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Thursday
Today was a good day.

and I had lunch at one of the local V.I.s (not Cheers, though). She said that she saw my idea about painting the HCC in LEGO® colors and thought that “…it sounded so you.” It made me laugh. But, if I paint the walls in those colors – and assuming that I get my projector this Christmas – I’ll have to get a screen for watching TV and playing vidgames. I may, however, paint the tops of the walls in those colors, though…

In another effort to make things look “home-like,” I hung up my IKEA rug on one of the walls in the basement stairwell. Now, I just need to figure out what to do with the rest of my wall-hangable items.

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After a tasty dinner from Thai Garden, Chris taught and me how to play Heroclix. (Nox had a bit of a head start on me as he has played the fundamentally similar Mage Knight before.) Nox and I teamed up against Chris. And had our clocks cleaned. Pretty handily. We took a couple of his characters off the board, but he wiped out four of our six-member team and had two of his original four still standing at the end of the game. But it was fun. After all, what kid doesn’t like to play superhero?

News
Morning Edition: Moderate Drinking May Help Prevent Memory Loss
Morning Edition: ‘Angels and Demons’ Draws Tourists to Rome
Day to Day: How Hail to the Chief Became Official
All Things Considered: Tracing Family Roots Through a Name
All Things Considered: New Clues Emerge in Pre-Dinosaur Extinction Event
All Things Considered: Dabbling in Virtual Real Estate

USA Today: Coca-Cola makes it ‘Real’ with new flavors, energy drink, ad campaign
USA Today: Tiny frog a Big Island issue
USA Today: Top actors moonlight at Sundance Film Festival

BBC News: ‘I Don’t Like Monday, 24 January

Stray Toasters

• I remember how I would hear the phrase “guerrilla warfare” as a kid and think that they were talking about gorillas that had been trained to fight. It caused much confusion in my young brain.
• sent me a link to this article. Former President David Palmer (portrayed by Dennis Haysbert) is returning to 24 this season!
• For those of you who haven’t read about it yet: The reason behind the Great LJ Blackout of 2005
• Are Apple’s 4, 20 and 40 GB iPods a little out of your price range? Well, there’s still hope for you to join the legions of iPod users: The Apple iPod Shuffle, starting at $99.00 USD.
• These guys don’t stand a chance. Really. I’d give better odds to a snowball in Hell. Case in point: 1, 2, 3.
• By way of boingboing.net: “Jenna Hearts Satan” T-Shirts
  (And that’s Jenna Bush, not Jenna Jameson, for the record.)

• : A Hush Falls over Gotham: Lieberman Talks Gotham Nights and Hush
• Is it just me or should Boomerang just change their name to “The Scooby-Doo Channel?”
• pointed me in the direction of this piece on deviantART: Vanity.

Quote of the Day
The Guide in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy now has a voice. English Actor Stephen Fry, got the nod.; if you are a fan of books-on-tape, you may recognize him as the narrator of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Here is what he had to say about being selected as the voice of The Guide:

“It’s like having your birthday on Christmas Day, discovering a winning lottery ticket in your stocking and having chocolate poured all over you.”

And, while looking up info on him, I came across this gem, too:

“It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.”

Namaste.