Friday, October 27, 2006
Chewie is my co-pilot
So, i think i need to begin a regular friday exercise of adding my thoughts to the things that drift in and out of my head all week long, if only to exorcise them from the empty cask that is my skull.
So, in that theme, i give you the most awesome thing i've seen today:
Marvel Comic Postal Stamps! Of course, it seems only fair that after DC got their own stamps that Marvel should be able to play in the game, too. If you received a thank-you from the wedding this fall (And if you didn't it was either because it got sent back to us, we don't have your address, or you didn't give us a good enough gift. I'll let you figure that one out..) you would have seen the crazy DC Comics stamps, and seen just how plain awesome they were. And they were.
In other news, america is slowly doing it's best to round all sharp corners and remove any dangerous content everywhere in the country as the game of tag has been banned in some Massachusets schools. Joining Dodgeball and recess, tag is the newest perp in the scheme to hurt kids. I'm at a loss for words, really. I don't want to tell you what my childhood had been like if we had completely lost all of our recess - i'm sure that our teachers would have gone absolutely nuts.
Currently the tigers are doing their best, along with the Spartans, to crush my sport's fan heart. I did my best sometime around the 7th inning last night to try and not be so apprehensive about the game that was falling apart in front of me, mostly because i have to continually tell myself that i cannot control it and shouldn't get so involved. So, of course, when Rodney couldn't throw a ground ball to 1st base, and when Monroe missed Eckstein's fly out to left, and when the dust settled we had lost the game -- i was completely fine. I got off the couch, went upstairs and went quietly to bed.
And if you believe any of that, i don't think you really know me. Gah. Anyways, game 5 is tonight, the cards are starting Weaver, who lost Game 2 to the Gambler back in Comerica.
But, i don't know how much of the game that we'll be able to catch, because i'm trying my hand in something new this evening: my first ever Bouldering Competition. I'm entering myself in one of the lowest skill categories, but i think i'm mostly doing it because i think there's a t-shirt with a skeleton on the line. Or maybe some money if i win. I'm not sure. There should be some pictures come next week, for sure though.
Also, this Saturday is the annual Battle for the 'ol Brass Spitoon! Breakfast in bed is on the line for the winning team of Liz and I's alma matters, as MSU looks to do their best to lose against a vastly inferior Indiana team. Ok, it actually should be a good game, even though MSU tried their hardest to lose last week and somehow won, and IU managed to knock off Iowa two weeks ago in a squeaker. Either way, someone is getting cooked for in our house on Sunday morning, and i hope that it's me.
Also, Internet Explorer 7 has been released, and if you run IE you should upgrade. The better headline, though, is that Firefox 2.0 has also been released, and in my opinion everyone should be running it. It has more options, better security and allows you to be an elitist prick if you should ever fall into an argument debating the proliferation of malware and phishing sites. (what? you people don't do that? oh.) Go. Shoo. Install Firefox and become a better person.
So, in that theme, i give you the most awesome thing i've seen today:
Marvel Comic Postal Stamps! Of course, it seems only fair that after DC got their own stamps that Marvel should be able to play in the game, too. If you received a thank-you from the wedding this fall (And if you didn't it was either because it got sent back to us, we don't have your address, or you didn't give us a good enough gift. I'll let you figure that one out..) you would have seen the crazy DC Comics stamps, and seen just how plain awesome they were. And they were.
In other news, america is slowly doing it's best to round all sharp corners and remove any dangerous content everywhere in the country as the game of tag has been banned in some Massachusets schools. Joining Dodgeball and recess, tag is the newest perp in the scheme to hurt kids. I'm at a loss for words, really. I don't want to tell you what my childhood had been like if we had completely lost all of our recess - i'm sure that our teachers would have gone absolutely nuts.
Currently the tigers are doing their best, along with the Spartans, to crush my sport's fan heart. I did my best sometime around the 7th inning last night to try and not be so apprehensive about the game that was falling apart in front of me, mostly because i have to continually tell myself that i cannot control it and shouldn't get so involved. So, of course, when Rodney couldn't throw a ground ball to 1st base, and when Monroe missed Eckstein's fly out to left, and when the dust settled we had lost the game -- i was completely fine. I got off the couch, went upstairs and went quietly to bed.
And if you believe any of that, i don't think you really know me. Gah. Anyways, game 5 is tonight, the cards are starting Weaver, who lost Game 2 to the Gambler back in Comerica.
But, i don't know how much of the game that we'll be able to catch, because i'm trying my hand in something new this evening: my first ever Bouldering Competition. I'm entering myself in one of the lowest skill categories, but i think i'm mostly doing it because i think there's a t-shirt with a skeleton on the line. Or maybe some money if i win. I'm not sure. There should be some pictures come next week, for sure though.
Also, this Saturday is the annual Battle for the 'ol Brass Spitoon! Breakfast in bed is on the line for the winning team of Liz and I's alma matters, as MSU looks to do their best to lose against a vastly inferior Indiana team. Ok, it actually should be a good game, even though MSU tried their hardest to lose last week and somehow won, and IU managed to knock off Iowa two weeks ago in a squeaker. Either way, someone is getting cooked for in our house on Sunday morning, and i hope that it's me.
Also, Internet Explorer 7 has been released, and if you run IE you should upgrade. The better headline, though, is that Firefox 2.0 has also been released, and in my opinion everyone should be running it. It has more options, better security and allows you to be an elitist prick if you should ever fall into an argument debating the proliferation of malware and phishing sites. (what? you people don't do that? oh.) Go. Shoo. Install Firefox and become a better person.
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yes, upgrade your browsers.
But i'd like to say that all the new features in Firefox have been a standard part of Opera for 6+ years. Tabbed browsing was invented by them, and I still think theirs is the best.
That's my technical $0.02. I hope your bouldering goes well.
but does opera have the same fun plug in menu that firefox does?
And isn't count chocula really not a true vampire?
In September, the headmistress of the Dvergsnes primary school in Kristiansand, Norway, proposed that boys be taught to urinate while seated, in order to reduce splashing and mis-targeting, which burden the cleaning staff, but many parents and politicians reacted bitterly. Said Vidar Kleppe of the Justice and Order party, "It's a human right (for a boy) not to have to sit down like a girl," adding that the school was "fiddling with God's work." Parent Nancy Bakke was proud of her 7-year-old boy's ability to aim: "This rule goes against everything I've tried to teach my son." [Daily Telegraph (London), 10-15-06]
thought you needed to see this
Uncle K
uh.. did i need to see this because i have bad aim.. or.. mmmm...
Just words of wisdom from the older generation.....
Uncle K
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