Random posting

I have been a bit too busy to post lately. I fought a bout with food poisoning and does that ever suck. Beware the ground beef :(

Saw plasticized human bodies at the Gulf Coast Exploreum. It was quite cool but I couldn't help but think 'where did the bodies come from and how were they obtained?' Anyway, no matter how it went down it was an educational trip. Now we want to plan another trip down to Museum of Mobile to see the World War II photo exhibit.

We missed seeing Doug and the rest of 'robbing Peter' perform during the Azalea Trail run. I was saddened by this but alas, sometimes a groupie cannot make every single gig.

I was working on planning a viewing of some Doctor Who for the weekend to get ready for the new series starting Saturday. But one of the invitees said he probably would not make it to watch Battlestar Galactica. So this sent my creative juices flowing. While possible not everyone will enjoy this, I had quite a long laugh with this. This is most of an email I sent to all of the invitees.

I'm going to spoil the last season of BSG for all of you. On top of that, I will even give you something from the future (I feel the shock and awe coming from the screen).

The Doctor and his companion is going to be battling the Sontarans but this rag-tag fleet of ships with one remaining battlestar is going to cross paths with them.

After much fighting between the humans and the cylons (or are they cybermen?) the Doctor, with the aid of his sonic screwdriver, will destroy the cylon robots (cybermen maybe) and base stars. Then in an act of compassion he will show that the humans can live with the 'skin-jobs' since they are a new race of beings (and he will point out how brilliant that is). But sadly, they cannot continue on to Earth since their civilization is too advanced and would upset Earths balance. So they will be sent back home, Earth will remain oblivious to the 12 colonies, and the Doctor will fly off, through time and space, to yet another exciting adventure.

Then in about two or three years time, Ron (creative mind behind BSG) will not have any luck with any other television (Caprica will flop) or movie ideas and will pitch a 'reinvention' of Battlestar Galactica 1980 as a new series for SciFi (with a funny bearded Almos just like the funny bearded Lorne Green).

Since the Earth is not at technologically advanced as the 12 colonies are, they will take it upon themselves to help to advance them to help fight the cylons (or cybermen). **Side note: doesn't this sound like Dalek's wanting to advance them to a higher advancement? Just maybe? End Side note**

This will lead to yet another visit from The Doctor and a different companion with a little help from U.N.I.T. to set the Earth straight again and protect its inhabitants from the evil cylons (probably called the cybermen...very close to cylon don't you think) and the 12 colonies (dalek's anyone?). Oh, don't forget the sonic screwdriver and maybe, just maybe, a tin dog.

Enjoy!

Hazy, smokey day...

So, I went to take Thor outside and it was hazy and smells of smoke. But there are no fires around here. Nope, this smoke is from the fires in Georgia. I heard this morning that the smoke and haze is from at least Huntsville down to Cullman. I do not know how far west it extends beyond here.

Mom has a stomach infection when I got up here on Friday. Its starting to get better now that she is on broad spectrum antibiotics. She will have to take them for two weeks then go back for a check-up.

Heroes season finale was pretty good. I did not like how it ended really. It inferred some things but it did leave things open for a couple characters.

I saw the highlights of the second Republican candidate debate and Ron Paul was great. He is really growing a strong base in the online community and hopefully this will grow outside of the online community as he gets more exposure.

Weekend

Yesterday we had the ACM Welcome back pizza event. All 15 pizzas from Papa John's were devoured in about 35 minutes. Then last night we had Who-a-thon 2.0 combined with Munchkin. It was quite fun.

The ACM is sending some people to Hattisburg to participate in the Bearing Point programming contest which is being co-sponsored by Microsoft. After talking Jeremy into participating, we found out yesterday what the environment and text editors will be allowed during the competition. It is going to be hosted in Knoppix 5.1 with the following text editors: Joe, Kate, GVim, Nano, and Zile. When a few people were told about this, they looked at me and said 'who?'

It looks like I have more motivation to learn my way around Linux now. My thesis work will be much easier to continue under Linux than to do it within Windows. So, I guess I shall break out my trusty book and start back reading again.

B

My first Digg post

Nothing special. Just my first story posted to Digg and I thought I would share it with you. Maybe you will digg it so it won't be stuck at 1 LOL.

The paragraph at the end of the article sealed it for me though:

The animal control officer says in Florida, it's not a crime to commit a sex act with an animal, but it is a felony to torture or kill them. While no exact "cause of death" has been yet determined, the vet believes the goat may have died of a stress-related heart attack and that would make this a felony crime.

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My complaint about Jeremy Blair

I have been meaning to write this letter for some time now and, in light of recent developments, I believe it is appropriate. It is requisite, even in this summary sketch, to go back a few years to see how there is no place in this country where we are safe from Jeremy Blair's drones, no place where we are not targeted for hatred and attack. Prodigal allotheism is Jeremy's quiddity. But you knew that already. So let me add that Jeremy's opuscula need to be reassessed with Jeremy's ulterior motives in mind. To cap that off, I respect the English language and believe in the use of words as a means of communication. Spiteful blood-stained criminals like Jeremy, however, consider spoken communication as merely a set of noises uttered to excite emotions in hopeless scum in order to convince them to set the hoops through which we all must jump.

There is no such thing as evil in the abstract. It exists only in the evil deeds of evil people like Jeremy. He isn't as smart as he thinks he is. That, in itself, will condemn us to live with uncouth, impractical devil-worshippers faster than you can say "ultrastandardization". If spineless manipulators of the public mind really believed in equality, they wouldn't contaminate clear thinking with Jeremy Blair's evil shenanigans. So I give you this letter. I hope it helps.

Last post of 2006

Well, this year has been up and down. I've made new friends and lost some dear friends and family. This year didn't involve a hurricane, thank goodness. Kc bought a house. Who will ever forget the Leprechaun video (voted #2 on VH1 btw)? Democrats taking control of Congress (hopefully they will cut the wild spending). Alabama finally getting the clue and dumping Shula, but bumbling that situation. So, its definitely one that I would like to remember and forget at the same time.

What do I look forward to in 2007? Everything I guess. Graduating with my Masters. Getting a good job. Getting fit. Being happy with myself (had to throw an easy one in there). I guess I'll start with those as small steps.

So, Happy New Year to all of you who read this. Friends, family and people I have not met yet.

'New Show' and 'Mooooving'

'New Show'

Well, since there was no new episodes of shows that I routinely watch tonight, so I was flipping through the stations and found what seems to be a funny show. 'Big Day' is a 30 minute serial about the day leading up to a wedding. It has a funny actor named Josh Cooke, which I first saw in a very funny show called 'Committed'.

So, after that I did not change the channel and my interest was peaked when William Shatner started talking. It was Boston Legal, it seems to be very funny at times between the dramatic points.

'Mooooving'

Here we go again. Its time to move again. This time though maybe its for more than this last stint. I have most of my packed up now. All I have left is a few things to pack up in the morning like my awesome new monitors and the rest of my computer setup. The router and the rest of the network cables etc. A few bathroom hygene items. My pots and pans. Then the disassembly of my desk.

UGH!

The Randomness

Bad Brian for neglecting the blog. So, I have made my yearly travel northward for a Christmas break with the family. For about the last week my truck has been 'skipping' and not the kind of skipping you did in elementary school. So, I limped it home with a lawnmower on the back (backup transportation just in case....lol). A big round of thanks goes out to Jeremy, Matt, and BJD for helping to load up the mower last night.

The last two days has been spent painting and working at kc's new house, where which I will have a new bat cave to hide from the world. In order to move my bat cave, I have been packing all of my stuff up into little cardboard boxes which magically appear whenever kc arrives home from a day of work. I have quite a bit of stuff but my lord at the amount of stuff that she has.

Over the last week or so I have been battling this reoccurring cough and phlegm (funny how that word is spelled). Hopefully, I can kick it to the curb by the time the move comes around on the 27th. I have to give myself a pat on the back though. I single handedly took care of moving/creating/whatever the utilities to the new place (thanks for the applause). Kc claimed she 'forgot' but I really think she didn't want to do it and wanted me to do it.