who've been affected by the alien signals, well, the creepy levels just get ratcheted up to Walken ranges.

I'm not saying he's a Walken, I'm just saying HE'S CREEPY. His face looks... weird. He does NOT look much like Tom Cruise, who, even though he's got weird religious blargle in his poor, fevery brain, is still gahgeous and is just getting more gahgeous as he gets older, due to the UNGODLY UNFAIRNESS OF MEN AGING INTO DISTINGUISHED AND HOTTER AND WOMEN GETTING RIPPED THE HELL OFF.

But I digress.

Anyway. Where was I? Hot... Guys... Tom Cruise's nice, tight... Oh! Yes. William Mapother and the creepy. Well, CousinofCruise is creepy. This is true. But it's probably just the roles he's played. And, if the weird composition of his face makes him get cast in these roles, well, it's not his fault. He's probably a perfectly nice, normal gent underneath, or rather, behind, the unfortunate front of his head.

Unless he's a Scientologist, like his cousin. If he is, then there's no hope for him, and he deserves the unkind characterization I've done of him here.

Scientology? Creepier than superstrong alien-infected crazy people that kidnap you? Considering that I can never again look at Tom Cruise the same way again, I'm going to have to throw them the vote on this one. Just out of resentment.

And out of the fact that they're all insane and they exist in the real world, of course. There's always that.

I Might Esplode

At my new job, I have a back ache.

It's from sitting on all these ideas I have.

Okay, that sounds egotistical. I know. But really, it's just that I came in to this company from other places where the same basic things are done, but done differently. And everywhere I turn, I find ways that we could change and make things happen that would be Good and Nifty(tm). We could have less manual work. And, especially, we could have less work for programmers... including me. (Or JUST me, that's fine too.)

Less production work for us, that is. The programmers could end up spending their time on actual programming! Imagine that!

But I don't know if it's really okay to just start spouting off my ideas. I don't want to step on anybody's toes. Unless they'd still let me implement what I wanted, that is. In that case... yay! Sorry... but yay!