BTW, if anyone wants to buy Lizard a prezzie, check out this -- 828 feet of books.
I won't ever get around to reading them all, of course -- but I can
burrow through them like a gopher, dive in them like a porpoise, an…
In case anyone's confused, Elaine is an NPC in an RPG I'm in...who is
apparenlty aware of her status and comments on the game from a player's
perspective. Go figure. None of my NPCs were ever that mouthy.
I suppose…
Just imagine if chess had been released today...as a computer game. It would be a lot like this.
A classic bit of audio blooper...Orson Welles throws a hissy fit. Fans of 'Pinky and the Brain' might recognize many of these outbursts.
Comedy -- from the greek "Comos", meaning "something bad", and "dy" meaning, happening to someone else.
Such as shampooing three cats.
(The fourth, my beloved little demonspawn Crickybug, has gone to live
with Mom…
The nearest IHOP is 93 miles from here.
I am in hell.
(Hey, I bet a local franchise would do well...)
It's now official. You own nothing. Anything you have, the government
can take from you at its whim, provided it claims it is serving the
"public good". I suppose congratulations are due to the left. You've
won. The d…
Well, there's a shock.
Statler and Waldorf! You scored 22 Mood and 37 Energy! Tired and cranky, you like to sit back and point out the flaws ofothers. Good for you! You're not half bad....you're all bad! …
Lizard says: In the future, my body will be artificial and my tools will be alive. Cool.
Electric Wire Spinning Bacteria
Why I hate C++. Volume 985 of a series. Collect them all.
So I'm trying to do a very simple thing, use fscanf to read data from a
tab-delimited file. This is 'major yawn' code. Despite this, I've spent
the past thre…
What happens when you die? This man has positive proof that, if you're a sinner, you turn into an 8 foot long worm and live on a deep-sea volcanic rift.
I wish I was joking.
I wish he was joking.
On the other ha…
Can't believe I forgot to mention this yesterday...in the scene where
Bruce is in the cave as an adult, and the bats swarm, and he stands
there and exults in it...
Was that his "Bat-tism"?
G,D&R!
OK, movie review time -- Batman Begins is definitely as good as they
say, even though it lacks some of the stylistic pizzazz of Burton's
1989 vision. It also lacks a strong villain -- Scarecrow is underused,
and Ras A…
The exercise in bending nature to my will continues. Vegetables have
been planted -- tomatoes, peppers, and some spices. We shall see if
anything come of this other than giving the weeds something exotic to
cling to.
…
"All that protects us from their evil is their incompetence." (Penn Jilette, on government.)
Fascinating.
And a bit surprising. I always figured that back more than a century or
two, it would all sound like gibberish, but even the Middle English is
generally comprehensible. This is helpful for when I become u…
We wantsss it, preciouss...yess we does...
But we must save for GenCon!
Ssss....nassty GenCon. It's a long time from now, precioussss....
No! No! Must save money!
We coulds be hit by truckses between now and…
Stove still doesn't work. Evidently, it was merely being mischevious.
Naturally, the appliance repair people have vanished into the Dimension
of Servicepeople, where they go whenever they are needed.
Meanwhile, nove…
The stove appears to have spontaneously healed itself. Like all
appliances, it worked when I was trying to demonstrate to someone how
it was not working. We shall see if it keeps working.
Good news: Jane has full-time employment beginning early next week.
Bad news: The stove just died. After one of the innumerable short
electrical blackouts which plague this place, the stove decided not to
return to …
Dinosaurs Versus The Ark!
Uhm, I really don't have much to add to that...
Working on an outline of a novel, something I've never done before and
which is somewhat difficult. This outline is itself speculative; it's a
LONG jump from here to "Writing a novel", but this is my best shot. So,
on…
Quote of the weekend:"Watching old people make out is gross." (I was one of the 'old people' being referred to.)
Another weekend spent away from hearth&home. This time, I was
visiting someplace called Senecaville…
They've started rerunning "Lost", which is good, because it's a chance
to watch things in the early episodes which gain new signficance in
light of later episodes -- much akin to Babylon 5, where many seemingly
meanin…
Trivial update -- the red "BRAKE" light was due to the emergency brake
being up by about a notch. No, I wasn't driving with the brake on, but
the light evidently comes on if it's up even the teeniest bit.
Currently …
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