Faster Than The World

Posted on September 11, 2006 by Solonor

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Michele (formerly of “A Small Victory”) and the Turtle (formerly a teen heartthrob on the soap opera “Ryan’s Hope”) announced that Faster Than The World, their co-blog, has been re-imagined by the Disney Corporation in a slick, new magazine format aimed at the massive “biker chick pastry chef” market. I think they said that most of their articles will be based on re-workings of Shakespeare sonnets and Black Flag lyrics. Or something. Somehow, that’s supposed to keep 20 writers busy on topics ranging “from sports to sex, from punk rock to video games, from fast cars to horror movies…including a weekly comic strip.”

Anyway, whether you are a biker chick, a pastry chef, or simply enjoy pie, you should check it out.

Please, do not interpret the fact that I am listed as “site engineer” to mean that I will entertain your whiny complaints about how sucky it looks in IE. Switch to Firefox like a rational human being with braaaaaaaainssssssss. (Sorry, there’s a little zombie in everyone associated with that site.)

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SGCBL has openings!

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Solonor

Not a lot of openings, but if you’re interested in some high geekery and goofy fun, Solonor’s Groovy Computer Baseball League (aka, Tolkien Baseball) has a couple of spots open. We are finishing our 2012 season and will be heading into 2013 soon. We need both team owners and those willing to GM teams for absentee owners and those who might need a little help.

Our membership is diverse and widespread. Our ages range from 16 to 60, and I’ll bet we have more female participants than any league in existence (6 women currently play, but we’ve had more). We have owners and GM’s from a dozen states, including Florida, Michigan, Oregon, Arizona, Massachusetts, New York, Nebraska, Ohio, and Hawaii, and representatives of Canada, the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, and France. (Time zones are fun!)

You do not need the game to join (but it helps). We have always maintained an open door policy in that regard by creating custom forms and an active forum to keep our “web managers” in the loop. In fact, of the 11 teams vying for playoff spots this season, 4 manage their teams with just the web pages.

Email me (solonor AT gmail DOT com) for details or leave a comment here.

www.solonor.com/baseball

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Great Gobs of Godwin

Posted on September 6, 2006 by Solonor

Godwin’s Law: “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

Thus, we get left wing claims that Bush and Company are the Nazis reborn. And now comes the latest series of speeches from said Administration defending their war on terror and in Iraq: by comparing Osama bin Laden to Hitler and al-Qaeda to the Nazis.

Good grief. This like all Hitler TV.

What disturbs me, though, about the President’s speech is not that he compares one bad man to another. Everyone needs a frame of reference, I guess, and since you can’t really understand how bad bin Laden and his cronies are by, say, witnessing the destruction of a huge chunk of New York City and the murder of thousands of people, it’s good for Mr. Bush to give us some perspective.

No, what really gets me are the subtle ways in which he twists things around to herd the panicked sheep into the pen. The two most glaring ones involve getting the public to disregard the media and that old chestnut: “We never say al-Qaeda had anything to do with Iraq…except when we do.”

On the media, he quotes bin Laden as saying, “…al Qaeda intends to ‘[launch],’ in his words, ‘a media campaign

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Little Miss Sunshine

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Solonor

Best movie of the year. See it now.

That is all.

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Eh? Speak up, sonny!

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Solonor

I thought that this was a joke…until I tried it myself. Apparently, the new fad is for kids to get ring tones that sound above the level at which adults can hear. I knew there was such a thing as age-related hearing loss, but I figured I was immune or something. So, I went to the Cingular Extras site and tried it.

I could hear the Bug Tone, Stealth-Covert Opps and Stealth-Maximum Security. Other than that, nada. And, yet, both kids were like “Ow! What the hell was that noise?”

[ via Busy Mom ]

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Everyone else is doing it…

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Solonor

Make your own here.

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When in doubt…order pizza!

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Solonor

We decided to get pizza tonight, since it won’t be delivered tomorrow, and what we had planned on eating would be fine cold if necessary.

See? We’re totally prepared for the storm!

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Hola, Ernesto. Como esta, butthead?

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Solonor

Thar’s a tropical storm a-comin’! Git outta the way!

Whatever.

I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’m tired of Florida summers.

When am I going to be rich enough to live in Maine from Memorial Day to New Year’s? Huh? When?

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PSA

Posted on August 26, 2006 by Solonor

Pepperkat got her driver’s license on Wednesday. Just in case you were wondering what all the singing and dancing coming from her side of the house was all about.

She drove herself to work last night. And got lost.

Now, if you knew how totally impossible that is between here and her job, you would be ROFL-ing. (Not really lost…she just got in a “turn only” lane…but it’s funny anyway.)

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25 Favorite TV Characters

Posted on August 25, 2006 by Solonor

Via Dave, I tracked down (yeah, it was all of 3 mouse clicks, shaddap) James Gunn’s list of MY 25 FAVORITE TV CHARACTERS EVER (or at least the ones I could think of sitting down for a half-hour…). It sounds like a good waste of brain cells (not to mention the fact that it’s Friday). I chose to follow his rules for the game. (I did cheat, a bit, because I had the benefit of all the other lists to choose from before straining my brain to come up with my own answers.)

The RULES

  • No puppets or cartoons.
  • No mini-series.
  • No reality show people.
  • All characters must be regulars on the show.

I’m also throwing in “No more than one character from the same show,” or else I’d have half the list filled with Babylon 5…

In no particular order:

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