Tuesday : 29 November 05
It’s officially the Christmas season: I heard Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth on the radio this morning, before work.

Work was… busy. Quite busy. Not “Dear Lord, I’m going to kill the humans…” busy, but it was busy enough for me to keep my nose to the grindstone all day. That’s a good kind of busy. Going to the gym provided a nice respite. However, having taken a week off from working out was apparent. Still, it was a good workout.

Tonight was Shadowrun night. I finished running the group through the module we started two weeks ago, DNA/DOA. Everything was going swimmingly well… until they decided to take a rather radical departure from the proscribed linear game plan. In fact, it was so much of a departure that they skipped three sections of the module altogether! I had to improvise a couple of things to make up for the difference. But, once again, I have to give them credit for ingenuity and thinking outside the box… and for forcing me to actually think and adapt a no-brainer module on the fly.

Stray Toasters

  • Girl dies [from] peanut butter kiss
  • “Microsoft customer support.” –
  • Homestar Runner Playsets and Toys
  • For : The Cthulhu Circus – Family Circus meets an elder god…
    (This was the link that I was looking for earlier… the one that I thought I had already posted. *sigh*)

  • …and Romero Talks Land Sequel
  • 10 Reasons to Drink During the Holidays
  • The B-Team –
  •   In Utah. 2007. Details here.
  • Sony BMG’s MediaMax Software Installs Even If You Decline
  • I was chatting with a friend and mentioned something from Eddie Murphy’s Raw stand-up routine/movie. Since I was already on the Interweb, I checked to see if I could find a copy of the transcript. Yep! I should have known that Drew’s Script-O-Rama would have it. I read through a little of it. It made me laugh.
  • New Record for Drilling Small Holes

    Just for perspective and so you don’t think this is some dumb ho-ho, the diameter of a human hair is 25.4 microns. The applications for this process in manufacturing could be legion and, as the process is refined, medical applications are possible as well.

  • Evil Stevie’s Pirate Game
  • Micronauts
  • Reposted, by way of and :

    A lot has been said about how to prevent rape.
    Women should learn self-defense.
    Women should lock themselves in their houses after dark.
    Women shouldn’t have long hair and women shouldn’t wear short skirts.
    Women shouldn’t leave drinks unattended.
    Fuck, they shouldn’t dare to get drunk at all.

    Instead of that bullshit, how about:

    If a woman is drunk, don’t rape her.
    If a woman is walking alone at night, don’t rape her.
    If a woman is drugged and unconscious, don’t rape her.
    If a woman is wearing a short skirt, don’t rape her.
    If a woman is jogging in a park at 5 am, don’t rape her.
    If a woman looks like your ex-girlfriend you’re still hung up on, don’t rape her.
    If a woman is asleep in her bed, don’t rape her.
    If a woman is asleep in your bed, don’t rape her.
    If a woman is doing her laundry, don’t rape her.
    If a woman is in a coma, don’t rape her.
    If a woman changes her mind in the middle of or about a particular activity, don’t rape her.
    If a woman has repeatedly refused a certain activity, don’t rape her.

    If a woman is not yet a woman, but a child, don’t rape her.
    If your girlfriend or wife is not in the mood, don’t rape her.
    If your step-daughter is watching tv, don’t rape her.
    If you break into a house and find a woman there, don’t rape her.
    If your friend thinks it’s okay to rape someone, tell him it’s not, and that he’s not your friend.

    If your “friend” tells you he raped someone, report him to the police.
    If your frat-brother or another guy at the party tells you there’s an unconscious woman upstairs and it’s your turn, don’t rape her, call the police and tell the guy he’s a rapist.

    Tell your sons, god-sons, nephews, grandsons, sons of friends it’s not okay to rape someone.

    Don’t tell your women friends how to be safe and avoid rape.
    Don’t imply that she could have avoided it if she’d only done/not done x.
    Don’t imply that it’s in any way her fault.
    Don’t let silence imply agreement when someone tells you he “got some” with the drunk girl.
    Don’t perpetuate a culture that tells you that you have no control over or responsibility for your actions.
    You can too control yourself.

    If you agree, repost it. It’s that important.

And that’s a wrap.

Namaste.