The Left won't begin to take domestic terrorism seriously until Starbucks' start blowing up.

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You inhumane bastard.

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I just deleted a spam email from "Glamour Shots" for holiday family portraits. Isn't that the company that specializes in sexy pinup style photography?

I feel like I need to go scrub my monitor now.

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I'm doing that National Novel Writing Month insanity.

I haven't decided if I'm going to post chapters as I finish them or not.

Rachael is insisting that my story include zombies. I've been known to write erotica (hey, Penthouse counts dammit!). An interesting fusion idea occurs, but the guys over at the Ministry are already debating related details, so I think (probably) not.

Other folks who are crazy too:

Buckethead
JohnL
Dawn
Barb
Pratt
Brandon

More ink than sense, as my Dad would say.

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I'm really swamped right now between work and school and home life, so posting may be light for a few days. In the meantime, here's a picture for you:

Leave a caption in the comments and who knows, maybe I'll award a prize or something to the best.

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Looking at the counters, I see that Rocket Jones went over 300,000 page visits last night. Thanks to everyone, even you bots.

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That one up there kinda sucks, don't it?

Update: Not that one. That one's cool. I'm talking about the ick one from before.

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DirecTV has this spot that's been on heavy rotation during football games that shows this cute 4 year old kid coming in to see his dad.

"Dad, can you read me a story?"

The kid notices the TV and looking crestfallen, says, "Oh, football."

And dad, playing the hero, tells his tot that "I can freeze time" with a snap of his finger and a clandestine touch of the remote.

Oh puh-leeze.

Today's four year olds know what the freakin' freeze control is. Hell, by that age they've already hacked the passworded parental control block.

Better check up on older sister, dad. The kid is distracting you for a reason. "Read me a story?" Ground the little scamster and go find the mastermind. Catch 'em red handed, administer punishments.

Then watch your football game uninterupted. As it should be.

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A friend is looking for a "Thomas Jefferson" style font, where the "s" is written almost like an uncrossed small letter "f" (sample here). This style was used for early printed versions of the Declaration of Independence.

I've found a font designed based on Jefferson's handwriting, but it has the normal "s" and it's not what he wants.

If you can point me to the right place, font fanatics, I'd be most obliged.

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Kids, if you see one of these on the front porch:

Just head right on by to the next house, because you can pretty much count on their candy already being gone.

I'd pass on the brownies too, if they offer.

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Somehow, Rocket Jones is number 1 on Google for "how to dress up as buckethead".

I know this because someone got here by doing just that search. Either a lost lamb or a really, really stupid bot.

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Do you think Captain Kirk was overcompensating all that time?

My last comment on the subject, I promise.

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1 (I'm choosing to ignore your obsession here.)

Nice logo!!!!! Me like a lot.

Posted by: Blogeline at October 28, 2005 11:41 AM (YMz4J)

2 Thanks! She's my Halloween banner, although I don't remember why I had it listed that way. Maybe I put "Rocket Jones" up in orange or something. I'll have to pretty it all up together, quote and all, and add her to the regular rotation.

Posted by: Ted at October 28, 2005 12:21 PM (blNMI)

3 Why on earth would you stop?

Posted by: buckethead at October 28, 2005 12:25 PM (ztNrs)

4 uh, getting back to kirk... if we take a look at his crew we see:
- spock was smarter & more logical
- scotty was more passionate
- dr. mccoy was simultaneously more humane towards the crew & cynical towards other races
- lt. uhura... well she was just too darn sexy for the lot of them.

so darn right he was always overcompensating in order to exert his supremacy over all.

Posted by: michele at October 28, 2005 01:45 PM (snduz)

5 I think Shatner had short man syndrome, he figured he had to overact to make sure everyone noticed him. Either that or to distract people from staring at Uhura's chest all episode.

Posted by: Oorgo at October 28, 2005 06:57 PM (lM0qs)

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George Takei, best known as Mr. Sulu of the original Star Trek, has transported out of the closet.

It's kind of a shame that this is still considered news.

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This line, from a story about Israeli troops arresting a senior leader of Islamic Jihad:

[Hamas] has largely scaled back its attacks since the truce declaration.

So I guess the word truce now means "we won't murder as many of you as before."

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My drop light died last night. I've had that thing for somewhere around 30 years, it was one of the old fashioned light bulb types. I've got the portable halogen setups as well, but sometimes the old drop light was exactly what was needed. Now I've got to replace it, which means a trip to the hardware store. Yay!

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Congrats on winning the World Series. I didn't have a dog in this hunt, because I don't particularly follow either Chicago or Houston. If the Astros would've won, I'd have been happy for them as well.

But the good Chicago team won. You know, the non-loser ones.

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WWII, as an online interactive game:

deGaulle: eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick

Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army

paTTon: yah hurry the fock up

Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded

deGaulle: this is fockin weak u guys suck

*deGaulle has left the game.*

And it just gets better from there.

Follow the links over at The Ministry of Minor Perfidy and read the whole thing. Warning though, your co-workers will be looking in to see why you're making those strangled choking noises at your desk.

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My wife and I, discussing an idiot she had to deal with at her workplace:

Me: Welcome to Stupidit-- Welcome to Stupidititt-- Welcome to Stupidville.

Wife: And you're their spokesman.

Sometimes, I'm their king.

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I stayed up until midnight last night, happily hacking away at this strange new universe called PHP. This morning, my body followed it's normal weekday routine and woke me up at 4am. Knowing I had more homework to catch up with, I jumped right into functions, arrays, objects, string manipulation and all that other geeky wonderfulness. It's big fun, peoples, and if you don't think so, then odds are good that your job will never be outsourced to India.

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