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For the explanation of that title, see here.So I Googled "Lantern Corps personality test," and now I'm sharing results. Woo. I'm a wild man.Your result for Which DCU Lantern Corps Is For You?...Indigo Lantern Corps!Take Which DCU Lantern Corps Is For You? at OkCupidWho knew I was such a nice guy? :p

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I missed the turn of the year and decade* here on the old blog, so best to dispense with the year in review (you're welcome) and look to the year ahead (sorry).Another Day, Another Doctor:Spoilercalifragilisticexpialidocious.First off, big props to BBC America for not making us wait to say goodbye to David Tennant as The Doctor. Both episodes of The End of Time aired Stateside the day after each

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The holidays are looming large ahead of us. That means celebration, festivity, and frolic.* And as always, when we gather with friends, there's always the possibility of temptation, of doing something that we know we'd later regret.So when your host opens that drawer and pulls out its contents, it's perfectly natural to want to go along, to not be the party pooper.But this is not the time for

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A public library, a good one, is always more than a mere collection of books. Libraries are a hub of the communities that have them. They act as founts of knowledge, crucibles of human thought, and the foundries of creativity. In a library, one seeking the tools to engage the world will find them.With that principle in mind, picture, in the lobby of your local library, a box. It's open, with

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When a shitty, inexplicably popular franchise needs to be bashed, sure, you could just sit on the couch and mock it between handfuls of Doritos. But are you really bashing it? Are you applying the full spectrum of sheer scorn that needs to be heaped upon this insult to the collective intelligence of humanity? Or are you just winging it as best you can within your limited scope of insult humor

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So yesterday morning I found myself alone with both breakfast and the remote, my wife still feeling tired and having gone back to bed. I'd had more than my fill of Michael Jackson coverage (here's the latest: He's still dead), so it was time to head into the outer limits of basic satellite service.At 5 AM it's mostly a trip into infomercial hell, of course. I had no urge to have the question "

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Yes, Bill, I'm posting it now.Pre-Con:I can be hard on my friend Bill, a cataloguer in Technical Processing, the department across the hall from mine. When I agreed to go with him to this year's Wizard World Philadelphia I had actually broken precedent by agreeing almost immediately, without hemming and hawing for weeks while he nagged and cajoled me, as I had done in previous years.By affirming

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I'll get to the matter of Wizard World and the good time that was had by all momentarily. First, as a lover of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a loather of Twilight, I wanted to share this video that was posted up at Pandagon.Without spoiling it, let's just say that one Edward Cullen picks the wrong teenager upon whom to try his creepy "stalk ya/control ya/maybe wanna kill ya" shtick.I really don't

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Wizard World Philadelphia is underway even as I write this. I get my shot at the place tomorrow (details forthcoming, of course). But I want to draw your attention to a facet of the celebration that had me scratching my head.I like to grab me a copy of the Philadelphia Metro on the way in to work. While paging through it an ad for Wizard World caught my eye. This wasn't a difficult task, as

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A classic Sesame Street song about the diversity of human experience.With the notable exception of the lactose intolerant. Heavy. ;p

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So after much hype and ballyhoo, the 1.23 viewer is upon us, tool of the Great Sanitization, wherein all of SL's adult content has been moved to its own continent. This puzzles me because, well, SL is only meant for adults anyway. Why are we protecting adults from adult content?My personal theory, uncontaminated by research or verified facts, has less to do with any squicky feelings residents

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He was being led down the courthouse steps in handcuffs. A hero to the nation for longer than most Americans had been alive, he was now a prisoner. All that was certain in his future was his day in court, and then, most likely, prison. He knew this, but, like the soldier that he was, he vowed to face the future fighting.That future was suddenly shattered by the report of a high powered rifle.

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One of my favorite presents from last Christmas was a copy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home, which was the first chapter in the ongoing "Season Eight," a continuation of the tv series in comic book form. I was eager and curious to see how characters I had known and loved had progressed since the destruction of Sunnydale, but I was also a bit worried. Would the things I had loved

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The source of this clip,1988's Comic Book Confidential, was on the Ovation Channel on Sunday night. If you haven't seen the Ovation Channel, think of it as a sort of an A&E Lite: Highbrow programming combined with the usual basic cable commercials for quickie loans, herbal male enhancement, and other dubious pursuits. What might be easily overlooked on, say, the E! Channel is rather jarring

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Fifteen days without blogging seems like long enough. Let's see... any news?Well, for the Friday Tournament on the 8th I had the honor of being on the receiving end of Abbiee Benazzi's first win as a heavyweight. I feel I put in a good effort, keeping pace with Abbiee for four out of five rounds, but it was the last one that killed me. It was a good match, and Abbiee is good people. Look for

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And I say to them, with love, that when Life Imitates Onion, it's time to pause and reflect.Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'I'm serious. The only people I've heard from who don't like the new Star Trek movie are hardcore, exclusionist Trek fans and Daniel Holloway, the putz reviewer in the Daily Metro who likes nothing anyway.

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The Sisterhood of the Squared Circle had a good night last night. Both of the two Feverlast bouts scheduled were male vs. female with the female coming out on top (India Nadeau scoring a knockout in her first match, followed by Ardsley Ballinger going the full three rounds in her fight to win by points). Follow that up with Shan Pevensey and Crystal Meersand having a serious woman-to-woman

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A few items of business to bat around, mainly because I'm feeling blog-conscious about not having posted anything in a while...Jaunty Jackalope - Canonical has released the latest version of Ubuntu, so that means that some time in the very near future I'll be disappearing from SL and all related internet activities for about a day or so while I download and install it. In return for the long

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This one was a bit of a rush job. Don't ask me why a disco theme, of all things. Zak Renfort was kind enough to take the pictures of the fighters when I couldn't get inworld in time to do it myself. I love karynn's "wait'll they get a load of me" smile contrasted with Ald's expression. To me that look says nothing else but: "One day, my army of atomic supermen will take over the world!"This

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Eddie Izzard on the Death Star canteen, with Lego men:

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[UPDATED with expanded rantyliciousness!]If I had a favorite tv show this season, I'd have to pick the late and lamented US version of Life on Mars. I know that I was in the minority on that score, but I found it a compelling, well-written show with memorable characters. And now, with its all-too brief life now over, I find that I might have had good memories of it if not for the ending.Fair

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I just got the word that Andy Hallett, who played Lorne on Angel, died today after a five year struggle with heart disease.Hallett was the perfect fit for Lorne, who was a life-loving bon vivant more comfortable with a martini in hand than the hand-to-hand weaponry favored by the rest of the cast of characters. He brought to the role a knack for comedic timing and a certain panache that made him

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Google Earth is a truly wondrous device, in its own creepy little way. The first thing I did when I downloaded it was to look up my own address and boom, there it was: A top-down view of Chateau Undercity. It was a thrilling and slightly unnerving discovery.But when spinning the world like a top with one's mouse gets old (in my case after about the third hour), one starts looking for practical

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Tonight at the gym, after our regularly scheduled bouts, there's going to be a brawl staged to support the rollout of probably the most important product Averlast has ever offered. It's going to change the game as we know it, and make an Averlast fight a much more exciting show.We're bringing in new gloves.Those of you reading this who are not familiar with how Averlast boxing works might miss

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I saw on the news last night that one of the industries bucking the recession were the movies. In fact, apparently ticket sales are up a bit because people are looking for some kind of respite from the steady drumbeat of bad news.As the report acknowledged, it's not an unprecedented behavior in Americans, who did much the same thing in the 1930's. Damn. That's another Depression parallel.

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I stumbled upon this bit of stop-motion madness and just had to share...

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This June, barring some unforeseen calamity, will see me at Wizard World Philadelphia. I went two years ago, and generally had a good time. The highlight at that time was meeting Evil, inc. creator and local-boy-done-good Brad Guigar, snagging a book and a sketch of Harley Quinn off of him for a modest fee.This year, in addition to another planned meet with Mr. Guigar, I have another stop on my

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So it's crunch time here at the gym. I have a bunch of posters and matching t-shirts to make, along with a number of pictures for the vendors. Since my workplace would take an understandingly dim view of my completing these projects while on the clock, that means I have to grab whatever off-hours time I can to do them.As anyone knows, when you rush like that it can lead to mistakes. Take, for

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It's an axiom that women have to work twice as hard as men to get the same amount of respect. When it comes to the world of boxing, you have to break down the respect received into fractions. From what I can tell, women are practically invisible in mainstream boxing coverage.When I page through the Philadelphia Daily News, my final stop is the sports section. I skip past the usual calls for

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Creepy Coincidence Department: For Friday the thirteenth, both PvP and xkcd ran comics about the Bloody Mary ghost story. PvP, of course, being PvP, did their strip based on Mary's pop culture incarnation, the Candyman. It's a fun study in contrasting styles, as PvP takes on the mirror ritual as the traditional test of juvenile courage, and xkcd, of course, figures out a way to hack a ghost

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As a reward for putting up with my pointless whingeing in the last post, I'm going to let you put up with somebody else's in this one.You're welcome.

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The other day I finished a project for my department: Making fliers to try to entice people into using the bookmobile. Turbo-nerd that I am, the central theme revolved around the library's extensive graphic novel collection. Leave it to your local library to piggyback on the success of Watchmen for our own ruthless ends.I made the background graphic from scratch, and I thought it turned out

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No, this isn't going to be a post about Jessica Biel...This little guy, the Pacific barreleye (macropinna microstoma) has been popping up on the internet just about everywhere for the past day or so, and it's easy to see why: Its forehead is a transparent dome with its eyes mounted inside. It can look through its skull in nearly any direction to spot food and avoid predators (or, as the video

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Got something for ya...

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A few weeks ago, Erewhon Yoshikawa hosted a set at Tiphares featuring the best of geek rock. One song in particular stuck with me:It's a tribute to the late, great text adventures of yore, and even features a special guest appearance by Steve Meretsky, of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game version) fame.Text adventures hark back to a time when computer graphics, once one got over

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My department head gave me a bunch of new links to help me better serve our patrons. While familiarizing myself with the American Library Association's website, I came across a page that touched me to my geekish core: Comic book based posters to encourage reading. The noise that came out of my mouth sounded something like "SQUEEEEEE!"*For verily, 'twas a treasure trove for both book lover and

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Well, they haven't updated their RSS feed (nor, after a quick check, their site) in months, so I guess it's time to take down the link to Second Life Network News. It's a shame, really. SLNN gave Averlast our first real event coverage, which no SL sports section has done since. Actually, I'm hard pressed to even think of other SL sports sections. This might be something worth looking into.Come to

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Averlast Head Coach Calvinizm2g Quan has worked out a system that adds some needed transparency to our title contender rankings. Check it out.A number one contender for each weight class is determined at the end of the month, and then the numbers are wiped clean for the next one. This should keep things lively, and ensure that champions don't rest on their laurels too long.

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Probably my favorite thing about Second Life is the opportunity it gives me to explore the imaginations of others. I stumbled across Neo Kowloon some time ago, but never really got around to poking through the place until recently. Little did I know what I had been missing.The main drag. Kowloon's garish neon signs, narrow alleyways, and persistent squalor evoke such settings as William Gibson's

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Whenever I visit my friends Ghoti and Leena there's not usually a lot of talking. The pair of them have a little island paradise to share, and often it's just easier to sit and listen to the crashing waves roll in. Conversation isn't unwelcome - far from it - but oftentimes it just seems unnecessary. It's a very chill vibe, like how you'd imagine the atmosphere in a genuine island hideaway in

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If you thought the onscreen action was gruesome in the new Friday the 13th, you ought to see the evisceration it's getting from the critics at Rotten Tomatoes. "Unoriginal" and, more damningly, "not scary" seem to be the most common complaints. The lack of a plot is a foregone conclusion, I suppose.I hadn't dug too deeply into the movie's background before my previous post on the subject, but

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People get the damnedest notions in their heads.Case in point: The card to the left (minus my, er, embellishment) is the symbol of a site called The Ultimate Joker, headquarters for a group of fans who were deeply impressed by the late Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker in The Dark Knight.Very deeply impressed.So impressed, in fact, that they want Ledger's performance as the Clown Prince of

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Second Life News pays Averlast a visit and likes what it sees.I know, the article's more than a week old. I really need to keep up with the news...BTW, I'm not so much a "manager" as I am veteran flunky, cook, and bottle washer. Just to keep things clear.

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All I'm saying is that you'll never see a Whovian trying to knock over a convenience store with a sonic screwdriver:COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Colorado Springs police are looking for a man who hit two 7-Eleven convenience stores early Wednesday, armed with a Klingon sword.A bat'leth, to be precise. I can just imagine the clerk pulling out his own blade and switching the store's in-house music

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I've picked up a few interesting reads from the library's collection these past few days. Here's the pick of the lot:Carpe Jugulum by Sir Terry Pratchett: If, like me, you've gone into Twilight-induced sugar shock and have decided that the next writer to present vampires as darkly romantic tortured souls looking for love over the long and painful centuries deserves a savage beating with a very

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File this one under "I" for "I'm Always The Last One to Find Out About These Things".Monty Python has its own YouTube Channel, where they've uploaded high-quality clips of their best stuff (the one above is hereby dedicated to Calvin).Their reasons are pretty straightforward: They want you to buy their stuff, and if it's going to pop up on YouTube anyway it might as well be them putting it

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Seriously, nothing good can come of his continued insistence on stepping into the ring.After falling in the first round to local Philly sportscaster (and former Philadelphia Eagle) Vai Sikahema, Canseco should have read the writing on the wall and pursued other options besides boxing.But no. Whether due to an irresistable payday, a lack of alternatives, or the prodding of personal demons,

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I have to wonder how many people saw this coming after installing Vista.

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Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen, "This Land is Your Land"Today's low point: Rick Warren doing his best to look like Jerry Falwell with a shitty goatee droning out platitudes, sounding very much like the outgoing administration in his attempts to inspire. About as effective, too.Today's high point: Obama's - excuse me - President Barack Hussein Obama's inaugural address. It was the

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"No W" by Ministry, live.

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Disabled......and enabled!YAAAAAAAH!

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Karine graciously granted my request for a rematch at Averlast's monthly tournament last week (though she loves to box so much that I suspect she'd happily duke it out with a boxing kangaroo if we could just get one to register an SL account). I was also working the microphone that night as announcer, but Cal and I have worked out a system if I'm fighting on a given night. He announces the

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A Great Moment in Bad Timing made itself manifest in my life last night. On an evening that was certain to drop into the single digits (7 degrees Fahrenheit), with the next day only guaranteed to crawl up to about 17, I got a thick stack of brochures in my mailbox from my childhood home state of Minnesota.They want me to move back.To a place where it is currently five below with a windchill

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Patience will be rewarded tonight as Smallville finally throws out some new episodes. The day may be coming soon where I'll be unable to make that statement.And perhaps it should.After all, as Clark Kent and company continue to move forward, the DC Universe is rapidly expanding around them. More and more faces familiar to comic fans are popping up as guest stars and even semi-regulars. It's

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Patrick McGoohan died today at the age of 80.This sad piece of news hits just when my mind has turned to all things The Prisoner, having just discovered the Port Merion Sim, which is based on the resort town in northern Wales where the series was filmed.*The show, about a secret agent held captive in a scenic but oppressive community known only as The Village, was McGoohan's creation. To this day

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... the feeling I get when my avatar is standing behind the curtain waiting for the introduction. Testing the gloves for the umpteenth time before deactivating them again for the long walk between the curtain and the ring. The rush of nervous excitement as my name is called and I greet the crowd in the stands.It really had been too long since I'd last done this.I'm serious when I say that. I'd

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Tonight all of us remaining Averlast heavyweights get together for one big tournament to decide who gets to be the next heavyweight champion. Given my long layover from the ring, I'm oddly serene about it.This may have something to do with the fact that I already had my performance-anxiety-related meltdown last week. It helps to get those things out of the way early, I guess.Readers who've been

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The Pogues and Sinead O'Connor singing "The Fairytale of New York":

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... let me just add that Superman could smack around the entire cast of Mortal Kombat by himself and make them eat bugs.Not that he would.Because he's Superman.

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Slasher flicks are not my favorite type of movie. They regularly feature threadbare plots meant only to act as vehicles for the graphic massacre of attractive young people.* The villains are implacable and unkillable, almost a metaphor for the uncaring world that is out there waiting to chop teenagers up in a less literal sense. Maybe "villains" is too strong a term for monsters this simple.

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Go on. Ask me about my day so far. I dare you.

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While meandering about the blogosphere, I had it put to me that the greatest video ever is Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart". To which I say: "To hell with you, Mr. Gets-Lots-of-Hits-and-Comments Guy!"Because this, in truth, is the greatest video ever:Do the math. It all checks: Joan Jett + power chords + bikini + boxing gloves = All That Is Good and Right with the Universe.The

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So as of yesterday around 6 PM Second Life Time, Conan and I are in charge of things at the gym until Karine gets back.While the circumstances that led to this turn of events are not what I would wish to happen in anyone's life, I know that we're both aware of our responsibilities in regard to Averlast. Conan and I work well together, I think, and our areas of responsibility in the gym are

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You know what's coming:.cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm

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Everybody needs a break sometime. And since a trip to Hawaii is out of the question (hey kids! Write your Congressional delegation in support of more funding for libraries!), one modifies the concept of "vacation" and makes do.So with that in mind, I started gadding about the many MMORPG websites, looking for free demos. I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that I finally settled on

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This was at the top of my Gmail page when I clicked on the notice of Manny's comment: - Abel Jobs Abel.CareerMatches.net - Great Abel Jobs Available Paying From $14 to $86 Per HourAnd all this time I've been Abel for free when I could have been Abel for 86 bucks an hour?! I'm such a sucker!

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Despite the few moments of yuks that Johnny Rotten's new career as a dairy product pitchman has provided me, I'm not in a terribly good mood today. I'm a couple steps up from "poleaxed", which was how I felt when I got the news, but, overall, still not good.I mean, it's not like I haven't been here before. People leave Second Life. It happens. Sometimes they come back, and other times they

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A lot of old Sex Pistols fans are probably screaming "sellout!*" But I just thought this was hilarious.*- Perhaps they would be willing to pay his bills in order for him to maintain whatever rate of punk rock purity is the standard these days?

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Have you ever been to a dead mall? Wandering around these foundering hulks of commerce is a sort of reverse-Romero experience. The shoppers (what there are of them) are living and breathing, but the building in which they're milling about is a member of the undead.Like the movie zombie, the dead mall shows signs usually attributed to life. There are still stores open, and they'll happily take

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They just can't handle it when K9 drops knowledge:K9 gets all of his questions right, but gets voted off in the first round. Y'know, that's the first time I ever heard Anne Robinson apologize to someone who got the boot.Mistress?

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Despite what goes on in just about every army movie ever made (did Jack Webb have someone do it in The D.I.? No, wait, that's the Marines. My bad.), I've never been ordered to engage in the title activity. When drill sergeants want the latrine cleaned, they want it done now, with broom, mop, and bucket. The preferred method of ballbusting-through-cleanliness was when it came time to clean weapons

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Well, my virtual yard, anyway. A week after the election is long enough, I think. And if any of my fellow Dems are waiting for the guy next door to take down his McCain/Palin sign before you even think of taking down yours, please: Be a bigger person and take yours down first. There are bigger fish to fry, and if there are still unsettled issues between you, most of you still have time to

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"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries." - UnknownFor some reason I used to think that to be a quote of Mark Twain's. Blew a job interview once by citing it to a reference librarian who knew better.I don't talk much about the day-to-day of my job here. My blog is a known quantity at work, and it's very much in my interest to

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With Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. If Animal goes, I'm going with him.

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Reaching into my life's junk drawer and pulling out a few pieces:Ubuntu 8.10 - Spent all of Thursday night downloading the update for my operating system, and so far it's meeting expectations. It came with the latest version of the GIMP, which features some new bells and whistles that I'm eager to exploit in pursuit of graphical excellence for Averlast. Maybe I'll try a hand at cooking up

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Barack Obama is the next President of the United States of America.Letting out the breath I've been holding for about a year now and going to bed.

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So my friend Paula got married (or virtually so, depending on how you look at it, I guess) yesterday. I had been invited to a couple of Second Life marriages before, but this was the first one to which I actually made it. Bought a tux and everything for the event (I didn't trust myself to find anything suitable for the wedding's theme, which was Arthurian, so I went with looking like a

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... and a cameo by a certain boxing gym.Tip of the Blogging Hat to my best landlady evarrrr, Aki Shichiroji, for pointing me toward this.

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I work on Thursday nights. This means, of course, that all of my favorite shows will be scheduled for then. It's Murphy's Law of network programming. So I tape.I at last able to catch last week's episode of Supernatural. Dean got infected by a spiritual disease that made him scared of everything (especially funny considering the swaggering tough guy he normally is). And then, at the end of

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Well, this is interesting:The October 1978 slaying of Nancy Spungen, the Huntingdon Valley-raised punk-scenester, is the topic of an upcoming documentary. "Who Killed Nancy?" by Alan G. Parker, due out early next year, explores the possibility that Spungen was killed by someone other than boyfriend Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, who was charged in her death but was never tried, because he OD'd

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Submitted without further comment:

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One! One video of The Count!Two! Two videos of The Count!Three! Three wonderful videos of The Count!AH-AH-AH-AHHHH!(Muppet Halloween without The Count? Madness. Madness, I tell you...)

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As I mentioned earlier, Averlast set up an exhibition at the Rivet Town Inventors' Expo, and I have to say that it looks like it was a hit. We had two exhibition matches that drew good crowds, and Expo organizer Harper Weezles seemed enthusiastic enough about it to discuss the possibility of Rivet Town starting its own athletic club, of which boxing would be a part. Very Victorian. And that's

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Yes, it's the Statue of Liberty. Yes, it's full-sized.Yes, I love it here.

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Not Halloweeny, but disco frightens me on a fundamental level. Besides, I have a fever! And the cure... is MORE MUPPETS!Oh, shush and listen. It's good for you.

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The following post contains rambling. A lot of it.Bleh. I love my job, but it would be so much easier of I could just fall over asleep when I get home after working nights. Especially since it's inevitably followed by an early morning wake-up, but I just can't do it. I can't wind down that quickly once I walk through the door. So I pay the price the next day.Once again, bleh.Well, this weekend is

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I wonder how something like this would go over in the Averlast store? I'm not sure, personally. SL is definitely a place where the trend runs to showing more skin, not less. On the other hand, who's to say that it's simply not an unaddressed market in the metaverse? For some reason that also got me to thinking about boxing nuns, but that's probably just my Catholicism-soaked brain snapping

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I think I've got this McCain guy figured out:He doesn't want to run the country. He wants to run The Village:Be seeing you.

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File this one under "so wrong, it's right":The original House of 1000 Corpses was a lousy movie with a great soundtrack. Replacing the cast with Muppets would have helped address one of the things the movie lacked: Make the audience empathize enough with the victims to care about what happens to them when the monsters pop up. Rob Zombie's approach went a different way, by making us want to jump

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Featuring Alice Cooper, before Satan came to collect and turned him into a golf-playing Republican...I wanted to do the story instead of the songs (though those are probably coming, too), because, well, damn. The biggest children's television show on the air, and the plot revolves around the guest star trying to get the main characters to sell their souls to the Devil! You just couldn't get

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I really should keep up on this stuff, but who can blame me when I have the twin distractions of the election and the Phillies in the playoffs?But I digress: Jack Thompson has been disbarred for life.For those of you who don't know the name, Thompson was an attorney who found his niche as a crusader against video games. They were his catch-all answer to all of society's problems. The Virginia

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For me, October means Halloween, my mostest favoritest of all holidays (even more so than National Barbecued Ribs and Ham, Pineapple, and Jalapeno Pizza Day, which I just made up).And since everything goes better with Muppets, I'm going to post a few of my favorite "Halloween-y" Muppet clips throughout the month.That said, I'm not feeling especially "spooky" today. So how about a nice, uplifting

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Judging by the evidence of these clips from the 1930's, hard economic times just make people freakin' snap.Note to future hard-times-era inventors: Unless you happen to be a bumblebee, the laws of aerodynamics will not be flouted with any degree of success. Word to the wise.Via Cynical-C

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I don't own any land in SL, a fact that is unlikely to change barring a massive influx of cash in my near future. So every once in a while I get these ideas that I'm entirely unable to capitalize upon due to the fact of my holding a free SL account.So, rather than piss and moan, I thought I'd throw it out there in the hopes that someone with the necessary resources will read it and be inspired.

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TeacherLady mentioned Muppets and Paul Williams in the same breath (did I mention that she's got my favorite personal blog?), so naturally my brain took me here:Wait one polyp-pickin' minute here! I don't even have one Muppet made in my image and Paul Williams gets two? What's he got that I don't?Oh, right: Talent.

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"Sometimes my daughters ask why I insist on doing this," she said. "It's dangerous; we have many injuries, and my daughters complain that wrestling does not bring any money into the household. But I need to improve every day. Not for myself, for Veraluz, but for the triumph of Yolanda, an artist who owes herself to her public."The current issue of National Geographic is running a story on

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