James had me down four games – 5-1, but then I came back to win 7-5. It was quite sweatenating!
They told me it was a good idea…
…so I thought I’d share it with you.
Whenever I save a file to my hard drive that I know is only temporary, I save it with the word ‘toast’ in it. So, let’s say I’m downloading an exe file to install a new program, or I’m saving a jpeg that I want to convert to a gif and then send it to someone. When I hit SAVE AS I’ll add the word ‘toast’ into the file name, so the file ilikeyourwiggle.jpg becomes toastilikeyourwiggle.jpg or ilikeyourwiggletoast.jpg or some such.
Then, when it’s clean up time, I just do a search on my hard drive for the word ‘toast’ and when they all come up I can send them to the trash can with…as Grand Moff Tarken says…one swift stroke!
I Can't believe it's not butterday
It’s already the 12th? Crazyness.
Tonight I played D&D. It was mostly the party trudging across the blighted hills without incident, but there was an encounter with strange beetle swarms, and a rogue displacer beast. Then when they used the cromlech to mystically transport to the continent of Maal, they appeared in the middle of a fight, and couldn’t see much because of the mist (a byproduct [biproduct?] of the teleportation) but they were attacked by these floating demonic jellyfish which had paralytic venom in their stingers, and that’s just for starters.
Today I did some voiceover work, but due to confusion about the time difference between here and PEI, I couldn’t get ahold of the director so I had to direct myself. I hope they turn out alright. Right now I’m uploading angry amounts of wav files to the ftp space I got in a trade for a gmail address.
Wonder Toren Power – ACTIVATE!
Sixteen episodes of original Superfriends (1973) plus 16 episodes of All New Superfriends Hour (each of which actually consists of 4 different tales) (1977) plus 16 episodes of Challenge of the Superfriends (1978) plus 24 episodes of World’s Greatest Superfriends (1979) plus 62 shorts plus 8 episodes of Legendary Super-Powers Show plus 8 episodes of Galactic Guardians equals 150 episodes of Superfriends, only one of which I am missing (Shark Attack) as of receiving a new tape in the mail today! Neato.
Meaty Ores
A meteor came down in a swamp and created these plant creatures, which are turning people and animals into plant zombies with their spores. That’s on the Superfriends right now, so remain calm – but there’s a meteor shower tonight so be on guard. I’m toying with the idea of going down to the beach to watch.
Say it right, Frenchie!
Tomato soup
Tomato stew
Tomato chowder
Clam soup
Clam stew
Clam chowder
Beef stew
Beef soup
Beef chowder
Think about it. We have these traditional names but they pretty much mean the same thing. The dictionary calls chowder “a thick soup in a milk or tomato base”, in which case cream of mushroom soup could easily fall into the chowder classification. The verb ‘to stew’ means “to cook by simmering or boiling slowly” so by that definition most soups are already stews. I say nuts to tradition! The rampant arbitrary renaming of soups begins now!
Knitting in the Buff
Knitting in the Buff tonight consisted of only 5 shows:
Reboot 5: The Crimson Binome – Introduces Captain Gavin Capacitor who plays an important role in the 3rd season
Black Books 6: He’s Leaving Home. Possibly the weakest episode of the first season. Still lots of yuks though, especially the beard fetish uh…business.
Buffy: The robot demon one from first season. I thought this episode was pretty awful, actually. Invariably when TV or film tries to feature computers or the internet, they might as well be magic boxes because any semblance to the constraints of real-life technology are tenuous at best. That’s not the only reason I didn’t like the episode though.
Look Around You: Ghosts.
Buffy: First episode from second season. I didn’t much care for this episode either. It seemed like a really generic, standard, story-rehashing episode and I really didn’t enjoy Buffy being all bitchy because she was dead for a few moments in the previous episode, even if it may have been “realistic.” When I first saw Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Willow bugged the hell out of me with her milquetoast delivery and sleepy-time voice, but now I would go so far as to say I like her – she makes a good underdog. I think Charisma Carpenter does a great job as the bitch but she’s always looked like she was 35 even in the first season, and that has never stopped bugging me. I think Xander’s my favourite. He’s got the most personality out of all of them, and is the most accessible.
In attendance was Marlo, Dalia and Anghold. We ended early (10pm) because everyone had to go. Also it was and is really hot in the apartment. Next time I look forward to some more Firefly. I like everyone in that cast.
Boring Old News
Actually- quite a few interesting stories in addition to the standard ‘Bush is a twit’ announcements.
George W. Bush acknowledged that the war on terror has been “misnamed”; he said that it ought to be called “the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies who happen to use terror as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world.” [Whitehouse.gov]
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi signed an amnesty law for Iraqis who have committed minor crimes since the American occupation began, and he ordered the closure of the Baghdad office of Al-Jazeera for one month.
Britain banned toothy smiles from passport photos.
The United States announced that it will insist that the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, which would ban countries from making enriched uranium and plutonium for nuclear bombs, be stripped of any mechanism for enforcement, such as inspections. This position, which would render the treaty useless, apparently was reached because the Bush Administration does not wish to submit to inspections. [New York Times]
Prozac was found in Britain’s drinking water.
Missouri’s voters approved a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. [Reuters]
Several Nigerian sorcerers were arrested after skulls, body parts, and 50 corpses were found in shrines belonging to a cult called Alusi Okija; the chief priest of the cult was not arrested, however, because he’s an old man and police didn’t want him to die in custody. [Associated Press]
What? No Yog-Sothoth?
Many of you have seen my felt Cthulhu on the bookshelf in my living room. Tim Emrick made it along with all the other characters in my “Where the Great Old Ones Are” drawing. He’s put up the last two on ebay- Chaugner Faugn http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5513207614 and Ithaqua http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5513207006
Meanwhile, not far away: The Cobalt is closing.
Fear of God/Dad
Written sometime after 1996 in a very small book (transcribed here in 2020):
I remember once when I was very young I was throwing rocks – not just rocks but big fist-sized (mind you my fist be be half the size it is now) stones and maybe jokingly, but I hit a kid – a kid I knew from my neighborhood and he was really hurt, bent over crying hurt. And I felt huge pangs of guilt but even more so fear. Fear for myself and the repercussions of my actions. If my dad beat me up for not washing the dishes, for saying “what” too many times – what could I expect for braining someone? I ran home and I don’t know that I’ve ever believed in God more that day, or at least wanted to believe in some all poerful force that would save me from pain if only I would beg it from Him and make empty promises. But even then I knew it wasn’t enough and so – and I have no idea if this was courage or cowardice – I went to the kids parents and at first they were livid with me but they could see the regret or at the very least fear in my eyes and I begged and pleaded with them not to tell my parents through fountains of heaving sobs – quite real I assure you.
Sometimes you cry so much your glands hurt – your ducts get raw and bitter. This hasn’t happened for a while but I remember the feeling.