Cthulhu for President! Why vote for a lesser evil?

Life is about to get a lot less happy

Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's.

AN EMBUGGERANCE

Folks,

I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early
onset Alzheimer's, which lay behind this year's phantom "stroke".

We are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism. For now work is continuing on the completion of Nation and the basic notes are already being laid down for Unseen Academicals. All other things being equal, I
expect to meet most current and, as far as possible, future commitments but will discuss things with the various organisers. Frankly, I would prefer it if people kept things cheerful, because I think there's time for at least a few more books yet :o)





PS I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as 'I am not dead'. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think - it's too soon to tell.

I know it's a very human thing to say "Is there anything I can do", but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.

I seem to be a crow

Named Leonidas, no less.

The funniest game review I've ever seen

Completely not worksafe, and sound absolutely required.



This is a close second on the funny scale.

The power of bats compel you!

No, really, they do.

I can prove it.

I'm hogging Gobula's comments

I hijacked his post, so I figure I'll provide my own forum for my entertainment.

How goes the gameplay, people? Gobula's playing this, and Tiger and I are at different stages of this (just about the first ten minutes is the introduction, the next seven is early gameplay and exposition). Anybody else in the middle of something?

It's a couple years late

But it's a great Moby Dick joke.

Bow before me!

Watch the video

It means you're voting for my darling coworker's son in the contest.

The 'Bots are back!

If you look here you'll see a bit of news that, starting Monday (11/5/07) you can go here for the further adventures of (presumably Cambot,) Gypsy, Tom Servo, and Croooooooooooow.

I is a happy girl.

Buffy and Firefly fans rejoice!

Joss Whedon is coming back to TV.

Jack Chick is batshit insane

But he's such an easy target (sexually).

Try not to read this excellent sporking anywhere that would require a straight face, or while drinking anything.

Some tough questions

My Liberal Identity:

You are a Social Justice Crusader, also known as a rights activist. You believe in equality, fairness, and preventing neo-Confederate conservative troglodytes from rolling back fifty years of civil rights gains.

Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com

My geekiness knows no bounds

John Edwards remembers the Snowdens of yesteryear with Jack Sparrow

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Can you imagine the campaign? Edwards/Sparrow '08, savvy?

Is this a good thing?

I'm a Mercedes SLK!

You appreciate the finer things in life. You have a split personality - wild or conservative, depending on your mood. Wherever you go, you like to travel first class. Luxury, style, and fun - who could ask for more?

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Hmm. . .

Aw, I was hoping for the Badger Song

Your Score: All Your Base

You scored 59 Awesomeness and 62 Style!

You are the mothership of all memes. You have all the advantages of a really great meme, you have a catchy song, and you appeal to a large number of people who can distribute you easily. Unfortunately, however, you tend to be the mainstay of people who aren't funny trying to be funny, and as many times as you've been played, you should probably be taken out into a lonely field, and shot. Repeatedly. By nukes.


Not surprisingly, you can be found at: http://www.allyourbasearebelongtous.com/

Link: The What Internet Meme Are You? Test written by Fishdinner on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

I've Got A Jar of Dirt!

I'm the Beaver

And I'm a strange mixture of disturbed and amused by this.

What's your prison bitch name?

My parachute is camo-colored!

What color is your soul painted? Brown Your soul is painted the color brown, which embodies the characteristics of calmness, depth, nature, stability, tradition, poverty, roughness, down-to-earth, uncertainty, and neutrality. Brown is the color of the element Earth, and represents soil and, to a lesser degree, fertility of the Earth. Click Here to Take This Quiz

Quizzes and Personality Tests

This took some dedication

A Rube Goldberg device of fiery proportions.

Edit: if the video won't play for you, click here.

Joining the crowd. . .

Your Score: Progressive

You scored 78 Equality, 78 Liberty, and 28 Stability!

Your commitment to both liberty and equality makes you a blend of the Liberal and the Socialist. For you liberty and equality are two parts of the same condition. Everyone has to be free to pursue their own way-of-life but in order for that to happen everyone must start with a similar basic standard of living.

You value liberty particularly in cultural and personal life. You also value government intervention to promote equity in economic life while still supporting private enterprise. If this is too bland for you then try the Radical on for size.

Link: The Political Objectives Test written by Originaluddite on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Q&A w/ JKR

Spoilers abound for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but at least we get some answers.

I'm all yellow!

Courtesy of Scott.

I'm pissed off, is what I am!

The Powers That Be are concerned with declining morale. Apparently the solution to that is to decree that you are not allowed to do anything to your account through a staff computer, I guess because someone, somewhere, might be abusing the privilege. Also, anytime you leave your computer, you need to log yourself off of it, and log back in when you return. Which means that when there's a long line it's more important to further delay that line by logging yourself onto the torturously slow program than to, say, provide good customer service and actually help people in a timely manner.

I can't really go into the details of what all makes me frothingly furious about this without violating the laws against (help me out Hadrian, is it libel or slander?)ing my workplace in a public, online forum. Don't get me started on that, either.

Well, Friday I'll be lunching with a new employee of a different system. . . perhaps she'll know of an opening.

Don't get any ideas

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Rock Band

We've got plenty of guitar controllers, we'll just need the drum set, a mike, and a PS3.

Tiger, how's that disposable income looking? You, me, Lummox, and Hadrian would have a ball with this one. :D

NSFW

But it's okay without sound.

Well fuck me with a spork!

Mingle² - Online Dating

See, I'm not that much of a geek!

At least I've never done this.

I'm so, so wrong

I can't help but find this shirt funny.

Ahem.

Gimme!

I got a rock!

Check out #3 too. Deadbeat dad Superman rules.

I may never eat again

Dietfacts is a pretty handy site when you need to feel like a grotesque pig. For example, I just had one of Taco Bell's new 7-layer crunchwraps in a combo, so it also came with a taco and a large (32 oz.) Dr. Pepper. Add in the about 6 packets of sauce I added on and I feel like a freakin' cow. A cow that's spent way too long at the local salt lick.

I suppose I should stick to horribly expensive sushi.

Whoda thunk?

Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?



Final Fantasy VII

How low can you go?

No Limbo, no longer.

My favorite bit:

In writings before his election as Pope in 2005, the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger made it clear he believed the concept of limbo should be abandoned because it was "only a theological hypothesis" and "never a defined truth of faith."

All right, all right!

I came up with more or less the same results as the last time I took it, although I'm a tad less feminine this time around.

The details.

How can you tell from just a picture?

The Part of You That No One Sees

You are balanced, peaceful, and sincere. You're the type of person who goes along to get along. And you're definitely afraid of rocking the boat. Underneath it all, you fear your world falling apart. You'll put up with a situation that you don't like in fear of changing it. Disruptive and forceful people intimidate you - and sometimes exploit you.

What's the Part of You That No One Sees?

YA RLY

Since the host apparently doesn't want me to post the picture I had put up, try this (http://www.hjo3.net/orly/gal1/orly_cthulu.jpg) instead.

Huminah.

Do they make a cleaning product for this?

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Countess Leelu the Introspective of Goosnargh on the Carpet Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

How long am I supposed to remember geometry formulae?

You paid attention during 86% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

Do you deserve your high school diploma?
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My final reading tally

Since Degolar listed his Challenge reads, I figured I'd do mine, too.

The Wee Free Men
A Hat Full of Sky
Wintersmith
Whales on Stilts
The Secret Hour
Touching Darkness
Blue Noon
Peeps
The Last Days
Thirsty
The Four Ugly Cats in Apt. 3D
Bone
So Yesterday
Stray Voltage
Airborn
Skybreaker
Water Song
Raven’s Gate
Evil Star
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Tehanu
The Magician’s Boy
Rash

I mostly managed to read new titles, except for the Pratchett that I reread to catch myself back up for the new one, and the LeGuin that I read again because I was home sick without any new books. It was either that, The Dark is Rising, or Narnia. I felt more like Earthsea.

That and it was unpacked. ;)

Thanks to all those who suggested titles, primarily Degolar. It was a fairly lackluster year for me, but I enjoyed what I read a lot more than I had in the last couple of years.

I AM A GEEK GOD!!!11!exclamationpoint!

What kind of rig should you be driving? Your Result: X-Wing Starfighter   You simply don't do normal, do you? You reject reality and substitute your own. Nothing on this planet is good enough for you. There is only one thing to say at this point, 'May the Force be with you.'
Rice Grinder
Toyota Prius
Hummer H1
Cadillac CTC-V
Chevrolet Corvette Z06
GMC Sierra
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Shocking

You Are Lightning

Beautiful yet dangerous People will stop and watch you when you appear Even though you're capable of random violence You are best known for: your power Your dominant state: performing

What Type of Weather Are You?

Brain fries

First, this little gem.

Second, I almost had my brain implode today when I saw a Prius with a W bumper sticker. It wasn't until I managed to get really close to it that I could tell it actually read "Worst ever" and my sanity was salvaged. Still, I dig on stealth bumper stickers.

Now taking book suggestions

Every year the libraries have a competition to read the most children's literature, and every year it's a constant effort for me to find new children's titles to read. I try to keep in the spirit of things by reading books I've never read before, so the list is constantly thinning.

Currently I have a passel of Scott Westerfield lined up, and I think I'm still on the list for the last Artemis Fowl. The last four years that I've been participating I've ended up reading most of the common titles and more than a few obscure ones. Therefore, I'm opening the floor to suggestions.

Hit me with some good titles. I tend to prefer high-level J or YA, but anything well written will do. I'm not exceptionally picky about subject matter, either. Some of my favorites from past years have been Kira Kira, The Changeling Sea, A Step from Heaven, The Gospel According to Larry, What Happened to Lani Garver?, and The Eyes of the Amaryllis. Those range from high fantasy to teenage angst with everything in between. If I haven't read it already, I'll give it a shot.

Let the suggestionfest begin!

It's official

Life sucks.