My Pedigree
Since I'm 'fan guest of honour' at the Con-Version Mini-Con this weekend, I figured it was time to let everyone know what a real geek I am.
Don't hate me because I'm geeky.
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June 29, 2005
June 28, 2005
King Kong
Missed the King Kong trailer last night on TV? Well, it's online and it's cool.
June 27, 2005
Breaking News: Tom Cruise Is Nuts
Posting this mostly for Lisa, as she wanted to know what exactly Tom Cruise said when he lost his shit on The Today Show, basically claiming he knows more about psychology and medication than psychiatrists and doctors.
I'm sure he's read all the Scientology documentation on the matter, but that does not constitute any sort of reality we're familiar with. It's like (and I'm asking for trouble here) all those wacky 'real vampires' who back up their absurb claims with comments of, 'you just don't understand like we do' and fail to provide anything remotely constituting proof.
June 24, 2005
Stingray City
We just got sent then shots of us at Stingray City! Go check them out over at Flickr.
June 23, 2005
Su Doku
I loves me some Su Doku. I do the one in the Calgary Herald every day at lunch and if there's time (and the Herald one was easy) I'll print off the one from the London Times and do it as well.
Assuming your Su Doku pusher is a reputable one, each puzzle only has one answer and can be solved by logic -- no guessing required.
Perfect for me! Yay!
June 22, 2005
Swimming With the Fishies: The Wedding & Honeymoon Part VI
This is it! The grand finale! The end of the wedding & honeymoon recap, as we swim with stingrays, pet the turtles, and avoid getting jacked in Jamaica!
Next week: Other crap.
Enjoy!
June 21, 2005
Oh, seriously?
Seriously, what the fuck is with famous people giving their kids whacked out names? Okay, I think Gwyneth Paltrow naming her daughter Apple is stretching things, but somewhat cute. Julia Roberts saddling her son with the moniker Phinnaeus Walter is pretty cruel on the young tyke. But Lisa just pointed out that Penn Jillette (of the Vegas duo Penn & Teller) named his new baby Moxie CrimeFighter.
Seriously. The fuck?
June 20, 2005
Coach Carter
A neat interview over at Coming Soon with the real Coach Carter. I was surprised how much a role he had in the movie.
Flood Damage
So we've lucked out. While Touque and the Foxman/Lunar Vixen/Shenshen (among many, many others I know at work) are still busy pumping the water out of their basements following the floods of the past two weeks, we've managed to come through with minimal damage.
Friday night Lisa did find a leak in the foundation wall in the basement and a pool of water about a foot across at the base of it. We mopped it up and packed towels around ti, hoping that it remained as a slow elak and we'd just have to keep the dryer running to provide dry towels, but after an hour the trickle stopped and we remained dry all weekend.
I think I left the drainspout in the up position after I had mowed last week, so water was pooling beside the house instead of running off. If so, either the wind knocked it back into the down position of my neighbors noticed and did it themselves.
So that was our big flood. So minor I didn't even think to snap a picture for posterity.
Whew.
June 17, 2005
Running in the Heat: The Wedding & Honeymoon Part V
Finally! Part V is up. It's not as long as I hoped -- been so swamped
this week -- but it's there.
Enjoy!
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Okay, it's formulaic, predictable, and will likely be forgotten ten minutes after watched, but I think I'd still like to see The 40 Year Old Virgin
June 15, 2005
Not today. Tomorrow.
No entry today. Of my four-person department one is on vacation, one is on training and one has been sick for three days.
It'll go up tomorrow. I have to finish writing it first.
Oy
Glad we went on Mission: SPACE before this happened. I would never have got her on the ride otherwise.
Death Reported At $100-Million Disney Ride in Florida
The Walt Disney Co. shut down its $100 million-dollar, state-of-the-art rocket-themed ride Mission Space at its Epcot theme park after a four-year-old boy from Pennsylvania passed out aboard the ride on Tuesday. The ride was reopened a few hours later after it was inspected by company engineers. Disney had hoped that the ride would revive interest in the park, which has seen a decline in admissions in recent years. The ride, which opened two years ago, sent seven people over the age of 55 to the hospital after they experienced chest pains and nausea while riding it in the first eight months after it was installed, published reports said. The latest incident is likely to spark renewed efforts to have theme park rides inspected by state and/or federal agencies. "The federal government regulates child seats in the back of automobiles ... but not amusement rides that approach G forces that astronauts are exposed to," Congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts told today's USA Today.
As I've mentioned, Mission: SPACE is THE most intense ride at Disney World.
Warning!
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| IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY IT IS ADVISABLE TO KEEP SHUFFLEDOG AWAY FROM FIRE AND FLAMES. |
From Go-Quiz.com
Schiavo Autopsy Results
As a final bit of denouement in the Terry Schiavo case, the autopsy found no signs of trauma, meaning that her husband did not beat her or strangle her before her collapse. So it was a result of her anorexia, as was previously thought.
As well, the doctors say that her brain at time of death was half the weight of a normal brain, saying, "This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons."
So there.
Homebrew AC
By jove, I think this might just work!
Soul-free Stem Cells
Okay, so the big religious problem with stem cell research is the belief that God imbues embryos with souls at conception, and that to kill anything with the potential to become a human is wrong. I'm paraphrasing, yes, but that seems to be the essence of the arguement.
So a devoutly Christian scientist (that is, a scientist who is also Christian, not a believer in 'Christian Science') has come up with an alternative.
The idea is to genetically engineer the embryos so that while they develop normally for a few days (long enough to harvest the cells) they are unable to actually develop into a real person at all. Thus if they never could become a person, you are not killing a person by harvesting the cells.
Strangly enough, he's getting a lot of growing support from religious groups and a lot of resistance from other scientists. Some who think it couldn't possibly work and that it will divert funds from real stem cell work, and some who refuse on the basis of not wanting to let the bible thumpers win.
Interesting.
MirrorMask
Trippy! Neil Gaiman's Mirrormask! (direct link to trailer)
Looks seriously weird.
Brothers Grimm
A first look at the trailer for Terry Gilliam's new film, The Brothers Grimm.
I had some troubles viewing it so here's a direct link that might work if the above doesn't.
June 10, 2005
Hee
Actual email conversation resulting from thunder and lightning rocking our respective buildings.
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From: Lisa
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 2:54 PM
To: Phil
Subject: EEEE
I'm scared. Hold me.
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From: Phil
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 2:57 PM
To: Lisa
Subject: RE: EEEE
(Uses best Romance Novel voice)
It's okay baby. I'm here.
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From: Lisa
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 2:59 PM
To: Phil
Subject: RE: EEEE
Swoon.
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Hee. I picked a good wife.
Rain
It's bucketing down rain right now. The building I work in has a atrium stretching the entire height of the building and I'm right on the edge of it. Two floors about me is the glass roof and the pounding from the rain is echoing through the whole building.
Even when we were getting the torrential downpours in the last couple days it didn't sound like this...
Update: Wow. Hail.
Creepy
Don't let the name of the site - AMA - Compensation Survey of Marketing Professionals 2005 - fool you. This is one of the creepiest things I've ever seen.
Land of the Dead
It's the Internet-only Land of the Dead trailer, now with extra gore!
Woo!
June 09, 2005
Riding With the Top Down: The Wedding & Honeymoon Part IV
Whups! Posted and forgot to post a notification again. Bad me.
Part IV of the honeymoon trip is up. Boy this sucker is getting long. I thought two installments at the outside. Well, next week should (hopefully) wrap it up. Maybe.
Enjoy!
June 08, 2005
Trick Questions
| Your IQ Is 140 |
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What do you do?
You're a U.S. Customs official. A guy arrives at the U.S. border, he's looking at you with his Manson lamps, and he's carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appears to be blood. WHAT DO YOU DO?
Apparently, you let him on in.
Where's that now-legendary U.S. Homeland Security paranoia now?
Sure, later they find that he might have decapitated some guy in his home town and stabbed the guy's wife, and go arrest him.
According to Bill Anthony, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection: "Being bizarre is not a reason to keep somebody out of this country or lock them up."
News to me.
June 07, 2005
The Shakespearian Character Test
| Hamlet Hark, Ye scored 49! |
Ahh, You are Hamlet, the protagonist from, duh, Shakespeare's Hamlet. You have an inherent need to wax philosophical and figure out everything... no matter how painstaking that process may be. You need to plow through all sorts of thoughts before you make a decision, and normally, you waste way too much energy in doing so. |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Shakespearian Character Test written by LoudmouthLee on Ok Cupid |
The Monster Engine
This guy takes kids' drawings and turns them into some kinda really disturbing artwork. Trippy.
June 06, 2005
Murderball
Typical media displays of handicapped people don't mention the athletic accolades, the laughter and the hot women. That's what makes Murderball special I guess.
Favorite quote? "I've actually done more in a chair, than I did able-bodied."
Jolt Re: New
I know this labels me as an old fogey, but I remember when Jolt Cola first debuted, a locally-produced high-test cola that we all drank just because we could. Now with all the high-caffiene, high-power drinks on the market it's been re-branded for the Xbox generation. Bah. Who the hell needs a resealable top on a can of pop? Like the stuff keeps afetr it's been opened...
Alberta Blogs
In the interest of shameless self-promotion, I've joined Alberta Blog, a group of local folks linking for the purposes of disseminating their collective views on the world. They seem to be mostly right-wing political commentators, but we shan't hold that against them.
This doesn't mean I'm going to get all political here, but you may now get more meaningful information and less quiz results and memes.
Carved Up
Got some close up experience with the pointy ends of my cat this weekend.
So I'm sitting on the couch, and Emma had a sudden cat freakout session where she leapt up from cuddling with her sister Samantha beside me, directly onto my leg and arm, and launched away down the hall. I have three slashes across the back of my hand, two on my lower arm, and three big, juicy lacerations on the freaking inside of my thigh.
Samantha, just looked up with her perpetually boggled expression wondering where Emma had gone.
Now my pant leg rubs against the cuts everytime I move. Grumble grumble.
June 03, 2005
Lost Explained
It's all clear now. TeeVee tells the truth about Lost!
Whew
I've finally managed to stem the tide of comment spam here. Not that you guys would have noticed, as I've managed to keep most of it behind the scenes for months.
But every day I'd come in and delete dozens of spam comments that were forced into 'moderation' by my Moveable Type filter. Not an onerous task, but I noticed that ALL the comment spam I get refers to online poker these days. So I've put in some keywords to keep that out. So never use the phrase 'texas holdem' in your comments, or it will be blocked. Heh.
The Euphemism Generator
Okay, hee. The Euphemism Generator gave me a giggle. So far my favorite is 'surfing the forbidden walrus'.
June 02, 2005
Rain
After I posted yesterday's update, Lisa was all, "Why didn't you post the rain picture?"
So here's a shot of what drove us into the loving embrace of 'it's a small world'.
So here's a shot of what drove us into the loving embrace of 'it's a small world'.
June 01, 2005
Mickey Loves Mickey: The Wedding & Honeymoon Part III
Part 3 is up, covering The Magic Kingdom, Disney-MGM Studios and Sea World! Enjoy!
What Classic Story Role Do You Play?
You Are The Champion
"Don't worry, I got it."
You play as the Hero. You are the one who usually tries to take on the world for any cause you believe in. You are a natural leader in most circles and are not afraid to take that position if a situation calls for it. Others look to you for inspiration and praise you for your acheivements. Even though they love and adore you, however, you are left feeling alone or overwhelmed many times. You're almost always positive and keep your chin up despite any setbacks because you know that you will succeed in the end, no matter how long it takes.
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