Sleep well, folks.

^_____^

Fly.

I just got my power bill. Last month's was $43. This month it's $62. All because I had to run the A/C for a week or so. And that was only for about half the day when the heat was stupid hot. >_< I don't have the money for it. I'll need to see if my aunts can help me again. >_< I have about $50, but that's going to the cable bill so I can keep internet for another month and MAYBE find a fucking job. >_

So. My friend took me to the mall today because he wanted to check out the bookstore there. It isn't a dead mall yet, but if the bookstore is any indication, it will be soon. Used to be Waldenbooks, then Bookland, now 'Book Gallery'. And it was a book gallery. They didn't have the books on the shelves with the spines out, they had them with the covers out. Because they had dick for selection. About 1/3rd of what it used to have, if that much.

Okay, so. We head out and I see this:



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This catches my eye, so I look a little closer:




What the high holy FUCK? "We'll use the famous Kennedy quote to make people feel patriotic and buy useless shit rather than filling their tanks with gas."? The stupidity...IT FUCKING BURNS WITH THE POWER OF A MILLION EXPLODING SUNS!!!!!!

"Yea and verily depression sucks dead rats through a straw."
-- Tucker (shandaverse ML)

Meme-age from alessar.

You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:
1. one weapon.
2. one song blasting on the speakers.
3. one famous person to fight alongside you.

Weapon can be real or fictional, you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional.

1. Lightsaber. A flick of the wrist and it's over for the zombies. Yeah, like Alessar said, a phaser would be the better choice tactically, but by gum, if I have fight music, I'm damn well gonna FIGHT! ^_^

2. D.O.A. by the Foo Fighters.

3. Sailor Jupiter. Yeah, Sailor Moon would be better since she can solve the problem with a little wave o' the wand, but again, what fun would THAT be? ^_^ Besides, it's Mako-chan. *_*

Richard Cheese is a nut. It's amazing when you realise how dirty some of the songs you listen to are when you hear someone sing them slowly and clearly... >_>

It's damn weird listening to happy/poppy BubbleGum Crisis music. These are girls in a post-holocaust-y future fighting against a world-spanning corp. who could kill them in an instant if it wanted to.

I need Blues Brothers music.

Link Of The Day: The Last 50 Images Posted on LJ. (A repost. Mainly because I've been finding some damn neat stuff on there. Also potentially very NSFW.)

Son of a bitch. >_< Bo Diddley died today.

I was sitting and thinking the eternal question.

"What happens to us when we die?"

Some feel we go to our 'eternal reward'. Be that 'heaven' or 'hell'. Others think we just stop existing. And others are somewhere in the middle. Personally, I dunno. I figure I'll find out eventually, so I'm not stressing it.

So I was sitting and thinking about how many people have 'out-of-body' experiences when they are close to death. Most of them describe a light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel effect with people waiting for them. Usually family and friends that have died before.

That got me to thinking, what if that *is* what happens when we die? We are greeting by friends and family and welcomed to...adulthood. What if the entire universe we see, feel, and experience is nothing more than a children's playground. And we are the children. All the loving and hating and striving we do here matters not. It is just us 'being kids'.

What if when we die 'we' go to another plane of existence that is so beyond anything we can imagine as to make attempting to describe it meaningless? To quote J. B. S. Haldane: "Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

Those are my thoughts for the day.

Sitting at my desk yesterday, I saw my neighbors standing out in the rain looking at something. I go out and see this:



Damn, I love Mother Nature. She sure knows how to decorate!

Sheeped from alessar.



This is rather hilarious.

Kisai is a vet, yes, but I just can't see them as *grim*.

I think Kaja and 2 need to switch places. XD

csi_tokyo3 has BEEN insane. For many years.

The Fox...yeah. I can see that. Sorry LeVar! ^^;

Josh...yeah. That so fits. I've read his Mutants And Masterminds campaign notes. He would be EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL.

Bri-chan...yeah. Another one that's dead on. I mean, c'mon...she loves Disney! Of *course* she's gonna be the perky one! ^_^

I just read that John McCain was endorsed by pastor John Hagee until McCain said 'thanks, but no thanks' due to Hagee's attacks on Catholicism. Now I didn't care for McCain to begin with, but the fact that McCain still repescts Hagee nails the coffin shut. See, I got bored one day and stopped channel flipping on TV to watch one of Hagee's sermons. (I came in near the end of the program.) He had this huge chalkboard behind him where he was illustrating some of his points to the audience. (This was a couple of years ago, so I don't remember the topic.) This was a huge audience too. Several hundred people were listening to him preach. After a few minutes, just before he turns back to the chalkboard he looks at the audience and says, "Now I'm going to sketch this out, because I don't think you could follow me otherwise."

And the audience laughed.

He told them flat out that they were too STUPID to understand what he was saying without pictures and they LAUGHED.

And people wonder why I don't care for organized religions...


Link Of The Day: Jack T. Chick Museum of Fine Art

That was fun. I started up and my system tray wasn't working. I had the clock, but no icons. And things were running, they just weren't showing up. FOund out it was a little checkbox in TweakUI that was causing it. ^^;; All better now!

Well, the system that vulpesfulvus sent arrived yesterday. Sadly it was mostly DOA. It won't boot beyond the very start of the boot process. It gets to the point of actually starting Windows/Linux/whatever and just dies with the mobo giving a continuious beep. Even a Ubuntu Live CD gives the same problem. >_< I dunno what to do. I've checked and made sure all the connections are tight. I'll play with it some this weekend. Right now, I've canniblized the 92gb hard drive in it and replaced my 10gb with it.

He also sent me a 17" LCD flatscreen monitor. *_* Sooooooo pretty... *_* I've been stuck on a 13" forever. Literally. I haven't had a larger screen since I've had a computer. >_> *hugs the Fox tight and gives him a BIIIIIIIIIG kiss!* ^_^

Has come to Japan.

http://www.asianoffbeat.com/default.asp?Display=1735

So this is how Genom begins, huh? >_>;

The air coming in my window is cool, and sweet, and smells of green growing things.

ON the news just now: there was a delay in police responding to a motorcycle accident, and while the reporter was talking to the police spokesperson about that, she mentioned that the police are blaming the rise in accidents on the rise in gas prices. WTF? Why? How? Yeesh...

Via ataramos.

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‹ @Vulpes › I'm so rickrolling my coworkers tomorrow.
‹ @TheKid › This man... works on a nuclear reactor. The defense rests, Your Honor.
‹ @TheKid › ^^
‹ @Vulpes › Dude.
‹ @Vulpes › If you want to sleep easy at night, you should not see what we do in our downtime at work.

'Nuff said. XD

Via zarq.

eugie kindly posts:

To All You Book-loving Atlanta Locals:

I just got a note from Sean Wallace, Publisher/Editor with Prime Books/Wildside Press. It seems that SF/F publisher Meisha Merlin, which declared it was shutting down in November, has a rather large amount of stock (tens of thousands of books) in its Stone Mountain warehouse (1440 Kelton Drive, Stone Mountain) that needs to be rescued or it will all be destroyed/recycled.

Sean is renting a truck which can fit fifteen pallets, single-stacked, or thirty double-stacked, but there's no forklift available, only a pallet jack. So he has to fill the truck by hand. He'll be in town Tuesday and Wednesday (4/22 and 4/23) to load up, and he's asked me to spread the word that he's desperate for volunteers to help him. Anyone who volunteers can cart off any books they want that don't fit into the truck.

If you can help out or know of folks who might be able to, email Sean at: Meisha Merlin Volunteer! seanwallace@comcast.net

===

Zarq also said that Meisha Merlin had the rights to publish books by Robert Heinlein, Jodi Lyn Nye, Sharon Lee, and George R. R. Martin among other. I would love to help with this, but with a bad ankle and no way there... :/

Sheeped from ataramos


My Personality

Neuroticism	82
Extraversion	23
Openness to Experience	85
Agreeableness	82
Conscientiousness	13

You are not generally self conscious about yourself, however you tend to lack energy and have difficult initiating activities. You tend not to talk much and prefer to let others control the activities of groups. You prefer familiar routines and for things to stay the same. You can tend to feel uncomfortable with change. You are tenderhearted and compassionate, feeling the pain of others vicariously and are easily moved to pity, however you mostly assume that people are honest and fair, however you are wary and hold back from trusting people completely. Your sense of duty and obligation is average and although you are mostly responsible you can sometimes be unreliable.

Take a Personality Test now or view the full Personality Report. The best Ugg Boots.

Hm. It's true I'm very much a follower, but if I have to I will lead. As for change...well, I like a steady life. Especially since I'm kinda on the razors edge at the moment. If one thing gets out of balance, I'm pretty much screwed.

‹ Slacker › You know.
‹ Slacker › I know she's not a total idiot.
‹ Slacker › But sometimes, I have to remind myself of that in a very insistent tone.
‹ Slacker › Because I keep the cat food in the same place.
‹ Slacker › The door opens the same way.
‹ Slacker › I get it at the same time each day, roughly.
‹ Slacker › And she runs to see me get it every time.
‹ Slacker › You'd figure she's notice certain things.
‹ Slacker › But no.
‹ Slacker › No, every single time, I open the closet door and she runs headfirst into it.
‹ Slacker › Why, Hawthorne? Why?
‹ FurrySaintCoH › XD
‹ Slacker › It's gotten to where I just automatically let go of it so she doesn't have any resistance when she hits it.
‹ FurrySaintCoH › See? She's trained you like a good owner does. ^_^

http://greenwombat.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/27/california-utility-to-turn-roofs-into-solar-power-plants/

To quote:
Southern California Edison plans to install 250 megawatts’ worth of solar panels on commercial rooftops, generating enough electricity to power 162,000 homes.

It’s a potentially game-changing move, one that could lower the cost of solar cells as manufacturers ramp up production to meet the utility’s schedule of installing a megawatt-a-week of arrays until it reaches the 250-megawatt target. That alone is more than United States’ entire production of solar cells in 2006 and will generate as much electricity as a small coal-fired power plant, albeit with no greenhouse gas emissions. “This project will turn two square miles of unused commercial rooftops into advanced solar generating stations,”(emphasis mine) said John Bryson, CEO of the utility’s parent company, Edison International (EIX), in a statement Wednesday night.

IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME!

For over a *decade* I've been looking at all the carpet mills and warehouses around here with their huge roofs and just *drooling* over what they could produce if they were covered with solar panels! I just want to know what took someone so long!

To make this InterWebs-legal: MOAR PLZ!

Link Of The Day: Hulu.com

You know they're *real* ninja because it says so on their uniforms!




More info here.


Link Of The Day: Lunch in a Box: Building a Better Bento