So, as most everyone knows by now, George Carlin passed away last night of Heart Failure. He was one of my favorite comedians of all time, mostly because he meant what he said, even in jokes. He could entertain and at the same time make you think. I figured that in honor of this man, I would post one of my favorite things I ever heard for him, ( Read more... )

In the dark ages, how would Nekosluagh die?

You would run off of a poorly-lit cliff while in pursuit of your secret lover. Cliffs were even more of a hazard back in the day, you know.

'How would you die in the dark ages?' at QuizGalaxy.com

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did ( Read more... )

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So I d/led flock today at work, and am trying it out now.  It has this neat feature built in to post directly to blogs and such.  I am seeing if it gives me the option of which blog to post to, so some of you may see this as a double post on my Nekosluagh LJ and my Neko-Ic LJ.  If so, I appologize.  Otherwise, this looks like a really good browser ( Read more... )

Avalon Hill released a new version of Diplomacy this week.  I know that Geoff has been trying to get a gane going by e-mail, or even get together to play a game, and I am all for this.  But I still stand by my saying that if we are playing it, we are just weeding out because we have too many friends, and apparently Avalon Hill agrees.  The ( Read more... )

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Gary Gygax, one of the guys that made the original D&D died this morning due to health complications ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday!!!!

You know who you are, and enjoy the day!

Ordered my new desktop PC today.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz

2 GB Kingston 1066 DDR2 Ram

Seagate 320GB Hard drive

Sony 18x DVD +/-rw DL  Drive

Linksys Wireless-n network card

XFX Geforce 800 512 MHz video card.

Should be a really nice system once I get it up and built.  All the parts should be here on Thursday or Friday.
Apparently the superbowl is ( Read more... )