Something nifty that made me think of you:
http://www.artomat.org/
Unfortunately, they expressly forbid magnets, but you do stuff that doesn’t have magnets attached as well, so….check it out!
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First of all, this meme has been amusing me, but for somewhat personal reasons. Long long ago, we had officially sanctioned clans on JediMUD. At the time they were implemented, I was still a low-ranking member of the administration, and i warned them all it would end in tears. I was sadly proven correct, and one of the first acts I undertook when I became a member of the administration team a few months later was to have them all desanctioned. Jedi’s official position became “You can create whatever affiliates you want between yourself and other players, but the administration will not recognize any of those affiliates as official nor extend any special treatment towards them.” I still think this is a reasonable policy.
Anyway, flash-forward a few years, when Dina and I were hanging out mortside and complaining that no one ever did anything for the sheer fun of it. So we founded Clan Quixotic. The only requirement to join was the willingness to, at the drop of a hat, band together to, say, go kill every dragon in the game, just for the heck of it. After Dina finished the papers she had to write for her Masters degree, we celebrated by making a list of the ten hardest mobs to kill in the game at that time, and setting out to kill them all in ascending order of difficulty. We were that kind of group.
Ah the good old days. I think it’s about time to wipe the dust of my mort’s armor and clock back to Minus Time for some hack and slash.
A lot of people have been writing a lot of good stuff about electronic voting machines and their disturbing lack of audit trails. This week, PBS’s Robert Cringley weighs in with a thoughtful analysis. Go read it, it’s good stuff.
One of my favourite comic strips right now is Jef Mallett’s Frazz. Today’s strip is a good example why:
Snarfed from lysana:
Qveere Eye for Thye Medieval Man
It’s interesting how pervasive this show has become in the short time it’s been around. I’ve seen no less than 5 mentions of it in daily comic strips, and countless parodies such as this one and this one which I posted the other day.
I admit that it’s one of my favourite things on television, and I do hope it’s not going to be overwhelmed by its popularity and turn into something less fun than it is now. Until then, i’ll enjoy the ride.
Linked via gridlore, perhaps the funniest story I’ve read in…..ages.
The Biker, the quiet street, and the evil attack squirrel of death…
yahtzee63 ponders what would happen if the Fab Five visited various SF characters. Hilarity ensues.
Thanks to rmjwell for the link!
First of all, happy birthday to the sublime catsittingstill on her natal anniversary. I’m still entirely convinced that Cat is not strictly human, but somehow a Tolkien elf who never passed into the West, but at any rate, we’re damn glad to have her around.
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I adore Mark Morford. Sometimes he goes a bit over the top, but i love the sensibility that anchors his work. I especially liked column today. I could have written the following about myself:
“I don’t watch NASCAR or “WWE Raw” or “The Man Show.” I don’t read a lot of Maxim or ESPN Magazine or Sporting News nor frequent Gold’s Gym with a cadre of thick muscled dudes named Rick or Tony who stand over me and spot my bench presses with a lot of c’mon dude you can do it pump one more rep yeah yeah yeah, just before we all high five and go out for pizza and beer and talk about SportsCenter and the crazy shopping habits/frustrating fellatio inhibitions of our wives.
I do not spend endless hours of every weekend out in the garage rebuilding my rusty old ’67 ‘Stang. I do not grill giant slabs of beef ribs on the Weber every night. I do not reshingle the house or wear khaki Dockers or pound pitchers of Bud Light at O’Shaunessey’s during the Final Four. Maybe I should. But I don’t.
In fact, I engage in few stereotypical manly guy things largely because I live in the City and enjoy a wickedly urban and decidedly lubricious lifestyle, and tend to find many traditionally “guy” activities to be sort of unfulfilling and uninteresting and occasionally sort of dorky and faux macho and sadly devoid of divine sensuality and intellectual mystery and really good booze. But whatever. That’s just me.”
The truth is, I’ve never been entirely comfortable with “guy things”. Most of my close personal friends are female. I enjoy “chick flicks”. I cry over sentimental things. I find most of the concerns of the “average male” to be banal. I often wonder if there wasn’t some sort of mixup in the Souls Routing department, and somewhere out there is a very tomboyish girl who enjoys auto repair and football who was supposed to end up in this body. Something to think over.
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Dayna is definitely feeling much better this morning, and back to her old friendly self. And I got a voice mail from the vet on her blood work from last week, confirming that she’s negative for FIV and feline leukemia. This doesn’t remotely surprise me, since she’s never been outside a day in her life, but it’s still reassuring to know her health is in top shape.
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Rejoined the Columbia House DVD club for another set of nearly free DVDs (seven for the price of two, essentially). Picked up Willy Wonka And the Chocolate Factory, Harold and Maude, Sense and Sensibility, The Englisman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down a Mountain, Schoolhouse Rock, Forrest Gump, and the amusing Mel Gibson/Helen Hunt film What Women Want. Also picked up the Matthew Broderick remake of The Music Man, because, let’s face it, I’m curious. It takes a lot of guts to step into a part that is so firmly and universally associated with one actor, in this case the late, great Robert Preston. I admit that Harold Hill is a part I’ve always wanted to do on stage myself. And of course, I got Pirates of the Caribbean because it rocks and stuff.
We didn’t actually watch any of these last night, opting for The Daily Show and the last part of the sex in the 20th century documentary that was stacked up on the TiVo. TiVo good. I like the TiVo.
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Almost no one wants to ask me questions? The poll is still open!
Courtesy of circe_tigana, by way of som_pos, we have:
- Today’s report from the Department of The Very Obvious:
Sex is good for you!. (Link from dglenn via tigerbright) - Todays’ report from the “Dear Lord, Protect Me From Your Followers” Department: General Apologizes for Religious Comments
- Today’s report from the “Location Location Location” Department:
redaxe points out a real fixer-upper of a deal! - Today’s report from the “If You Don’t Stop Doing That You’ll Go Blind” Department:
John Scalzi points towards a collection of American Social Hygiene posters from 1910 through 1970. - Today’s report from the “Just In time for Hallowe’en” Department:
Extreme Pumpkin Carving - Today’s report from the “I Am Not A Ninja Polka” Department:
The 2003 All Japan Ninja Championships - Today’s report from the “Sorry, Come Again?” Department:
The Eater of Meaning, a lovely tool for rendering websites even more incomprehensible than they already are. - Today’s report from the “H.R. Puffenstuff Drug Research” Department:
Courtesy of epi_lj, The Boobah Zone - Today’s report from the “Hastur? I hardly touched her!” Department:
A plush shoggoth suitable for putting on the roof! - Today’s report form the “Feed Me, Seymour!” Department:
Time lapse botany movies This stuff is very cool. John Scalzi gets the best links!
and finally