Tag Archives: Personal Blather

So. I decided to see what I had in iTunes for holiday music. And I find that I’ve got a version of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” as it would be done by The Residents.

It’s very, very creepy. Not at all comforting, not terribly joyful at all. I love it.

Alas, the fellow who did it has taken it down from his website, otherwise I’d link to it.

One of the underappreciated features of this particular style of cat bed is the way it converts to a WW-I era pillbox-style bunker when flipped over.

The goofy guy over at EyezMaze has done up a Christmas tree GROW! puzzle. It’s tiny compared to his other ones, but still a load of fun.

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All scientific experiments begin with a question. Tonight’s is: Which is the better margarita mix? In order to conduct a quasi-real experiment, we first tried to control as many of the variables as we could. Thus, say hello to the tequila.

Hello tequila!
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We’re doing a bit of preparation work tonight, watching movies in preparation for the next Smithee Awards.

Actually, I should be clear on this. We’re watching movies for the 2007 Smithees. We’ve allready got pretty much a full slate together for the 2006 show.
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The laptop is back from repair! It’s got a shiny new screen assembly and a brand new battery. Turns out those were the only things that were a problem. Now I get to see how well I can reintegrate the data from the two desktop machines I’ve been using.

It’s a Very Lovecraftian Christmas, from Fafblog (the world’s only source of Fafblog!):

Sure there’s a Santa Claus, Little Jimmy! He’s as real as you an me, and he watches all the good little boys and girls every day with his thousands of horrible insect eyes.

Ok, so it looks like I may have some… Sensitivities.

I mean to certain aromatic chemicals.
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I get insomnia sometimes. The biggest reason for it, so far as I can tell, is major changes in the weather. Last night we got a nice solid six to eight inches of snow, so I wound up getting a really lousy hour and a half to two hours of sleep.
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The big boxed set of FinalCut Studio HD arrived today, and I’m installing it on the beastly huge desktop machine that’s substituting for my poor logic-board fried powerbook. And now I’ve got a dilemma. When the P’book gets back will I be able to deal with its shortcomings?
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