An actual spam subject: “naarf Windows 2003 Server Enterprise”
Perhaps Pinky and the Brain managed to take over Microsoft after all…
Egad! (Poit!)
Category: Entertainment
From what?
Always proofread carfully
Believe it or not, this is on the front of an elementary school!
It kind of reminds me of the “They’re just putting the S in principal” story.
Bad Boys
I am thoroughly sick of the phenomenon I call the Draco Malfoy Effect. This is the process by which young (and not-so-young) women become convinced that not only are evil bad-boy types desirable, but completely reformable. Liking the maverick is nothing new for the Hollywood-hypnotized masses, especially seeing as how he’s so often played by a desirable star. However, liking the villain–the kind who has not yet been definitively shown to possess a heart–to the point that you believe he can be saved through sex with either a) you, b) your Mary Sue, or c) the ingenue of the cast is, to my thinking, simply bizarre.
I’d love to have a discussion on this. Please comment. (Even if you think I’m the one with her head on crooked.)
Nobody has dreams about…..
Fishfax was in a discussion today about dreams and related that she had one about eating pizza with piña coladas. If it were margaritas, I’d really question her sanity.
Cross-platform?
This is from an ad for Comcast cable-modem service that arrived in today’s mail. I almost threw it out, but then I noticed something very odd about the middle picture on the front:
Now it may not be obvious at this resolution, so how about a closer look at the corners:
Wow – that’s the first time I’ve seen Windows XP running on an iMac!
I guess with Comcast you have to fire up VirtualPC just to run Internet Explorer. 😉
Sorting the Leviathan
I realized this morning what struck me as odd about the original crew of Moya: they’re not a crew, they’re a D&D party. Two warriors, a priest, a thief, and Ordinary Guy (who’d probably be classed as a bard). We started trying to categorize everyone else who shows up and realized that we’d need to know all the kits and extra subclasses to do it right. Then I thought of trying to determine alignments and couldn’t decide whether to use the D&D system or the TMNT system (which I barely know but seems to work better for actual people). It was at that point that Kelson said, “You know, it’d be easier to sort them into Hogwarts houses.” So we did. Continue reading