Month: October 2012

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ToyBox

Starboat Willie

NOOOOOOOONOOOOOOOOAnyone who’s wondering what my take on the whole Lucasfilm/Disney/Star Wars Episode VII thing is… I haven’t really got one yet. We have no idea what’s going to be done with it. And if I don’t like what I see coming down the pike, I can sit it out like I have with the glut of novels in years past. It’s no skin off my back. I’ve got the original untouched, pre-special-edition movies on my home media server. I’ve gotten what I need out of the deal. (Seen above: the internet reacts, as if a million geeks suddenly cried out, and suddenly kept crying out, despite the fact that the best science fiction movie of this century’s first decade was actually WALL-E.)

As often happens, my son saw this coming before I did… … Read more

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Critters Home Base

Hot dog > chilly dog

Winter seems to be arriving ahead of schedule. When it gets down to where water outside will freeze, the dogs come in. Gabby is still too hyper to not be kenneled, while Xena just hangs out by my door. I put a space heater in the doorway to my bathroom tonight to heat that “hallway” connecting the bathroom, my room, Little E’s room, and the rest of the house; it’s more of a glorified alcove than an actual hallway. I’d put a blanket on the concrete floor for Xena to sleep on – she likes her blanket, and this is her blanket.

And this was our conversation:

Mrs.: You’re going to put this space heater here?
Me: Yeah.
Mrs.: Are you going to move Xena’s blanket out into the living room?
Me: Nope.
Mrs.: She won’t like that heater blowing right on her.
Me: I’ve moved things around so the blanket won’t catch on fire. She’ll still sleep in the hallway. She’ll be fine.

Fast forward a couple of hours later…

Xena (hanging off the edge of the blanket so the heater blows right on her): ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz… Read more

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...And Little E Makes 3 Critters

A checkered history

Little E got a Super Mario Bros. checkers set for his birthday. We play it a lot. He’s gotten frighteningly good. He plays a pretty mean game – enough that his old man sits there, scratching his head, and mutters “How do I get out of this one?”

Checkers

Here we see Olivia conferring with the boy on strategy. Donkey Kong and Blue Toad are impartial observers.

Puckers

So is Puck.

A good time was had by all!… Read more

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Funny Stuff

The pumpkin patch and other favorites

You know, I keep hearing about the pumpkin patch at this time of year, and it gets me worked up every year. How irresponsible of them to make the pumpkin so that the end user has to patch it immediately upon purchase. If they’d kept the pumpkin in beta long enough to work out the bugs, they could’ve shipped it as a working product. Ridiculous.

Pumpkin patch

Elizabethan-era break-up letter: “‘Tis not thee, ’tis me.”

There once was a guy with a blog
Who was busy with a book o’ the log
The results are quite cool
You might even drool
(Non-sequitur about volcanic fog)… Read more