Wednesday – 12 March 2008
Mid-week.
(As I typed that, I heard

Midnight, and it’s raining outside…

…the opening line from “Midnight,” by Yaz (Upstairs at Eric’s) run through my head.

I went to Chris and Mary’s, after work, to play dolls HeroClix with Chris. He wanted to test a couple of figures before he plays in a tourney next month; I wanted to try out a couple of new figures. He cleaned my clock, but I learned a few things about how to better use a couple of figures, including:

Chris was a little disappointed with the way the new Kyle Rayner figure plays, but I thought that it was alright. And we both agreed that WizKids should do an updated (read: “less underpowered”) John Stewart figure. *shrug* Maybe in the next set…

Today has been good. Nothing out-of-the-ordinary to report.
No sushi today.
No comics. Yet. But, soon… Soon…

Stray Toasters

  • I came home last night to find a package from my father waiting for me. Random assortment of things (no Butterscotch Krimpets, though), but some neat stuff, nonetheless.
  • YouTube Everywhere
  • Vih-Dee-Ohs

    And, just for the record: “Closer” and “Spelling Bee” are quite NSFW. You have been warned.

  • What Real-life Dungeon Exploration Might Look Like, Graduate Students in Tow
  • I have been using this image as my desktop wallpaper in the SLC office for… three or so weeks now:

    I adapted it from this image, which is part of the cover for the Incognegro graphic novel. And here is an article on the book, from The New York Times.

  • Southwest grounds planes, places three on leave
  • Rock Me, Amadeus


    (click image for more information)

  • Surveyor of the Superheroes: Kaveney talks new book
  • ‘Oldest Profession’ updates to a wired world
  • …and, in a related note, it seems as though David Paterson will be assuming the role of Governor of the State of New York as of 17 March 2008, making him New York’s:
    • …first Black governor
    • …first visually-impared (legally blind) governor and
    • …first disabled governor since FDR
  • Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub

    * Why did Utah name its capital, Fillmore, after the president (and the county it is in, Millard, too)? The Mormons wanted to join the U.S. They wanted to be a state. Congress and the executive branch were nervous about taking in a state so large (at the time the state covered most of Nevada and chunks of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho — larger than Texas as I recall) and there was active opposition to taking in a state run by Mormons. So the Mormons moved the capital to Fillmore — more centrally located, and out of Salt Lake City where the Mormons had their temple and a lot of people. Then they named the capital after the president, hoping to curry his favor and that of the Whig Party partisans. It didn’t work. The proposed State of Deseret was carved up, and Utah didn’t get statehood until 1896 — after even Nevada.
    (from the site’s “Sources on Millard Fillmore” page)

    Fillmore is one of the towns I go through on the way to/from Cedar City.

  • PHP and arrays.

Namaste.