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  • I’ve got your holiday spirit, mister…

    Perhaps you think me a miserly Scrooge-like figure for not acknowledging the impending holiday before this point. In truth, you should all thank me for not following through on an idea I came up with a couple of weeks ago. I was going to replace all of the random banner image selections with Christmas-themed material… drawn entirely from anime galleries I’ve raided over the years. After spending an hour poring over my sources, I gave up the notion as a bad job.

    Aren’t you grateful, now?

    Speaking of holiday imagery, check out The Cap’n’s Gallery of Unfortunate Christmas Cards.

  • Neither An Isotope Nor A Rare Earth Be

    Maybe I’ve simply seen “Hamlet” too many times, but while enjoying lunch at the Pizza Schmizza near the office this afternoon I looked up at the TV screen and saw a news crawl about the poisoned spy and the first thought that flashed through my mind went something like this:

    “Polonium? What, is that the chemical element that gives trite advice, entices lesser elements to spy on its isotopes, and ends the last of its half-lives in a misadventure while eavesdropping on the Danish royal family?”

    (For the record: No, Polonium was so named by M. Curie as a political statement. Those wacky scientists!)

  • Thumbnail Theater: The Revival

    A long, long time ago I created my own little rendition of something called “thumbnail theater,” a tongue-in-cheek parody of a popular anime series. The original, by someone calling himself “Toasty Frog” (what’s up with the animal nicknames, eh?) was based on Evangelion, and someone else made one for Cowboy Bebop. I figured that I was best suited to take on the Tenchi Muyo OAV series.

    I probably figured wrong, but them’s the breaks.

    When I converted from version to version to version of the various site platforms here, Thumbnail Theater kept breaking. Moving to WordPress completely broke the archive, and for a long time I figured that’s where it could stay: broken and forgotten. Then, a few weeks ago, I decided to resurrect the project in a more useful form, namely as a static page hierarchy within WordPress. The rest, as they say, is history lunacy.

    At any rate, check out the TMTT revival currently in progress. I’ve reposted the six episodes’ worth of the first OAV, with the remaining episodes to follow as I get the chance.

  • Mad (Scientist) Pumpkins

    I got a laugh out of the Cylon pumpkin, yes I did. However… I now wish I had the skill to make one of these.

    C’mon. You know you want one. Who wouldn’t?

    (I couldn’t resist that pun, either. Yes, I’m a bad man and should be punished.)

  • Yahoo: The black hole of email?

    My sister’s primary email address is at Yahoo, which I find amusing considering that for years she had an address here that she barely used. Maybe she’ll change her mind now.

    If you use Yahoo! mail as your main email account, you might not be receiving all of your emails. […] Since about October 16, 2006 they have been “overly aggressive” in blocking emails.

    I was wondering, this morning, why my server logs report indicated a bunch of strange SMTP errors. Eventually I traced it down to a bunch of deferrals from Yahoo’s server. Normally I don’t correspond with anyone on their system, but Sis and I have been in touch lately. Or, apparently, we’ve nearly been in touch. Maybe she’ll get my reply, maybe she won’t…

  • I was looking for incentive, I suppose.

    Lil’ discovered something that I may very well have been better off not knowing about. See, she’s going to do NaNoWriMo this year. (All power to her, I say. Not this little grey duck, I also say. Been there done that, I have.) She briefly considered doing another November challenge: National Blog Posting Month.

    Considering how unhappy I’ve been with my journal writing output lately… I pretty much have to enter that challenge, don’t I? So. November will be an interesting month around here. Just, you know, not as interesting as if I were doing NaNoWriMo. Which I’m not. No matter how tempted I may briefly be, every so often. Not this year, okay? At best I’ll toss you a couple of my trademark very-short stories.

    Posting here every day for thirty days? I can do that.

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