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Just in case you're going through early withdrawal pangs.

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Mookie has decided to hang up the ol' blog jammies. Trust me, she's not kidding when she claims to be short of time to do everything. She just had to drop Algebra III/Trig at school because there wasn't enough hours in the evening to do the homework after Statistics and Physics, plus she's doing the full Drama curriculum and what amounts to Drafting 101 and Carpentry 101.

Posted by: Ted at 06:15 AM | category: Links
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To quote Piper Laurie from Carrie: "... and I liked it!"

she said she found someone who's gonna hold her hand

she said she found someone who's gonna understand

she don't need nobody to be her man

she don't need nobody to be her man

she has a girlfriend now
she has a girlfriend now
she has a girlfriend now she said
"guys don't do no more for me"
-- Reel Big Fish

Posted by: Ted at 06:13 AM | category: Links
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In "Ted's Universe", Fire Engines would be about twice as big, have 4-foot wide tracks instead of wheels and a big honkin' snowplow blade on front. If you can't hear the sirens over your freakin' stereo, then they'll either move you themselves or go right over the top. I'd pay money to see that.

Taking a step into policy-land (since I'm fantasizing here), if you do get injured while being "displaced" by an emergency vehicle, then emergency help would be sent - AFTER - the original call is handled. If you're too stupid to get out of the way of a hootin' and screamin' behemoth bearing down on you, then it shouldn't be a priority to save your miserable contribution to the gene pool.

No, I'm not in a bad mood. Why do you ask?

Posted by: Ted at 06:05 AM | category: Square Pegs
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I watched the World Cup finals last night between Canada and Finland, and between the first and second period they interviewed the head of the players union and the owners representative.

Millionaires arguing with millionaires over who gets a nickel extra before they collectively destroy the league. At least the owner's guy had the decency to acknowlege that this was going to hurt people like concessionaires and ushers, rink workers and back office personnel (the scalpers! who's thinking about the poor scalpers?!?!? ... sorry). When that was mentioned to the player's rep his response was basically "the owners are trying to screw the players". Self-centered bastards. Not that I'm sympathetic to the owners either. Both sides refuse to budge, and I'm so frustrated that I just want to knock heads and pound some perspective into their thick skulls.

Here's an idea: top salary = $4M a year, minimum salary = $1M a year. Teams have salary cap and salary floor (minimum required). Owners guaranteed a profit. Ticket prices are reduced and capped. Extra money; $1M a year to player pension fund (increase if it's already more), and increase advertising and youth hockey outreach programs. Hey, get the NASCAR people in there to pump some life back into hockey.

Silly? You bet. I'm no expert, I don't even play one on the internet. I'm just a pissed off fan.

Posted by: Ted at 05:05 AM | category: Square Pegs
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The Finns played 'em tough, but Canada wins the World Cup of Hockey, 3-2. Great game.

Posted by: Ted at 09:37 PM | category: Square Pegs
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Apricot preserves on whole-wheat Ritz crackers. Yowza!

Ritz cracker blogging, how low can you go?

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I'll never own any of their products or use their services, just because their commercials insult my intelligence and piss me off.

Posted by: Ted at 08:07 PM | category: Square Pegs
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I said "Yo,"

I said "Yo,"

I said "Yo, yo, yo!"

You be getting' older -

Who be gettin' older?

YOU be getting' older!

What?

What?

Even though she's back in Michigan at school, she's grounded.

Posted by: Ted at 05:03 AM | category: Family matters
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Wow, week 1 is over and annika whooped me like a red-headed step child! It should have been closer, but realistically I needed Bret Favre to have a career game to pull it out. And who'd've thought Jamaal Lewis would end up with only 59 lousy yards against the Browns, eh?

On the plus side, I didn't suffer the worst drubbing of the week (administered by Victor) and I still have the best damn cheerleading squad going.

Let's hear it for the Hot Jets!!!

annika, of annika's journal! (yes, that annika. It shows her good taste, my good sportsmanship, and you're just jealous because I've got cheerleaders. Neener neener.
Cindy, of Squipper!
Lemur Girl, of... uh, Lemur Girl!
Lynn S., of Reflections in d minor!
Susie, of Practical Penumbra!
Mookie, of MookieRiffic!
Denita, of Who Tends The Fires!
Jennifer, of Jennifer's History and Stuff!
Heather, of Angelweave!
Kat, of Mostly Fluff!
Nic, of Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax!
LeeAnn, of The Cheese Stands Alone!
Dawn of Dawn Enterprises!
Stevie, of Caught In The XFire!
Emma, of Miss Apropos! (have faith, she'll be back)
Margi, of Margi Lowry! (the artist formerly known as Emma)
Gir, of Your Moosey Fate!
Tink, of Flitting Here and There!
Sarah, of Trying To Grok!
Blogoline, of Blogoline's Journal!
Big Hair, of Left & Right!
Wegglywoo, of On the Beach at the End of the World!
Helen, of Everyday Stranger!

Looking ahead to next week, when I face Vehement Spittle. He was about as pathetic ineffective as I was this week, so I'm looking for a hard fought and competitive matchup next week.

HA! I'm gonna stomp him like roaches fleeing a burning dumpster! You're going DOWN slobber-boy!!!

Posted by: Ted at 04:10 AM | category: Links
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A while back I talked about PDA-compatible blogging (part one and two), and some folks took the idea and ran with it. Here's a list of those blogs that I download and read daily:

Off Wing Opinion
Flying Space Monkey Chronicles
Simon World
DFMoore
Chris Hall's Spacecraft
Jennifer's History and Stuff

Anyone else? If you're wondering about daily hits, well the download itself doesn't count, but I find that I visit most of these sites in the evenings to follow up on interesting links that I found while reading the PDA version.

If your site, or one you know of, offers a PDA version, let me know in the comments. Thanks muchly.

Posted by: Ted at 11:54 AM | category: Links
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Electronic greeting cards, with a little twist (of the knife).

Posted by: Ted at 09:30 AM | category: Links
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The Spacearium isn't updated as often as Space.com, but it's still a pretty cool place to find information about all things space.

And since I'm recylcling links today, here's a massive link collection about life, the universe, and everything.

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Kat's Fun Fonts!

Here's an old post of mine with more font links.

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I'm getting lots of suggestions from folks about the Jamboree and what to do if the NHL tanks the season. I think Victor suggested the ECHL first, and because I'm most familiar with it and it has the largest spread of teams I thought that was a good idea. But other good suggestions have come up. So we'll hash it out in the comments, which way to we go with this (assuming the bastards NHL doesn't pull its collective head out).

1. ECHL

2. AHL (anyone remember the Baltimore Skipjacks? *sniff* I loved those guys)

3. Derek's Rec League

Also, welcome to Matt Navarre of Bad State of Gruntledness (Dallas Stars) and Wendy from Adventures of MomLady (Philadelphia Flyers) to the Jamboree.

The other players are:

VegasBaby - Calgary Flames
Derek - Colorado Avalanche
Catt - Pittsburg Penguins
Jenn - Colorado Avalanche
Heather - St Louis Blues
Dr Funk - Ottawa Senators
GEBIV - Buffalo Sabres
Victor - Washington Capitals
Helen - Dallas Stars
Daniel - Atlanta Thrashers
Gir - Calgary Flames
Pogo - Calgary Flames
Cindy - Montreal Canadiens
Frinklin - Vancouver Canucks
RP - New York Rangers
Tricia - Atlanta Thrashers
Nic - Washington Capitals
Kin - Anaheim Mighty Ducks
Ted (yours truly) - San Jose Sharks

Wanna play? It's easy, click here for details.

Posted by: Ted at 12:32 PM | category: Links
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Those new butter & garlic Ritz crackers? Yowza!

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Maybe I'm just easy to please. I had fond memories of an early Ralph Bakshi animated movie called Wizards, and when it was recently released Mookie got it for me for my birthday.

Like I said, maybe I'm just easy to please, because I thought it held up well. Nobody would ever mistake this for great cinema, and what some people consider weaknesses I found to be strengths. You'll recognize some similarity of style with Bakshi's later Lord of the Rings, and it's somewhat reminiscent of Vaughn Bode's Cheech Wizard comics.

Wizards features some stunningly creative graphics to tell the story. In fact, the biggest disappointment are the conventionally animated portions, because it's pretty damn poor. Not that the story is any great shakes either. There are some funny bits though.

One of my favorites is when Elenor is being held by the fairies, and the fairies are pissed. A monster shows up and starts to raise hell.

Guard: "Uh, Miss? You'd better do something about that thing."

Elenor: "It'd be better if you release me and we all just run away."

I'm not going to talk about the plot, except to say that it's not as bad as some claim.

My suggestion, if you see this, is to just go with the flow. Appreciate the movie for what it is, and don't expect too much. It helps to be easy to please, I guess.

Peace.

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Remember when I posted the link about these guys? A group of radio control hobbyists who built a scale B-52; 300+ pounds, 27 foot wingspan, 8 working miniature jet engines. So very impressive.

It crashed. Before, during, and after video and pictures here.

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1 Ow.

Damn, that thing was a work of art.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 12, 2004 10:01 AM (+S1Ft)

2 Double damn. Looks like it hit the ground pretty hard, too.

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 12, 2004 05:13 PM (88z1C)

3 Gad! How many man hours of work went up in smoke with this project! Maybe they should have taken it to the Burning Man in thr desert, it would have fit right in! My heart goes out to these guys.

Posted by: Big Al at September 12, 2004 05:54 PM (Je73l)

4 It was kind of chilling too, because that flight profile exactly matched a video I saw of a real B52 crashing at an air show several years ago. The buff is just not built to fly when the wings go vertical like that. Spooky parallel.

Posted by: Ted at September 12, 2004 06:06 PM (ZjSa7)

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Canada over Czech Republic, 4-3 in OT. What a game!!!!

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That's the title of the latest release from local independent rap artists DJ Ragz and Headrush. I was gifted a copy of the CD and it's in heavy rotation during my daily commute. Old school yet innovative, if you get a chance to pick this up*, I recommend it.

*I don't see it in the 'store' yet at the linked site, but they do have the earlier Blind Opticz disk.

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