US Democracy Server Patch Notes

A friend sent me a link to Sean Hyde-Moyer's US Democracy Server: Patch Day Version 44.0 on Chrome Cow. The target audience is Democratic gamer geeks, but I don't think you absolutely need to be a hardcore member of that demographic to get a chuckle out of it. I dunno. I'm on the inside guessing out.

Some of my favorite lines:

President: Drain Treasury: There appears to be a bug that allowed loot to be transferred from the treasury to anyone on the President’s friends list, or in the President’s party. We are investigating.

Vice President: The Vice President will no longer aggro on friendly targets. This bug was identified with Ranged Attacks and the Head Shot ability.

Homeland Security: Item: Large Bottle of Water is incorrectly generating threat with TSA Agents when held in inventory. We are looking into the issue.

If you found any of the above amusing, click over to the full version for more in the same vein.

lol coffee

Working from home. The electrician is fixing some scary wiring out in our garage. The cats are all sleeping. I'm hoping 2009 is more stable than 2008 was.

Took a break from working to view the latest posts at icanhascheezburger.com and found this.

Happy almost 2009 folks.

accepted into their clan

Leg wrapped like King Tut after his "natron bath".

Cats on my lap, sleeping soundly.

Working from home and listening to a podcast of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me.

The kittons are settling into their new home. Catrina has significantly cut down on the number of random times per day that she vanishes into an empty room to start yodeling at the top of her cat-banshee lungs.

The rats are enjoying the new location of their cage, which allows them to watch my Mister while he's at his computer. I know their eyesight is limited, but they do seem intrigued by the activity nearby. And they can probably tell by smell and sound which of us the shifting object nearby is.

Zabartik, as I've mentioned before, very much seems to want to be just like His Person when he grows thumbs. So, if my Mister is replacing the power supply in his computer, Zabartik is there to help. If my guy is checking that the blinds are level before drilling holes and driving screws, Zabartik tilts his head to the side and watches intently. He doesn't seem the least interested in what I'm doing most of the time. But if my Mister is doing something with tools, chances are he's got a 14 lb white fuzzbutt apparently memorizing his every move.

Ok, back to work. But first, a lol.

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Prop 8 The Musical

Disclaimer: This video is an example of shamelessly Liberal humor. As a brazen Liberal, I enjoyed it. YMMV

A star studded mini-musical about California's Proposition 8. My Mister pointed me in its direction and I've since seen it in a few places on the interwebs. Neil Patrick Harris steals the show, IMHO.

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

I spotted this on Wil Wheaton's site and couldn't resist cross posting it here from YouTube. Star Trek meets Monty Python. Hilarity ensues. Much goodness if, like me - you both recognize every scene in the video, and you're known to blurt out quotes from Python sketches at seemingly random moments.

Roomba Driver

Been a long day. I so needed this. Maybe you had a long day, too. So here it is.




My cats would SO never sit calmly through this.

how hard can it be?

Give a cat a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Show him where you left your boat, and you're opening up a whole 'nother can of worms.

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daleks for Obama

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One of the web comics I follow regularly is Diesel Sweeties. My Mister and I got an extra chuckle out of this particular strip because I've joked about moving to Canada (or Australia for that matter) if the Karl Rove camp stays in power after this election cycle.

But heck, we're in the middle of trying to buy a house. We've made a lot of friends with some really amazing people here in the Twin Cities. We've both got good jobs here, it's a beautiful place to live, and we expect to be in Minnesota for a good long while. So, in all seriousness, we're not going anywhere any time in the foreseeable future.

That said... there are three words that could change my mind. "President Sarah Palin".
*shiver*

Just kidding.

I think.

Nineteen

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Canada: Liberal, Secular, Not as cold as you think

(insert guilty, uncomfortable laughter)

Fark Equations

One of many, many funny variations on this meme:

Obama = ? Biden = ? McCain = ? Palin = ?
You've seen the meme, here's the thread (voting enabled)

My Mister and I both thought the 2+2 = chair was too funny not to share.

Strong with the force, is this one

I've been playing with the lolcaption tools again...



Click on the photo to vote for this one at punditkitchen.com

Time for a warm hat...

Time for a warm hat
It's going to be a cold war...

Yeah. That about sums it up.

*Shiver*

Senator Clinton and Governor Palin on SNL

Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton:

"I invite the media to grow a pair. And if you can't I'll lend you mine".

Palin

Palin

This shirt is made of awesome!
Click on the photo to read more about it.

And yes, that is Mr. Michael Palin. I haven't gone over to the dark side.

house hunting

More house hunting tomorrow. We're planning to see a house not far from the one we liked yesterday. As in just around the corner and down a block or so. After a couple of near hits now on which we've been ready to make an offer just to find out we'd been beaten to it, our fingers are crossed that this one will be both as good as it looks online, and still available.




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chemical spill

I had to clean up a messy dihydrogen monoxide spill this morning before leaving for work. I admit, I was being careless when I left a tippy container of it uncovered and unattended, but I'll be careful not to repeat that mistake when there are curious rodents around.

Despite the ongoing controversy surrounding DHMO, I continue to use it as a cleaning agent around my pets, and even around food. I remember hearing in my chemistry class years ago that it is derived from naturally occuring sources, which is a bonus. It doesn't leave behind any residual odor, and is non-irritating to my hands when kept at room temperature, so I don't have to wear gloves when using it. I do keep a link to the DHMO material safety data sheet (MSDS) handy but I am convinced that, when handled properly, DHMO is perfectly safe.

There were no injuries as a result of this morning's spill, though the one of the cats got some on her paws and wasn't amused.

nom de plume

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I can has humor? IMHO 1 of teh best lolcats EVAR.

KTHXBAI

The World of Wifecraft

I laughed so hard I cried when I watched this. Language is mildly NSFW, but the concept is absofrickenlutely brilliant. Might not be funny if you don't know anything at all about World of Warcraft. But if you know who Leeroy Jenkins is, there's a bonus in there for you.

Him: That's easy for you to say, you're level 70!
Her: Goddamn right I am, you newb.

We do what we must because we can

thailand
Originally uploaded by jslander

Edit 20080501: According to Jess, the photographer, the plastic cups of water in question in this post were provided for the comfort of the Buddha statues (see her comment). I'm leaving the original post as-is, but wanted to clarify this point up front. I misunderstood the photo as thoroughly as Click Cluck did. Which doesn't change my opinion about his asking her to edit it.

Original Post:

I was eating my sourdough pancakes this morning and browsing flickr when I ran across this photo by one of my contacts, jslander. It shows that some passer-by has left an empty beverage container in the hand of a seated Buddha statue.

What inspired me to blog it isn't the juxtaposition of someone's discarded plastic cup with the timeless serenity of the statue, or the quality of the photo itself.

What made this worth blogging about is that another flickr member (Click Cluck) stuck a note on this photo (view it on the original page by clicking the photo) instructing jslander to remove the cup using photoshop because it isn't respectful. And not just in a comment below the pic, but a note stuck smack dab in the middle of the photo itself.

Huh?

Saying that because it is now fairly easy to remove elements from photos, the photographer should feel obligated to do so if an element is politically incorrect made me boggle. And when I shared it with my Mister, he shared my embogglement.

My guess is that the story of some modern tourist type leaving a cup on the palm of the Buddha statue is exactly what jslander was shooting in the first place. Jslander has a good eye for composition and a well developed sense of irony. If she'd intended to take the photo of just the statue, I'm sure she'd've removed the cup in person. But as it is, it's funny in a tacky-irony kind of way, and it is a commentary on the person who left their trash there in the first place, and on the times we live in.

That said, the irony that Click Cluck was at the same time leaving his own mark on someone else's creation as he passed by seems somehow apt.

If humor is an important part of a delicious weekend breakfast, my recommended daily allowance has been met.

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Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead

~Jonathan Coulton, Still Alive