Random Access

More or less in order:

• I had lunch at La Puente with . It was fun… even if she thought that I was always making fun of her. I wasn’t – it was the first time I’d met her. Never make fun of someone the first time you meet them. Any time after that, however is fair game…
• I came home and got on the computer for a while. Found myself not wanting to be online. (Yeah, I know. It concerned me a bit, too.)
• Went into the living room and watched TV… which turned into the TV watching me. I apparently slept through a pretty heavy rain storm. *shrug*
• I woke up in time to watch the episode of Teen Titans that I had thought was going to be on this morning.
• Now, I’m watching pre-season football on ESPN.
  ::: bliss :::

  – VS –

  
  The Bucs are snapping the Jets off a little somethin’. With 05:00 left in the fourth, they are up 30 – 7.

  Next week:
  

  – VS –
  Not sure if I’ll be able to see this one or not, as it’s playing on RaveTV. I think that it’s a Baltimore-area station, so I’m taking it on faith that I won’t see this game.

And soon, it will be time for another round of two-dimensional physics bowling.

Namaste.

Saturday
So far, it’s just a lazy morning of toons.
Mm-hmm.. tha’s right!

• New episode of XME. Interesting premise: What if Wolverine had been cloned? The clone in question was a teenaged girl… who took down the entire X-team. And nearly took down Wolverine, too.
• Teen Titans was a rerun of an ep that I’d already seen. *shrug*
• Members of the Justice League guest-starred on Static Shock. With Brainiac as the villain. The League had been attacked (and mind-controlled) by Brainiac and Static was next on the list. After removing four League’s control disks, Static was assessing who was left:
  

  Hawkgirl… Batman… Flash… J’onn…
  Who’m I forgetting?
  ::: power ring attack from Green Lantern:::
  Oh yeah… The Lord of the Ring.

  I laughed.

Friday
Not a (completely) bad day. In fact, aside from… about an hour (roughly from 4:00 – 5:00 PM), it was a good day.

After work, a few friends (including a guest appearance by ) met up at Borders and hung out and then we went off to a late dinner.

Song of the Day
Money by Pink Floyd

Stray Toasters

• BeliefNet
• Most people who have been around me for a while have heard me use the phrase “…said the Actress to the Bishop” (or “…said the Bishop to the Actress”). It is a British expression, but given the fact that the head of each Ward here behind the Zion Curtain is also called “Bishop,” it adds an all-new twist/flavor to it. I first learned of it because of a Brian Bolland print called – aptly enough: Actress and The Bishop. For the meaning/origin of the phrase, see this.
• The Department of Homeland Security’s advisory about impending attacks on Microsoft systems.
• I have mentioned that I want a backyard miniature golf course. Jeremy Reid has a backyard roller coaster.
• was chock full of quotable quips today. I wish that I had written down more than just her earlier comment about hurricanes.
• Marco…
• Is “louder” really “better?” Check out this analysis of the current “trend” in music making… using Rush as an example. (That’s how they got my attention…)
• Last night around 11:30, amid wind and dust and a sky that looked almost-ready-to-rain, one of our neighbors was detailing her car. I know it’s evil, but I was kind of hoping for the rain to begin. It didn’t. Oh, well. There’s always next time…

Namaste.

Playing ‘Marco Polo’ via text messaging is rather amusing.

called me a few minutes ago to ask if I had heard of a “news item” from yesterday. It seems that some Black leaders are… upset. (Nothing really new there.)

What stirred the hornet’s nest this time? Because hurricanes aren’t named after African-Americans.

::: boggle :::
I’m looking for information to back this up. She said that she heard it last night on Special Report with Brit Hume and this morning she caught a snippet of it on Rush Limbaugh.

has had the best response to this… and her thoughts pretty much parallel my own on this one:

It’s a fucking force of nature! It doesn’t care if you’re bright pink with polka dots!

Amen.

Thursday
Four down, one left.

Song of the Day

• Working Class Hero by Tin Machine
• I Get the Job Done by Big Daddy Kane
• I Go to Work by Kool Moe Dee

Stray Toasters

• Scent of a Woman. Good movie. Good quotes, too.
• I heard this on the radio this morning… then saw an article in USA Today… and I just don’t know what to say about it: “Louisiana black church will pay whites to attend”. No. That’s not true. I do know what to say: What in the Nine Hells is this man thinking?!? I understand the desire to bolster the ranks of the congregation. I also think that it’s commendable that he would like to have a more racially-integrated congregation. But to pay people to come to church?! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?! To me, that steps out of the realm of “faith” and crosses over into “mercenary.” Think about it: If this idea was to catch on, it wouldn’t be to far-fetched to see someone pitting church against church: “Well, Church X is offering me this much to attend Sunday service… How much am I worth to you?”::: braincramp :::“Father, forgive them. They know not what they do.”
• And since I’ve already crossed over into Holy Ground (…and, thus, I can’t be beheaded by another immortal…), The Vatican has re-affirmed The Catholic Church’ stand on (or rather “against”) gay marriage and adoption.
• David Lucas, who provided the English voice for Spike Siegel on Cowboy Bebop, is also doing the voice of Roger Smith on The Big O. Innnnteresting.
• In the wake of the furor over the “terrorism futures market” debacle, John Poindexter is set to resign.
• New Kidz Bop CD… *sigh*

Quote of the Day
After watching C.S.I. tonight, I was looking at IMDb‘s entry for the show. This led me to the Memorable Quotes page. And thus, to tonight’s QotD:

Gil Grissom: Hey Doc, tell me something I don’t know.
Dr. David Robbins: When I was in fourth grade, I dropped karate because some kid half my size made me cry.

T-t-t-that’s all folks!

Namaste.

Wednesday (reprise)
I was right: A day that starts with The Spirit of Radio can’t be bad.

Work was painless; in fact, it was pretty damned fun. Jonahs came in and helped us with an inventory count. The day moved pretty quickly and there weren’t any problems.

After work, there was coffee/beer group night. Tonight was a beer night; we went to the Porcupine Grill. The food was good (as usual), the beer was just right (a nice Raspberry Wheat was this evening’s choice) and dessert was a rich fudge brownie with two scoops of vanilla bean ice cream that was the perfect coda to the meal.

After that, we stopped at and ‘s house. We sat on their patio and talked. It was a nice way to round out the day.

Song of the Day
We Got Our Own Thang by Heavy D and the Boyz

Stray Toasters

• ::: makes sure that it’s after midnight :::
  Happy birthday to !

• Hullo and welcome to
• Remember a few weeks ago when I was on my free magazine subscription kick? Well… I found another offer on SlickDeals.net for a complimentary subscription to GamePro Magazine. Free. How could I pass that up? If you’re interested in getting a free subscription, click here.
• I had another “Utah Drivers…” moment on the way to work this morning: Four-lane highway – I was in the second lane from the right and there was a lady in the lane to my left. The exit ramp that was steadily approaching. She cut across both lanes of traffic – and VERY close to my front end – to get to the exit. About fifteen seconds before she did it, I had a sense that she was going to try it. *sigh*
• While talking with the paternal unit this evening, he told me that Adam had done something rather cool this week during his training. He’s in the AFROTC program; he’s currently training at an air base in Texas (his least favorite state). I’ll have to call him and find out just what this “something” was…
• Madden 2004 will be out soon. ::: covet :::
• : We’re going to have to figure out a time to get together and finish off The Flood. Preferably, in a very violent, noisy and messy manner. Messy for them, that is.
• From Slashdot: The Not-Quite-Human Rights Movement
• Is there a method to RIAA’s madness? According to Slyck.com there is. Read more about it here.

That’s all the news from Lake Saline… for now.

Namaste.

Wednesday
Just about halfway through the week… and the week is going well.

The Spirit of Radio greeted me this morning. How can a day be bad when it starts with such a damn fine song?

I saw this on Slashdot a few minutes ago. My inner geek giggled with delight. Yep. “Giggled.” I felt it. If I had unlimited finances, a sci-fi shopping spree of ludicrous proportions would be under way.

Tuesday
Good day at work.
After work was a quiet evening at home.

Song of the Day

• She Talks to Angels
  Sometimes Salvation

…both by The Black Crowes

Stray Toasters

• For ….
  Next on the agenda: Coloring. I may do the original with pencil, but I think that I am going to use Photoshop to color the scanned image.

• 
  
  
  
  
  

• Diva. (You know who you are.)
• Did anyone else hear the story about someone at The Pentagon wanting to set up a stock exchange-like market where people could earn money… by trying to determine when, where and how terrorist actions would occur?! No, that was not a joke; read more here

  From SFGate.com:

  It sounds jaw-droppingly callous, not to mention absurd: An Internet gambling parlor, sponsored by the U.S. government, on politics in the Middle East. Anyone, from Osama bin Laden to your grandmother, can bet over the Web on such questions as whether Yasser Arafat will be assassinated or Turkey’s government will be overthrown.

  If the bettors are right, they’ll win money; if they’re wrong, they’ll lose their wagers. The site itself will keep numerical tallies of the current “odds” for various events.

  Why not just ask the guys at the corner bar whether or not we should invade Jordan, or play SimCity to make foreign policy decisions?

  I don’t know whose brainskid this was, but I was shocked to think that someone – even for the most brief of moments – though that this might be a “good” idea. Fortunately, a rectal craniotomy was performed and this idea was eighty-sixed before it got too far. Although, it could be argued that as far as it got was “too far…”

• From Slashdot: Cyber Sleuths vs. Secret Networks
• It was (almost) inevitable: Telemarketers Sue Over “Do Not Call” List
• RIAA has a lot of subpoenas. I hope that they have a lot of time…

Namaste.

[16:53] Penfold003: How’s work treating you?
[16:53] : Pretty good, thanks.
[16:54] : As John said: “Nothing to get hung about…”
[16:54] Penfold003: John?
[16:54] : Lennon.
[16:54] Penfold003: Ah… Never met the man.
[16:54] : He was a member of this obscure little band from England.
[16:55] Penfold003: Wait, weren’t they bigger the Jesus?
[16:56] : That was only because there were four of them.
[16:56] : But, Jesus had a bigger posse.
[16:56] Penfold003: and he meant it in terms of money made at the time, I think.
[16:58] : He did… but it was also true in terms of sheer mass.
[16:58] Penfold003: Ah, fair enough…

[14:37] : indeed, it’s my cross to bear 🙂
[14:38] : *shrug*
[14:38] : I’m just the travel agent.
[14:38] : ….and royal courier.
[14:38] : lol interesting new job title, i like that one
[14:39] : ::: bow :::

——————-

[15:28] : 😐
[15:29] : eww… is he drooling?
[15:29] : Not on my screen.
[15:29] : weird
[15:29] : I’m still getting used to a new Trillian skin
[15:29] : Ah
[15:30] : Mine is unskinned.
[15:30] : ah
[15:30] : Does that make it “nude/naked” or “flayed?”
[15:30] : Hmm….
[15:30] : interesting conundrum
[15:32] : Indeed.
[15:33] : how about “au naturel”?
[15:34] : That works, too.

“There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
– Oscar Levant

Monday
Not a bad day… just a long one.
Eleven (11) hours at work. *ugh*
After work came gaming. That was good. And fun. And a good release.

The thing that made it a top notch day was finding out that the Wonder Woman piece that I did last week made it to the Digital Concept Galley on Comics2Film.

Song of the Day
17 Hours by emmet swimming from the CD “Arlington to Boston”

Stray Toasters
They’ll keep until tomorrow.

Namaste.

Bob Hope died of pneumonia yesterday, at the age of 100.

I found it ironic that he died on the weekend that Lara Croft – Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.

I don’t mean this in a mocking way. Part of the quest in Cradle is to find the mythical Pandora’s Box. According to mythology, when Pandora opened the box, she loosed “…diseases, sorrows, vices and crimes…” upon the earth. The only thing left in the box after the others had flown out was hope.

And now, Hope is gone.

1903 – 2003.

Sunday
After going to bed somewhere around 3:00 this morning, I woke up a little after 6:00 (went back to sleep), 8-something (again, back to sleep) and when I woke up a little after 10:00, I decided that I might as well get myself out of bed and start the day.

Yesterday, in a Nutshell (apologies to Barenaked Ladies)

• Slept in a bit.
• Had a lazy morning and early afternoon around the apartment.
• Had a short and very casual work-related meeting.
• Attended a birthday/anniversary for a friend/her father’s bookstore.
• Bowled.
• Went out for breakfast

Stray Toaster
While I was doing a lot of nothing yesterday, I was listening to Winamp. One of the songs on my playlist is Sugar Sugar by Mary Lou Lord with Semisonic (from the “Saturday Morning Cartoons’ Greatest Hits” CD); it’s a cover of the song by The Archies. The chorus of the song is:

Sugar…
Oh, Honey Honey
You are my candy, boy…
And you’ve got me wanting you.

Something in one of the back corners of my head decided that it should be redone as:

Sherpa…
Ah, llama llama
You are my mountain guide
And you help me climb K2.

And now… time to get ready to draw.

Namaste.