Thursday – 29 May 2008
A couple of things that started the morning nicely:

  1. I Am LEGO

  2. Sent to me by CoworkerJG, who knows my proclivity for City of Heroes/Villains:

I think that these were good ways to kick of any NBN Thursday. And this morning’s coffee didn’t hurt, either. Nor did “The Boys in Brazil,” the behind-the-scenes movie from Disc Two of Rush in Rio, made during the Vapor Trails tour, playing on my port side monitor; it’s not only a cool look at what you might not otherwise see or know about putting together a concert and/or a tour, but it’s fun, too.

So, all together, I guess that it would be “No Bad News Sushi and Comic Book ‘Wednesday’,” too.

Stray Toasters

  • I am “this close” to ordering a set of HeroClix Giants. It has Colossal Boy and Validus ‘Clix. Must have.
  • Terminator Salvation: The Future begins principal photography
  • principal != principle
  • sent me a link to an article about Nepal abolishing it’s monarchy. In honor of that, I dedicate this Schoolhouse Rock! toon:

    No, it’s not entirely the same thing, but it’s as close as I could get.

  • also (indirectly) had to deal with a monkey today:

    : there was a goddamn monkey in my yard today
    : O.o
    : while the movers were packing things up
    : Did it get packed into the truck?
    : you assume there was a moving truck
    : Oh.
    : the 9 crates are still in my yard
    : Right.
    Wait…. WHAT?!
    : they have to take them to the airport one by one in a tiny little jeep
    : …
    Wow.
    : yea
    so this little fucker is running around trying to bite the movers
    he climbed inside the crates while they were packing boxes into them
    i was laughing my ass off
    but admittedly
    i was laughing from behind the window inside
    those things are freaking mean

  • NBC launches horror anthology series Fear Itself
  • Does anyone else remember Tales of the Gold Monkey?
  • Private Donor Saves Fermilab
  • Update: I bought the ‘Clix Giants.
  • Tyranist: James Bond Book Covers
  • Ken Jennings, the man who holds the record for the longest winning streak on Jeopardy!, has written a blog post about Mike Allred’s Madman!, whose protagonist is apparently Mormon. I recall reading many rains past that The New Mutants’ Cypher was supposed to be Mormon, but the only other character that I knew was definitely LDS was Dr. Deseret (1, 2) from Will Shetterly’s Captain Confederacy.

/lunch

Namaste.