Universe: So, Michael. What did you do today?

Me: I got blackholed by MSN and can no longer send mail to any of their servers (including HotMail, MSN.com and anything else on Passport)!

Universe: How did that happen?

Me: I politely replied to an email to the ADF Office from an MSN user, and I got a bounce-back. It said, "Reasons for rejection ( Read more... )

While searching through various movies I'd like to see, I stumbled across one of my favourite actresses, Catherine McCormack (you've all seen her, you probably just don't know it). While checking out some of her films and thinking, "Hey, maybe I should rent this?" or "Dude, that looks cool!" I found myself staring at a film keyword that I just had ( Read more... )

Dude! Pathfinder (the movie about Vikings fighting Indians) has made it to the dollar theatre! I never saw it make it to the first run ( Read more... )

"We ain't stealin', we're just takin' back; very simple plan of attack: It's our job and a labour of love; take it home to the up-above. . ."

Damnit, Norman: why you gotta be such a role model ( Read more... )

Because of the popularity of the movie 300 and the fact that I've now seen it twice and been amused by how Frank Miller represented the history (and, admittedly, appreciated the revalorizing of the myth of Thermopylae), I figured that I would provide the three Delphic oracles that particularly focus on the situation at the Hot Gates. (I just happen ( Read more... )

tesinth and I went to see Apocalypto at the dollar theatre yesterday. While the moral of the movie appears to be "Thank God the White Catholics showed up in time to save the noble savages," we found ourselves wondering:

Poll Poll 20: Let the shushing begin!

( See, this is why I ask )

MJD: So, for Valentine's Day, I'm apparently going the the ballet.
Tina: Does she know you hate ballet?
M: I don't hate ballet. I hated Dracula. I don't mind the classical stuff, and can even get excited about it. I don't necessarly get it, but there's good music and nifty things going on. I just can't wrap my head around the more modern styles at ( Read more... )

Today, I am happy that I wrote that stationary about how we don't allow people to "Test Out" of the DP based on previous experience and "advanced age". Especially when that experience appears to come in the form of spirits telling you to drop loaves of bread down wells and the advanced age in question is 47 ( Read more... )

advance, lunge with parry five. riposte. recover retreat retreat parry three. riposte. counter-riposte. point-in-line disengage. parry four. advance advance advance false prepare retreat. attack in prep. touch.
I have been paying attention to the memories of my body recently, the way the muscle memory retains itself even after a full five years ( Read more... )

So here I am, all alone on a major holiday people are supposed to spend with family. I was invited to Toledo to see my parents at my cousin's, but honestly, I can neither afford to buy gas to get there nor to do enough maintenance on my car to drive three hours there and back. "Besides," I reasoned with myself this morning, "people keep asking you ( Read more... )