Am I the only one that sees crazy surreal huge fonts on this search result? Imagine if I hadn’t typo’d that specific search string?
Google Reticulates splines all day, but reticulaing splines? Now that's tough work.
I like to think I awoke some sort of sleeping grammar AI, and this was its dire warning.
This year, I’m already feeling the spirit.
As you all well know, Christmas is my favorite time of year. Yet in 2006 and 2007 the feeling came later than it ever had…it didn’t feel like Christmas to me until the day was right up on me. Completely different than in my life previous. Sure, there were a lot of (valid) reasons for it, but it still bothered me.
This year though, the spirit has arrived already. Shit, my list isn’t even done, but I’ve already purchased a few gifts and I’m looking at cards.
Two Three things.
First, I went to church this morning for the first time in over six years. I plan on writing a full article on my thoughts on Christianity and why it’s still “special” to me as an agnostic, if not necessarily in a good way.
Second, I’ve been meaning to write about Fallout 3 for weeks. Instead of writing about it, though, I’ve been playing it. So it goes.
Third, if you search for “Christmas” on Jux you’ll find a very depressing post from October of 2007. I still feel that way, only now you have to replace “1 week” with “never again.”
For the first time in my entire life, I just chopped an entire onion without crying.
My dark, cold, pathetic little heart broke tonight when Jim walked outside and saw Pam in the parking lot.
If only that kind of thing actually happened in life.
This is just more hate piled on top of my post from last night, which was made in haste and perhaps not up to my usual standards.
Last night leaving a friend’s house I was greeted with screeching terror from my radio dial. Puzzled, I checked to see if I had somehow shoved a cat where my car stereo normally goes. Sadly, it was nothing so pleasant.
The Sirius XM changeover had happened at midnight, it seems. Drunk on their own near insolvency the idiots had decided to merge the worst parts of both together. The entirety of XM’s rock “block” was erased instantly with the Clear Channel sameness of Sirius programming.
They drug Fred out behind the DC headquarters, raped him, shot him in the face, and then left him on the street for as an example to anyone else who dared to have an original idea. They built a shack around the decaying body and called it “1st Wave.”
Ethel and Lucy were drowned like unwanted kittens in a burlap sack. What emerged from that river of hatred were shuffling Stepford zombie versions of what had gone in. Lucy’s new name was Lithium, and Ethel inexplicably tattooed “Alt Nation” on her forehead.
Squizz, one of the most personality-filled stations on XM? Octane. Fucking Octane.
I’m going to give it a month or so to see if the programming ‘merges’ at all, but at the moment, I’m perilously close to canceling already.
Has anyone else been bitten by this?
On my way home from D&D tonight I noticed something absolutely, positively terrible had happened at midnight. All of the best stations on XM were gone. Ethel, SquiZZ, Lucy…gone. Why the hell would would they keep Octane of all fucking things from Sirius? I specifically never got Sirius because their music channels blew ass.
God I hope they at least kept the DJs from SquiZZ. And Lucy was one of the best stations ever. I cry.
They seriously might lose a customer over this. I’ll let you know in a few weeks.
They are CHEERING IN THE STREETS here in West Palm Beach. It’s a symphony of noise outside. I’ve never been so happy after an election.
As of 11:00pm EST, Barack Obama is officially the President Elect of the United States of America.
Cheering in the streets.
*sniffle*
Edit: Half the anchors and pundits on CNN are in tears now.
That’s it. Everyone get tore up!
I’ve had CNN on for hours and I’ve been compulsively checking the Ars soapbox and 538 while I work. I was all about 538 while in the airport earlier on the BlackBerry.
Om nom nom nom nom
I found an awesome RC M1A1 Abrams tank at Target the other day for $30. The last major piece of the robot is now provided for. It has nice rubberized treads and a good hollow flat platform for the electronics to go in. I also have some H-Bridge chips coming in the mail so the robot can control the motors directly.
Excitement!
