I knew it… Your results: You are **An Expendable Character (Redshirt)**An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 75%Deanna Troi 65%Geordi LaForge 60%Jean-Luc Picard 60%Worf 55%Chekov 55%Spock 54%Will Riker 50%Beverly Crusher 50%Data 48%Mr. Scott 45%Leonard McCoy (Bones) 45%Uhura 40%Mr. Sulu 40%James T. Kirk (Captain) 40%Since your accomplishments are seldom noticed, and you are rarely thought of, you are expendable. That doesn’t mean your job isn’t important but if you were in Star Trek you would be killed off in the first episode you appeared in.Click here to take the “Which Star Trek character am I?” quiz… ...

GE/Durham makes the pages of Fast Company. GE/Durham has more than 170 employees but just one boss: the plant manager. Everyone in the place reports to her. Which means that on a day-to-day basis, the people who work here have no boss. They essentially run themselves. Link courtesy of Jeremy Zawodny’s blog

This is fascinating. It’s just Jon talking to a cat that never answers. They should run Garfield like this for a year and see what happens. :)

A Lists of Four meme that’s going around the Internets. I haven’t been tagged by anyone to do it, but it looked interesting: Four jobs I’ve had in my life: Security Guard Temp Reporter Webmaster Four movies I can watch over and over: Napoleon Dynamite Galaxy Quest Dune Wings of Desire Four TV shows I love to watch: Veronica Mars Battlestar Galactica Fullmetal Alchemist The Office (After considering it for a while, I had to remove MST3K. I watch The Office far more regularly, and actually find it really relaxing during a long week. Highly recommended, along with its partner in crime: My Name is Earl.) Four places I’ve been on vacation: ...

Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl II. Slightly more organized than the Super Bowl. Man, that poodle is a freak. ;) The black and brown beagle’s got some sense, though. Hang out on the outside…sniff around. Don’t forget the Bissell Kitty Half Time Show. Thrill to daring attack runs that abruptly end as the attacker figures out the other cat is looking at them. :)

H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos never looked quite so blocky. :) Cthulego Rises is an incredibly complex Lego scene depicting a chase between villains after lost gold and an heroic adventurer flying a Zeppelin. Cool enough, but the fact those villains are fleeing in terror from the monsters they have awakened puts this diorama over the top. Link courtesy of Sci Fi Wire

Yep, after over a year of updating this site on a regular basis, somehow the last few months have proven remarkably challenging on that front. Just when I thought things were starting to calm down at work, and I was going to have some more time to blog, suddenly things changed. :| Anyway, long story short, I’m now managing our primary Web presence. That proved pretty busy when it was just me and our programmer handling everything. We’ve hired someone to help out, though, and that is working out well. I’m hoping I’ll have a bit more time, as I catch up all the stuff that piled up while I was too busy to think about it. ...

The Rivalry heats up again tonight, with Duke playing at Carolina. Given Carolina’s personnel losses, Duke would seem to have the advantage, but this series never works out that easily. (Anyone else thinking of the 1995 double-overtime thriller which a powerful UNC team barely managed to win against one of the weaker Duke teams in recent memory?) I’m hoping UNC can keep a guy on J. J. Redick tonight. Given Duke’s recent game plan of “Get him the ball,” that can prove difficult. Ah, Jackie Manuel, why couldn’t you have just one more year of eligibility? ...

Apparently. I wonder what one has to do to raise their Catwoman score? :) Your results: You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 90%Superman 80%Green Lantern 70%Robin 70%Catwoman 50%Supergirl 48%The Flash 40%Wonder Woman 38%Hulk 35%Batman 35%Iron Man 35%You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility. Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

When you can run around the world in less than a second, even the largest city would have to seem small and boring. So how does the Flash handle it? Easy, he lives in Central City, the city with no limits, 10-lane streets, and giant sidewalks. The Absorbacon has an funny pictorial review of how the artists handled drawing a city big enough for The World’s Fastest Man. Just imagine the run-off from rain over all that pavement. Of course, I doubt weather systems usually affected the entire city at once. :) ...