Wednesday : 01 February 2006
Welcome to the first day of Black History Month.

Today was a grey, occasionally snowy day in the Salt Lake and Utah Valleys. Yay. It was another good and productive day at work.

Post-work was quiet. I had to skip tonight’s Cthulhu game. (Although, that should mean that my character managed to stay out of trouble… and not go potential right ’round the bend. Operative word: “Should.”) called and asked if I wanted to go out and get something to eat; I said “yes.” We went out to dinner and then watched Purple Rain. Gotta love Morris Day.

Stray Toasters

  • I continued my downward spiral into gaming geekiness: I downloaded the manual for MechWarrior: Age of Destruction, so that I can compare the stats against those of HeroClix… and possibly set up a Battle Royale (with cheese) between a lance of Mechs and some of Marvel and DC’s finest. Of course, I could just put the Mechs up against Phoenix and Darkseid and let God sort out the rest.
  • When you’ve hacked just about everything else, why not h4x0rs Scrabble?
  • As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post: It seems as though I can do one-handed push-ups. Not many, but I can always work on that.
  • : “Corn topper?” Do I even want to ask…?
  • Hm. Speaking of Phoenix and Darkseid, I just realized that I might have all of the ‘Clix to represent everyone from the Teen Titans/X-Men crossover from the mid-80s. I’d have to look at the lineups from the books to be sure.
  • Jungle love… Yes!
    O-E-O-E-O!

  • The new Honda Accord ADAS can drive itself.
  • From ABC News: Civil Rights Movement Losing Icons, Focus
  • : I don’t know if you got yours when we first talked about this, but it seems as though LEGO is bringing back the Classic Creator Watch.
  • “…uh-oh.”

  • Oldest remains of the African slaves brought to the New World found in Mexico
  • I don’t recall the source, but I thought that this was very interesting:

    Composing legend John Williams seemed a little staggered by the fact that he is now second only to Walt Disney in total Oscar nominations. Disney received 59 in his lifetime, while Williams’ two nominations this year bring his tally to 45. “That’s amazing,” Williams said, “and he had a whole studio behind him. … It’s a hard reality to really comprehend.” With his scores for Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” and Rob Marshall’s “Memoirs of a Geisha” going head-to-head, Williams chooses to espouse no favorite. “You have all of your children — aspects about each one you admire and things you wish you could improve,” he said. “I’m proud of both of them.”

  • : The full-color cover to Storm #1
  • Everybody Wang Chung tonight…
  • I went back and checked TurboTax to see if I had mistakenly clicked on something that would expedite my refund and, thus, incur the additional “Refund Processing Fee.” I didn’t. The bastards want $54 and change for you to e-file, if you buy the boxed version of the software.

Namaste.