This weekend I: saw, and had a brief chat with, William Gibson; did nage-no-kata with the head of the Canadian Grading Board for judo, and also had a brief intro to the first set of ju-no-kata; drew Darth Vader in Crayola crayon; and heard the cutest version of the ABC song I think I'll [...]
…are to be continued.
Watching an episode of Battlestar Galactica, my one TV addiction, and all the players are in place: The Cylons have arrived, the humans are on the ground, about to be overrun by the enemy, and in orbit, Galactica has six nuclear weapons aimed down at the planet.
And the screen goes black [...]
Man, I haven't heard this song in years. It's called "Don't Call Me Dude", and it's by the now-defunct Scatterbrain.
Well-done amateur music video for one of They Might Be Giants' awesome tunes. Enjoy. I know I did.
To quote Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes fame): "Verbing weirds language".
Impact is not a verb, no matter how often people say "the plane impacted into the mountainside".
Irregardless is not a word. Regardless of what you I might think. (However, I still think it's a pointless word meaningless verbal bastard. (Thanks, Doug!))
Unthawed means [...]
It's been a little while, hasn't it?
Tonight I have judo. Next weekend I may be heading into the city for a coaching technical class. Yes, the two of them are related.
I've been working on Everything that never happened, but not enough. I need to get some serious writing done tomorrow.
Facebook is, as [...]
I'm writing this entry on my new nerd box.
The other day I bought a surplus computer from the local school division. It cost me all of $35. It's a 1.1GHz machine with a 20-GB hard drive and 128 MB of RAM. I brought it home, burned Xubuntu to a CD, and slapped [...]
Facebook: It's like myspace*, but with 100% less craptacular webdesign.
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* Which is to say, it's like crack that comes over DSL lines.
So my wife bought me Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy a month and a half ago, for my birthday, and I'm addicted. I played tonight for a while (about an hour and a half, I think—time gets slippery when I'm in the throes of a nerd-game), and I managed to finish the [...]
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Discovered in JennyHennyPenny's Flickr photostream.
Drunk I got. Remember nothing after making out with Charlene on the dance floor do I. Ashamed I should be, think I.
But not as bad as they say is waking up in a ditch. Worse, it is.
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