Seriously, go see this movie. See it in 3d if you can, but see it regardless. Awesome movie based on an awesome book by the awesome Neil Gaiman

How the hell is it that one of my favorite writers from when I was a teen can up and die, and I don't hear about it for nearly a year?
Robert Lynn Asprin, June 28, 1946 - May 22, 2008
Rest in peace, Robert. Time to go buy up all your books I haven't bought yet.

Saw a funny attack ad today, by the Coleman campaign. I wasn't really paying much attention, but the blurb at the end, "Al Franken will make things worse" struck me as extremely funny

Their whole campaign seems to be "You think Norm was bad? Just you wait 'til this guy gets elected ( Read more... )

Filled up the tank today... gas was $2.95 a gallon, the first time it's been under three bucks in... gosh, years? I can't remember.

What a wonderful thing. Gas prices going way down right before a Presidential election. I'm sure the two are unrelated in any way. I'd have to be paranoid to think otherwise.

Right?

I stumbled across this, and simply couldn't stop laughing... Ask my wife, she thought I was going to die ( Read more... )

Mmmm-hmm... that's what I'm doing. Take THAT, corporate firewall!

Bwa-hahahahahaha!!!!!

(oops, boss is coming... *hides*)

This:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/05/dean-kamens-rob.html

Has to be about the coolest thing ever.

This made me cheer a little. I swear, I'm going to make myself a big ol' sign saying "I'm with stupid" and an arrow pointing to the right, and just follow the WBC around, standing to their left, with a big old grin on my face. (Note: I'm not really "with" them, I just wanted to point out that they are stupid ( Read more... )

Can't sleep tonight... bitten by the insomnia bug. Maybe because it was a slightly stressful weekend, which it always is when I travel.

Anyway, I took some Nyquil (for my current cold) and did my standard "listen to mellow/hypnotic music for a while" thing, so I'm off to see if maybe I can sleep.

This is something that I've been meaning to do for a while. I watch a lot of anime (Japanese Animation), and I thought I'd share my impression with the 1 or 2 people who actually read my journal :)

First up is a 13-part series called Haibane Renmei. The actual review can be found -
Haibane Renmei~

This is an anime series that defies initial ( Read more... )