I have always been a practitioner of Judyism

Posted on October 27, 2006 by Solonor

New from the oddball corners of my mind whining for attention department!

For some reason, I got thinking of stand up comedians today. So, I posited this query to myself: “Self, if you were forced to watch one comedian for a week, who would it be?”

The possibilities run the gamut from wild and crazy (Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Jonathan Winters) to slow and cerebral (Steven Wright, Bob Newhart) and everything in between.

I never did come up with an answer for myself, but I noticed that in all my calculations I hadn’t thought of any women. I don’t think I’m being sexist (one never knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men), but I just don’t know of any female stand ups that leap to the top of my funny bone ticklers list.

When I scrunched up my face real hard and strained for a thought, I did come up with one name without the use of “The Google” to scour the internets: Judy Tenuta.*

I love Judy, because she’s totally insane (in addition to her goddessness) and because she promised to teach me how to play the accordian (“It could happen!”). Plus, she has a real(ish) blog! It currently has a video of her doing the weather at a local tv station in Ohio, if you need a good Tenuta fix. I sure did.

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I got a rock.

Posted on October 27, 2006 by Solonor

Egad. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown was first broadcast 40 years ago tonight.

Here’s the NPR story that reminded me of it this morning: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6388497

“You’ve heard of the fury of a woman scorned, haven’t you? Well, that’s nothing compared to the fury of a woman who has been cheated out of trick-or-treats.”

Truer words were never spoke.

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Geeks ‘n’ Halloween

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Solonor

We Evil Mad Scientists like Halloween. A lot.

You might have already seen our old-school Cylon Jack-o-lantern. Here is another halloween electronics project, hopefully in time for you to make your own: It

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Save the cheerleader…

Posted on October 24, 2006 by Solonor

My love for this show is growing by super leaps and time-twisting bounds.

If you haven’t checked out 9th Wonders (the Official/Unofficial Fan Site for Heroes), you should. It’s pretty nifty.

Posted in The Big Screen | 5 Comments

PopCurrent

Posted on October 21, 2006 by Solonor

If you would all be dears and head over to PopCurrent.com and give me a nice rating, I would surely become rich and famous. Then, I’d invite you all over to my mansion for a fondue party.

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Here we go…

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Solonor

“In a notice dated Wednesday, the Justice Department listed 196 pending habeas cases, some of which cover groups of detainees. The new Military Commissions Act (MCA), it said, provides that ‘no court, justice, or judge’ can consider those petitions or other actions related to treatment or imprisonment filed by anyone designated as an enemy combatant, now or in the future.” – Washington Post

So, once you’re designated an “enemy combatant” you have no right to challenge that in court. Peachy.

And just how do you get to be designated an enemy combatant? However and whenever the President or Himmler Secretary of Defense feel like it.

A finding, whether before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the President or the Secretary of Defense that a person is an unlawful enemy combatant is dispositive for purposes of jurisdiction for trial by military commission under this chapter. – Military Commissions Act of 2006

Here’s the key question. If you (and I mean you) are accused of being an unlawful enemy combatant, stripped of whatever you’re carrying (like your wallet and ID), and you don’t have habeas corpus rights to challenge it in court, how do you prove you’re a citizen…?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15321167/

[ via a co-conspirator ]

Posted in Rants 'n' Whines | 4 Comments

OMGWTFLOLOLOL!

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Solonor

HEROES IS THE MOST AWESOMEST SHOW EVER!

UPDATE: They’re going to show the last 3 episodes on Sunday, Oct 22, starting at 8pm. So, you can get caught up if you missed it.

That still doesn’t totally help if you missed the first episode. So, here’s a plot summary. (Don’t read it if you want to figure stuff out yourself.)

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Ah, precious humidity. How I missed thee!

Posted on October 13, 2006 by Solonor

Hello lumpkins. Didya miss me?

Apparently not, considering the tidal wave of concern for my whereabouts that didn’t flood my inbox. But no matter. I am returned safe and sound from the wilds of The Meadows (“Las Vegas” to my Hispanic friends), where I spent a week standing around in dress shoes and urging people who were otherwise occupied with loading up shopping bags full of free candy, tobacco and beer to buy accounting software. They were so excited to drop that and come to our booth that most of them went running right past, poor dears.

In any case, I did get a chance to freeze my butt off at the Voodoo Cafe on the 55th floor of the Rio Hotel and to have a cheeseburger in paradise at Margaritaville, a home for the diehard parrot head. (If you are someone who merely “likes” Jimmy Buffett, you’ll go a little insane there). So, it wasn’t a total loss.

Well, I have to get back to catching up on my DVR watching. So, don’t expect another post for a week or so. Try not to suffer too badly, eh?

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Without TV, it is hard to know when one day ends and another begins.

Posted on October 4, 2006 by Solonor

Moving back to a more serious matter, let’s talk about addiction.

Having watched more episodic television in the past two weeks than in recent memory, I really have a hard time picturing myself sitting in front of the TV for six or seven nights a week for three or four hours a night (after being allowed to stay up past 9pm, of course).

Right now, I’m talking about watching three or four series and a smattering of other shows like I’m wasting half my waking hours! But when I was a kid? Feh. Try 20 or 30 hours (counting Saturday morning cartoons and the “Gilligan” hours from 3 or 4 in the afternoon until the news came on at 6, when they’d re-run Gilligan, Star Trek, Brady Bunch, Jeannie, etc.).

See? I’m much better now! *shakes*

But the problem with finding a list of historical TV schedules is that now I have to sit here and recreate my nightly viewing habits from ages past. I can’t just let those grids sit there, mocking me, whispering “remember me… remember me… remember meeeeeee…”

So, here is our nightly viewing schedule from 1967 (the year I was hooked by “Lost in Space”) until I graduated high school (1980) with a special, bonus Saturday Morning Cartoon lineup.

‘cuz, I know you care.

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Bienvenue

Posted on October 3, 2006 by Solonor

Je promets de ne pas parler une langue

Posted in Rants 'n' Whines | 1 Comment