Wednesday
I talked with the ‘rents today. All’s well in their respective parts of the Right Coast. I need to call the sibko tomorrow and make sure that they’re doing well.

Tonight was Game Night. I think that we’re moving the story along, albeit slowly. While there are probably more than “a few” things that our group has overlooked, we picked up on something that will be of relevance down the road. That’s probably a good thing. Tomorrow night, Chris is giving and me a crash-course in Heroclix. That should be fun.

Thursday is “Inauguration Day” for the Shrub. Big whoop. On the other hand, federal employees in Washington are getting a free day off; some are taking Friday off and making it a long weekend.

News
Morning Edition: Study Recommends New Approach to Diagnosing Kids’ Depression
Morning Edition: Senegal Postcard: Celebrating the Feast of the Sheep
Talk of the Nation: Ohio: Sports and Mentality (for )
Day to Day: Firings Raise Questions of Blogger Freedoms
All Things Considered: Beer Ad Battle Spills into Realm of Science
All Things Considered: Report Finds National Zoo Has Made Progress

silicon.com: Spammed Man Sued by Alleged Spammer Wants Cash

Stray Toasters

  • I spent about ten minutes this afternoon rearranging the Magnetic Poetry tiles into their respective parts of speech. Ostensibly, this will make it easier to find words/phrases when composing a put-down. But, the truth behind it all is: The insistence of my inner grammar geek was too strong to resist.
  • : I’m not sure if you’d be interested in this, but Steve Jackson’s e23 is up.
  • New… episodes… of JLU and Teen Titans… starting 05 Feb 05.
  • I still haven’t formatted the new drive for DS9, but I came to a decision this afternoon: I’m going to put either a 20 GB and a 40 GB or two 40 GB drives in Enterprise. I like my media and it deserves plenty of elbow room.
  • There’s something about Ludacris’ Act a Fool that I like. Quite a bit, in fact.
  • David Duchovny, in an interview for The Sun, has said that a sequel to X-Files: Fight the Future is in the works.
  • While I usually don’t like to give the cats “people food,” every once in a while, I will cave and share a little something with them. Today I discovered that Presto likes spaghetti noodles.
  • “No walls can hold me!”
    “That’s why we brought tasers.”

  • Utah drivers…
  • Sh’mo (…for Nyx)
  • It looks as though they are trying to adapt Robert Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress for the big screen. Here are more details from Tim Minear, who is working on the adaptation.
  • We’ve started looking at paint samples. I think that I’d like a blue shade in the main bathroom (but I’m not dead set on it, yet). I’m also not sure what color(s) I want to use in the HCC. Given my LEGO® obsession, I’m trying to stay away from primary colors… but I might consider a LEGO-like four-color border. Of course, I could just go with green, at least on one wall. And even though the Master Chief’s armor is green, I’d probably go from referring to it as the “HALO Command Center” and start calling it “New Oa.”
  • “If you wake me up coming to bed, I will dismember you.” –

Namaste.