Tuesday
The alarm went off when it was supposed to this morning. I didn’t want to get out of bed. But, I did. And, following an excursion to the sanfac (*nod* to Infocom), I got right back into bed. *sigh* I watched the clock count of another twenty minutes before I got serious about pre-work prep.

Work was good. The day passed fairly quickly. A couple of calls from the youngest member of the sibko in the middle of the day helped move things along, as well.

and I stopped at one of the local Best Buy stores on the way home. I’m thinking of picking up a few things and I hadn’t been to Best Buy in a while. I looked at a DVD burner, but I decided against it. I looked at a Vonage adapter, but decided not to get one. Yet. Soon, though. I looked at some games and DVDs, too. Nothing just cried “Take me home.” Wait. That’s not entirely true: I looked longingly at the ATI Radeon 9600 AIW card. And it’s bargain priced at (only) $178.

Home for dinner and Law & Order: SVU. Amanda Plummer was one of the guest stars and she did an amazing job as a schizophrenic and disassociative rape victim. It was a good episode.

News
Morning Edition: Mormons Aim to Stop ‘Baptism’ of Holocaust Victims

The other day, someone on IRC was talking about doing temple work for the late Pope. The Pope. I’m thinking that if ANYONE had a Bat-phone to God, it was him. I don’t think that he really needed an/another intercessor. And, there have also been baptisms for Gandhi, Buddha (although I’m not sure which “Buddha” it was, as there have been many), Vlad Tepes (better known as “Vlad the Impaler” or more commonly referred to as “Dracula,”) and Adolf Hitler… to name just a few.

Just for the record: When I die, I do not want to have a posthumous proxy baptism. I made my decision to be baptised – in the faith of my choosing – over 20 years ago. I was happy with that decision then, I’m happy with it now. I’ll thank whomever it may concern to respect my paradigm as I try to respect yours in return.

Morning Edition: Teach for America Attracts Record Number of Graduates

USA Today: ‘C’ is for cookie – and calorie count, too?

Stray Toasters

  • I was looking up Galaxy Rangers wallpapers on Google earlier. And I came across an interview with Robert Mandell, on Mediasharx. It put a smile on my face.

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  • I was listening to Beethoven’s Fur Elise this afternoon. And the first thing that came to mind was the McDonald’s commercial with the little girl at her piano recital. I blame for this.
  • The X-Men.
    The Avengers.
    And the fate of Wanda Maximoff.
    Welcome to the House of M.

    The Marvel event of the decade is here! The Avengers and the X-Men are faced with a common foe that becomes their greatest threat: Wanda Maximoff! The Scarlet Witch is out of control and the fate of the entire world is in her hands. Will Magneto help his daughter or use her powers to his own benefit? Starring the Astonishing X-Men and the New Avengers!

  • Here is yet another reason I need to by Maddox a cup of coffee. And, there was even a mention of it on the ill-named Attack of the Show, the show that used to be the very cool Screen Savers.
  • I’ve been a Justice League fan for years. Superfriends (in its various incarnations), Justice League/Justice League Unlimitedand the different comic versions, too. The JL – JLI – JLE of the early 90s, under Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatties, we fun. (After all, where else could one learn about an ancient Martian meditation technique called “screaming.” Or that Martians had an affinity for Chocos (The DCU, non-copyright infringing version of “Oreos.”) Well, members of that Justice League have a little problem: It seems that Booster (“I’m not Green Lantern!”) Gold has gone to Hell. No handbasket. No gasoline drawers. But, he did take four other members with him. Buzzscope, formerly PopCultureShock, has a five-page preview.
  • I don’t recall how I found it, but this icon – – is awesome.
  • The Mission NASA Hopes Won’t Happen
  • I know people who use Google Ads to make money. I won’t disparage them. In public. This time. Well, I won’t disparage most of them; there’s one who I think goes about it bass-ackwardly. But that’s another story…

    With Google Ads, Google pays whomever puts the ads on their site whenever someone clicks one (or more) of the ads. Googlest.com has made a List of Top Paying Google Adsense Keywords. Click away.

  • I know that I should probably have my head examined, but part of me wants to see xXx: State of the Union, with Ice Cube. Yeah, yeah… I know. But, still.
  • “It is two in the morning. Things are not supposed to be alive at two in the morning.”

  • One of the voice actors on R.O.D. the TV is doing a bad Humphrey Bogart impression. It’s very over the top. It’s oddly amusing. Yet, hysterical.
  • Today’s random Wiki word is: Funarchy.

Namaste.