Squeaker squeakin'

Colts squeak by by another game ... barely pulling out a win.

So -- SB 41 will be C vs C. I'm sure if the Colts do great in four years, Colt 45 will pressure to be the beer of the NFL. In any case, the Midwest and Chicagoland should be quite happy. Indy, generally 50-50 with Bears & Colts ought to be happier. Had Lions made it in ... MR would have had a team for whom to root.
The Colts have just about proven the reason why Indy is building a new stadium.

MR invited me to see SB 41 in HDTV ... sweet!

"Now, if you get as close to the TV as I do, you could see bush" +, regarding the cheerleaders.

+ Andrew Dice Clay regarding Barbara Eden in "I Dream of Jeanie".

buncha bombs in the air

I overheard the singer do the national anthem for the Colts game. Yikes! Look, Naked Gun made fun of the relative stupidity of people not knowing the words. Some people try to "make the song her/his own". Stop it! It is a difficult song enough without the yodeling involved or worse, [scratch, scratch, scratch ... yeah, boi ... tap tap tap]. It's a song. You wouldn't like someone doing Amazing Grace with pan flute, sung by Justin Timberlake or Milli Vanilli.

Just drop the flash, drop the crap, drop the Buckwheat version and just do the song. It isn't important that you make it a rock song or a radio hit pop song or a trendy alternative or rap song. Just sing it. If that's too tough -- leave!

redfaced and sore

Saints got spanked ... hard and often today by 'da bears'. I normally don't care a whole lot, but this year Bears make it to super bowl. I can only hope that Colts make it there, then THAT will be a game I will certainly want to watch.

If you didn't see the Bears game, well ... the turnovers (or bend overs the knees) on the Saints' part greatly contributed to the Bears winning. A very rare safety also helped and when it was 30+ to 14, well, that was bad, but the Saints' weren't yet finished with the spanking. They didn't have homefield advantage but will finish tied-third with the loser of Colts-Patriots game tonight.

cavernous not generous?

I got this new scan and I guess they found what looks like a mouth rather than a vault of goodness. A spot of activity for altruistic behavior, huh?

Well, I know what part of my brain is underdeveloped. All this time I thought it was my memory or my logic or my empathy or my memory, but ... lost the thought.

drives me snowy

I clicked on the electric starter ... chu-chink... chu-chink...chu-chink...rrrrrrrrrr ... ffoom! It started. Last year the snowblower saw only three days of action and little of it. Today I did my drive, and four neighbor's drives. While I have a sore back, a bit, I have a better health for the exercise. I suppose I feel a little good about cleaning off drives -- something good for another person.

Thankfully the snow was not 18 inches (around 9 inches high, as accumulation of snow is measured not in height of snow). This slight dusting was a taste of perhaps more. This isn't going to get any child off school or delayed tomorrow for sure. My neice will be so disappointed.

May Hell receive Australian millitant Muslim jerk

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16702195/

 

Children as martyrs. Hey, I've got an idea! Shut the #$#&$%@^##%$#!%@ up! Have a nice tall, steaming cup of it.

This guy should be put on a slow boat to Antarctica. What sort of sadist enourages people, children especially, to sacrifice themselves for a cause that cannot understand?

not shaken, but stirred, maybe blended

I'm not suggesting anything, but I did put together a compilation, which might roughly be a reality sometime, maybe, perahps, perhaps, perhaps ...



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"Just Numbers" he said

Scott turned 40. Rachel had a party for him with family and friends.

My only complaint ... no group shot!

There were late and early guests and everyone seemed to have a good time welcoming Scott to 40, as if he had a choice. 40 years in and more to go, perhaps another 40. None of the older guys, "old-tymers" seemed to divulge any cunning tactics on how to be a cleverer 40, though I wasn't party to all of the conversations. Scott & Rachel will soon have a CD of pictures, so if you want them -- ask them. I have only my small sample of pictures.

Forty, geeky, happy, and there are more chapters yet to go.
Happy Birthday Scott!

The adults spoke ad nausium, while the kids (Charlie, Jake) played Wii and (Elise, Maddie, Lucas) played Gamecube, separately. Later, the bi-pedal animated toy, myself, went through the house with Lucas, Maddie, Charlie, playing chase NO CATCH. It was an interesting game where I was pummelled and the target of weapons, though I was not allowed to catch anyone.

Two other reviews

The Japanese animated feature Blood: the Last Vampire, was under an hour. Where it was strong, hinting at bits of story rather than have a "this is the long, boring part of the movie detailing blah, blah, blah". It moved fast and was fairly complete. It left you doubts, as though there was another part coming. The sound was good, mixed with jostling camera moving to simulate quaking. Only a few parts of the movie had choppy animation, otherwise it was more fluid than typical graphic novel to film transition. I would probably watch it again, but not right away. It thankfully didn't spend much effort with parts of no consequence or red herrings.

Trinity Blood (so-called official website) is a Japanese animated serial (not cereal). I saw episode 4, having not seen the others. I think this was like an early college submission of a Voltron cartoon series. It was as hacked and pointlessly dialogue-heavy as Voltron with spits of violence. The graphic nature of the violence and the evil of the characters is greater. Still, the story of space vampires, the Vatican having their own assault team (so that's where Van Helsing got it) is patentedly bad.

A vampiric nun (nun who was turned) sought at the end of this episode to go to the Vatican and help the reltions between the humans and vampires to keep them from hating each other. Now, this being part of the dialogue, you'd turn it off right there, but sadly it was at the end.

Let's figure this out ... vampires feed on humans (regardless of the specific mythos of the story, be it blood, flesh, whatever) and the humans are supposed to like that? Yeah, "the negotiations never took place" + would be the end results of that.

Summary: Trinity Blood, not so good. Blood: the Last Vampire was okay, if you like anime and vampire stories. It is interesting to note that the main character, a vampire herself, used the term "demons" rather than vampires. The other oversight was a traumatic situation where the main character is fine saying "**it", another guy in equal peril says, "shoot".

+ Star Wars: Phanton Menace

Terminator spotter

I know, according to Maia, that Kirby weepers are terminators. Do not let the name fool you, Kirby's need to be attacked. Here Maia is guarding MR, while MR defends his Mike's Hard Lemonade.

When we got done playing Catch Phrase, which Maia hates, she beckoned MR to make room for her on his lap. Here, she can watch the questionable interloper, me, to see if I have ill intentions.

happy thoughts

So there Charlie was, thinking happy thoughts and then ... he floated. It was amazing.

Well, no. He did a mantra and did meditate -- perhaps like Ben 10 or Naruto. Funny and peculiar

canine partners in crime

While you scratch and love one, the other has plans -- eat things off the counter, paper that you find, scraps or come in and intervene because you are jealous. Echo generally likes to find chewable things, his or not, and scurry off to chew them. According to Monkeyjack, he doesn't mind pulling off a table 5 inches from you, despite you being the "master". Cheyenne taunts you with a toy, and when that's old, taunts her brother with a toy.

I'm waiting for them to get their timing better for the more complex bait and switch ... growl, grumble, growl -- ruff! Then at the break, each takes off in different directions with naughty tabboo items. The law of odds states that you will only reach one in time, the other will have successfully chewed the item before you reach her/him.

To illustrate this point, Charlie lead me to the broken kitchen window. The dogs were playing, fighting and one their hind legs, shatter -- broken glass. Well ... nice weather for it 30 degrees and colder. 17 degrees in the sun with windchill. Thanks puppies. I love you, but want to get you well past puppy period. "Rip & Tear" of the puppy years. Monkeyjack and Lori told me they were 10 months now. That's 16 more months, about before the "puppy period" ends.

it's on my jacket

Monkeyjack pan-fried some food, put cheese on steak and feed his family and two guests. I opted out, for I already ate and I try to normally avoid eating after 8 pm, unless I skipped a day of eating+, which I sometimes do. I put on my jacket to go out today and sniff, sniff, sniff ... last night's dinner. For lack of any other relevancy, it smells like a merge of Chinese restaurant and Indian kitchen. It isn't bad, but I didn't really want to smell that when donning my coat.

+ BTW: it makes my body prone to metabolic slowing, so I store food as fat more readily. It is not a way to lose weight.

from the makers of mini-movies

We get Wii Ultimate Alliance game. There are literally hours of time you can waste waiting to get through roughly constructed areas. You "control" characters doing stuff that doesn't matter.

After ten minutes, Monkeyjack finds the jump button. Darn! That would have been helpful.

Story mode playability -- 50%, re-playability - 12%
Sophistication of moves -- 20%. Considering each person has two hand controls, the characters have no uniqueness to the Wii. It likely was a release for [all game systems] and was adapted to the Wii, leaving you wonder -- why?
Piece o' crap. Don't buy it, don't rent it.

It is a flunky game. It's based on a manuever-through-here template, with smash smash smash, jump, pickup, throw. It is an okay older system game, but it doesn't do squat to address the "grand capabilities" of XBOX 360 or the Wii.

I did not like Tony Hawk on Wii, but it was a game made for the Wii -- a great deal better than this.
I guess I'll mark it as millenium Q-Bert. Repackaged and cleaned, it's still a simple, mind-numbing and dull game.

hot flash

I was taking some shots of Maia when I was inspired to deflect the flash a bit, using my one piece in my hand -- lens cover. I shot it twice and I smelled melted plastic. Sure enough, the lense cap inside -- where it was close to the flash was "impressed" with a flash-like shape. The flash is so hot, it lightly melted the lens cap with contact or near contact.

I was wondering why the flash spelled the words in reverse, "Caution. Surface may be hot." Sadly, the message was covering someone's face. [ha, not likely]

and the answer is ... "This apparition is a serial chick flick"

What is Ghost Whisperer? [Ting] "Correct. Go again."
I'll take chick flick shows for $800.

"This show has been scene by many criminalists."
What is CSI (insert any name here)!
[beep beep] Oh, wait, I guess the judges are going to give that to you. Go again.

"This practicing star in a TV show, generally CBS gaurantees 'chick flick'"
Who is Camryn Manheim.

And that's the end of the round. Our Final Jeapoardy category is: 'Shows you wouldn't choose'.

............
I was at Monkeyjack's last night and Lori and Amy really like to watch Ghost Whisperer. Monkeyjack claims it's okay. I couldn't dedicate my full energies to it, for it was like a knock-knock joke. Even if you haven't heard that particular one -- it isn't going to be great, likely a knock off of another and generally unfunny. Horse Whisperer had the relationship suspense -- would two people cheat. Would people pull their heads out of their backsides? Would someone who has experienced ghostly interferance for 30+ years be really unaware of reality vs fiction.

It was at par with King Arthur and Hollowman. While the thought behind some of it was good --KA having Keira Knightly, super-hottie, it failed in its execution. Ghost Whisperer has hottie Jennifer Love-Hewitt, but let's face it. That is chick flick, a half-click from Oxygen/Lifetime network.

Suesses of Foxes in Soxes with Sneeches

Green Eggs & Ham anyone? Would you eat them with a Fox? Perhaps eat them on beaches with Sneeches (part 1 of 2) or with Sneeches (part 2 of 2) on beaches?

YouTube has stars upon thars!

Scout

I just didn't like the blurry picutre he had.

Well, that's the name MR gives her. I usually called her by her name. I used to pester her with "Confuse-Us says" notes while gurgling down lots of beers. Needless to say, my handwriting worsened as did my notes. It was great to hear that she got out of being bartender and is now going to get married.

Cinderella story, c/o MR is here.

Selling addictive materials

I decided that I couldn't do it. I can't sell drugs ... I can't sell tobacco. It would be apocalypse for me.

Wrong man

I looked at the job and thought, "Sweet! I could do that job." I got the short end with, "applicant has too much body."+
Again, I thought, "Sweet!"
I was corrected again that "too much body" wasn't flattery.

Come to find out that it was a mechanics job. Wow! I'm so sore.

+ I suppose this is only marginally better than, "applicant doesn't have enough body".