“There’s no bread… Let them eat cake!”
business and economy, comics and animation, computers, event, everyday glory, food for thought, football, games, geekery, history, movies and TV, music, science and technology, soccer, space, style and fashion, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot...?!, zombies July 14th, 2011Thursday – 14 July 2011
Today is Bastille Day.
Last night was the release event for WizKids!’ Captain America HeroClix set. One of the nice things about release nights: I don’t have to judge the events, so I just get to play. (This isn’t to say that I don’t get asked rules questions, however… but I’m not the event judge, so I’m not constantly doing my best impression of the Shell Answer Man.) It was a 300-point sealed draft: Pick your team, up to 300 points, from two (2) booster boxes. I got obliterated in the first round, only picking off one of my opponent’s figures… for a whopping 57 points. The second round, my dice apparently woke up; I cleared my opponent’s team and didn’t lose anyone. In the third round, it came down to one figure for each of us… and I wound up on the losing side of the beatdown. (Although, I was apparently “only” one click away from taking out Nick Fury.) All-in-all, I had a good time.
Today, as SaraRules! just pointed out to me, is going to be a long day: I was up and out of the house before 0700 this morning… and I won’t be done with the day until 2100 or so tonight, thanks to our childbirthing class. Good thing I stopped for a cup of frozen mocha motivation on the way in.
Groove. Boogie. Sway.
This morning’s iTunes bit o’ random play included:
- Blackstreet (ft. Mya and Ma$e) – Take Me There
- Rush – The Big Money
- Cruxshadows – Winter Born (This Sacrifice)
- Smashing Pumpkins – The End Is the Beginning Is the End
- Pink Floyd – Learning to Fly
- Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl
Stray Toasters
- For SaraRules!: Cuba’s first-ever zombie/horror film: “Juan of the Dead”
- A Message from NASA Astronauts to the Space Shuttle Workforce
NOTE: This video starts as soon as the page finishes loading. - Zeus for Android steals one-time banking passwords
- By way of MarknTyme comes this dice stacking video. Bizarre.
- USA tops France 3-1 to advance to World Cup title game
- A couple of comics-related items:
- The Dwayne McDuffie tribute Comic-Con International wouldn’t print
- On Gender & Race in “Fear Itself” #4 and “Flashpoint” #3 – Don’t Say That’s Just for White Boys”
- Borders Faces Liquidation After Takeover Bid’s Rejection
- New Music Service Offers Music in Quantity, Not by Song
- Banks will no longer sell Savings Bonds
- For a Night Each Year, the Airwaves Buzz with Morse Code
- GQ: Street Style
- Steelers’ Harrison blasts Goodell, Roethlisberger and Patriots
- Pop’s Punching Bag: Hating the Black Eyed Peas
Namaste.
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