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Less Papageno, more eating quail. I walk the dangerous border of breaking Man Law by posting photos from a bachelor party. This is the risk I take for you, reader. (Grandparents, stay tuned. Cute photos to follow.)(Peter, Laurel, and The Master Predictor: check for the picture of the country club version of the greengrocer’s apostrophe.)

Have you ever been to Bill Johnson’s Big Apple?

It stands out as being garish on Van Buren, which is saying quite a bit. But the serving staff is great. Our waitress was Ronda. I had to do my best to not bust out as Brian Williams.

On the topic of busting out: I’m glad to see Bill dressed up for the bachelor party.

They decorate in sawdust, so you know the meat is good. The quality of the establishment is proportional to the surface area of sawdust multiplied by the number of animals on the roof.

Endless Ribs, Endless Ribs…who ordered the jalapeno poppers? Jeremy, the bachelor party tradition lives on. (And yes, that was darn good salmon. I stick to my principles.)

I was a little wary when I saw that they import cattle from Crete:

I love the look on the guy’s face in the bottom-left corner.

As anyone who survived World War Z or is a fan of Simon Pegg knows, in any restaraunt/pub you must locate a defense against the undead:

Thanks, Mike. If zombies attack, I know I can trust you. Unless you become Zombie Mike.

Next was LazerQuest. It should be noted that in a world of “Phyborg” and “Grand Moff Crotch” (as Andrew told the embarrassed girl who had to call out score cards at the end, “It’s my last name. Please don’t laugh.”), class was immediately added to the fray.

A. Hamilton and A. Burr. Guess who was the Federalist and who was the assassin?

Those high school kids didn’t know what hit them while the Father of Banking sniped them from his perch across the arena. Other names worth mentioning: you know it’s a group of brothers when you get names like “Tax Collector” and “The Preacher”. The irony? The Preacher officiated the wedding. (Devin, I was tempted to enter “Shepherd Book” as my name.)

At the wedding they had a Point and Shoot camera set up next to the guestbook. A fun addition was props:

My grandma’s cousin’s neighbor’s niece from The Motherland was in attendance:

Lovely crowd reaction

No matter how fancy the place, proper punctuation is prime.


Posted five feet from each other
I don’t know which will hurt The Futile Ohm more, a punctuation error or a lack of uniform typography. And that photo outside of the Women’s Locker Room (not the Locker’s Room)? Imagine what I would have to say to explain why a big, hairy man is taking photos outside of the door. Thankfully I rolled a 20 on my Stealth vs. Non-bathrooms check.

And now the random photo stream:

New category!

I remember clicking and refreshing multiple times to see if different stores had Wii Fit in stock.

This time, my daughter is signed up for preschool.

So you know, registration opens at 10am. Last time the class was full at 10:06am. We are in, thankfully. I can’t imagine if you tried using the touchtone phone option.

“Press 1 for….aaah!! Hurry up! Hurry!!”

Upon bloodied fields two armies meet
Dark to crush Light beneath its feet.
White King watches Chaos unfold
Fires still burn on the last stronghold.

I’m sad that I have to take down Vanguard. It’s not deleted, it’s just switched to Private. Sorry about that, Dad. Feed Stealers had locked into the Vanguard category and would be automatically adding my content to their site every time I posted. Not cool.

First Lorrd.com jacking my Star Wars posts, now this. When it’s my Star Wars content…meh. That’s my fanboy rant. But when it’s a book I want to finish before The Big Birthday?

The doctor makes his way down a safe road
as the delivered package begins to explode.

How do I know that you’re patient?

1. You’re still using Internet Explorer.
2. You put up with IE’s rendering of my Sire for Hire sidebar slideshow.

I guess IE decided to render my Flash slideshow with a CLICK sound every time a new slide appeared. Tres 1970s Pentagon briefing… I have now simplified that ad (as well as turned the azcentral embedded video into a link (why autoplay? Is this Xanga?)).

For everyone’s information:
Monday Night Football, you are on notice.

I left my school at 3:30pm to visit my brother across town. I just arrived. 6:00pm.

Across town as in up the mountain to Flagstaff across town?

YA news: The Clique (very popular series by Lisi Harrison) is going to be a straight-to-DVD release on Nov. 18. Will it be better than Stormbreaker and Eragon? It’s a little easier with more “Did you see what she’s wearing?” and less “I, the Shadeslayer, banish thee to the depths of depthiness with my swordy sword!”

“You can wipe a memory. But can you wipe away a soul?”

Most definitely I am excited bout Dollhouse, Master Predictor. February 13, my friends.

But a production shutdown? When will they learn that…
Devin, clue them in about signal stoppage.

For those of you who know what a grammar freak I am, this should scare you.

I typed up a parent letter that got sent home today. It read “one of the way’s we can…”. Argh!!

And then I just noticed this in my fashion show costume spreadsheet:

Back to writing those intros…

I’m going to be interviewed by the Republic (do they have an Order 66?) tomorrow afternoon about the fashion show. I don’t think they realize they’re interviewing a crazy person.

Should news sources publish up-to-the-minute tallies of votes in an election?

Also, should my district have given me access to a district-sponsored domain name?

District Logo Rev 2.0:

First, let me lull you in by talking about Star Wars: Force Unleashed or the Apprentice or Darth Vader or any number of search keywords.
Hey, I could even put up a Star Wars parody for Mike:

But here’s the deal:
You may have noticed a certain site, lorrd.com (please don’t visit there), takes my articles and posts them on their own site. It seems to be any time that I mention Star Wars, like from this screenshot:

Now, I understand the occasional picture rip. Yes, it does slow down a person’s server, but with Google it makes it really easy for people to just snag a URL.

But to copy an entire article? Not cool.

So, here’s the experiment. I looked up lorrd.com to see who owns it:

Ehsan Ahmad Rehan
G8 Model Town
Lahore
Punjab
042
PK

I removed his e-mail and phone number to give him another chance to correct the situation. I have e-mailed him.

I also commented on one of the sites:

Now comes the experiment: will lorrd.com automatically rip this article and put it on theirs? I’m curious.

For a good cause (repairing my garage door) I am putting up some books, games, and DVDs on eBay. in no way do I solicit you for anything more than just a click to boost that little counter thing.

Here are the items:

1. Sonic Heroes
2. Parasite Eve
3. Myst III
4. Star Trek: Invasion
5. Legends of Wrestling II
6. Finding Flow
7. Cabin Boy - “Wanna buy a monkey?”
8. Secret of NIMH

I’ll put a link in the store and sidebar to my eBay account.

Real quick: I love how the Body of Christ is diverse - many different cultures, many different generations; many parts, one body. Even in one location, many variations. This morning, played Happy Day. Tonight, just got back from singing Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus in the congregation. Lovers of Jesus through the generations (had fun talking about William Tyndale and Fanny Crosby with Danjo tonight).
I must say that I kept thinking of Grandpa H tonight singing some of those songs, like “Great is thy Faithfulness”, belting it out in the pew at the old Methodist church. I do miss him, Mom. Dad, no “Lord of the Dance” from the old Presbyterian church, though.

Everyone else, go check out Jeremy’s new blog. If you need help subscribing to RSS feeds, I can help. ([cough]Laurel[/end cough])

By the way: If you are a site specializing in hymn lyrics, please don’t set up MIDI files to play automatically. I love hymns, don’t love websites from 1996.