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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

  • I’ve got mad ninjinuity, y’all.

    According to The Cowboy-Ninja-Pirate-Knight Test, I am…

    a Ninja

    You scored 13 Honor, 2 Justice, 3 Adventure, and 5 Individuality!

    You are a soldier of the night. You rely on no more than your cunning and your reputation to strike fear in the hearts of lord and peasant alike. You’ve a sense of honor, but one that comes from within, not imposed from outside.

    Black clothes and shuriken for you. You’re gonna do just fine.

    How you compared to other people your age and gender:

    You scored higher than 97% on Ninjinuity
    You scored higher than 3% on Knightlyness
    You scored higher than 3% on Cowboiosity
    You scored higher than 46% on Piratical Bent

    I just love the word “Ninjinuity.” Really. Apparently I’m not very Knightly or Cowboious… or whatever that word would be. Hmm.

    All this because some guy who runs a game developer studio claimed to be a Ninja-Pirate. Go figure.

    By the way, my favorite answer was the last, to the question of how best to face my foes: “Sword in one hand, pistol in the other, cannon behind me for backup.” Heck yeah.

  • Droolworthy Trinkets

    Oooooo. I want this. This would be a nice bonus, too.

    Not, mind you, that I need more keychains… but they’re so cool!

    Memento: Sengetsu no mono

  • Mythological Ursine Action

    While I was visiting the rugrats this evening, and after I fiddled with The Ex’s computer for a while, Erica and I decided to play some Age of Mythology. (I let her pick the game.) We got it over with fairly quickly, since on account of not having several hours to spare we set it on Easy and divided up our opponents. As a change of pace and slight bit of challenge, I played as the Egyptians and chose Set as my totem god.

    I knew that playing as Set gives you summoned animals at your temple and the ability for your pharaoh to summon more, but what I didn’t know is that your priests can convert random animals that would otherwise be either food, or threats to your villagers.

    And so, we have the following screenshot at game’s end:

    Hint: I’m “Grey, the Duck”, and the pertinent figure is near the upper-right corner. Susume would be the younger child.

    I have got to try that again some time. I wonder if I can convert all of them? (That is, the ones who aren’t morons, like the one that attacked my Titan all by itself. Yeah, Ben, swipe the Titan’s toenail with your paw a few times, see if that hurts it any. Stupid bear.)

  • We DO need some stinkin’ taglines!

    Okay, so the slogan thing was cute while it lasted, but popular opinion indicates that the good old taglines randomizer is the preferred form of under-the-logo funny here at Hue-Impaired Waterfowl Central. While I was at it, I tackled a lot of the tagline backlog. Yes, that’s right… the tagline file is now even bigger (and, arguably, better) than ever.

    Share and enjoy, won’t you?

  • Temporal Anomaly: 3 Day Weekend

    Is it just me, or are some three-day weekends actually shorter than their normal, two-day counterparts?

    I could use for this particular weekend to have lasted, oh, a few days more. Seriously. Le sigh.

  • The Tao of Transit

    You wouldn’t think that it would take very long to get from SE 39th and Gladstone to SE 34th and Belmont by bus, especially when you get to the bus stop just in time to catch one. Today, you’d be wrong, however. Did you know they’re doing paving on 39th? I didn’t. I do now, though. We couldn’t even get off the bus at Belmont.

    Our destination? The Tao of Tea, a nifty little hole-in-the-wall tea place (go figure). Of course, we almost missed it due to the hustle and bustle of… the Belmont Street Fair, taking place one day only… today. Of course.

    This is the sort of wacky luck I tend to have. It makes life more flavorful, I suppose, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Oh, and the coconut mint frappe was pretty good. (Seriously? The size of the tea menu borders on the mindboggling.)

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