Random Access

Monday
Enterprise is still giving me problems when I go to install its OS. I think it’s a hard drive issue. Everything seems to check out pretty well otherwise, so I’m going with that as the basis for my plan of attack.

Dave and Jamie came over tonight for poker. The final breakdown:

1. Me
3. Jamie and Dave (tie)

<< Rewind <<

Last night, we had dinner with and . After dinner, we watched 10 Things I Hate About You; I had never seen it before. I enjoyed it. However, as a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, it is still in second place behind “Atomic Shakespeare”, the Taming of the Shrew episode of Moonlighting. Seeing Allison Janney (The West Wing‘s C.J. Cregg) in it was an pleasant bonus.

News
Morning Edition: Cabaret Singer Bobby Short, 80, Dies of Leukemia
Morning Edition: Need a Prom Date? Try eBay.
All Things Considered: Death Row Inmates Seek Low-IQ Exception
All Things Considered: A Daily Ritual: Prayers Like Shoes
All Things Considered: College in Flap over Corporal Punishment Essay
All Things Considered: CDC: Rubella No Longer a Threat

Stray Toasters

• I picked up a few pieces of plastic crack today. Among them: Wildfire (experienced), Kid Quantum (rookie and experienced) and Mr. Freeze (experienced). This brings my total of Legionnaires to five; I still need Saturn Girl and Cosmic Boy.
• Here’s a different – and nice-looking – case mod: Wooden Laptop
• How many antennae are hidden in your car?
• From The New Yorker: The Radical – Why do editors keep throwing The Boondocks off the funnies page?
• More Firefox hacks and tweaks
• I’m not sure what to make of this, so I’ll just put it out there: Slow Wave.
  

  Slow Wave is a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip by Jesse Reklaw. A new strip is uploaded every week on the first minute of Saturday in San Francisco; 3 AM in Ottawa, ON; 5 AM in London, UK; and 3 PM in Sydney, Australia.

• I’ve been a big fan of cake (the dessert, not the band… although I do like the band, too) for many, many moons. My paternal grandmother made a mean homemade yellow cake with homemade chocolate frosting. As good as her cakes were, none of them ever looked like these. Unglaublich! Take a look at the entire gallery.
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Eric the Half-a-Bee
• Is feminism dead or just sleeping with the enemy?
• “With that in mind, I give you… the Robot Monkey Commandos!”
  

• The Art of James Jean
• : I meant to post this a few days ago: Brainiac 5 (v5).
• : Joss Whedon on Wonder Woman and Serenity
• “Who watches The Watchmen?”
  For one year in the late 80s, quite a few people. And it seems as though the mini-series is being given a dusting off and will be returning to print… including 48 pages of extra material that the DC Comics’ version didn’t have.

And that… is… all.
For now.

Namaste.