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Pop Quiz 8 – Prospective Disney-Marvel Team-Ups
Throughout the years, Marvel has had great match-ups, like the Hulk and Thing or Spider-Man and Wolverine. Now with the merger by Disney, it offers up even more pairings. (Imagine Kingdom Hearts and all of the Square properties. I wonder how Universal Studios (host of the Heroes Island section of their park) reacted to the news. And a Pixar-Marvel match-up? Excelsior, John Lasseter. Excel-si-freaking-yor.)
Click here for the survey, my Facebook stalkers.
The Punisher and Goofy is all Devin’s idea.
There’s something strange in the neighborhood
Thanks, Devin, for shedding the light on paranormal activity at Bookman’s.
Actually, I think I always guessed that place didn’t fall within normal…
I wonder if we’ll see a resurgence of foam-based proton packs.
What season is it?
I actually paid attention this year during the Fantasy Football draft. I’m mildly excited for my roster.
You guessed it – Ochocinco!
Did you hear about Setentacinco in yesterday’s game?
I upgraded to Snow Leopard this morning. Some non-advertised changes are there and I love it. One simple one is the default for screenshots. I can’t tell you how many “Picture 1″s I have at school. Now it details when the shot was taken.
The live preview of documents is pretty cool. You could do Quick View with the spacebar and read the file without opening it. Now you can watch the video or flip through the pages much easier, all without opening a program. Very time-saving. (I use Quick View to sort through my deluge of librarian documents.)
I was at ~6GB room left on my hard drive and now I have ~17GB as of this writing.
It’s very useful, like this:
And to think it started by forgetting my lunch
Today involved:
- No belt. For the first two hours I had to teach while standing like this guy:
- The revelation on Facebook that I am Batman – the belt and lunch are just one facet of the utility of it all
- I borrowed some shoelace-ish material from the janitor’s closet and fashioned a rudimentary belt while hiding in the server room
- A long-since vanquished evil has awoken from its eight-year slumber
- My wife brought me lunch and book two to Skeleton Creek…Devin, one of the new students is hounding me for book two of Generation Dead. Thoughts?
- Scott Westerfeld posted a link to audio from his new book, Leviathan. I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but I’m in the works to get him to our school sometime in the spring
- I got to hang out with my niece:
- I’m anxiously awaiting this:
New Wii peripheral simulates a facepalm
As our league’s Fantasy Football draft approaches this Saturday, I wonder what it will be like since I have not bought Madden for a couple of iterations.
I mean, how many variations on guys in tights hugging each other can you get?
Companies are trying to grab new followers, experimenting with different immersion technologies. I think this first one is very limited.
The next one just scares me.
Yes, that’s an actual patent and yes, that’s the artwork their marketing department really thought would engage the imagination.
I think that they are intending this:
for games featuring these:
where I believe that they are missing out on these:
Inherit
Context: This was sparked by this past week’s Faithnotes.
If
1999 Kosovo
1972 Londonberry
and
1536 Vilvoorde
are our responses…
What should His be?
We adopt new tactics
Emotional Terrorists
Conform to my will
Or we blow this unity apart
Two year-old desires matched with thirty year-old resources
We cause trouble for our family
We deserve the wind
But He is the same from
Red Sea
to
Galilee
Creatures of dust complain
Life is too slow, too quick
And yet
We are the praise of His glory?
He is not insane
He has not handed the kingdom over without purpose
Adopted children?
Chosen?
Christ is the perspective
Art from the past few days
Especially with the How to Draw a Pointillism Princess, I think it’s time for some art.
Those of the Kriege der Sterne persuasion will recognize this as the hermit who has been living for generations on Korriban in cliff-side ruins entangled by a cactus swarm.
Even if you didn’t play on Saturday (although you were invited, @bessiejo), the hermit may look similar to another bearded loon.
You may have heard that there is a Star Wars vs. Star Trek thing on the InterTubes. Have you seen the LEGO version of that fight?
On the topic of loons, I found this scrap of paper from a year ago. I can’t figure out what the epsilon I was talking about. (Editor’s Note: Check the comments for a hint at the solution. I remembered it.)
Don’t worry, Mom. It’s not like I write haikus about the library or anything.
I can’t take credit for the Bell Beast. Go visit the Sidewalk Driver for more details on coping with carrot carcinogens.
To fulfill the cutemetrics for this post, here is my youngest eating a half-pound burrito:
I guess if it’s metrics, it should be the 0.22679618 kg burrito.
Songs stuck in my head right now?
Danse by Caedmon’s Call
All creation moves in a cosmic danse
Before the Lord her King;
and the rythms, the reason, the rhyme
of the danse pulses within everything.
And the universe wheels and whirls like
a dervish in perfect seven-step time
The Lord made the Danse,
He taught her the steps, and He causes the songs to shine.We must danse, danse, danse
danse in God’s honor.
We must yield all our steps unto the King.
We must danse, danse, danse
danse in God’s honor.
Let His praises ring throughout the earthAdam and Eve dansed in Eden’s environs
Early in earth’s morning air
They named all the animals musical names
Glorious potentiality shared.
But Lucifer sang out a serpentine song
And offered death’s danse as a token.
And pausing to listen Adam missed his step;
Earth’s harmony in the danse broken.We must danse, danse, danse
danse in God’s honor.
We must yield all our steps unto the King.
We must danse, danse, danse
danse in God’s honor.
Let his praises ring throughout the earth.Jesus dansed into the world
Singing His heavenly song.
He taught the Danse to those who would
listen and learn as He moved along.
But the steps of His Danse led to a cross
where He died while the haters mocked on.
But He Dansed through death’s arms
and over Hell’s gate and in three days
dansed forth from His tombWe must danse, danse, danse
danse in God’s honor.
We must yield all our steps unto the King.
We must danse, danse, danse
danse in God’s honor.
Let His praises ring throughout the earth (x2)He is Lord by Hillsong
Oh blessed lamb once slain
Will reign forever more
His hands once bound now save
Our God will never failHe is Lord
He is Lord
Sings my soul
He is Lord
And He lives
Yes He lives
I’m alive ’cause Jesus lives‘Tis at the cross of Christ
Where earth and heaven meet
Where sin is overcome
To God the victoryAnd now
Let the earth resound with praise
For our Saviour God He reigns
He is high and lifted up
Arise
For the King of glory waits
He is coming back again
Really? That’s the best photo you’ve got?
You couldn’t wait until he was done drinking?
X-Ray Art: Video Games
Anyone else agree with me that these are things of beauty?
Check out more of what happens when an x-ray tech stays after hours at the lab.
I’m sure there’s a metaphor here somewhere:
Shaq vs. Reality
While tuning in to watch Sliders, I came across this.
“The greatest athlete ever formed. Look it up. Google it.”
Overheard in my new book
While less-than-sanely waiting to send off the epic poem project, I’ve begun the next book that resides in my head.
It is not entirely in poem. It is, however, in a much different tone.
“Excuse me. Can I loot you?”
“What?”
“Can. I. Loot you? You know, steal your items?”
“I wish you wouldn’t. I’m rather attached to my possessions.”
“Well, I noticed that you don’t have big hair, so I’m guessing you’re not a hero. And I know for a fact that you are not a snappy dresser, so you can’t be a villain.”
Overstreet Accused of Performance-Enhancing Genie Use
Just because he carries a lamp with him everywhere he goes is no reason to throw allegations around.
I find it ironic that no one has mentioned Babe Ruth’s Groundhog Day scandal.
Perhaps posterity forgives you for living the same day over and over again, doing mainly batting practice and hooking up with Andie McDowell.
Have you seen the Squirrelizer? Tons of fun. It’s in reference to this.
Bureaucracy Fail
This is one artist’s rendering of my book order still being held up, even though I put the order in before the start of the school year.
I did finish Schooled by Gordon Korman today. Expect a review on the professional site. My own personal choice reading began, as well.
I love Star Wars books. Even though I am most certain that this guy will, in some way, perhaps betray another character, I still enjoy the experience.
On the topic of China, ska, and beards…
You’re right, Devin. What won’t my people cover?
This video reminds me of Really Hairy Guy, but I filmed that beard growth over the course of a few minutes. True story. (Not really.)
Check out a hiker traveling across China…with ska and a beard.
The Longest Way 1.0 – one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.
Monsters all up in here
The following bloggh post may disturb you. If you are of the squeamish type or have known heart conditions, may I recommend unicorns?
Did you know that toads shed their skin? Picture me looking in on an aquarium and wondering what in the two moons of Mars was going on with the toad’s melted-looking foot and the stringy stuff caught in its mouth.
Amphibians are much more resourceful than reptiles – they eat their shed skin.
Blech.
I wonder what life would be like without frantic Google searches like this one.
The toad now has a log, some pond rocks, and way too many crickets.
Crickets being cannibals. The many wonders of a junior high library.
I have a prediction about District 9. Check back after the cat.
This is not a cat. This is a hot dog octopus from today’s lunch.
This is the cat.
Having seen only one trailer for District 9, I predict that there will be two factions of the alien establishment. The one will set up the other with a bioagent that turns humans into robots/slaves to make the human government give into their hatred. By the time we realize that we all share common desires, too much bloodshed will have transpired for true comaraderie to occur.
It doesn’t mean I’m no less intrigued to go see it. Not pumped, just intrigued.
I love Donald Miller’s intentional understatements.
Normally I try to not put huge chunks of text up on the bloggh (like the district e-mails that should come with AR tests), but for you to truly appreciate the intentional understatement, you’ve got to get the whole chunk from Searching for God Knows What:
…including but not limited to His genealogy, His persecution, and His death. The Messiah had been spelled out as coming from the seed of woman (Gen. 3:15), a descendant of Abraham (Gen. 12:3), a descendant of Isaac (Gen. 17:19), a descendant of Jacob (Num. 24:17), from the tribe of Judah (Gen. 49:10), heir to the throne of David (Isa. 9:7), to be born in Bethlehem (Mic. 5:2), to be born of a virgin (Isa. 7:14), to flee to Egypt (Hos. 11:1), to be preceded by a forerunner (Mal. 3:1), to minister in Galilee (Isa. 9:1), to speak in parables (Ps. 78:2-4), to bind up the brokenhearted (Isa. 61:1), to be rejected by the Jews (Isa. 53:3), to enter Jerusalem triumphantly (Zech. 9:9), adored by infants (Ps. 8:2), betrayed by a dear friend (Ps. 41:9), betrayed for thirty pieces of silver (Zech. 11:12), silent to accusations (Isa. 53:7), spat on and struck (Isa. 50:6), to serve as a vicarious sacrifice (Isa. 53:5), to be crucified with criminals (Isa. 53:12), to be pierced through the hands and feet (Zech. 12:10), to be sneered at and mocked (Ps. 22:7), to have His clothes distributed by gamblers (Ps. 22:18), to be forsaken by God (Ps. 22:1), to be killed bones intact (Ps. 34:20), to be pierced in the side (Zech. 12:10), and buried with the rich (Isa. 53:9), to be resurrected (Pss. 16:10, 49:15), and to be ascended to God’s right hand (Ps. 68:18).
And to consider all these prophecies, it is a pretty tough list to fulfill. It would take a lot of work to get it all done, much of it, such as being preceded by John the Baptist, fleeing to Egypt, being killed by crucifixion and yet not having a bone broken, being recognized as a baby and rising from the dead is stuff you can’t control unless you are, in fact, God.
“…it is a pretty tough list to fulfill.” That’s awesome.
Photo-hogging squirrel
You’ve probably seen this photo of a Minnesota squirrel interrupting a family photo.
It may become a bigger web phenomenon than the dramatic chipmunk
although, as with anything on the Intertubes, there are bound to be duplicates.
In which I find a toad
Interesting events from today:
- Many prayers/tears were honored by God and the district/insurance decided that they had been wrong and should cover the birth of my youngest. This has been a big growing event for me in reminding myself that timing looks different from eternity.
- My oldest had her character buy a timer in Animal Crossing to monitor how long she played video games. I’m very blessed.
- Late last night/early this morning, @vafer set up a really cool demo of my book. Insanity has become reality. Very impressive stuff. Everyone who saw it today at school went nuts for it.
- @jeremypoehls got a free 50″ plasma TV off of Craigslist. The TV was offered up because it was broken, but perhaps a small resistor or capacitor may be a $3 fix. I love the irony that it is Hans Christian Orsted’s birthday today.
- I saved a toad from a lawnmower at school today. The science department was excited, for various motivations, and loaned me an aquarium. The library now has a mascot.
The Battle Analysis
In case you were wondering about the make-up of “the battle“:
Some readers may need to be re-acquainted with these wise words.
Which is more frightening, the amount of lasers or a monotone guy named Deep Six trolling the local river?
Thank, Nerduo, for the entertainment.