Well, here we are 1 hour away for watching my hair meeting the clippers. I would like to thank everyone who has supported me in this with their donations and words of support--I couldnt have done it without you.

As the Gladiators would say, "We who are about to be shorn, salute you!"

Only two more days till I'm going to be as bald as I have ever been. My mother tells me I came out of her womb with a full head of hair, so after the fine barbers shave me at St Baldricks, it is going to be a novel experience ( Read more... )

Had a really great time at WonderCon in SF. Its a 3 day geek fest: comics, anime, gaming..you name it. Saw some great movie clips for the next Resident Evil movie ( and got to see Allie Later from Heroes..serious hotness), saw the Suicide Girls, and all sorts of costumes. K, L and I had a ball ( Read more... )

As many of you know, I am going to be shaving my head in a week. My cause is to find a cure for childrens cancer. So this is a shameless plea to any of my LJ friends to donate towards my goal of $1000 dollars. Follow the following link to reach my shavee site--no donation is too small ( Read more... )

Ugh, its been a long time since I posted. The LJ nudge I got says 5 weeks..so much for trying to post every day. *shrug* Watcha gonna do ( Read more... )

Today is Christmas Eve..amazing how fast it comes every year. Just a few nuggets of trivia to share:

On this day in:

1777 - Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, was discovered by James Cook.
1814 - The Treaty of Ghent was signed which ended the War of 1812.
1818 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber.
1906 - The first radio program, ( Read more... )

I was killing time at work today, browsing Wikipedia, and I was blown away by the shapes and variety of the Santa Claus figure ( Read more... )

"As I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come - but we believe not too long into the future - I'd like to just [say] what I believe history will record - that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we ( Read more... )

the Wit

(52% dark, 34% spontaneous, 36% vulgar)

your humor style:
CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK

You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' ( Read more... )

"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives: yesterday, December 7th, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan ( Read more... )