Thursday – 07 June 2007
Day Two of the “Great Salt Lake Temperature Drop.” This just ain’t right.

I finished Specter of the Past last night. It ended on an interesting note; I’m looking forward to seeing how the story advances in the next book.

The kids are doing well. Sissy is still trying to be the alpha… but only at certain times. When I had the laser pointer out, she actually played with the twins, without too much fuss. Speaking of which, I took what I think is, to date, the best picture of all three cats:


(click picture for larger view)

…and it shows their affinity for IKEA, to boot! I have seen both Sissy and Presto sit/lie/stretch out in the chair many times over the past few days. (One thing that doesn’t show in the picture: How much fur Sissy has shed over the cushion. Oh, well, that’s what lint rollers and vacuum cleaners are for.)

The Scales of Justice
I took Hand of Nefer-Tem out on patrol last night… but couldn’t get into soloing. Nor could I find a team. So, I decided to let Paragon City’s other defenders of justice handle the crimefighting for the night.

Stray Toasters

  • I called Mom this morning (something about it being her birthday or some such thing). All’s well; she has her first post-op checkup later today. (I forgot to call her “Lady Deathstrike” while she was on the phone.) Assuming that her doctor clears her, she and my uncle are heading “down to the hills,” as Dad would say, to get some things out of the old house.
  • Scott: Uh-oh…
    Jamie: What?!
    Scott: Big tunnel.
  • – 25 Trends that changed the way we live
    USA Today is running lists of “25 things that…” in celebration of their upcoming 25th anniversary. Some of the lists – and the selections therein – are rather interesting.
  • To quote and : “People suck.”
  • Last week, I saw that someone had created a MySpace page for their City of Heroes character. I thought that it was a bit odd. Granted, I have CoH and CoV links on my site, but I haven’t gone so far as to create MySpace pages for any of my characters. When I logged into City last night, there was a notice on the front page for this.
  • “Did I win?!”
  • Smoke Camels, be a better sniper
  • and everyone will say “I told you so”
    yeah they’ll all just nod and sigh
    but I’ll make a run at something real
    and they’ll never even try
    and everyone will say “I told you so”
    yeah they’ll all just nod and sigh
    as I go down in a ball of flames
    they’ll just watch, i wonder why
  • Internal workings of a mechanical watch video
  • : 27 June 2007 (1, 2, 3)
  • Steampunk Monitor from the Steampunk Workshop
  • By way of ZDNet: Why DRM won’t ever work
  • “More Parachute! RAAWR!!!” –

Namaste.