Here's my desktop.

Picture is a composite of Earth, with a different starfield Pshopped in . The moon is a Vista gadget (moon phases) pasted over the moon in the original photo.

Very few people seem to like Vista, but I love it <3

Copy and paste to your own journal, erase my answers, and add your own. Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real places, names &/or objects, but nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person you got this from has the same 1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. And Have Fun With It!!!

1) 4 LETTER WORD: Jerk
2) BOY NAME: Jack
3) GIRL NAME: Jocasta
4) OCCUPATION: Janitor ?
5) A COLOUR: jaune
6) SOMETHING YOU WEAR: jeans (all the time!)
7) BEVERAGE: Juice
8) FOOD: Jello (not really a food, how about jam)
9) SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: john (lol)
10) A PLACE: Jasper, BC
11) REASON FOR BEING LATE: jump-starting a car
12) SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Just eat it!

I thought I'd have trouble with J, but J was pretty easy :)

but if not...

Monster Camp

A movie about a NERO camp in Seattle.

It's won awards!  

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5564716

Geek jewelry! Awesome!!

I just took The Bush-McCain Challenge -- an online quiz to see if you can tell the difference between George W. Bush and John McCain. Check it out, and see if you can do any better than I did!
http://Bush-McCainChallenge.com/?rc=challenge-friends&r_id=12570-6749345-TCEDV5

And, um, if you guys take it, I get a bumper sticker. Because I really need another bumper sticker ;)

It's crunch time -- the Big Move is tomorrow. This will be my last computer access for an indeterminate time -- depends on whether we can run a phone line into the office right away or not. There's a phone line in the next room over, so worst-case is running a phone wire over the floor and around the door. Best case is my fabulous brother in law can run one up from the existing wiring and have it come out in a box, all professional-like :D It'll probably be Tuesday before we have reliable access though (also depends on Verizon/Fairpoint getting our service restored on Monday afternoon). I might be able to take the laptop to a hotspot on campus, but given everything that has to be done at the house, this is highly unlikely.

Hope everyone out there in cyberspace is well, and we'll see you on the other side!!

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Yay, I'm a genius at something!

So many wasted hours...

"Talk of the Nation" had a segment about D&D today, and I wrote in an email.... and they read it the air!!!

You can listen here, once they put the segment online (it takes them a while): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88062853

I'm Jan from Dover, NH, of course :)

(I seem to be using that Geek tag a lot lately...)

Let's have an RIP for GG, indeed.

Did I tell you I once played "Axis and Allies" with him (and a few other people, of course) at a GenCon when I was 14 or 15? I was Japan, some other older fellow was Italy, and together we trounced Gary and the other young player (allies). He was a very pleasant fellow, and took losing to a teenager quite well :lol:   

If you did, first refresh your memory with this emulator: (requires a plugin)
http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

Then, play this version: http://www.thuleroadtrip.com/

It's *so* funny -- really well-done, if not, perhaps, as educational. And none of your party is liable to die of dysentary.

What's Your Political Philosophy? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Green The Green Party believes in an America where decisions are made by the people and not by a few giant corporations. Their environmental goal is a sustainable world where nature and human society co-exist in harmony. Green 95% Old School Democrat 85% New Democrat 85% Foreign Policy Hawk 40% Libertarian 30% Pro Business Republican 5% Socially Conservative Republican 5%

My very own band... created from meme instructions. 1. Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band. 2. Then go to: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album. 3. And lastly, go to: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Catchy, non? Clearly it was meant for me, the happy atheist.

Your Deadly Sins

Gluttony: 60% Sloth: 60% Envy: 20% Lust: 20% Wrath: 20% Greed: 0% Pride: 0% Chance You'll Go to Hell: 26% You'll die from a diabetic coma.

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. I'm a lazy glutton, apparently too lazy for sex or anger?

Then again, the quiz has only 4 questions. Clearly written by someone slothful.

This is playing on NHPR's Folk Show right now:

Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
© John Prine

While digesting Reader's Digest
In the back of a dirty book store,
A plastic flag, with gum on the back,
Fell out on the floor.
Well, I picked it up and I ran outside
Slapped it on my window shield,
And if I could see old Betsy Ross
I'd tell her how good I feel.

Chorus:
But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
They're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more. 

Well, I went to the bank this morning
And the cashier he said to me,
"If you join the Christmas club
We'll give you ten of them flags for free."
Well, I didn't mess around a bit
I took him up on what he said.
And I stuck them stickers all over my car
And one on my wife's forehead.

Repeat Chorus:

Well, I got my window shield so filled
With flags I couldn't see.
So, I ran the car upside a curb
And right into a tree.
By the time they got a doctor down
I was already dead.
And I'll never understand why the man
Standing in the Pearly Gates said...

"But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
We're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more."

Apparently it's an older song, but if you substitute "support our troops bumper magnet" for flag decal (okay, it doesn't scan...), it's still all too topical!

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An awful lot of the questions would have been best answered with "all of the above" for me, though!

It's probably ironic, then, that I had to look up "autodidact", isn't it?

In New Hampshire. It's raining. In January. And there's thunder and lightning.

This is so, so wrong.






Also, Kucinich is asking for a recount of NH votes! Whoa!