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Actual e-mail conversation, which occurred earlier today: Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:07 AM From: SP Subject: thursday how is everyone today? Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:35 AM From: Me Subject: RE: thursday like yesterday, only slightly older Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:43 AM From: SP Subject: RE: thursday and how were you yesterday? Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:57 AM From: Me Subject: RE: thursday a lot like today, only slightly younger Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:29 AM From: SP Subject: RE: thursday so i guess you are feeling lame then! Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:41 AM From: Me Subject: RE: thursday hey, when am i not? :-D Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:44 AM From: SP Subject: RE: thursday you have an excellent point Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:25 PM From: DP Subject: RE: thursday lol, this is the best email thread ever

Duke Nukem: Forever trailer! http://youtube.com/watch?v=7txp0QTvVPk Go check it out!

As posted by myself previously , with the sad passing of author Robert Jordan , the Wheel of Time series has been left without an ending. I am happy to pass along, that an author has been chosen to finish the last book (based on the many notes/drafts/etc already created by Jordan), with an expected release of Fall, 2009. This is good news! ...of course, now we all have to wait 2 years... Official news post: http://www.tor-forge.com/NewsArticle.aspx?articleId=647

Confused? Start here: Story: SM-7536: Part 1 Another report, this one by a policeman helping with the emergency evacuations, gives some of the details of the final approach of the object. So I was out there, ya see, helping to direct traffic for the evacuees, and things was going pretty smooth-like. And everyone was a little panicky, driving a little crazy-like, but that's to be expected, what with the impending doom and all. So anyway there I was, out directing traffic, like I says, and off in the distance I see a strange glowing kinda thing, up in the sky... at first I didn't pay it no mind, because everyone knows that meteors burn up in the air and all, so I didn't think it was nothing to worry about. But it kept getting closer and closer, and and bigger and bigger, and pretty soon everyone started seeing it too, even in their cars, and folks was getting mighty desperate to get out of there, cuz it looked like it was headin' right for us. Now, I won't say I ...

Confused? Start here: Story: SM-7536: Part 1 From a report filed by an officer of the National Guard, regarding the events she witnessed in the early morning of Friday, June 12th, 2015. My unit approached the most populated area in our designated target zone, bringing with us as many empty troop-carrier trucks as we managed to find before heading out. We went in as fast as possible, with the desperate hope that we would be able to load up our trucks with anyone and everyone we came across, and then rush them back out of the area as quickly as possible, hopefully getting them out of the area about to be destroyed by the incoming meteor. En route to our destination, we received radio communications, indicating that the meteor was beginning to slow down as it approached the surface. This made very little sense to us, however it did mean we had that much more time to save as many people as possible. We had fully loaded two of our trucks, and sent them heading out of the risk-area. On ...

SM-7536 Being a full and complete recording of the events related to Study Material 7536 (SM-7536). Beginning in the year 2015 A.D., and extending to include all appropriate time periods and intervals. Record follows. The meteor was first detected by an observatory in Australia, and given a non-memorable designation. It's expected trajectory was to take it past Jupitor, pass “close” to Earth (in solar terms), and then after a hook around the Sun, it would leave our Solar System, never to be seen again. This, of course, did not happen quite as expected. As more and more observatories picked up the watch it, its course seemed to change. It first swung away from Jupiter, as if attempting to avoid its gravity well. Then, it cut violently back across the sky, swung around Jupiter, and hurled away on its new trajectory. This new path would, without any doubts, hurl it directly into Earth. Once news of the impending impact reached the media, the story exploded across the news mediums...

So my friend and co-worker bill challenged me to a "competition" of sorts... we both have said how we'd like to try writing stories, but neither of us have really been able to compell ourselves to spend the time to do so (for an exception, see his recent pirate-themed short story on his site: A Pirate Secret ). So anyway, he challenged me to start a story, and we would both try to post part of it online every day (thus compelling us to have to write more each day). So without further ado, I give you... well, see my next post!

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose.... The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of time. But it was a beginning."

Finway Capitol: Marzipan Government: Dictatorship Fearless Leader: His Excellency, lowercase (may He live forever) Primary Export(s): Laughter, Hilarity, Bad Puns Primary Import(s): Chocolate, Video Games Current Population: 1

http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games6/gameindex/deflector.htm seriously, go play!

as you most likely did NOT notice, i just imported some of the entries from my old livejournal... not all of them, as some (most?) i felt weren't "worthy" of the "high standards" i keep around here... meaning they were lame and/or boring... but i moved some of them over! no comments were moved during this process... i don't know if i'll bother with copying comments or not... if you see some... (perhaps your own!) that you think should be re-commented, feel free to go to my old live journal and copy/paste those comments into the appropriate entry here! ah, fond memories Filed in: livejournal EDIT: "Removed" link to my livejournal, as I have decided to delete it (since all the important stuff has been copied to here.

"Spray paint artist from Portorož, Slovenia doing sci-fi paintings in less then 10 min. You can find more about artist and his art on www.sprej.com" translation: this is CRAZY! (in an "insanely awesome, i'm very jealous" kind of way) Filed in: spraypaint insane awesome paint artist video google

I don't know why I never posted this before, but a while back, I created another music video mashup-thingy on jumpcut.com ... this one is a slideshow of images to match the text, instead of video clips (like my last one was). So, yea... go check it out! *edit* Why didn't I just post it in here, like the last one? *now playable RIGHT HERE, for your auditory and visual enjoyment* Filed in: music video mashup monzy nerdcore jumpcut

Here's the music video mashup i made over on jumpcut.com , an online video-editing place... check it out! :) Enjoy! Filed in: mashup mechp jumpcut

so like, yea... this should be interesting... DON'T TRY TO STOP ME, I'M OUT OF CONTROL!!! :-) Filed in: nanowrimo novel writing november

You are The Cap'n! Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any man that stands between them and the mantle of power. You never met a man you couldn't eviscerate. Not that mindless violence is the only avenue open to you - but why take an avenue when you have complete freeway access? You are the definitive Man of Action. You are James Bond in a blousy shirt and drawstring-fly pants. Your swash was buckled long ago and you have never been so sure of anything in your life as in your ability to bend everyone to your will. You will call anyone out and cut off their head if they show any sign of taking you on or backing down. You cannot be saddled with tedious underlings, but if one of your lieutenants shows an overly developed sense of ambition he may find more suitable accommodations in Davy Jones' locker. That is, of course, IF you notice him. You tend to be self absorbed - a weakness that may keep you from seeing enemies where they are and...

Monkey Kick-Off is hot! yes, it's "another one of those 'time-it-right-to-launch-something-very-far' games", but it's fun! so like... click the link , and go beat my score!

so like, yea! time for an update! today's entry into awesomeness: a review of a store! :-p Store in Question: Ikea - Stoughton, MA So ok, we went on a tax-free holiday... but still, it took about 10 minutes to get a parking spot... i hear that on busy days, that's NOT A LONG WAIT! :-/ ... this is the first warning sign. so we finally park, we go in... i grab (out of habit) a little "store guide" thing... which has a page for writing down things you are interested in (turns out to be needed/useful, more on that later)... but mostly it just has a map... this isn't just for looks, people...USE THE MAP OR YOU WILL GET LOST!!! so yes, you wander around, you go "OMG THIS IS SO CHEAP" a lot (keeping in mind... do NOT expect a computer desk that costs $19.99 be built of anything other than particle board.. and notice, the word "effect" after "birch"... IT ISN'T EVEN VENEER, IT'S LIKE PAINT-CRAP! ... but they look nice... AND IT'...

Ok, so yeah a review of a demo is kinda lame, but I played it for a while yesterday, and I figured I'd say what I thought. Premise: Magnetica is a puzzle game... a random assortment of marbles are sliding down a track, and somewhere within that path (always near the end point) you have a little launcher-thingy, from which you can fire off new marbles. Using the stylus, you flick the marbles where you want them to go, and off they fly! Get three marbles of the same color together, and they vanish. If the lead marble on the track reaches the end-point, it's GAME OVER! Gameplay: As puzzle games go, this one isn't too bad... if you have groups of like-colored marbles, seperated by others, you can remove the ones in between, and the "magnetic attraction" will pull the similar ones together, creating chain-reactions ("chains"). However, that's about the only "extra" move you can do... you're just flicking marbles at other marbles, until...