News of the Strange and Fantas… No, Just Strange.

McGoo sent me off to corners of the internet where the inhabitants lie in sluggish eddies. It’s a place where you can encounter the slithy toves, bandersnatch, jujubs, and jabberwocks and still say “I wonder when I’ll run into something odd?”
So those meanderings led to stuff that I scarce could have conceived had I [...]

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I AM SO *TORN*…

Ok, one hand, McCain is like eating broken glass, turpentine, and polonium.
But if he does win…
SUSAN SARANDON, who appeared in three films last year and won kudos for her TV movie “Bernard and Doris,” is still not a contented soul. She says if John McCain gets elected, she will move to Italy or Canada. She [...]

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Implosion of Hubris – Revisited

Given that the democratic party is made up a collection of individuals that hold to no common goal, it is surprising that they have not fallen apart before now. When you each believe in your pet cause to the exclusion of everyone else it is hard to work together as a unit. [...]

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See Yesterday’s Post…

… because it’ll save me from having to come up with something. Hell, I’ll add something right now. OCD is a real bitch at times.
Again, I the lowly minion, trudge to do the bidding of my fearsome master. So I shall have to find something quirky to pop in this space tomorrow… [...]

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Not posting much – late work night, but…

manishmah.com gets Kudos for this picture of him/her/it.
I’m going to have nightmares all darned night long.
Which means I shall not be alone, I will SHARE. DPUD is right, all variants are horrifying. You rub your eyes, you scratch them, you grind sand into them, and even bleach doesn’t work… the vision is still [...]

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Wacom Tablets STILL Rock.

Working on an ocean. It is the cliche ocean waves breaking scene (much like in raytracing, doing the mirrored ball on a checkered plane) but it is also perfect to teach me all about how to use a tablet to simulate an oil painting (sans canvas texture, of course – I may add that [...]

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Thanks Veterans!

Not going to post anything else today as I don’t want to detract from the meaning of today.
Words aren’t really adequate, but…
Thanks to all you men and women who have served or are serving. Without you we would not have what we have today.

God Bless you all!

US Marines, 24th Expeditionary Unit – Afghanistan – [...]

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ID10Ts of the Wrold, Untie!!!

I’m going to add more later tonight but the kids need to go to bed now before I stroke out…
Let’s examine Specimen #1, shall we, Constant Reader?

Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings
A group in Santa Fe says the city is discriminating against them because they say that they’re allergic to the wireless Internet signal. [...]

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Tornadoes – not just a lot of hot air like Al Gore

Can’t really joke about it.  Heres some footage of a tornado from the air.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7419140.stm

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O’ Hilary, Whatfor Art Thou? – subtitled “The Woman Who Cried Assassination”

There was an appropriate (yet stupid) question on CCN/Time. “What Does Hillary Want?”
It is clear that at the very least that she and Bill would want her to get the consolation prize as a veep. But it is well known that the Clintons will fight until all hope is lost.
Does she have hope? [...]

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Look! I’m FLYING! Oh the HELL I am…

Those of you who know me even a little bit recognize that I’d rather slather my naked body with raw hamburger and jump into a pit of starving hyenas than fly. I’m better than I used to be. Used to take 30mg of valium just to get me on the plane and there’d [...]

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Too Tired to Sleep. God MUST Have a Sense of Humor.

As the last post clearly shows, I’m brain damaged, wiped, zipped, zapped, zonked, and confused.
Cruel Wife would say that nothing in that sentence distinguishes me from any other time.
And I still fit the description – in that much at least, matters are static. Except that I cannot sleep. I want to sleep but [...]

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I’m Back. More or less.

I just few back in from my trip.  I flew to a city.  I did some work.  The work took hours and some number of days.  It was… work.
I flew home.  And now I sit in front of this computer and cannot think of a damn thing to say because my brain is made up [...]

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