Random Access

Friday : 07 April 2006
After yesterday’s Weather-of-the-Moment experience, today was decidedly different: Sunny and blue skies. Not that I’m complaining about that. Far from it, in fact. On the whole, it was a good day… despite the fact that I had to really fight to find the motivation to work. I am still having a couple of issues with my PHP code, but I am making progress.

Clitorati was good. We had a decent group and, with them, a good bit of conversation and entertainment.

Stray Toasters

• Ballet West has two shows left on its schedule for this season. I think that I’d like to go to one of them.
• Blast! is in town. They had a show tonight and another one tomorrow. I really wish that I had remembered that before Thursday night; I would have liked to have seen them perform.
• “Shit weasels.
• Renaissance – It’s in French, but it looks cool.
• Free cake.
• Land was working on his resumè tonight. He asked if he should add some LDS-related items to it. , and and I offered our thoughts on the matter. We determined that such a resumè could be referred to as a “resuMo.”
• Kidrobot.com

Quotes of the Day
Both of today’s quotes came from tonight’s Clitorati gathering:

• Unknown cafè patron: “Time is simply a matter of difference between two states.”
• Rob #2: (working on crossword puzzle) “What does ‘Ryder’ mean?
  : “Grab her hair and hold on tight.”
  : Depending on the size of her ears, you could use them.”

Namaste.

<groove>
     Rose Royce – Car Wash
     Yoko Kanno & Seatbelts – Tank! (Theme from Cowboy Bebop)
     Rush – Crossroads
     Rhythm Heritage – Theme from S.W.A.T.
</groove>

Thursday : 06 April 2006
Four down.
One to go.

It snowed today. All day. But, in most of the valley, there’s no accumulation to speak of.

Stray Toasters

• Back-to-back days of talking with Bret; he cracks me up.
• 88 Lines About 44 Women
• Security Level 32. Check.
• Total eclipse as seen by astronauts on the ISS
• ARRRRRRGGHHHHHHH!
• 
• Good Things in Small Packages, Part 1: The Micronauts
• Screenshots and teaser trailer for Justice League Heroes.
• anarchist reactionary running-dog revisionist
  hindu muslim catholic creation/evolutionist
  rational romantic mystic cynical idealist
  minimal expressionist post-modern neo-symbolist
  armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist
  deconstruction primitive performance photo-realist
  be-bop or a one-drop or a hip-hop lite-pop-metallist
  gold adult contemporary urban country capitalist

• High Tech Keys Can Be Hell on Wheels
• Terminator 4??? Do we really need this?

Namaste.

Wednesday : 05 April 2006
“Welcome to Utah. If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes.”
That adage was proven to be true today. We went from overcast to clearing to rainy to cloudy to clearing to snow/sleet to overcast today.

Overall, the day was good… but for the first couple of work-hours, I had to fight the rising urge to conduct an intensive inner-eyelid study. And, the coffee that I fixed didn’t to anything to offset that urge. Fortunately, I hit my stride around 11 AM and was pretty much good-to-go from that point on. The rest of the day was relatively smooth and easy.

The High-Flying Adventures of Indigo Bolt –
This evening, I got an early start on patrolling Paragon City. Almost as soon as I logged in, I was invited to join a team. I accepted the invitation and flew to Independence Port to meet them. It was a good team – nice range of archetypes and power sets. And they knew how to work as a team. It was a beautiful thing. Ice E Hot joined us a short while later. We fought a lot of Freakshow and The Council. The experience was good, too – I am roughly 10,000 points away from Security Level 32.

Stray Toasters

• I spoke with my father and Bret today; both are well. This is good.
• I’ve heard Baltimore referred to as “Mobtown” since I was a teenager, but I never knew why… until I read this bit of Baltimore history.
• All Things Considered – Strong Bad Walks in Footsteps of Darth, Lex, J.R.
• Nihilist Job Resumè
• 662 Technology Inventions That Came from Science Fiction
• “Don’t you know I will beat the shit out your ass, Charles! I will beat the shit out you with Charles, as a matter of fact! I’m the Juggernaut, bitch!”
  

• New device allows woman to see, even without eyes
• 
• For your favorite conspiracy theorist (or person who hears “voices” in their head): Personal EMF Shielding Devices
• and I were having a discussion the other day about whether or not it was possible to teach someone to flirt. From that conversation comes the following poll:
  

• Poems showing the absurdities of English spelling
• From the American Heart Association – Choose to Move: A 12-week physical activity program for women
• How old are you?
  (EDIT: For the year, just enter the last two digits.)

• Topless Car Wash (.wmv format)
• : From the LSH (v5) – Sun Boy
• “…and the amazing part is?” –

Namaste.

Tuesday : 04 April 2006
Another day done. Work was good, as was the lunchtime workout.

Today was also my stepfather’s birthday. I called him around lunchtime back home; we talked for a few minutes. I’ll catch up with him and Mom this weekend.

Tonight, we kicked off the new story arc of the Shadowrun game. Tommy, one of my coworkers joined the group, as well. He’s new to the game, but I think that he will make a fine addition. No one died. In fact, no one even broke a nail. The scene was set for the team to hit the ground running, next game session. I like the way that things are going – we’ll see how they continue to proceed.

Stray Toasters

• I am tired.
• The cats are being… rambunctious. Yay.
• Snizz.
• I introduced Tommy to the Juggernaut video today:
  

  [09:07] Tommy K: thanks alot – now, I want to respond to everyone with “hey, I’m the Juggernaut, bitch!”
  [09:08] Tommy K: every sentence should end with this phrase. It’s just there in my head.

• By way of : Schoolhouse Rock! icons

I’m wiped out… I’ll try again morrownight.

Monday : 03 April 2006
It’s been a good day. Work, weather, gaming. A good day… even for a Monday.

But, it’s late and I should have been in bed long ago.

Time to rectify that.

Namaste.

Make my funk the P-Funk,
I want my funk uncut.
Make my funk the P-Funk,
I wants to get funked up!
I want the bomb!
I want the P-Funk!
Don’t want my funk stepped on.
Make my funk the P-Funk
Before I take it home.

Sunday : 02 April 2006
It’s been a good weekend:

• Clitorati (including a few faces who haven’t been seen in a while)
• Post-Clitorati dinner
• The arrival of and Cain to the Land Behind the Zion Curtain
• Saturday lunch at Jitterbug with , and Cain
• Bowling with the ladies, Cain and (My scores: 149, 143, 145 – not bad for not having bowled in a year!)
• Wine and cheese party at ‘s house.
• Breakfast at Cheers
• Brunch at Ruth’s Diner, which always makes a nice change-of-pace place to eat
• Geek shopping (CompUSAirways and Best Buy) with and Nox
• Catching Inside Man with – good movie

Spending a weekend in the company of friends: Very nice.

Stray Toasters

• I picked up a copy of the Prima Games City of Heroes Binder Guide. It’s chock full o’ CoH info and goodies.
• I have Cadbury Creme Eggs!
• By way of comes: The Magical World of Penis Unicorns
• Wikipedia’s List of April Fools’ Day 2006 hoaxes
• It’s supposed to get up to 63 degrees (F) tomorrow. That will be nice.
• The Simpsons movie confirmed
• I Used to Believe – The childhood beliefs site
• “You have drawn the spotted paper! The fates have chosen you to be sacrificed!
  
  Namaste.

*spit take*

Friday : 31 March 2006
It’s been a good day.
I’ll fill in the details… later. Tomorrow. Maybe. *shrug* I might wait until Sunday. We’ll see.

Suffice if to say that and Mr. Cain made it in safely. And now… we’re calling it a night.

Namaste.