I have my Bruce “Don’t Call Me Ash” Campbell bookmark and a pocket full of memories… or is that a popcorn shell?

Posted on August 16, 2005 by Solonor

Well, we’re back from seeing Man with the Screaming Brain, and I must say it was magnificently bad. In fact, I declare that it is the most wondrously horrible movie ever to take brain transplants, wanton sex, cat fights, exploding Vespas, mad scientists, ex-KGB agents, billionaire industrialists, crash test dummy robots and a Russian wannabe rapper and mix them together. Well, ok, there was Titanic, but was that set in Bulgaria? No, it wasn’t, Mr. Smarty Pants. So there!

It was worth the price of admission just for Bruce Campbell’s intro and Q&A before the movie. This is one seriously cool and funny guy. There should be more Bruce Campbells. In fact, I think that cloning would get all the Federal funding it needed, if scientists would just promise to only clone Bruce Campbell. (Actually, I think that’s his next movie…)

Oh, and I must disagree with Mr. Campbell. It’s not really so much The Out-of-Towners set in Bulgaria as it is All of Me with a robot.

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Insert fanboy squeal here

Posted on August 16, 2005 by Solonor

We’re going to see Bruce Campbell tonight, and you’re not.

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And I miss the dinosaurs outside my cave, too.

Posted on August 16, 2005 by Solonor

It used to be that we could look back just 5 or 10 years and be amazed at how far we’d come. I remember in the late 80’s or early 90’s talking about the fact that when we graduated high school, we didn’t have PC’s, the Internet, music on CD, or cable TV. And, while they were around, we didn’t have a VCR or a remote control for the TV. Calculators still cost hundreds of dollars. No cell phones. No laptops. No digital cameras. No laser printers. No e-mail.

It’s still amazing to me, but unfortunately it is starting to sound less like “wow! lookit all the neat stuff we got we didn’t have yesterday!” and more like “you damned kids don’t know how good you got it…why, back in my day…”

So, when I saw this link from Slashdot about electronic bulletin boards, called BBS: The Documentary, my first thought was: “Hey! Wow! It was just yesterday that we were running our baseball league on TriBBS and using ‘high-speed,’ 2400-baud modems!”

My second thought was: “No, you idiot. That was over 15 years ago, and you haven’t needed to used a modem in almost 4 years.”

Still, it’s a cool site for an old geek. I especially love the All-Time BBS Software List with links to every piece of BBS software known to man.

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Emotional? Me?? I think I’m gonna cry.

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Solonor

Another one of those silly test thingys found at Stupid Evil Bastard.

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Ominous Tidings

Posted on August 13, 2005 by Solonor

ME: So, you’re going out for a driving lesson?
MRS: Yes, as soon as I do my exercises.
ME: Ah. Want to be in shape to run from the fiery crash?
MRS: No. There are no fiery crashes allowed. Isn’t that right, Em?
EMILY: Awwww….

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Congrats Maitland Little League

Posted on August 12, 2005 by Solonor

Maitland advances to Little League World Series

Wow. Just finished watching that on ESPN. My place of employ is in Maitland, and my boss’ son plays on their regular squad.

That was a fun game of baseball to watch. It’s awesome to see the enthusiasm the kids have, their respect for the game and their opponents, the great coaches on both sides. The big guys could learn a thing or two from them.

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Miscellaneous junk and a post from flickr!

Posted on August 10, 2005 by Solonor
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originally uploaded by Solonor.

Finally got a picture of the new niece. Everybody say awwwwww…

What else is new… let’s see…

Pepperkat got her permit. You have been warned.

For some reason, this thing is “can’t. stop. watching” fascinating. (via Sherri)

Got a bug up my butt to write an old-fashioned country song. So I did.

Whew. That’s enough blogging for one week. I think I need to go lie down.

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Where’s the Earth-shattering KA-BOOM?

Posted on August 8, 2005 by Solonor

It’s not every morning you awake and say, “Oh crap…I wasn’t jolted out of bed by a loud noise…”

When the alarm went off at 5:30, my first thought was that I had not heard the sound of Discovery landing. (When it flies over us on its way to the Cape, it sets off a pair of sonic booms that shakes the walls, depending on which way it comes in.) But it just looks like they’ve postponed the landing until tomorrow, due to crappy weather.

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The little streams of alcohol come trickling down the rocks…

Posted on August 7, 2005 by Solonor

Tonight was silly fun.

We had a church supper and talent show, and after a good, old-fashioned meal of baked beans and hot dogs and potato salad and blueberry pie and other delectable goodies, we had some goofy skits and singing. Pepperkat and I led a sing-a-long of “You Are My Sunshine,” and we goofed around with the “real” version of “The Big Rock Candy Mountains.”

As you can see by this Wikipedia article, the song has a history. I kept thinking that Shirley Temple did the kiddie version of the song, but it was actually Burl Ives.

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All the news that’s fit to type

Posted on August 4, 2005 by Solonor

You know it’s bad when a person who never reads your blog says, “Gee, when are you going to update your blog?”

When I’m damned good and ready! is my answer. So there.

Um. I guess that would be now.

First off, while I still haven’t seen any pictures of my own niece, there are some mighty cute ones over at Words for Snow. Congrats to Suzie and Tim!

No, Pepperkat has not gotten her driving permit, yet. She’s got an appointment for after school on Monday. (Did I tell you that Florida is one messed up state and that the kid started school again on August 1?)

Over at Stupid Evil Bastard, I saw where that lovable skeptic, James Randi, had made available the Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural online for free! While I’m not one to go overboard in saying there’s no such thing as forces beyond our understanding, I love it when a good scam artist gets busted.

Speaking of scam artists, Sherri at her Lists of Books tagged me for a book meme. My spouse would be better at this, since she’s one of those people that is always reading three books at once (keeping one in the bedroom, one in the living room, one in the car, etc., so she’s always got one handy). But here it is:

Number of books on shelf?
A hundred or so, scattered about the house on shelves, in boxes, on the floor, etc.
Last book purchased?
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Books I’m reading now?
The Glorious Cause, Jeff Shaara
How to Write Songs on Guitar, Rikky Rooksby
Last five books read?
1. 150 Most Banned Books (thanks, Sherri!)
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
3. The Know-It-All, A.J. Jacobs
4. The Stupidest Angel, Christopher Moore
5. Adams vs. Jefferson, John Ferling

And, in case you were wondering what kind of crap I’ve been working on, I finished writing about eight songs during my vacation last week. I’m still working on recording them. I don’t know why I picked the blues song first. Probably just because I wanted to show off my sloppy guitar playing. Ric the Schmuck should appreciate it, at least. (I thought about calling it just “Am Blues”… ‘cuz it’s in A-minor… get it? Bwahahaha! Shut up.)

3AM Blues

Right-click and save it. The link will disappear after a bit. Though it should be over there in the radio blog for a while.

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