To quote Jon Stewart "And so, on a Tuesday, a prominent politician talked to the American Public about race, as if they were, adults."

Tags: adults, obama, politics, race

Inventor of the Geosynchronous Satellite dies at age 90.

Damn, Gygax might have been a bigger influence on me at 12 and been big in the world of fantasy, but Clarke was a bigger influence on both the real world and the world of science fiction.

(Besides, sure he was 90, but he needed to live for another decade or two so I could finally getting my own writing career into gear and co-author a book or two with him!)

Tags: big, influence, satellites, science, science fiction

Did you know that those two overly polite rodents (who occasionally made appearances in cartoons on the Bugs Bunny show) actually had names?  I didn't until I looked them up when a friend was wondering if they were chipmunks.   (That was a different pair of rodents, Chip n Dale, from Disney)

Ok, now for the extra trivia points, lets switch over to other old cartoons (not necessarily Warner Bros.):

What were the names of the two crows?   ___________ n __________
What did the initials F.H. stand for on the hat that Dudley Doright's horse wore?
Who did voice of Captain Kirk on the animated version of Star Trek?

Tags: trivia

Gary Gygax is Dead.

Never mind all the tributes and reminiscances and self-deprecating humor, do you realize this means now I'll NEVER get my original Monster Manual signed?!?!

Sigh, life is so full of disappointments

 

[Edit 3-7-2008:  XKCD sums it up, again http://xkcd.com/393/ ]

Here's one place to read the reactions to the news:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/03/04/1750206

Of course its the usual mixed bag of comments

But I did think the following was very funny, (maybe because of how close to home it hits):

• Me too, if it wasn't for AD&D (Score:4, Funny)

  by georgeha (43752) on Tuesday March 04, @01:27PM (#22638980) Homepage

  I'd have been a debt-ridden teen father driving a 13 year old Japanese subcompact. Now I'm a debt-ridden middle aged father driving a 13 year old Japanese subcompact.

Regarding the old "Farmer trying to cross a river" problem:

"Why does a farmer have a wolf? How can a 5lb chicken eat a 50lb bag of grain? How is he able to prevent the wolf from eating the chicken when he's present?"




(giving credit:  Found this in fun little side post in a larger slashdot thread on using logic tests during programming job interviews)

Tags: humor, logic, puzzles

Can't remember whose blag I saw this in (was bouncing around from friend list to friend list earlier), but thought it was too... too... well, too something to not try to share it further. Of course, if you've never heard the the original version by Deep Purple, it might not have the same jaw dropping effect on you...

Well, in the classic style of smokers or dieters, I am announcing
my intentions to quit being a pack rat.

I was going to joke about finding a twelve step program, but then it wouldn't be anonymous....

And I'm not just being flippant.  It is REAL problem.  Sure I am mocking myself, because, well, it shouldn't have ever gotten to be an actual problem.  Quirks, eccentricities, peculiarities and idiosyncrasies are all fine, and I've laughed it off as that many times before, but its gone beyond that.  It has become... STUPID.

And I am going to try to FIX it.  Not just plan or half finish reshuffling books and papers and computer parts (and crafts projects with my daughter) like I've done so many time wasting times in the past.

Clean house (so to speak, ha ha) and reform my ways. 

My initial goal is simple: reclaim all horizontal surfaces. 

My long term goal is to host a nice party  and have new friends mix with old friends and the newer ones wonder why all the older friends are just looking around in slack-jawed amazement and wonder. 

One should always set one's goals higher than one's current reach.  And then grow to attain them.

Tags: goals, personal growth

Swirling SNOW
	dancing on the road's surface
		was...
			fascinating
fascinating
	fascinating
		fascinating
Until the SUV
	cut off the delivery truck.

I stood outside and watched the whole first half and keep popping out to watch the rest of it.

But it is VERY DAMN COLD!

Here's what I just typed online to a friend:

One last observation:   The rest of the sky!   The stars!  Orion's belt and all the rest... It was the first time in a while I was really aware of THEIR progression through the sky too.  I mean, I "know" it, you "know" it, but its so easy to forget about it and not really be "aware" of it.

OK, no using  imdb.com ok?

Here's a fun question I found on someone else's blag
(I'd just link to it, but you need to sign up just
 in order to read their journals)

>>   can any of you name the movie that
>>   had all of these folks in it?:
>>
>>   orson welles
>>   richard pryor
>>   mel brooks
>>   steve martin
>>   dom deluise
>>   madeline kahn
>>   milton berle
>>   edgar bergen
>>   bob hope and
>>   tim burton?
>>
>>   i found it on youtube yesterday in its
>>   entirety (though in ten parts), and
>>   it made me very very very happy...
>>
>>   http://youtube.com/watch?v=ewFhkJetAKo

(And I agree, unless you are incredibly stressed out,
you will be happy to be reminded of it.  And if you are
that stressed, you probably really need it the most...)

So, did anyone guess it right?

Got anymore movies that have unusual cast combinations?

I've got a couple but I'll wait to post them.  In fact, I won't post them (at least for a while) unless someone else posts one... (use anonymous if you need to)

Tags: movies