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Pictures from my everyday life
Memo from my wife to me, with corrections:
The completed ostrich burgers on my wife’s homemade garlic bread – yum!:
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Road tripped
Tomorrow we’re headed to Little Rock to have Those Other Tests done since we had some alarming markers show up on the baby blood work. It’s funny how one of our local hospitals builds a whole extra wing supposedly devoted to the best pre-natal and natal care in this part of the state…and yet, still, you can’t do jack without heading out to Little Rock or Tulsa. Thanks to everyone for their well-wishes and advice on the tests – believe me when I say that your experiences and stories are pure gold at this point. Tonight we have to take Jan’s vehicle – or, as I’ve always called it, Happy Wagon Of Death 2K3 – to leave it with the dealership in Rogers to fix tomorrow so she can be back to delivering the mail out of it Wednesday. I swear to God, everytime she turns the wheel even slightly, it sounds like an angry, asthmatic Wookiee is screaming out his rage from below the vehicle; the dealership is hopefully going to make whatever fixes or remove whatever Wookiees are applicable. Happy freakin’ life day. On the way, we’re going to try to stop in Fayetteville so I can snap some pictures of the R2-D2 mailbox that’s up there. I can’t believe there’s actually one in Arkansas.
No haircut yet; I may just have to tie it back and tuck it under tomorrow. I’ve really gotten out of that habit when my hair gets long. Adrian Paul, I ain’t. Instead, my wife and I spent Sunday night preparing prodigious quantities of food and then wolfing 90% of it down. I did the steaks and she did…well…all the stuff that actually tasted good. She even did the brownies, though at one point she cracked an egg open…right over the drain at the sink. In it went. We both stopped and looked at each other like “WTF?” She’s said that both her mother and her sister have warned her that expectant mothers apparently start donating brain cells to baby in large quantities during pregnancy, and I guess I really didn’t grok what that meant until I watched that perfectly good egg go from the shell straight into the garbage disposal. Just between you and me, I’m gonna milk that moment of comedy gold for months to come.
Hopefully everyone likes the latest main menu illustration for the site; as time consuming as these things are (that one was a 3:00am special), I’ve been trying to look for ways to tie everything together conceptually, even if I have to just flat-out invent the connection. 😆 (On the other hand, the process I was using to treat the pictures made Evangeline Lilly look positively hideous, which is something that takes quite a bit of effort, so my apologies there.)
And speaking of Lost…spoilage ahead if you haven’t seen it: … Read more
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Sorry, they didn’t jump the shark here either
On the subject of tonight’s Lost…BWAH HAH HAAA! I’ve been privately asking myself “who the hell are Nikki and Paolo?” ever since the casting announcement, and I took a perverse pleasure in tonight’s episode asking the same question, answering it, and closing the books on those two with what has to be some of the blackest humor I’ve seen this side of…well…anything currently airing on FX. I know these two met an utterly gruesome fate, but at the same time, it was hysterically funny precisely because they had been so far back in the background as to almost become furniture. It’s no slight against the actors, but…wow. One wonders if there were bigger plans at one point and this was the course correction, or if this was the producers’ early April Fools’ gag for us. 😆 Seriously, between the promo for this episode leading everyone up the garden path with an Others connection that just wasn’t there, and a certain someone from a certain gritty space opera vanishing from the credits for a bit, I’m enjoying some of the ways that the current crop of producers are using their shows’ “meta data” (for lack of a better expression) to screw with our heads, and not just the allotted story time of the episodes themselves. It’s rather fun. Sorta like this episode. And how perverse is it to lock down Billy Dee Williams for what amounts to a teensy tinsy cameo? One imagines that his agent might be told that he’s got a lot of guts to offer him the next job after what he pulled…
I see that Arkansas’ first choice for a new head basketball coach after the ouster of Stan Heath didn’t take the bait. I don’t wish Frank Broyles any ill will as the outgoing athletic director, but I worry that this will be his legacy to the U of A’s basketball program: the last two coaches have been treated so poorly (though I’d argue that Nolan Richardson did plenty of damage to himself as well) that they may have trouble finding a choice candidate. Maybe not even someone with a career record like one winning season at Kent State. I guess we’ll really be able to tally the damage if players start defecting to other schools.
By the way, the other day as I was walking past my linen closet, I heard music playing inside. Guess what I heard when I opened the door? … Read more
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/me *blinks* (or, a much-needed Friday chuckle)
Not to make fun of my former colleagues from the TV station, but this one’s a classic, one of my favorite graphics screw-ups ever.
Look close. Remember, these are unaltered – they actually hit teevee like this. … Read more
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…and I hear the Virgin Mary lives in Pine Bluff.
Quite by accident, with my wife as my witness, I pulled a slice of American cheese out of its wrapper tonight – and it’s in the shape of the state of Arkansas!
The bidding will start tonight on eBay at $50,000! … Read more
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Let me sit on the ground and tell sad tales of the death of weird plasma lights
Alas, I bid farewell to one of the weird light fixtures that has graced this house since we moved in. This somewhat embarrassingly shaped plasma light has been kicked to the curb – tonight, it suddenly decided it was going to start smelling like it was about to cause a fire. That’s usually a good indication that its time is up. Ah well, it solves one question – I was at a loose end for where it was going to be situated once the baby arrives. It can’t be in the game room at all because it interferes with raster monitors and, strangely, interferes with the panel controls on any/all of my Samsung LCD monitor/TVs. (It’s been in the bathroom for the longest time, with my Krillitane action figure propped up on top of it in a “flying” pose.) That certainly clears that question up. It didn’t have to scare the hell out of me to do it, though…
And now for a good laugh for your weekend, I present to you a very brief clip from a Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama I listened to today, featuring Colin Baker and Claudia Christian (of Babylon 5 fame). The story it’s from is The Reaping, available in theLogBook.com Store, and I’ll leave it at that – it’s funny enough without any further context. 😉
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Speeling skills not required
Anyone need a job as a “Grahic Artist“? 😆 Probably oughtta be something in that description about spelling too. Wam-Lart, people – Wam-Lart! (But I kid my former employer.) BTW…what’s up with the morning show producer opening? Did Patrick bail?
Remember, Avid experience is a big plus. 😉 (Okay, I’m just being mean now. Trust me, I’m laughing.)… Read more
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Freezing rainy day kitten cuteness
The freezing rain is coming down – my turn to have a sheet of ice that used to be a street!
Xena and Olivia consider snuggling up for warmth.
This is what a half-hour show looks like on the Avid.
A closer look.
Spotting whilst flipping through channels: the most irritating technical difficulties screen EVER. It hurts my eyes! (It’s the city of Fort Smith’s public access cable channel, by the way.)… Read more
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WRONG! -200 points.
Was just watching History Channel’s Modern Marvels retrospective of the computer biz, and there’s a brief sidestep into video games in which they say that Nolan Bushnell encouraged an “open culture” of game making and “allowed other companies to make games for the Atari 2600.” Uh…hello? Nolan was gone before third-party software happened, and when the first upstart – Activision – stepped forward to create that market, Atari sued the hell out of ’em. Repeatedly. Surely telling the story of this industry isn’t so damned hard that it really is waiting for me to do it right…or is it??
I’m thinking about installing the following audio file on the machine I use at work, maybe as the “new mail” event sound, just to keep me awake.
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