Monday : 21 November 05
For a Monday, this hasn’t been too bad. Work started off a little hectic: I had a few… well, not really “fires” to put out. The rest of the workday wasn’t bad, though.

I watched the Green Bay – Minnesota game tonight. It was better than I had expected. The game came down to the wire and was settled by a Minnesota field goal in the last few seconds of the game.

Random Access
We can go from boom to bust
From dreams to a bowl of dust
We can fall from rockets’ red glare
Down to “Brother can you spare–“

On the way home, and I were listening to NPR’s All Things Considered. One of the stories was entitled: “A Rural Struggle to Keep the Family Fed”. It was a very interesting and powerful story… and a rather poignant one, as we enter the Thanksgiving holiday.

Stray Toasters

  • I spoke with the paternal unit. All’s well at the homestead.
  • Make your own warning label
  • By way of Backwash: Amateur band performs Super Mario theme on marimba
    ( and , I immediately thought of the two of you when I saw this.)

  • Someone posted a link to this story on IRC. Which immediately reminded me of this, from almost 20 years ago. In one situation, the kid gets arrested; in the other, it’s turned into a nominally popular movie. Go figure.
  • From SciFi: Fan Trek Film Finnishes First
  • : Take a look at this.
  • From the “Quote Most Likely to Make Smile” file comes this excerpt from a Newsarama review of All-Star Superman #1:

    You see, Lex Luthor has just realized that while he is bound to the rules of mortality, his enemy apparently is not. Lex is starting to look his age and Superman is still Massengill fresh. And this does not make Lex happy. Not at all. Because if someday Lex has to go six-feet under, then that alien do-gooder had better be gone first.

    So Lex sabotages an experiment at the surface of the sun, knowing full well that the world’s biggest Boy Scout just has to go there to save the day. He’s gotten smarter, that Lex Luthor. If he can’t pull off a direct attack against Superman, well, he’ll simply use the Man of Steel’s main weakness to do the job for him.

    Now, we all know the not-so-secret formula to Superman’s success: yellow sun and lots of it. The question is, when you’re the last son of Krypton, is there such a thing as too much of those golden rays?

    It has the feel of the classic Superman not many people remember. Lex Luthor is just as diabolical as ever, which is the best version (not President Luthor or quasi-good guy Luthor from the early 90s) and Morrison gives it to us that this time he’s not going to pull any punches. This time he really wants Superman dead, and it’s become about as important to him as breathing air.

  • sent me a link to this picture earlier. Um… yeah.
  • The Nokia commercial with “Ed” and his Dukes of Hazzard ringtone is a little freaky. But, it still makes me chuckle, especially when he starts singing.
  • V-8 Engine Paper Model
  • I need more Sam Cooke in my music collection.
  • Tonight’s episode of Superman: TAS was “Knight Time,” which was a fun episode.

Quote of the Day
From a conversation with the coolest brother-in-law ever:

(14:10:29) : it’s officially christmas time
(14:11:49) : Not for three more days, it’s not.
(14:11:54) : Period.
(14:11:57) : sorry. jumped the gun
(14:11:58) : I don’t care WHAT you heard.
(14:12:07) : OR saw on TV.
(14:12:12) : OR in the piazza.
(14:12:17) : *stands frim*
(14:12:18) : firm
(14:12:19) : lol i’m in italy, what the hell am i gonna see on tv other than lots and lots of boobies
(14:12:31) : (btw it was the temps w/rudolph)

Namaste.