New Book Site

There's a new book site in my Journal liks:

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It discusses notebooks, pens and other book geek stuff. It looks rather promising for those of my... addiction.

-T

Ancient Curse

See if you can follow this:

It's bad luck to wake someone on their day off. So, to counter-act this bad luck one must remember this:

The one who does the waking must offer the one who was doing the sleeping some caffiene.

The one who was doing the sleeping must drink the caffiene while the one who was doing the waking appologizes.

The one who was doing the sleeping and who is now doing the drinking listens to the man doing the speaking who was doing the waking while nursing the caffiene.

The one who did the waking and is doing the talking plys the man who is doing the drinking with gaming.

Thus, the man who was doing the waking is gaming with the man who was doing the sleeping while doing the drinking offered by the man who was speaking to solve this ancient and most terrible curse with gaming.

Savvy?

Alignment Test. Had to be done.

From Bryian / Judi's blogs:

I figured that I would get lawful neutral as I usually do, but apparently my philosophy has changed in the past year or so. I've added some emphasis in places to show the things that jumped out at me.

Your Score: True Neutral

50% Good, 56% Chaotic

Plane of Existence: The Outlands, "Plane of Concordant Opposition". Description: The plane between all other outer planes.

Examples of True Neutrals (Ethically Neutral, Morally Neutral)

Red XIII, "Nanaki" (FFVII)
Vincent Valentine (FFVII)
Cid Highwind (FFVII)
Mr. Spock
Linus Torvalds
Dr. Strangelove
Scott Evil
Batman
The Punisher
Switzerland
Canada

Not actively for or against anything. Has his or her own reasons for doing everything. Usually difficult to understand.

Will keep their word if in their best interest
May attack an unarmed foe
May use poison
May help those in need
May work with others
Indifferent to higher authority
Indifferent to organizations

True Neutral "Pure Neutral"
"Balancer"

Some neutral [people] commit themselves philosophically to neutrality. They are of the true neutral alignment as described in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

A true neutral [person] sees good, evil, law, and chaos as prejudices and dangerous extremes. He advocates the middle way of neutrality as the best, most balanced road in the long run.

Some true neutral [people] actively support balance in the world, and seek to avoid having any one side, law or chaos, good or evil, become too powerful over them or anyone else, and will work against whichever side is the most powerful. They tend to side with the underdog in any situation, and are often opportunistic in their actions.

True neutral is committed to the avoidance of extremes, and is non-judgemental.

Link: The Alignment Test

A Warning to Dr. Who Fans

Don't click on this link.

Do not click on this link if you:
1) Are at work
2) Have liquid anywhere near your mouth
3) Have a headache
4) Have sore abs
5) are trying to keep quiet
6) Have any respect for the Dr. Who-Verse
7) Want to look at Dr. Who the same way again.
8) Want to look at me the same way again.
9) believe that Dr. Who should not be 'experimented' with.
10) Have any doubts that I am an Evil Sith Lord (I can't claim to be an Evil Genius, that's Bryian - it's a different Doctoral Program)

I'm warning you.

Don't do it.

Really

But if you must

Click

Here

Go Get 'em Jimmy

From: CNN

Carter was quoted Saturday in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette as saying "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history."

The Georgia Democrat said Bush had overseen an "overt reversal of America's basic values" as expressed by previous administrations, including that of his own father, former President George H.W. Bush.

Carter, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, criticized Bush for having "zero peace talks" in Israel. Carter also said the administration "abandoned or directly refuted" every negotiated nuclear arms agreement, as well as environmental efforts by other presidents.

"As a traditional Baptist, I've always believed in separation of church and state and honored that premise when I was president, and so have all other presidents, I might say, except this one."

When former President Carter, who's been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace after his term as President, describes the current adiministration so poorly - this is sending a clear message to the people. The damage created by G.W. Bush during his two terms will take the next President if not the next two presidents years to mend. I think that there are some areas that the American President will be unable to fix because the damage has been done so completely. There's no room to repair the bridges that have been burnt when you look at the reversal of some of the previous policies.

History, I do not think, will judge G.W. Bush very well. He is the President and the office of the President should be protected even from those who would tarnish its reputation.

-T

Damned Fevers

Last night, while I was crawling into bed, I was fighting the chilled shakes of a fever.

I normally get them rather than a true 'cold' when the temperature takes a nose dive. I think it's basically a reaction to my sinuses once the cold weather kicks in, but in any case - last night sucked.

I was sweating my shorts off and my muscles were stretched and pulled as though I had worked out for too long.

This morning I'm "here" but I can tell the Fever is still hanging around; lurking in the back of my head and waiting for its' chance to strike.

Ugh.

-T

p.s. The only good thing about the fevers is that I normally end up with very weird sketches in my book before it goes away for good.

Evil. E-Vil

Laps around the Cemetery: 4
Basement projects: 2
Times I've surfed Blick's online Catalog: 283
Bowls of Starbuck's Java Chip Ice Cream: 3 (at least it's not cookies)
Bookporn sites visited: 5 (Look at the pages on that one)
Showers: 3 (I love my hot water heater)
Number of series downloaded: 2 (I can quit anytime I want)

So, there I was - just out of the shower for the second time today (after the basement projects) and I remembered that I had a half-eaten quart of Java-Chip ice cream from Starbucks in the freezer. It called to me.

Yes, called.

I don't like chocolate, but this coffee-chocolate combo thing isn't bad.

This weekend got off to a weird start. I slept most of Friday - maybe a blood sugar thing and today I worked on the basement for a while and just could not stay clean for more than 4 hours. First it was just the morning 'wake my butt up' shower. Then it was the 'I'm covered in basement gick' shower, and then finally it was the 'how did I get that sweaty walking all...over...Portsmouth' shower.

oh well, I'm going to get back to my Evil.

E-vil.

-T.

The Jack Sack

I found this site today and had to share. This is almost a follow-up to my original post: "The Bag that saved the world."

I already threw a link up under 'Journals'.

-T

Blood Sugar

Ok, this was a weird day.

Classes went fine and even Sociology (my afternoon class) was animated. However, towards the end of the class, I started to realize that as I moved around the room I was getting more and more dizzy.

I didn't realize what was going on and kept teaching and then it happened.

Just as I was concluding a point, my legs buckled. I pulled it off like I stumbled or something and just got rid of the students but it freaked me out.

A buddy of mine, who was there, saw what happened and realized that I've been working out harder than normal, (about 5 hours a week) and not eating a lot.

Blood sugar.

Who'da thunk it.

-T

Jerry Falwell is Dead

From CNN:

Falwell and the religious conservative leaders who followed are now a bulwark of the modern Republican Party and helped turn the once solidly Democratic South into the base of the GOP.

But he has found himself at the center of several controversies, such as the one sparked by his comments two days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in which he seemed to blame "abortionists," gays, lesbians, the ACLU and People for American Way for causing the attacks, saying they "helped this happen."

A day later, he told CNN that he would "never blame any human being except the terrorists, and if I left that impression with gays or lesbians or anyone else, I apologize."

Someone better find the munchkins; they're on in 5.

(sing)
Ding...Dong...the....
(/sing)
-T

Another Bibliophile

miguelrius - Journal Diary - Back / Flap
Originally uploaded by DigitalAlan.

I found this while searching through Flickr this morning before class. When I saw it I almost thought that someone had found one of my old books and threw a picture of it up on the web. And then I realized...

My people are out there!
Yeap, they're out there frequenting notebook bars and secretly watching notebook websites. Before ya know it they'll have to tell their S.O. that they're carrying a notebook with them.

I wonder if we'll have to put up small stickers of a notebook on the windows of buisnesses to show that 'Notebook People' welcome here.

Maybe a Notebook Pride Parade?

-T.

Crook

Crook
Originally uploaded by Green Pilgrim.

This is a Pilgrim's Crook. I am experimenting with photoshop with different layers and such.

It was just an experiment.

-T