average bear :: January 2004 Archives
It's all about falling down.
And the hits just keep on... going.
"Karen Sisco" will not be coming back in March. To which I says, "Dammit."...
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• Posted at 10:29AM, 01.30.04
Year of the Blister
For those who haven't already heard me mention it, at the end of December I joined the cult-like self-affirming little project of Marn's dubbed Going Nowhere. This means I told...
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• Posted at 03:59PM, 01.29.04
Jittery goodness
How much Caffeine is in stuff. Things I did not know....
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• Posted at 02:27PM, 01.29.04
What's the frequency?
Maybe I'm in an Illuminati/Crytonomicon kind of mood, but this junk mail that came in over a mailing list gave me the creeps. Subject: Re: UD, take the master mandate...
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• Posted at 09:47AM, 01.28.04
Oh, bother.
I haven't been getting any of my pop-mail since... apparently at least 11pm last night, to judge by the Keen Eddie comments that never made it to my mailbox, so...
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• Posted at 09:32AM, 01.28.04
Spacey
The folks at news.com.au have put together this retrospective of the most spectacular pictures taken by the soon-to-be-decommissioned Hubble Space Telescope, complete with music. Check it out here....
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• Posted at 09:11AM, 01.28.04
Balancing act
Down New project dumped in my lap today, involving two PPT presentations and three books. In the course of the hour following that meeting, the deadline for completion of said...
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• Posted at 05:50PM, 01.27.04
Refresh
Just a reminder: Firefly DVD's for our Troops overseas deadline: Jan 30th....
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• Posted at 11:09PM, 01.26.04
Note from Joss Excerpt: Rough @%&$#ing week. Trying to work the movie deal, juggling so many balls and dropping them all, basically ending the week going, "I'm done. I'm tapped....
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• Posted at 12:10PM, 01.26.04
Chop chop
Kill Bill Vol. 2 Trailer...
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• Posted at 12:07PM, 01.26.04
"I die furry..."
12th-Night Party at the Consortium tonight. Good people, good party, good food. And after all the straights left, we played Werewolf for two hours. Yay :) Werewolf may be one...
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• Posted at 12:46AM, 01.25.04
Inevitable Truth
[after several minutes of the "Two for Flinching" Game" Me: Now... don't go waving your hand in my face while I'm driving. Justin: You weren't driving back there. Me: Yeah,...
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• Posted at 06:48PM, 01.24.04
Crazy is as crazy votes
The Ed Gein Hangover: Dong Resin's plan for putting Howard Dean back in the race after the Iowa... thing. Frankly, there's no sweater Argyle enough to make "Wuaaaghah-wooooo!" play for...
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• Posted at 09:12AM, 01.24.04
Custom coolness
Hellboy Playmobil set....
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• Posted at 09:02AM, 01.24.04
Peppy
Hey ya, Charlie Brown. Slick little melding of Outkast and Charlie Brown clips....
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• Posted at 08:59AM, 01.24.04
The Five levels of hell Ikea
IKEA Walkthrough IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings. In traversing IKEA, you...
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• Posted at 12:41PM, 01.23.04
"...would you like DIES with that?"
Subject of Super Size Me documentary eats at McDonald's for a month and almost dies. "His liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his...
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• Posted at 12:19PM, 01.23.04
"Make the nail bleed"
Death Stick Hammers are no longer available on Amazon, but that's okay, because they have their own site. Sweet. (And yes, I still want one.)...
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• Posted at 12:13PM, 01.23.04
Not a euphemism, I swear
How far can your yeti smack the penguin? Update:...
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• Posted at 04:40PM, 01.22.04
I think today I'll blame Marn
Went and got a couple new pairs of 'work pants' -- generic pleated khaki things -- tonight. Had to -- wearing what I had was getting frustrating -- nothing fits...
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• Posted at 10:26PM, 01.21.04
Yay
Jackie sez I must go to bed early tonight and absolutely must get more sleep. This is a good thing....
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• Posted at 07:53AM, 01.21.04
Oh, the smell of irony...
The fact that I have a link to my work email/calendar under "Favorites" is, as time goes on, less funny....
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• Posted at 07:49AM, 01.21.04
Somebody please tape this for me
About (over) a year ago, a fellow browncoat tipped me off to Keen Eddie. I was able to catch about two (very funny) episodes before Fox realized they had another...
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• Posted at 01:21AM, 01.21.04
All according to plan
Allyson Hannigan seems to be heading towards an NBC comedy. Disconcertingly similar to the May 9th entry for the Upcoming Year for Joss, Mutant Enemy and Friends. Fresh from her...
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• Posted at 08:02AM, 01.20.04
Tech Note
Palm OS Device Reset Primer Just useful stuff to have a link to....
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• Posted at 07:48AM, 01.20.04
Date night
So the night on the town was fun. The Av's game was close (though they lost 2-1), the hotel (which specializes in a scary level of customer service that makes...
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• Posted at 10:13AM, 01.19.04
Swanky
At her business christmas party, Jackie won the grand prize of a night on the town. This consists of: * 2 Tickets to the Avs vs. Sharks (including a parking...
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• Posted at 04:15PM, 01.17.04
Alliance go boom
Battle of Serenity, the flash Game. You can download it as well. Try to beat my score of... 0. Woo....
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• Posted at 08:52AM, 01.16.04
Superfluous
The male of the species is only going to be useful as a food animal pretty soon. A $2,200 add-on to the new Toyota Prius hybrid car allows the car...
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• Posted at 08:19AM, 01.16.04
I would like to go to England again, please... now, er... April 30th.
The Brits got to see the whole show in the right order, then find out we cancelled it, and are having a fan convention anyway. As if other countries need...
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• Posted at 07:28AM, 01.16.04
Something to prove
Jackie: So I pulled a Marn tonight at the gym. Me: How's that? Jackie: Oh, I got there and this little thinny-mini was working out. Me: And?... Jackie: And... I...
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• Posted at 08:40PM, 01.15.04
Hope this isn't 'getting what I deserve'...
I can't decide if I'm more disturbed that I'm getting hits from: riaa.com ... benaffleckfan.com ... or the Paris Hilton sex video blog (yes, seriously)....
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• Posted at 03:56PM, 01.15.04
Helping Hands Their tagline is "Monkey Helpers for the Disabled" I don't mean to make fun of the idea, but I kinda think the tagline should be "No, seriously."...
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• Posted at 01:54PM, 01.15.04
Props
I want to give huge public thanks to Seki for doing what I myself was too lame to get off my ass and do -- specifically, give the Firefly wiki...
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• Posted at 01:10PM, 01.15.04
WWWWWhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiine
You know, it's not that I mind having commitments... I just wish they spread themselves out instead of coming due all at the same time....
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• Posted at 12:39PM, 01.15.04
GawDAMN
Think you've seen every alterna-verse anyone could cook up? Heh. Try the Superfriends at Ragnarok. Aquaman: "There are things in the deep you know not of, that answer to my...
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• Posted at 12:25PM, 01.15.04
Actually, let's just have a "What I learned from Our Mrs. Reynolds" extravaganza:
Those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. Airflow is important. "Plow" is probably a euphemism. The world is full of diverse cultures; some people juggle geese, and I am okay...
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• Posted at 11:50AM, 01.15.04
Things I learned from Our Mrs. Reynolds
If someone tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back. FireflyWiki - Our Mrs Reynolds...
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• Posted at 11:44AM, 01.15.04
Things I learned from Our Mrs. Reynolds
There's a special hell for child molesters, people who talk at the theatre, and folks who cancel good t.v. shows before their time. FireflyWiki - Our Mrs Reynolds...
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• Posted at 07:53PM, 01.14.04
It doesn't take Peter Jackson to know you need to edit this
Almost exactly how I felt when I saw a bunch of poetry coming up on the next page....
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• Posted at 03:15PM, 01.14.04
Cinema Sins
Via ***Dave: Take the following list of movies (IMDB's top 100)and boldface the ones you’ve seen....
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• Posted at 03:02PM, 01.14.04
Geeker household
Jackie and Justin are making themselves ham and cheese sandwiches in the other room, singing the Hero of Canton, in unison. Good to be home....
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• Posted at 05:54PM, 01.13.04
Variations
So I'm messing around with the "no power in the 'verse" quote and trying out various fonts....
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• Posted at 02:40PM, 01.13.04
Update
Those of you reading the scripts I've linked to off the FireflyWiki - Firefly Episode Guide may want to start over. I've switched out most of the 'transcript' scripts for...
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• Posted at 01:35PM, 01.13.04
Things I learned from Safe
Sanguine: adj. 1. Hopeful 2. Bloody FireflyWiki - Safe...
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• Posted at 12:59PM, 01.13.04
Thought for the day
Confidential to T-Mobile: NASA is downloading 36 MB TIFFs from Mars and I only get 2 bars of signal on my cell phone inside my house. Please look into upgrading....
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• Posted at 12:21PM, 01.13.04
Things I leaned from Safe
The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vacuuming systems. FireflyWiki - Safe...
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• Posted at 02:37PM, 01.12.04
FF movie news
FireflyMovie.com - News Chris Buchanan (President of Mutant Enemy): It seems that the DVDs are doing really well (e.g. better than Fox anticipated) and that there have been significant re-orders...
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• Posted at 02:32PM, 01.12.04
Swag update
MAL: Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? ZOE: Big damn heroes, sir. MAL: Ain't we just. -- Firefly, "Safe" That's...
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• Posted at 09:04AM, 01.12.04
Cosmology
So here's a thought: It's no secret that Joss never really went into the technobabble -- he doesn't bother working out how the ships fly, why inertia doesn't kill the...
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• Posted at 09:04AM, 01.10.04
Things I learned from Shindig
Mercy is the mark of a great man... but sometimes you can really only be a good man, and sometimes you're just kinda all right. FireflyWiki - Shindig...
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• Posted at 05:04PM, 01. 9.04
Things I learned from Shindig
You don't know for sure that it's the buffet table unless you question it....
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• Posted at 12:47PM, 01. 8.04
Things I learned from Shindig
Many situations can be solved by giving Jayne a big stick and standing back....
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• Posted at 03:56PM, 01. 7.04
Things I learned from Bushwhacked
It's a real burden being right so often. FireflyWiki - Bushwhacked...
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• Posted at 12:28PM, 01. 6.04
I'm really not a puzzle person
So, once upon a time... Wait, let's start over. The date is December 21st, 2003: It becomes increasingly obvious that Justin's been... how to say it... protecting us from the...
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• Posted at 10:37AM, 01. 6.04
Dear Diary...
Today, it was cloudless and sunny, and relatively wind-free. Despite these undeniable fact, it was still GODAWFUL COLD the entire day. That is all....
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• Posted at 04:08PM, 01. 5.04
Pretty darn funny
The Upcoming Year for Joss, Mutant Enemy and Friends...
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• Posted at 12:36PM, 01. 5.04
Things I learned from Bushwhacked
Things often look bigger when you can't see 'em....
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• Posted at 11:06AM, 01. 5.04
For those of you messing around with the Firefly Wiki, you'll be pleased to know I think I fixed that 'cannot display XML' error message. Apparently, it's caused by the...
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• Posted at 11:05AM, 01. 5.04
There's something pure about nice, straightforward debauchery
So Jackie and I were bored last night... due to folks being out of town, we just hadn't had as many get togethers in the last couple weeks as we're...
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• Posted at 09:07AM, 01. 3.04
Here's how it is...
Okay, so I've found the easter egg on the Firefly disk 4 of Adam singing, and he's wearing this cool t-shirt... the same one he's wearing here, except on the...
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• Posted at 05:36PM, 01. 2.04
Sweet
Firefly Chinese Pinyinary - a collection of all the Chinese phrases you hear, plus all the chinese characters you see on the show. Also: Fireflymovie.com, because geeks never learned to...
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• Posted at 10:35AM, 01. 2.04
Things I learned from Bushwhacked
Pranks involving the eye-popping, blood-boiling vacuum of outer space are... pretty funny, actually....
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• Posted at 10:16AM, 01. 2.04
Things I we learned from The Train Job
Suggested by Wondersheep: "When all else fails, blame the space monkeys."...
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• Posted at 10:14AM, 01. 2.04
Things I learned from The Train Job
You can sometimes distract people by getting all... bendy. [Rather an appropriate lesson for New Years.]...
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• Posted at 10:11AM, 01. 1.04
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