Bull in a China Shop

01:10 pm - BSG

I know I can't be the only person on my flist who spotted the ST:TNG reference on last night's episode.  First person to put it in the comments gets a cookie.

12:10 pm

A very happy birthday to wyvernfree !

02:56 pm - Good Ship Chronicles

I thought I'd share a new web comic I'm enjoying. Link goes to the first strip in the archive.

11:27 am - Roadtrip to England, anyone?

Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich is now the owner of a drill bit that's 60 feet wide. As you'll see behind the link, there is speculation that he might use it to dig a to-be-proposed auto tunnel beneath the Bering Strait.

At first, I thought this was an April Fool item, but the links to earlier news reports suggest there might be something to it. Bloomberg carried a story about the idea last year.

06:21 pm - NCAA smack talk

I'd like to offer my early condolences to alyson_layn and grover173 on their school's first-round exit from the tournament.  They had a good run, guys.

04:43 pm - Spring training, 1962

Cool drawings.

09:54 pm - Total lunar eclipse in progress

Hot off the CF card:



ETA: This one is about 35 minutes later, during totality:



Go outside!

10:43 pm - Quickie TV review

Anyone else surprised that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has, so far, been a decent show?  Summer Glau still seems like too much of an automaton, and the guy playing John has been barely distinguishable from an extra (though, to be fair, he hasn't been given much to do yet).  Lena Headey, on the other hand, has been great.  More importantly, it only took them about three episodes to establish the franchise's trademark sense of constant dread.  TiVo season pass: enabled.

08:42 pm - There must be some way out of here

Which Battlestar Galactica Character Are You?

Created by BuddyTV

Current Mood: drained

07:53 pm - Santana to the Mets

If the proposed deal described here is accurate, then Omar Minaya's got naked pictures of Carl Pohlad or someone in his family.

Current Mood: incredulous

05:33 pm - Kidney theft

And you thought it was just an urban legend.

12:53 pm - For the greater good

In light of the enormous drag it's causing on global productivity, I've decided that the only ethical thing to do is end my lyrics quiz early. Answers behind the link.

03:38 pm - E pluribus unum

You know what someone needs to invent? A flash storage aggregator. A device that allows you to plug in all your miscellaneous jump drives and organize them as a single logical disk. It would be the size of a small Kleenex box. The top and three sides would be packed with standard USB ports to accept the drives. The other side would have power, 10/100 Ethernet, Firewire, and two more USB slots meant to accept Bluetooth and/or WiFi dongles. The ROM would let the chief user configure basic permissions, RAID-like functionality, hot-swapping, etc.

It would be pretty slow, and it wouldn't be something you'd use for mission critical applications (obviously). But if they were affordable, I think people would buy them.

Something I thought of while pondering all the free jump drives Heather receives as swag. Gotta put those things to work.

12:54 am - That music meme

I think everyone knows how this one goes. I'm using iTunes instead of my actual iPod. Does it matter?

ETA: heldincontempt points out that I was supposed to post the first line of each song.  Oops.  Consider this "Level 2."

1. I feel resistance as I open my eyes (Living in a Box, "Living in a Box")
2. There's bad news creeping up, and you'll feel a sudden chill  (Megadeth, "Train of Consequences")
3. If I was from Canada, then I'd best be called lonesome (Replacements, "I'll Be You")
4. There's a place I like to hide/a doorway that I run through in the night Queensryche, "Silent Lucidity" lissa_ann
5. Lyrical stylin' my flow yo (Paul Oakenfold, "Ready Steady Go")
6. It's been over two years for me, and I'm still not quite myself Don Henley, "The Last Worthless Evening" keithdb
7. If you hide away from me, how can our love grow? (Information Society, "What's On Your Mind")
8. Our love turns to rust  U2, "Where the Streets Have No Name" servergirl
9. Funk if you're nasty, darlin' (Groove Armada, "I See You Baby (Shakin' That Ass)")
10. Who doesn't know what I'm talking about? (Dixie Chicks, "Wide Open Spaces")
11. There was a time when I was all alone/I had a secret thought I was gone (James Brown, "Mother Popcorn")
12. I'll never grow so old and flabby, that could never be Beautiful South, "Don't Marry Her" sisterhavana
13. There's no sense in telling me/The wisdom of a fool won't set you free New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle" pokobelle
14. Trancing like a cat on a hot tin shack/Lord, have mercy (The Cult, "Fire Woman")
15. Made ya dance and prance and draw the fans insane (Run DMC, "Run's House")
16. You get what you give/That much is true/Don’t let the walls cave in on you (Basement Jaxx, "Where's Your Head At")
17. I see you now a vague deception of a dying day (Sarah McLachlan, "Vox")
18. First one to complain/Leaves with a blood stain Limp Bizkit, "Break Stuff" quartzpoet
19. Sit on your face, I want to sit on your face (Lords of Acid, "I Sit On Acid")
20. The aphids swarm up in the drifting haze Duran Duran, "The Chauffeur" lissa_ann

Have at!

10:29 am - Bluebird

Hanging around in the front bushes. There was a mate, too, but I think I scared it off. This one split a moment after I snapped the photo.

03:30 pm - Yes, we have no bananas

A few days before Christmas, I made this throwaway comment on dagnabit's entry about her way-cool sock monkeys. At least, I thought it was a throwaway comment. dagnabit, as is her wont, ( took it more seriously. )

01:56 am - meh

Very still, very cold. No longjohns, and no meteors. And though I figured I'd be up anyhow, Maeve is actually sleeping...so I could have been getting some shuteye. Meh.

Current Mood: disappointed

05:08 pm - Touching nerves at the NYT

Today, the New York Times congratulated itself on its new skyscraper in midtown Manhattan.

My comments were moderated out of the comment thread. The NYT says that comments "generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive." I don't think I was off-topic, so I must assume I was "abusive."

( Because the world deserves to benefit from my wit and wisdom, I've reproduced my comment in full here. )

11:39 am - Birdwatcher bloodlust

In other news, I don't believe for a moment that this guy was primarily interested in saving endangered birds.  There were other ways to eliminate the presence of the cat.  Outside of life & death situations, e.g., a hungry bear emerging from the woods to menace your toddler in your backyard, there are always other ways.  Truth: the guy had a gun and seized upon what he regarded as a nominally defensible opportunity to kill something with it.  Happens all the time...but most target practice animals don't have a human advocate.  Tough luck, buddy.

10:02 am - DO NOT WANT

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