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Desert Yeti #2

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I was going to protest SOPA by putting a black bar on my post.

Don’t you feel the full force of a simulated censored Internet now?

My students put Google’s protest into words really well without realizing it:

“Man! Some moron drew a dirty picture with Google Doodle and now it got Google blocked.”

It’s not too effective when every day is SOPA Day.

One thing SOPA PIPA has going for it: it sounds like a really tasty treat I used to order at Pancho’s. The trick was to put honey on the inside of the SOPA PIPA. Pancho’s was great because every time you raised the tiny flag, you got more SOPA PIPAS.

Slade, here’s another Desert Yeti for you:
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Tonight was funny on the writing front. I was one word short of my writing target for the night. I could either fall short or agonize over the next section. I chose the latter. Spooky scene, though. Sheol will do that to you.

Tier-Sprechschule

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Have you seen the article about Nazi scientists training dogs to talk? One apparently said, “Hungry! Give me cakes!” It’s sad that, when I get home from work, I’m on the same mental level as a Nazi dog.

Don’t be surprised when we start seeing the Gorilla Grodd threat make it to the front page like it deserves. We can’t rest in our victory over Red Skull. It’s not like we have an unending supply of heroes to thaw out and guys in red spandex have as many identity crises as guys with green rings.

Cobra Commander is Canadian

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Very few news sources will tell you that the people of Sudan voted this week to split the country in two. It’s big news that will hopefully lead to peace after many years of genocide. A vocal minority in North Sudan have threatened to step up a cleansing, but hopefully that doesn’t happen. Why is it always countries in the north, like North Korea, the North Vietnamese, and North Carolina?

What our news sources are going to focus on is how Marvel is designing mascots for the NHL (like they did for the NBA).

Looking at the photo, doesn’t it seem like Cobra Commander plays for Montreal?

The Dark Knight Rises

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I’m actually excited about the casting of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman:

Whether she’s smart in real life or not, her characters usually trend towards the intelligent side. (In Physics, she’s the Anti-camerondiaz particle.)

The one I’m most excited about is Christian Bale returning alongside Chris Nolan. Without Nolan, it would be like X-Men without Bryan Singer. (The Movies That Shall Not Be Named.)

Tom Hardy, the Russian-ish guy in Inception, will be playing Bane:

Hopefully they won’t use too much CG on him or at least blend it well. It’s funny – I know Inception used a ton of computerized graphics (unless they took a real city that was scheduled to be folded upon itself and then filmed it), but the focus was on character interactions and not on explosions. (An overwhelming emphasis on explosions the French call “Le Michaelbay Effet”.)

Cathypocalypse Issue 2: Cowabunga Cathy

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Cowabunga Cathy

I feel that I’ve done a halfway decent job of recreating the Eastman and Laird fun of the early 90s.

Oh, that’s right. That’s when mutated turtles were supposed to be gritty. Sorry for the use of the word ‘fun’.

Watching Jim Henson make Muppets makes me want to make Muppets. So cool.

If you haven’t watched the a capella Inception trailer, remedy that immediately. My kids still crack up, which is a testament to its genius.

Both my fantasy teams won this week, which is a testament to the power of injured reserves/back-up quarterbacks.

I’m 20,000 words into my steampunk novel, which is exciting. (Thanks, Dad, for loaning me the books. Hopefully your favorite President doesn’t get too mangled by the end.) 20,000 words; only 50,000 more. It’s times like these when I’m glad that OSX Spotlight does arithmetic instantly in the search box.

This next link is for anyone who plays Star Wars Saga Edition and/or is a reference nerd. Jesse found the ultimate index.

The PDF is here.

It brings a tear to my eye because:

  1. It is a thing of beauty.
  2. Now all the books, who people were paid to write and organize, can finally be used.
  3. There are hours of searching on Star Wars nights that we’ll never get back.

Thanks again, Jesse, for the find.

I must also highlight the Futile Ohm again for his Microsoft generosity. The Redmond company is seeping into my brain.

For my nephew

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We made a big choice today. Ink for our Epson printer costs $70. An HP printer was on sale for $70 this weekend at OfficeMax.

We got the printer. It came with ink. (The new printer uses $30 ink.)

I’m really happy since it’s a wireless printer. But what’s really cool is that it’s a 3-in-1, with the scanner and memory card reader and all that also being wireless. Those reception bars are like art to me. The inaugural prints were of my dad with my oldest and then a map of Middle-Earth.

Yep. Sounds about right.

The inaugural scan?

This, for my nephew:
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Click on it to zoom in.

The last Cathy is October 3

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Ack! Mark your calendars. The last Cathy comic strip is October 3. The illustrator says that the decision is agonizing and excruciating. Yep, sounds like a Cathy strip. This quote sums it all:

The comic strip also provided her with a great vehicle to vent, she said.

“You can go bathing suit shopping and come home and … get back at the swimwear industry,” Guisewite said.


Cathy – You killed newspaper comics.

Some SEI encouragement for my brother

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I installed a plug-in today to search for related posts and create links when you click on a post’s title. As with the Improbability Drive I installed in the bloggh, this new addition is great for viewing old posts that I had forgotten about. First off, click here for a song I had forgotten about and then read this comic, specifically brought back for my brother: