Hello, LJ. Yes, I've neglected you for months. I'm sorry. But... it's not likely to change right now, either. Sorry again.

However, LJ, if you know someone called Desperado from Dallas, GA who recently sent me something, please tell them that the post office mangled the envelope and there was nothing inside (but a lovely 'Received without contens' stamp is mine to treasure now). So please forgive me for not telling you how great I thought whatever thing was in there was.

I'll come back soon, LJ. I will. Don't forget me...

Remind me again... Which one of these two

was picked to play The Joker?

Yeah, I haven't read LJ in a week or more and I haven't posted squat.

But I have this, dear reader... A piece of genius.



Watch their other videos, too, why dontcha.

Corto. Your new addiction is waiting.
The Fratellis - "Everybody knows you cried last night" (and "Flathead" too, if you haven't heard it already).

Yeah... a bit MIA, I know. Back soon. Mike? *hug*

I just had to come share this. (ganked from )

Jerry Falwell is is still dead and Jesus hasn't shown up yet as Fallwell said he would. Jerry's dead. Jesus is a no show.

Self-proclaimed messiah Michael Travesser said it would all end by midnight Oct. 31, 2007.
He had the good sense to drop out of the public eye prior to his prediction failing.

Thomas Chase said when the population of the Earth reached 6.66 billion then end would come.
Well, depending on which agency you check, this has already come and gone or is right around the corner.

And, finally, Pat Robertson (who keeps predicting things that... never happen. Yet keeps on going like he's on a roll...) said the USA would experience another terrorist attack in 2007 that would result in "mass killing" that could run into the millions. Oh, he also said the world would experience healing miracles like never seen before.

You've got 15 days left, Pat... Can we finally begin calling you a false prophet and start blaming shit on you instead of you blaming other people for bad shit happening?

Jerry's dead. So you're on deck, asshole.

We have about 9 or so inches of snow outside right now. (I hear the plow going by as I type...)

*grin*

We'll probably have to work tomorrow anyway, but we'll have more snow and ice on the weekend. *excited!*

It's my birthday this weekend and my wonderful monkeywife bought me an M-Audio control surface I'd been drooling over. So I used it for it's intended purpose and I sampled it up, mixed it up, scienced it up, and I made you all a song. It combines two wonderfully nerdy things, samples from Daft Punk and Portal and then drops 'em on top of a danceable beat.

I give you... Half Daft.

This just slays me...

So you have a group who is arguing against a sound scientific theory and they whip out that [quickly getting old and tiring] "it's just a theory" nonsense they've recently been spoon-fed by someone (I think the anti-evolution crowd started it). And "it's not a fact unless you can prove it". Now, as most of you all know, you can never 'prove' a theory. You can only weigh the evidence, continue to test and judge based on that. That's science. A reasonable certainty is the [ongoing] outcome, not a proof.

Facts go into theories, they don't come out of them.

So then, when presented with some smart person providing them some math that shows how something they're arguing against works out to a degree of certainty, they whine that "a bunch of numbers/math doesn't prove anything" (waving it away because they're too goddamned lazy to bother, usually - science if hard, blind faith is easy).

The irony here is, of course, that math is the only one of these two constructs that does "prove" something. As a result (pun intended), we call these things 'proofs'.

PS - On a related note, Neal Adams is still up to his crack-pottery and ass-lightery. None of the evidence he promised (or even the math that he 'has people for') has shown up, but he continues to tell the world natural scientists that he's right and they are all very wrong. Their mounds of evidence be damned.

I meant to post here for those who weren't aware...
The latest Pulp Faction podcast went up a few days back.
http://pulpfactory.net

F*** you, Brian Fukushima!*

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tankgrrl/sets/72157603334863891/

Questions will be answered lovingly and gently.

Maggie

* - Yeah, yeah. OK, I know that Phil's the one who actually said it, but Brian's the one interested in the EEE. You go to press with the joke you have, not the joke you want.

I just dig this...

So if we're better than all the animals cuz we have 2 opposable thumbs... them chimps have us beat. They have 4.

I'm just sayin'...

Reuters - In a last ditch pitch to voters, embattled conservative Prime Minister John Howard warned on Friday that Australia would fundamentally change if his 11-year government was dumped from office...

Well, duh. So... what... now he's actively encouraging people to kick him out? ;)

In other news. We cooked a turkey, stuffing, biscuits and green bean casserole and stuffed our faces in honor of the turkey who gave his life so that we might eat. Happy thanksgiving, american peeps. Let the season of gluttony commence. Bring it on. Let's roll. Mission accomplished.

Next up... try to read a weeks worth of my LJ friends list. I dunno... we'll see how far I get. Sorry, baby grind, I will return to you soon.

Anyone up for a little Skype action to talk today about your recent convention or other activities?
Ive, Jess, Grug, Hayden, whoeverelsewenttoacon?