Taken from The Urban Dictionary...

HATER (noun):

1.  A person that simply cannot be happy for another person's success. So rather than be happy they make a point of exposing a flaw in that person.

2.  Overused word that people like to use just because someone else expresses a dislike for a certain individual.

3.  A word that stupid people use to ( Read more... )

"Real Daleks don't climb stairs; they level the building."
-old sci-fi convention joke

This weekend is off to a simply lovely start.  First of all, our roommate and her boyfriend have headed out to the SCA which means that Lady Jade and I had the run of the house last night and, barring some terrible rains, will tonight as well.  It also marked us ( Read more... )

First, I'd like all to give a quick greeting to detonate_for_me, our newest addition.  We met through orcho5000's excellent show "DAMAGED Hearing" where, as the California Jesses, we formed the most dedicated online listeners for the best damned radio show in Fort Collins (and I know this is true, because I tried listening to the others and cried).  As far as she is ( Read more... )

I spend a great deal of time on the road and as such, I have developed an innate sense of when somebody is about to do something completely stupid while driving.  At first I thought that this was just a natural insight, but as time progressed I became aware that in fact it shaped up to a near-supernatural sixth sense when on the road.  A good thing ( Read more... )

I'm a sports nut.  My wife (God bless her long-suffering soul) is sometimes amazed that she married somebody who, in her own words, "is such a complete fanboy when it comes to his teams."  Those teams, of course, being the Northern California holy trinity of the Oakland Athletics, the Sacramento Kings and my much-beloved Oakland Raiders.  With ( Read more... )

I try to not wax eloquent about television because, in all honesty, the boob tube has fallen into a hideous state of disrepair.  Or maybe it was always like that and I just never noticed.  Whatever.  In any case, there are many shows cascading across the cathode ray tube which are painful to watch (American Idol), unfunny as any sitcom formula ( Read more... )

The installment of my own personal top five list featured the most delicious celebrities I could think of (and they were Lauren Graham, Sherilynn Fenn, Drew Barrymore, Alanis Morissette and Kate Winslet, for the record).  Hold on... gotta wipe my chin.

All right, so we've explored good.  Now, let's go bad.  I spend a great deal of time on the road, ( Read more... )

Non-sanitized for your consumption, this LiveJournal space proudly presents. . .

THE TOP FIVE YUMMY CELEBRITIES!

Okay, everybody has played (at least in their own mind" the "Who Would You Do?" game regarding the rich and famous.  Well, my roommate PHP claims to have never done it until I asked him his top five, but I think that's a load of crap.  ( Read more... )