Schwarzenegger Musicals

Have y'alls seen these?

Some more Windows in our lives

Here are some more examples of Windows in our lives.

Recently (January 16th, 2010) my wife and I visited the the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa (IMAX theater). While there, we observed (laughed at) how many of their exhibits featured Windows based applications (crashed). For instance, over in the children's section this exhibit purportedly allowed children to mix and match colors.



Good thing daddy knows how to roll a trackball and click the Color Splash icon on the desktop!

Over in the planetarium we observed such astronomical marvels as Saturn's rings and the dreaded Solar System Shutdown warning.



There. Now, my phone has some free space. Next November when my phone runs out of space, look forward to "What I did in December of 2010".

Statshot(s)

A look at the graphs that shape your world.

(Courtesy Graphjam)






Your ability to enjoy this movie depends entirely on your ability—once the big SF Plot Element is revealed—to accept that the movie isn't regular drama but is, in fact, SF Lite and raise your suspension of disbelief accordingly.



Seriously. I think video game graphics peaked with HL2. Everything since has just been unnecessary bling.



No, really. Am I? Because from a sheer spending viewpoint, apparently for me dead cats rate WAAAAAY above people in tsunami-prone and earthquake-stricken third-world nations.

Too Funny Not to Link

MS Paint-style pictures of dogs and a funny story.

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html

Don't be drinkin' nuthin'. You have been warned.

How 'Bout Some Halloween Music?

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Does anyone remember the point of marriage? Is there a point to marriage? I really can't remember anymore. I think it's "do what feels good".

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/love-objects/article1259075/

So we have a woman who married the Eiffel Tower, a woman who married an amusement park ride, a guy who's dating a sound board, and a woman in a relationship with an archery bow.

Nothing wrong with any of it right? I mean, if sexuality is about what makes us happy, we can't object to this anymore than we can object to someone attracted to a member of his sex (I find it interesting how many of the arguments in the article mirror those made by homosexuality advocates).

Perhaps the LGBT community should be called the LGBTNPBO community? Of course, many of them probably don't want to be grouped with those other weirdos, which leads to the hilarious claim of "my sexual perversion isn't as weird as your sexual perversion" which would also be a great bumper sticker.

So if, fifty years ago, I wanted to write a SF story about how bizarre the future was, and I wrote about how in fifty years people married inanimate objects, would it be dismissed as completely implausible? And if some people still somehow found it even remotely within the realm of consideration, how could I alienate even those readers with wild and far flung imaginations?

Ah, I know!

A Taiwanese woman marries herself!

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69L3H720101022

(And spends $5675 on it, too!) Surely this is too far fetched for even the mind-bending and imaginative world of speculative fiction.

But what could possibly be wrong with this? What makes her marriage any less valid than yours?

I actually feel sorry for the woman. "Hell," Fr. McHugh would say, "is an eternity of saying 'me'."

(H/T Mike Flynn)

Pics on Teh Interwebz

So there are pics of my wife all over the interwebz.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=10&cId=3182053

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/blizzcon-photo-gallery/blizzcon-photo-gallery/1415399/12

http://us.blizzard.com/blizzcon/photogalleries/index.xml?1

So what do you think of her as a blonde?