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17th May 2008
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21st April 2008
: Bored at work. Entertain me, Internets!
Waiting for Competitor to call back with info, but our customer is at their site, so I can't just blow it off. There's only so much entertainment I can get from Microsoft fake children's books (with sexism! see pages 6-8). Current Mood:
 bored16th April 200815th April 2008
: I enjoy a good lawyer smackdown...
via Bryant, with whom I only have a small overlapping f-list. When I was working for a celtic band which received a C&D letter from a former bandmate, they got a lawyer to write a snotty "you have no leg to stand on" letter to her lawyer. As far as I can tell, lawyers actually like smacking lazy colleagues. Bryant ran across a beautiful letter from a small, high-end cable company to Monster Cable, Inc. Turns out the president of Blue Jeans Cable Co. was a lawyer before he started the cable company. http://www.audioholics.com/news/industr Read the patents narrowly, and Monster loses; read them broadly, and Monster loses. You are welcome to point out any error in my reasoning; but I have to say that I will be unreservedly surprised if you are successful in doing so.I, like Bryant, enjoyed the whole thing. It's very reasonable lawyerese for "bring it" No word in there about about any actual advantage between Monster Cables, Blue Jeans Cables, and Coat Hangars Current Mood:
 amused12th April 2008
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10th April 2008
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9th April 2008
: Hooray, Hooray!
 If you're like most people, after you see this picture of US Vice President Dick Cheney, you'll wonder "Is that a woman reflected in his sunglasses? Is she wearing any clothes? Why doesn't she get up and run?" Personally, I think the photographer was quite resourceful. If that's the prop she had to bring along to get the old dead-ender to smile and look human, than good for her for going there. I'd've tried hitting him upside the head with a tripod, because even if I didn't get him to smile, I'd at least have fun. Just in case you're wondering if this is a doctored pic, it comes from his official page. Apparently he likes taking part in outdoor activities. Who knows? Maybe they shot this on the first of May. http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresi Current Mood:
amused
: A winnar is us!
I have 4 Cake tickets waiting for me at will-call. Hooray for the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations! Current Mood:
happy7th April 2008
: Vagina Dentata?
 You'd think the local Coca-Cola company in Austin, Texas would do a better job than the Engrish displayed here. You'd be wrong. I'm sorry to say that the poor woman who provides us with beverages is, according to this warning from her own employer, burdened with a mechanical set of vagina dentata. The teeth on those gears can clearly mangle a misplaced hand and the Coca-Cola corporation is quite right to wish to protect purchasers of fine carbonated beverages who might try to get to third base with their vendor from a bad mangling, if for no other reason than to allow said patron to keep buying Coca-Cola corporation products. I will say that it is nice to see that their Equal Opportunity hiring practices extend to genital cyborgs, no matter what risk they raise for the vendor-groping public. I'm sure you're wondering if they use similar warning signs if the vendor is a man. All I can say is that in that case this post would have been titled "Anus Horriblis" and it wouldn't have had a link to Queen of Wands. Current Mood:
amused6th April 2008
: More answers to "How many folksingers does it take to change a lightbulb?"
It occurs to me that this is only one of a vast number of possible answers. In my darker moments, it occurs to me that someone could probably get a singable song out of this, for certain values of "singable" Two: The ceiling is hiiiiigh, And I cannot reach up to't.Five: One two three four five, None: "Vile Darkness!" cried the warrior bard, I'm sure much better verses can be written, but I think I've made my fundamental opinion of "the great all-Irish-song-chorus-mashup" clear... :) Current Mood:
amused
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5th April 2008
: Ah-de-do, ah-de-do-dah-day, ah-de-do-ah-de-day-dee.
There were seven yellow Gypsies all in a row They were brave and bonny-O One to change the bulb and one to tell the tale And there's five to run away with the lady-O via... Current Mood:
amused
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I like to play computer games. That's no surprise, lots of people do. I have types I prefer and there are games I really don't like. I get bored with games pretty easily and move on. I prefer games I have to think about to games I have to train my reflexes for and I prefer turn-based games to real-time games. The computer game industry has spent a lot of time developing itself away from my preferences. What's been good for me? Flash games, casual games, and browser based games.
I found a flash games portal that had a novel twist: there were badges awarded for achievements in various games, and points and levels based on getting badges. It was a clever way to get people to try new games and play them long enough to get a feel for them. I enjoyed this site and often would try a game because it had a badge. It led me to play some games I wouldn't otherwise play, but that was good. I'm not playing there anymore, and the reasons why are still bothering me, so I'm going to lay them out, mostly in the hopes that by writing them down, I'll mentally sort them out. ( Stuff I didn't need to deal with behind the cut... ) Current Mood:
 cranky4th April 2008
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3rd April 2008
: Another view of the new British reverses
I like the unified theme. 
Still the same person on the obverse, though. I'd like to see sovereigns like our US Presidents, because there are so many more difficult situations. All we have to worry about is "does anyone still care that Buchanan was worse than Bush could ever be?" The Brits have to deal with questions like "Do we put Jane, the Nine Days Queen, on a coin?" and "Is it tacky to show just the head of Charles I?" and "Is Williamandmary really a single, two-headed, siameese twin of a Sovereign?" Current Mood:
 sleepy
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2nd April 2008
: We all have our crosses to bear...
Beloved tech pundit and gadfly Andy Ihnatko agrees to give Marvel another chance, like any abused spouse. He dove into Secret Invasion, Marvel's annual big crossover thingy. You can tell he knows it's a mistake, but he goes there anyway. About to read "Secret Invasion" #1. Deeep breath. It'll be okay. Have faith. Two sets of footprints in the sand. I'm wearing a cup.While I pity him is upcoming crossover letdown syndrom (CLS), it did give me the opportunity for some amusing (to me) blasphemy: How come there are only three footprints in the difficult sections? Because Jeebus hopped on one leg after kicking me in the cup. ... and while I wrote this, AndyI twitted that he's closed the book unfinished because he doesn't expect them to even try to solve the huge problems they've created. At least he didn't allow himself to be pained for long... Current Mood:
amused
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1st April 2008
: That's what happens when you google "Kentucki Fried Lizzard Partes"...
So, while doing RPG research, I stumbled across bright_lilim's LJ. He's currently Translating Nine Princes in Amber into Finnish and LJing about it. Check out his posts tagged "zelazny". I thought RPG readers read the books closely...The cover looks pretty cool, too. Tell all your  ETA: Fixed mistaken identity of the language. Current Mood:
amused
: Life Imitates Art
mrkamikaze's band, The Flying Fish Sailors, has a fun song they wrote 10-15 years ago, called "Haul, U-Haul, Haul". It's a Sea Shanty about the perils of moving yourself. The denouement is that the van's brakes fail while being pursued by the police and the van crashes into the river, floating away and adding to the milage charge.via his weblog, it turns out not to be so absurd after all...  U-Haul chase ends in Brays Bayou I'm sure the song is quite the comfort to the jailed submarine commander. Jay posted the song over there in MP3 format, so be sure to go there and listen to it. You'll laugh, you'll cry. It's better than Cats. Current Mood:
vastly amused
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31st March 2008
: A statement I made elsewhere...
"Mind you, if I were to write a pastiche on Heinlein, it would be a Starship Troopers pastiche called 'Space Defense Contractors'." Actually, I kinda want to read that book.
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