Weekend over. Begin paper turning in sequence tomorrow...

The trombone mailing list is precognitive. Someone asked about the seven words you can't say on television (and all the other ones, too.) a couple days ago, and got the How Stuff Works page on swearing. Today, in the DRT listings, lo and behold, that page doth appear. Yet another fine example of being able to predict the future... or of odd coincidences. You'll get a chance to possibly test out those new words and phrases when you consider Spam Cupcakes.

Unopened soda cans are a treasure. When combined with a Beating Stick, the game of fizzball is born. I've played one of its variants at least once, where there was no beating stick, merely allowing it to strike the ground after being shaken and hurled into the air. Much fun to be had by both cans and humans.

The person in this articles takes more than merely a dim view of most organized, book-carrying religions: he makes them out to be confidence men, swindling the willing dupes with grace and aplomb.

Lastly, happy birthday to the Canadian with not enough time on his hands, too much strange porn on his machine, and more than enough wit and snark to go around. Vote lordmork, or he'll hit you. Yes, you.

One down, two to turn in.

Major group project = forty pages all told. Turned in on time. One version marked official and will be graded. Hopefully, major individual grade will be back by Wednesday. Both other major papers due this week are printed off/submitted. So they're ready to go. This week looks good for doing what little work I have left for the semester. I'm sitting really good now.

From our neutral-state diplomatically-friendly people at Men's Health - Eighteen Silly Human Tricks (that work.)

Duckplanet - Hazel Green's website of choice. Actually, there are a lot of people that I suspect would be attending that Duckfest convention if they knew it was there. I'd go. Assuming, of course, that I had the money, the free time, and all the other things that I don't seem to have right now and probably won't for a very long time.

And for the people who are not as fond of the mass commercialism masquerading as a Christian holiday, there are two things for you, the first is the Christmas Resistance Movement, trying to take a large part of the consumerist frenzy out of what should be a holiday celebrating life and rebirth. The second is the perpetually erudite, intelligent, and wickedly accurate with a frying pan greyweirdo, who explains why he celebrates the VEWPRF.

Getting the dander up of anyone who suspected that Diebold was engineering the last election, the General Accounting Office indicates that it's probably the 2004 election was rigged. Too many statistcal anomalies, insecure procedures, and other questionable practices to say that things were on the up-and-up. If this takes root, gains widespread credibility among Joe Average and pisses him off, what happens next? Mass riots? An overthrow? Or do they somehow manage to put enough pressure on the right places to draw up articles of impeachment and dissolution for the entire Administration? Or is it likely to be ignored, buried, and told that it's a lie by our friends at Fox, so that Joe Average continues to be worried about the things he should be, like gay marriage?

Meeeeme x2! (It's be x3, but all you have to know is that I came out as Babylon Five.)

You Are 40% Boyish and 60% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch. Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes. You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them. You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.

How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

Yep. I'm more XX than XY. That explains a lot about my behavior.

( Santa's letter )

Already, I've been given a bone-marrow transplant and had genocide committed on one of my batches of clone troopers. Who knows what else is in store?

Apparently, I should say ( Ia! Ia! )

And that's it for me. Tomorrow's class is the only one that I'll have work for next week due in (well, the one I had today has one extra project, but it shouldn't be too hard at all.)