http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2524.html Today's theme: Miscellaneous
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Someone out there on the internet convinced me to try Glee, and I just watched the pilot episode, it was awesome!!! Cheesy, dramatic, soulful, musical...everything a high school show glee club TV show should be. I see why Joss Whedon listed it on his top 10 things he's grateful for in 2010.
I think many of you will like it, but ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) xleste for sure!
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Weird dreams, but nothing I could lay hands on once I woke up.
9:49 AM 12/21/2009
To do today:
some form of meal (9:49 AM 12/21/2009 almonds make meal, right? They call it almond meal... no?)
Brush hair; Re-braid hair (10:25 AM 12/21/2009 done.)
Unload travel toiletry bag (10:26 AM 12/21/2009 done. Hotel shampoos are great fun for testing out new products; I seem to like rosemary-mint shampoo!)
Unpack all bags.
- http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_startrek/1043908.html is amazing.
- 10:54 AM 12/21/2009 I got something called "The Mommy Hook", which is a giant (not-safe-for-climbing) caribiner with foam padding. At first I thought that you secured the leash of your small rambunctious child to it, but apparently it is only for shopping bags and the like.
- Apparently.
- I also got a cute little metal water bottle. Right now the water that comes out of it tastes much more like stainless steel than the water that goes in it.
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http://whedonesque.com/comments/22726 http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/441407-Starz_Orders_Second_Season_of_Spartacus_.php Steven S. DeKnight's new show has been awarded a second season before the first has aired.
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http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0353.html 
Even we couldn't come up with a particularly good reason why Anakin didn't just switch on his laser sword when his hand was trapped, in order to
cut his way out. Seriously, we discussed and argued over this for something like 30 minutes during the writing session, and the best we could
come up with was that Anakin might have been holding the sword in such a way that if he turned it on, it would slice his own arm off. But just imagine
grippping a sword hilt and then contort your wrist in such a way that the blade is slicing your own forearm (the rest of his body doesn't matter,
since only his forearm was immobilised). Yeah, that's highly unlikely.
But rather than just ignore the question (like the movie does), we decided to
lampshade it. After all, it's part of our
raison d'être to make some sort of sense of all the little inexplicable things in the movies, so ignoring it completely would be bad form.
We must presume that Annie was so flustered by or disinterested in Pete's style of GMing that she didn't bother trying to think of a way to escape,
since if she'd expended half a brain cell on the problem the answer would have been obvious.
It's better than a bare bulb, after all.
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For reasons that make perfect sense in context, it is necessary for me to share this particular angel-themed song with my people.
Nightwish: "I Wish I Had An Angel"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueiOqaSvHp0
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| User: | azurelunatic |
| Date: | 2009-12-24 01:37 |
| Subject: | Words: RFC |
| Security: | Public |
| Music: | "Bring Me To Life" (in my head) (I sprained my throat trying to sing along...) |
I'm looking for LiveJournal and Dreamwidth slang, of the sort that we-the-users use about the places we're inhabiting. You know the sort. Flist. Droll. PC. The mice are commenting a lot today. Block. Anything that's not the official term but is intuitively understood, or is understood and used fluently once it's been explained.
I'm looking for more words in common use with the greater userbase than I am for words that are only in use inside of volunteer circles, but volunteer community words and phrases are good too. This can be words you know that you're pretty sure someone else won't know, words you know everyone knows, or words you've heard that you know ought to mean something but you've never figured out quite what and haven't yet found the time to look them up.
Part of it, I'm curious.
Part of it, I want my teammates (and the teammates of my braintwin ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) zarhooie) to have available to them some of the same things I know just by having skulked around in the right places. Understanding "How do I block the fucking mice?" to mean "I have a problem with anonymous commenters" and not "I got lost on my way to the exterminator's website" is one of the many components of supportmindread, and I want to do my utmost to grant that priv to everyone I can.
So.
Who's got words?
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A long time ago, I or someone I knew coined the phrase "White Collar Migrant Workers" to describe contract work, i.e., job shopping, or contract engineering. I had used that term in Howling Dead to describe geeks who insist on living that sort of freelance lifestyle. A friend of mine pointed out that I could discuss the diets for such people in terms of what the nutritionists now recommend and that's eating foods according to color. So, naturally, we came up with the geek version:
Doctors and nutritionists are now saying to eat food according to color. But for the geek, it gets a little dicey picking out what's healthy and what's not. So, here are my geek choices for color:
Red -- Red M&M's, Pizza with red sauce, rare steak or hamburger, red hots, Hawaiian Punch, Mountain Dew Code Red.
Blue --Booberry Cereal (difficult to find except around Halloween), Blue Nerds, Blue M&Ms, blue popcicles, Gatoraid.
Green -- that stuff around sushi rolls, pickles, lettuce on Big Macs, green M&Ms
Yellow -- Twinkies, Lemon pudding, Lemon Jello, Red Bull (looks yellow to me), Mountain Dew
Brown -- chocolate, coffee, tea, Coke, Pepsi
Orange -- Tang, Sunny-D
White -- Bread, Rice
Bonus foods (satisfies most of the colors): Trix, Froot Loops, M&Ms, Skittles, Starbursts, Pez
So, a typical geek meal plan might be:
Breakfast: cold pizza, mountain dew
Snack: Twinkies, Coffee
Lunch: Big Mac, Coke
Snack: M&Ms, Red Bull
Dinner: Froot Loops, Pez, Sunny-D
Snack: Red Bull, chocolate chip cookies, M&Ms, Coffee, three mountain dews...
You get the idea. Note that the snacks give you enough sugar and caffeine to keep you going until about 3 am.
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In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:
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To escape level 80 bullshit, I went and played on my baby hunter on an old server on the other faction for a while. Was questing around HFP and doing the PVP Towers quest for the extra experience and out of nowhere, this Level 80 Horde Warrior, and a level 63 guildmate hunter fly down. I'm thinking, "Well...I'm dead."
But they didn't attack me. I mounted up. They mounted up and followed me. We communicated through emotes for a bit, the Hunter sets off a Freezing trap under me but let it wear off without doing anything to me. They both /laughed. I /laughed. They still followed me.
Finally, the hunter attacks me. I Scare Beast his pet, pop Beastial Wrath and Beast Within and tear the 63 down in about four seconds flat.
The 80 Warrior stands there for a few seconds, and I'm thinking, "Well...that was fun. Where's the nearest graveyard again?"
But nope. The warrior just starts /laughing, /cheering at me, and /mocking his friend. The hunter makes the corpserun, both wave /goodbye and leave.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/avatar_camerons_contradictions_1.html Avatar features hard-left, anti-imperialist propaganda that is the product of the very society that Cameron trashes in the movie.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/were_staying_were_praying_get.html Every society commits some form of religious persecution because there are always weak-minded people who see their neighbor's pile and become jealous or fearful.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/pagan_propaganda_the_other_att.html Ah, Christmastime. Manger scenes and mistletoe, trees and tinsel, Santa and celebration, gift-giving and gratitude...and the ACLU roasting traditions on an open fire.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/criminalizing_christmas_cookie.html This year, America is receiving a subliminal holiday message that Nativity scenes pose a more imminent threat than Gitmo detainees being tried on American soil.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/christmas_hubris_and_partisan.html If you like the efficiency of the License Bureau at the Department of Motor Vehicles, you'll love ObamaCare.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/the_myth_of_liberal_populist_d.html Whenever hope for deliverance is the catalyst behind a nation's political and social movements, it is tempting to fête elected servants as messianic figures
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/when_terrorists_targeted_us.html Our family experienced the effects of terrorism firsthand when in 1983 our children became the target of terrorists.
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 For those unacquainted with the role-playing game mentioned in this week's FFN, there's a quick run-down of the basics for Synnibarr (as well as a few other, ah, "interesting" sourcebooks) at the RPG.net Wiki. There are even a few for sale via Amazon at various prices (and it managed to get a three-star review from someone, which seems a tad generous). I first heard of it thanks to this image from one of many motivational poster threads.
It's Christmas Eve Eve, and we're supposed to drive an hour or two on Christmas day, so I fully expect the force field surrounding our city to fail and allow in the blizzard that's supposed to blow through. I think I can say that the holiday has well and truly morphed from what Norman Rockwell envisioned into an event where I include visits with three to six other families (perhaps more, depending on how you count) and my big present is Cristi and I deciding to finally replace our 20-year-old washer & dryer (under mild protest. I mean, if you don't drag the sheets over the rust spots, they work as well as ever, right?). My siblings and I all agree that we won't break our checking accounts buying gifts for one another, but instead we buy either "group gifts" (food & drink) or donate to a charity in their name along with getting their children something fun to play with. However you celebrate or whatever you do, I hope everyone has some fun and safe time off to enjoy a little relaxation and something good to nosh on. And if you somehow think there's not enough stress, you could always decide to hit the malls on December 26th. :)
Or you could buy a T-shirt that I whipped up and somehow forgot to mention: LoLCats, HO!" Somehow, redubbing an episode of "Thundercats" in LoLspeak sounds somewhat intriguing, especially if you could make it seem that the mutants were confused by it and that it was Mum-Ra's annoyance at it that fueled his desire to destroy them. :)
Back to the usual items of interest: I've long told people upset by actors that say things they disagree with to separate the thespian's work from their private lives. Tom Cruise made that very difficult with quite a few well-publicized antics (though one of the remixes that resulted was quite amusing). That said, this trailer for his next film looks like a fun time. He may be kinda messed up off-screen, but he's got talent.
Here's something for the fans of British comedian Bill Bailey and "Have I Got News for You." Last week, Liberal Democrat MP Charles Kennedy was on the show, apparently the first MP to do so after a scandal involving other members of Parliament claiming some rather outlandish things as expenses (I believe the more famous ones were a duck pond, a moat, and a tower on a castle). Anyway, Bill was goading Mr. Kennedy into saying his colleagues were, ah, "less than honest" and suggested it would be remixed on YouTube and become a hit. Well, it's not on YouTube, but the mix does exist (using Bill's voice, samples from previous jokes about monkeys and octopuses, and the show's theme music).
Now I must away to help Cristi wrap [DATA EXPUNGED] for the nephews, so until Christmas Day's posting, here's:
- A bit of "hard" science for fiction to argue over: ten ways to travel in deep space and the physics of space battles.
- A guy decided to see what his cat, Kookoo, got up to during the day, so he put a GPS receiver on Kookoo's collar and compiled a video of the results.
- And since the season is 'tis-ing, from the nuts at "Everything is Terrible," here's The Majesty of Christmas Music. Sanity checks may be required.
- This is the time of year when people forward that text file about how fast Santa's sleigh has to go to reach every house and what happens to him and the reindeer after physics are applied (it's not pretty). So instead, I'm posting what most likely happened to the Ewoks after the second Death Star blew up in close proximity to the moon they were living on.
- Two rather offbeat holiday traditions: watching Donald Duck in Norway on Christmas Eve and watching a a sketch called 'Dinner for One' in Germany for New Years (at least, as of 2005).
- How about a new holiday tradition: Infectionator: Xmas Edition where you can not only generate zombies, but you can try to have Santa join your army of the undead.
- It's all a matter of opinion of course, though what intrigued me about the worst comics of the year (of which this is the second page) is that the winner(?) was a bizarre storyline from the "Mark Trail" comic strip.
- A coffee grinder might seem aggressive enough for many coffee drinkers, but this espresso machine is for those who find Chuck Norris a bit wimpy.
- The Vatican now says that his holiness is now his copyrightedness. Get to those "Pope Rooms" at Buca Di Beppo before they're closed down, folks!
- Artist of engine-driven oddities, Stan Mott would have surely been a huge tabletop gamer. I would love to see a "Car Wars" supplement based on his work. :)
- We end with a game called Space Ace, though it has nothing to do with Don Bluth. It's a flavor of the old vector-graphics "Lunar Lander" games, except you're flying through a maze of tunnels collecting dots while trying not to touch your highly volatile hull against the walls.
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http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archives.html?m=December&y=2009&d=24
Christmas Eve, for me, has always been a time of nervous energy balanced with satisfied relaxation. While there are attention-demanding boxes beneath the tree, the most stressful parts of the year are past. The time is right for lounging on the couch and watching movies.</p>
Of course, if you're a bit obsessive about what could be in those brightly colored boxes, you may be looking for ways to peek inside before the morning. In my youth, I went so far as to carefully slice open the tape, unwrap the presents enough to ascertain the contents, then rewrap them.</p>
It didn't work very well. I wasn't discovered, mind you, but it was a nerve-wracking breakfast!</p>
-- Paul Chapman</p>
(It's also Munchkin Czar Andrew Hackard's birthday. Don't tell him we told you!)</p>
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