One of our traditions is to not spend Thanksgiving with family…well, except for the family comprised of my wife and myself. It got started when we first got together and decided instead of trading off the Thanksgiving holiday between our families we were going to take advantage of a long weekend and go on trips ourselves. We see our families pretty regularly anyway, so no one worries about it. I think it’s seen as just one of our quirks. ...
Kitten meets MacBook. (YouTube) Link courtesy of Kitta.net.
When I run across interesting things to link from my blog, I usually send them to my Gmail account with the best intentions of blogging about them “when I get some time.” Well, that doesn’t happen as often as it should, so I’ll clear out a few items now: 5 Lamest Charlie Brown Cartoons - 10 Zen Monkeys covers the five worst Peanuts animated specials. I can’t agree with the inclusion of Snoopy, Come Home, though. Link courtesy of TV Squad. ...
For this holiday season, Amazon.com is letting customers vote on which deep discount specials they’ll offer. Tomorrow’s is 1,000 XBOX 360 Core Systems, each going for $100, starting at 11 AM PST. Nice discount, but I suspect they’ll be gone by 11:00:30 AM PST.
I am thankful for so many things in my life. I have a wonderful wife, a nice house, a job that pays well, a not-too-weird family, interesting friends, and most of my hit points. I’m also thankful for spam, at least in moderation…of which it has none. Spam always says, “Someone’s interested in you…and a few million other people.” It’s almost life-affirming. But what I’m most thankful for is that it gives me a chance to fill up an entry with random spam subject lines, trying to determine if Spam really knows me at all. ...
After Joe Lieberman was defeated in the Democratic primary for Senate, he presented himself to the Election Board as the candidate of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party. Since the CFL Party didn’t seem to have any actual members, John Orman decided to switch his party affiliation to the CFL Party, and has now elected himself chairman of the party. Here are some of the new rules he’s passed so far: If you run under Connecticut for Lieberman, you must actually join our party. ...
What if Jack Chick worked with Stan Lee on a religious tract? Yes, children, Galactus is Coming! Link courtesy of Comics Should Be Good!
Apparently euros are starting to physically crumble due to a combination of crystal meth residue and human sweat. I like William Gibson’s title better than mine: Rotting the Literal Fabric of the German Economy.
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog reviews a story where the dead Batman teams up with another hero to fight crime. Need any more than that? How about this? :) Also, I feel I should mention that Dr. Frankenpalmer explains that while he’ll be contributing to some of the major motor functions, Batman’s mostly going to be operating purely on reflex. Which means that Batman’s involuntary reaction to the world around him is to hunt down evil and beat the crap out of it. ...
Samsung has a promo video out for a sentry robot armed with a machine gun. The video is disturbing, at least partially due to overly celebratory music. The only question now is do we end up hooking the robot gun platforms to mouse brains, or to Skynet?