Thursday
‘Nine is back up and running. Thanks to for the suggestion on the driver CD. *sigh* It looks like ATI wants me to pony up $10 for a new CD for the DVD Decoder. Ass-ninjas.

Otherwise, it’s been a decent day. I let Sissy, Presto and Lightning out in the back yard this morning. The most amusing thing: Lightning was stalking Sissy… while Presto was stalking him.

Tonight, , and I watched CSI and Without a Trace. AIM and TV are our “interactive media.” It might be a bit geeky, but it’s fun.

NPR and Other News
Morning Edition: Exploring America’s “National Identity”
Morning Edition: South Park Creators Jab Hollywood, Terror War
Talk of the Nation: How Americans View Immigrants
Day to Day: Re-Creating the 60s Sound for Percy Sledge
Fresh Air: Excerpts from a panel discussion with Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather (I know that it sounds rather dry, but it was rather interesting.)

Stray Toasters

  • I don’t know what I meant to tape, but I apparently taped an episode of 60 Minutes. Odd. But, on the plus side, there’s an interview with Jimmy Buffett on it. There’s a part of me that would would like to attend one of his concerts; I think that it would be incredibly fun.
  • I recently found the track listing for the first music CD that I made, called “Overtures of Addiction”. That CD’s been AWOL for a couple of years and I’ve been wanting to recreate it.

      Suite 1: “Temptation”

      • Crack City – Tin Machine
      • New Jack Theme – Living Colour
      • Temptation Waits – Garbage

      Suite 2: “Denial”

      • Not an Addict – K’s Choice
      • I Don’t Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) – Marilyn Manson
      • Not My Idea – Garbage

      Suite 3: “Suite d’Addiction”

      • (Can’t You) Trip Like I Do – Filter and The Crystal Method
      • TNT for the Brain – Enigma
      • The Perfect Drug – Nine Inch Nails

      Suite 4: “Recovery”

      • Long Hard Road out of Hell – Marilyn Manson and Sneaker Pimps
      • Dead Man Walking – David Bowie
      • No Control – David Bowie

  • : Take a look at this.
  • Come join the Warner brothers and the Warner sister, Dot.
    Just for fun, we run around the Warner Movie lot.
    They lock us in the tower, whenever we get caught…
    But we break loose and then vamoose
    And now you know the plot!

  • By way of Slashdot: World Cyber Games
  • By way of Backwash: A Mean Trick: When Homecoming Elections Turn Cruel
  • “Ellellator go down the hoooooole.”
  • No-Sew Hallowe’en Costumes
  • : Catwoman: When In Rome
  • And, on the subject of Catwoman, Gwyneth Paltrow had a few things to say about the Catwoman movie:

    While out promoting her own version of a big-budget action film, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow the new mum told MSNBC that she could have been the lead kitty but turned down the role and opted for the more adventurous Jude Law vehicle, saying “…if (the film) was going to fail, it was going to fail, but I wanted to take that risk and not be in a standard Hollywood adventure. After seeing Catwoman, I thought the character and movie were unoriginal.”

  • Elektra movie poster
  • Given the last item in this post, by , I think that he and might have a common interest in the oddities of the human body.
  • “I was going to mail the hammer back, but I think I’ll send him Windows ME instead.”

  • Free subscription to Computer Games Magazine.

Quote of the Day
By way of an Animaniacs episode that I found on a tape. A tape that had a commercial for The Three Musketeers (the one with Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland) and Addams Family Values. Yeah… from 1993. Ô_õ

Survey Ladies: Would you like to take a survey?
Wakko: Okay.
Survey Lady #1: Do you eat beans?
Survey Ladies #2: Would you like to see a new movie starring George Wendt?
Survey Lady #1: Do you eat beans with George Wendt?
Survey Ladies: Would you like to see George Wendt eating beans in a movie?
Survey Lady #1: Do you eat beans at George Wendt movies?
Survey Ladies: Would you like to see George Wendt in a bean-eating movie?
Survey Lady #1: How many beans do you eat at George Wendt bean-eating movies?
Survey Ladies #2: How many bean-eating movies have you seen with George Wendt?
Dot: Umm… it’s not that we wouldn’t like to take your survey….
Yakko: Uhhhhh… It’s more like we’d rather have dental surgery.

And that’s a wrap.

Namaste.