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  • I really need to blog. It has been several days. Uhm. The problem is, my life has entered one of its periodic holding patterns. The past few days have just been THERE. I've been moderately productive at work, which i…

  • Incredible images. Link is going all over the net at .99C, so, it may be slow. Keep trying.Driving Through Cernobyl

  • A fairly amusing little trick. It seems to fool some people.Click and be amazed!

  • Saw "Hildago" avec spouse. Enjoyed it, even though the "true story" is a fetid pile of dingo's kidneys according to many sites debunking it. It also points out an interesting difference between my wife and me. When I not…

  • Misread headline of the day: Actual headline: Mexico to Question Rescued British Cavers What Lizard saw: Mexico to Question Rescued British Cadavers

  • Lizard's Guide To Detecting Bullshit Part I of Far Too Many On at least one mailing list I'm on, otherwise seemingly sane people post links to the most amazingly ludicrous conspiracies, claims, and so on. What astoni…

  • On the persistence of memory:A song has been going through my head. It is "My Darling Clementine", as it might have been written by Gilbert&Sullivan, as speculated by Tom Lehrer.When I was a much younger reptile, I was d…

  • In the "Which pointless time-wasting internet quiz are you?" department... Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis. "You do not know the power of the DarkSide." There are two possibilities: youare a Star Wars geek, or you a…

  • Too cool. http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/underwood/

  • Generally better day than yesterday. Met my writing goal, got plotting done for tomorrow's game, watched a little TV... Hedgie: My point wasn't so much that fundementalists think homosexuality is sinful, but that they w…

  • Readings from Second Hezakiah:"And the Lord spoke unto the Children of Israel, saying unto them 'When thou dost gather to meet, or to sing, or to worship, or to plan, or to divide the wheat of the field, placeth thine ch…

  • Another utterly wasted day. I managed to get some writing done this morning, but, this afternoon has been a complete and total waste with pointless delays, an inability to take a nap due to ceaseless interruptions, incre…

  • From the "What would Jesus do? He'd SMITE their heathen asses!" department... Some of y'all may or may not be aware that a county in Tennessee recently voted to ban homosexuals, in defiance of common sense, basic human …

  • Game update notes are always fun to read, especially out of context. Like this one: Player Cities: Corrected a bug that was causing incorrect nearby player structures to be deleted when attempting to destroy a player cit…

  • This is a good geek week. First, the ReBoot DVDs I noted below. Second, GURPS FOURTH EDITION has been announced! W00t! Of course, when it comes out at GenCon Indy, I'm going to be at home, since I'm going to China a few …

  • Sigh. No words. I have been generally unfocused all day, which is annoying. I hate weather. Computer room is stifling right now. I've had the luxury of an unexepcted evening home, and managed to waste it all, between goi…

  • Giant Communist Crabs Invade Europe!!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/28/wcrab28.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/28/ixnewstop.htmlStalin's last army - hordes of gigantic crabs on their way to …

  • So.Today, my writing was interrupted by a trip "outside", done at the insistence of Heronymous. I am still confused as to the point and purpose. We left a comfortable, climate-controlled condominium to go to a park fille…

  • Ate. Slept. Wrote. Played with kitties. Watched two episodes of Angel. Watched Panda clean. Wrote more. Read some. Had headache. Like short phrases. Which are fragments. Of sentences.If the punc?tuation was all wonky and…

  • Slight headache. Neck cracking. Realization that I have violated nearly every one of Robin Laws' pledges for HIS blog. I do discuss the current state of my mucous. Tell y'all what kind of kitchen utensil I am. And post l…

  • INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population. Take Free Myers-Briggs Word Testperson…

  • Tired. Aching. One of those deep, deep tireds where you just want to curl up on the bed and collapse, and you can't. Soon. Soon, I shall rest.

  • For Hedgie: His ApologiesRudyard Kipling, 1932 Master, this is Thy Servant, He is rising eight weeks old. He is mainly Head and Tummy. His legs are uncontrolled. But Thou hast forgiven his ugliness, and settled him o…

  • Never let it be said Lizard isn't fair. It's rare I'll offer praise for any work of religious propaganda, but I respect well done writing in any field, and, with that, I'd like to recommend Testament . It's a "Picture St…

  • Lizard has a new favorite song for the moment. Unfortunately, I can't find an MP3 of it. :(

  • Enmeshed In Information So. I'm currently in my hotel room, slowly gathering up the debris. It is astonishing how much clutter I can create in less than 36 hours. It's as if any suitcase I have is an infinite portal, a…

  • Today's useless internet quiz: Eysenck's Test Results Extraversion (22%) low which suggests you are very quiet, unassertive, and aloof. Neuroticism (65%) moderately high which suggests you are worrying, insecu…

  • You are Charlie Brown! Which Peanuts Character are You? brought to you by QuizillaSigh. It figures. This is the "No surprise!" answer.Though I find Snoopy and I share many authorial frustrations.One of my favorite strips…

  • Too funny.http://www.livejournal.com/users/spiritrover/http://www.livejournal.com/users/opportunitygrrl/

  • I remain once again comforted by my faith that the universe is run by nothing more than the whims of random chance. Should there be a deliberate hand in tonights events, whoever is in charge and I will have to have...wor…

  • Things I learned today: Acting is a sin.I learned this courtesy of http://www.av1611.org/Passion/menace.html , which is an essay written in 1963 warning of the perils of "The Religious Movie". (It also notes the existenc…

  • Sigh. This was a waste of a day. Did not get my desired writing done, did not get printer hooked up, did not accomplish much of anything. I kept getting distracted and pulled aside by things. Went to Goodwill. Ir was...i…