Tuesday
Another day done. Nothing major to speak of work-wise. And it was a quiet evening. I cooked dinner, watched TV and tried to grok a little bit of Linux lore so that I can better understand how to use it effectively.

Song of the Day
The Mission by John Williams (the composer, not the guitar player)

Stray Toasters

  • I emailed my uncle a request for suggestions of CDs that I should get since I want to start a classical music selection. He’s a Beethoven man, but I trust his knowledge of the genre. I caught him online a couple of hours later and chatted with him about it. He gave me a few suggestions (including a Beethoven selection). What made me laugh was his closing:

    [14:01] (My Uncle): let me know…but…GET BEETHOVEN FIRST!!!

  • On the drive home, I was listening to a tape that I’d made many moons ago of John Williams. Olympic Fanfare is a song to be enjoyed at high volume.
  • Seen on Amazon.com while I was looking up some item information:

    1049 Action Figures…… 25716 poses.
    Toys ‘R’ Us
    teamed with Amazon.com
    We take FUN seriously.

    Well, it’s good to know that some things never change. Or, at least, they don’t change too much.

  • Nominally work safe… but damn funny. Oh, what has the Green Lantern Corps come to…?
  • Item #1 from the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” File: Nature’s Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube
  • Item #2: Activists defacing SUVs on dealership lots… in an effort to save the environment. There was a story on this on Fox News Channel earlier this evening.
  • Samurai Jack Episode XXIV: Jack… in a warped permutation of Alice in Wonderland. VERY amusing.
  • After watching that ep of Samurai Jack, I decided to look up the voice talents on IMDb. Phil Lamarr does Jack’s voice. Then I noticed all of the other things that he is doing/has done. That is one busy man. VERY busy. And very talented. I watch… *counts*… three of the shows on which he is currently working. Had I not previously known that he did John Stewart’s voice on Justice League and Virgil Hawkins/Static’s voice on Static Shock, I would have never known that he worked on both. AND…. he was Marvin (the kid whom Vincent shot in the back of Jule’s car) in Pulp Fiction.
  • I’m not sure if Craig McCracken is an X-fan or not, but the Powerpuff Girls just used the phrase “Fastball Special.” And they set it up just like Colossus and Wolverine used to. It made me smile.
  • I am not a fan of stereotypes – and I’m not sure if this qualifies as one – but this made me laugh: A young man in his Jeep-like vehicle passed me on the way home. On the back of his car was a bumper sticker: Got Rice. The thing that made me laugh about the situation was that the young man was of Asian descent.
  • “Curse you, man-bird! You’ll pay for this!”
    (taken from an old Hawkman cartoon that I saw – and forced to watch along with me – on Boomerang tonight)

  • Bad pick-up lines? We’ve all heard them. But this made me laugh.
  • Spike Spiegel. *nod*
  • AOL for Broadband commercial. *sigh* The spin doctors at AOHell are making it sound like having any other broadband connection automatically means that you are leaving your computer – and personal information – open to attack. And ONLY AOHell for Broadband can keep you safe.

Quote of the Day

Jet: I never did understand you… right to the very end!
Spike: I don’t understand either.

And with that…

Namaste.