Seen on the net...I did not write this. But it is often true...
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I gave up on Lost sometime last season, but last night my wife
had it on and I suddenly noticed a pattern. Here are some of the key
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It turns out the local theatre has 5.00 tickets on Tuesday nights,
making it a perfect opportunity to take in a movie, so we went to see
"Corpse Bride". I (being perennially out of the loop on What's Going To
Be Cool …
A bit of random internet humor...this list (and countless imitators)
has been flying around the net for years. What's cool is that, by all
appearences, the real source of the list has identified himself and has
a site…
From the "And Thanks For All The Fish" department, it appears the Navy may have accidentally released armed, trained, killer dolphins into the wild. And don't think they've forgotten all those tuna nets...
To Jaderabbit: Y'see, here's the thing. Whenever the 'mainstream press'
covers things I have a professional knowledge in -- computers, games,
science fiction -- if it's not written by a columnist specializing in
that …
Lest anyone doubt I am living deep in the benighted wilderness...my trip home following the game was delayed almost an hour by cows.
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Metro Briefs
Truck cr…
Another Reason To Have Contempt For The Press
(A subject heading about as useful as "Another good thing about sex" or "Another reason to sneer at the French", I admit)
So, some newspaper decided to report on how blin…
Had to share this...
*Friends Like That*A knight and his men return to their castle after along hard day of fighting."How are we faring?" asks the king."Sire," replies the knight, "I have been robbing andpillaging on yo…
In which Lizard pontificates on how ease of use is often preferable to technological change.
Notice the preponderance of blogs and wikis? Both are doing a great
deal to fulfill the early promise of the net, the abili…
I won't post my full comments on the Lost season 2 premiere since Jane hasn't seen it yet, but I will post my favorite exchange.
Hurley: You know that thing doctors do to make patients feel better?
Jack: Bedside mann…
4:30 AM. Randomly insomniac, moody, and twitchy, as I have been for
days. I hate myself when I get like this (Well, hate myself more than usual...). Everything sets me off. I
feel as if I'm covered with ants. I am cons…
OK.
This is very, very, sick...and very, very, funny.
It helps if you know something about Magic:The Gathering, but it's not
required. Not recommended for those who cannot find something funny in
the most grevious …
OK, there's some seriously creepy people out there. Here's an interesting and proably true story of how D&D helped save someone from one of them...(Unfortunately,
the original link here has been removed and replaced…
Seeing inside a cat's brain...
I, too, remember reading about this in 1999, and thinking it was
nigh-revolutionary. Any idea why nothing has come of this? For Ghu's
sake, something like this could be a 'dream record…
Just to post something beyond "What I had for dinner"...my review of
the latest BSG episode. Spoiler laden. Writen in response to the weekly
"5 Star Poll" on Usenet.
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3.25...and, by th…
You know, I never understood...or was able to get more than a hundred pages into..this book either, but I don't think anyone would ever want to see film of me naked in bed trying to make sense of it.
Now, Gormenghast,…
Blast from the past...the
very distant past, when Lizard was barely adolescent, and Fortran was
not even THREEtran, and we programmed with ones and with zeroes, and...you know the rest.
Lizard is awake at 4:40 on a …
Yeah, I've pretty much always felt this way...
So, what does it mean when a fake blog
promoting a new TV show is filled with anti-corporate rhetoric and
Microsoft-bashing? I mean, talk about astroturf! Like I keep saying:
The Revolution Will Be Merchandised.
Me…
Everything I need to know, I learned from folksongs.
So here's where Lizard starts pontificatin'.
One of the things I noticed at Dragoncon was the transition of old
fandoms to new. Star Trek and Star Wars -- the great fandoms of the 70s
-- are now dying. The new 'hot'…
Awww....ain't it the truth?
Random note: Apparently, some people are reading this blog through
livejournal. I'm not sure if I can see comments posted to my blog via
LJ. If someone knows how I should be doing this, post to THIS blog
(xanga.com/li…
Con Addendum II: We stayed late to see "Romeo and Ethel, The Pirate's Daughter",
Shakespeare's famously lost musical comedy. It had pirates, twins,
magic, and hot redhead-on-redhead lesbian sex. It was 2 hour
producti…
Con Addendum I: In the dealer's room, someone was selling random pack
of Magic Card for 1 dollar, or 6 for 5, with a special "Find the Mox
and win a box!" notation. I found th Mox! (A mox *diamond*, of course,
not one…
Wow.
Back from Dragoncon.
Lots to say. It was a massive, overwhelming, experience, the first real
con I've been to solely as a visitor in years, possibly half a
decade...I think the last one was Baycon in 2000. (…
Back. Exhausted. Blog later. 'Nuff said.
Cat Watching...
a)Boris is awake on top of my CPU.
b)Boris begins to doze on top of CPU.
c)Boris falls completely asleep on top of CPU. Neck goes limp; head flops over front edge of CPU like a Beanie Baby.
d)Boris wa…
OK, this is just _ing awesome. If this pans out...it will be a world-changing discovery. Keep watching.
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