January 2009
“dude, do you know what tomorrow means? tomorrow means we can say ‘this...”
– pandacakes, slightly tipsy
paraphrasing off the enterprise
ultra laser: star trek 5 is a great movie.
spaceninja: no it isn't.
ultra laser: ... star trek 5 is a memorable movie.
mr bread: that movie is terrible.
sean: the kirk / spock / bones stuff in it is fantastic.
mr bread: what else is good, though?
ultra laser: ... sybok?
spaceninja: NO.
ultra laser: david warner?
mr bread: you mean chancellor gorkon?
ultra laser: actually, i remember him as jack the ripper in time after time.
December 2008
alternatively, for $750 i could pick up a netbook...
400 - asus Eee 1000ha - 1.6ghz + 1gb ram + 160gb hdd + 10” screen + xp
150 - canon powershot a1000is - 10mp + 4x optical zoom + 2.5” lcd
200 - 4g nano 16gb black - all the music i own + tons of videos + a higher-res screen than my treo + eminently pocketable
a netbook isn’t something i can carry on my person easily, but i’m not going to be taking advantage of a wifi...
hands-on with the nokia n97 - 5mp camera,... →
“Now, cheetah mode is where he shines, as you can see. The original Cheetor...”
– dave willis vs universe cheetor
“If all Warren Ellis did was write stories of Transmetropolitan, I’m sure he’d be...”
– carla hoffman
“I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in...”
– lincoln on signing the emancipation proclamation
“The first great man that I talked with in the United States freely who in no...”
– frederick douglass on abraham lincoln
“[The Act has a] declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for...”
– lincoln pulling an obama by giving a startingly good speech that led to further speeches, national respect, and eventually winning the presidency
“I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have...”
– lincoln pulling his punches during the lincoln / douglas debates regarding ending slavery vs equal rights
“in other words, what we see in obama that we are hopeful and excited for more...”
– i’m still mucking about with what i want to post here vs back at nyarlo. i haven’t been doing much long-form blogging lately, and what i have written i’ve put over there. at some point i need to take it down and migrate to dreamhost, and test-drive comicpress and so on and...
“The DC offices in my imagination probably don’t match up to the real ones at...”
– caleb / edilw, weekly haul december 10
“I honestly, 100-percent sincerely now, believe this strip is one of the most...”
– caleb of every day is like wednesday reviews get your war on : the definitive account of the war on terror, 2001-2008
sean: ah. so you were paraphrasing.
rundi: i do that.
sean: now i want to see someone paraphrasing off the empire state building.
I want to start a store specializing in supernatural foods. All haunted produce and shit.
damn.
it snowed all day yesterday, so six plus inches drifting around on top of the remnants of the light snow and ice all week already.
then we got freezing rain for a few hours so there’s an inch of ice on top of the drifts, the grass, the trees and bushes, cars, and everything.
now it’s snowing heavily again, doesn’t look like it’s going to let up anytime soon. at this rate...
Blasting tori amos, making meatloaf, swapping hard drives, and looking out at the ridiculous snow drifts. This saturday night is a win.
Watchshine on me, by chris dane owens. thanks to coilhouse for the link, and 80s fantasy movies for the inspiration.
“It came out today that among his many other qualities, President-Elect Barack...”
– chris sims
what's cooler than being cool? →
'This, in a nutshell, is the argument for term... →
“Precious few in the party were willing to step up and go to bat for the team,...”
– mgk, there is no thing that the liberal party cannot fuck up
or is it just me
do you ever go for a long walk in the evening, looking at other peoples houses and imagining other ways your life might go, and then get home, and it doesn’t feel like your house? or your life?
“By the way, i checked the guide for the best way to rescue a prisoner from...”
– Ford Prefect
Wrunkled - the condition of a thin sheet of notebook paper after you’ve written (or drawn) a little too much on it.
So far it’s either very little or balls out, the consensus seeming to be using the holidays as bludgeon against The Malaise.
desperate canadian prime minister behaving like a... →
seriously though
trash talk 90s disney all you like, you have to remember that this company still did bizarrely risky things with their ip, in addition to all those crappy direct-to-video, these finance our other operations, sequels.
like, at some point in probably 89, some guys at disney went to the higher-ups to pitch a spinoff of the jungle book. but not the further adventures of young mowgli and his animal...
obama names clinton as secretary of state and... →
apparently we've been in a recession all along? ... →
