Yes, it’s true that I already have three pizza cutters. All that proves is that I like them and want more. So if you are so inclined, you can send me this one.
I promise to hand wash it as directed but it WILL be used to cut pizza. I won’t just use it as a paper weight.
Some people think there is such a thing as too much stuff. And I agree. But somehow I also think that there is no such thing as too many games. Specifically, I really don’t think it’s possible to have too many Trivial Pursuit games. I know this must be a sickness of some kind since I’ve managed to collect quite a few and have no one to play the game with (my husband grew bored of winning long ago). I’m not into playing alone either. Fortunatly they DO serve a purpose:
Decoration
Yes that is a skull on the shelf. No, it’s not real.
Oh the dreaded blackheads. Unlike a normal zit that will go away at some point (probably), the blackhead can linger for years. So you try scrubs and creams and all sorts of laser derm ablasion or whatever that procedure is called and it does no good. So you wrap your arms around your face and try to get rid of it from 18 different directions while looking in the mirror and it’s then that you see the 1000 other blackheads that you would never have noticed if you had just left the first one alone. And you cry in dispari.
What’s that you say? You don’t. That’s just me you say.
Oh.
Well of course I don’t do that – I saw it on TV or I read it in a book but I don’t do that.
I’m going to go away now.
The Cartoon Network just became my favorite cable station with word that they are signing papers to bring Weird Al Yankovic on for multiple projects. The first of which will be a feature length movie. The world (or at least me and a few like-minded folks) have been waiting for another Weird Al movie since the genius that was UHF.
Try to hold in the insanity until then, and don’t forget to Dare to Be Stupid!
I’m not going to complain about my job. I like my job. I am happy I am employed. But I’m allowed to dream, aren’t I?
I dream of one day be employed in a position that pays well for something I know for sure I’m really good at. That presupposes that I CAN be really good at something but I think well enough of myself to assume that part of the equation.
My dream goes something like this: I sitting at work figuring out the proper regression line to apply to term life insurance rates. As an actuary, I am WELL compensated for this type of thing and the fact that the company is making money makes me happy. Apparently deep down, I’m a company man through and through. I wouldn’t want to go into the health insurance field because that would make me feel guilty – having to jack rates every year just to make ends meet.
Anyhoo…I decide one day that I want to go on vacation so I put in for time off right away because I know I have enough money to do it and I know I have enough vacation time to do it and this is AT THE SAME TIME so I do it. Repeatedly. Over the course of a couple decades. Until one day I retire. Without worrying about money or the price of healthcare because all along I had enough time outside of work to exercise and stay healthy thereby keeping term life insurance rates down for everyone.
We here at ovrnite.com have compiled a new television-related and themed version of alignments. You, of course, are familiar with the nine classic Dungeons & Dragons alignments. From Lawful Good through Neutral to Chaotic Evil, we apply these personality types to TV characters.
Lawful Good – Picard
Neutral Good – Bones
Chaotic Good – House
Lawful Neutral – The Ancients
True Neutral – Bender
Chaotic Neutral – Bugs Bunny
Lawful Evil – Dexter
Neutral Evil – Benjamin Linus
Chaotic Evil – Sylar
Again, if you can easily identify all of the above references and give good reasons why they are appropriate, you may be watching too much TV. If you can think of even better examples of each alignment type, then you’re definitely watching too much TV.
After a little break, we return with even more characters from the classic Dungeon & Dragon alignment set. The lawful good character is the typical hero character that stands for truth, justice, and the Krynn way. There are still many variations that can occur within the confines of these goody-two-shoes characters.
Superman – His power resides in that one curl of hair
Batman – But only the TV show version (BAM!!)
Mufasa – Oooohh! Say it again!
Atticus Finch – Doesn’t get any more lawful or good than this
Optimus Prime – Autobots, roll out!
God – Kind of the definition
In my latest and most recent entry into examples of the classic Dungeons and Dragons alignments, I bring you true neutral.
These are the types of characters that will give you a definite maybe. Although some may adopt a “I’ll leave you alone if you leave me alone” attitude, others are just above the arguments of lesser beings. See you next, maybe.
Switzerland – If you won’t fight against Nazis, you won’t fight against anybody.
Doctor Manhattan – Truly does not care, not even about wearing clothes.
Kaminoans – Cloning is cool; everything else, meh.
Treebeard – “I am not altogether on anybody’s side.”
Rick Blaine – “I stick out my neck for nobody.”
Jet – “I don’t know, and I have no opinion.”
Neutral President – “If I don’t make it, tell my wife ‘Hello’.”
Continuing on with the previous theme of examples of the classic D&D alignments brings us to today’s topic of Chaotic Good. This has to be one of the strangest alignments that the game has to offer. I would always imagine someone randomly roaming the countryside performing random acts of kindness. My previous example of the Chaotic Good alignment was Minsc. This may be too obscure for the masses. He was a character in the Baldur’s Gate video game series who was hit over the head too often, carried a miniature giant space hamster, and like to yell, “Butt kicking for goodness.”
Here are some more examples:
V for Vendetta – “Governments should be afraid of their people”
The Mythbusters – “Seeking the truth AND blowing stuff up”
House – “It’s not lupus”
Wolverine – “Do the right thing, even if you have to kill EVERYONE”
Bilbo Baggins – “I may be a burglar, but I am an honest one, I hope, more or less.”
The Incredible Hulk – “Hulk SMASH!!!”
Mary Poppins – “Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way”
The A-Team – “Pitying fools since 1983″
With even more popularity for the inspirational posters or motivational posters with funny captions, we will be reviewing some other options for chaotic evil characters. The type of characters that do bad stuff without warning. Being mean and destroying stuff just for the heck of it.
Alex from A Clockwork Orange – “Real horrorshow”
Hannibal the Cannibal – “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti”
The Joker – “Why so serious?”
Norman Bates – “A boy’s best friend is his mother”
Caligula – “Let them hate us so long as they fear us”
The Crimson King – “Ya ken?”
Now that I’ve spent the better part of the last two hours reading through a thoroughly funny comic strip about trying to DM the classic Lord of the Rings, I think that I’ve come across one of the funniest pages in the extremely long series.
I recommend starting at the beginning.
But this one is really funny.
True, so very true.
Monty Python reference (one of many).
Mario reference.
Beings that it is coming up on Talk Like A Pirate Day, I was doing a little musing. If Han Solo was a smuggler (pirate), and Chewie was his first mate, shouldn’t Harrison Ford have brought a little more “mateys” and “arrghs” to the role. Or maybe, just maybe, Chewbacca’s pirate accent was so heavy that it came out in his trademarked roars.
Makes you think, huh?
I’m excited! I just learned a new word. Not only is it new to me – it’s really, REALLY new. And no, I didn’t make it up. I read it on CNN so it must be out there. I looked up the definition in wikipedia so it’s been around at least long enough for someone to put an article in there about it.
It’s ‘exurb’.
Let me use it in a sentence for you.
‘Gilbert is an exurb so it takes a lot of time to people to drive to work but they can afford the gas.’
My children’s definitions of things just boggle my mind. Exactly how they come up with these definitions, I don’t know. For one, being a bully must involve a rectal attack. For another, yesterday means any day before today and can preceed any time greater than a day as well. Like ‘yesterday last month’. Or if it’s Friday and he wants to talk about Tuesday but can’t remember the name of it he says, ‘yesterday Wednesday’. My favorite is ‘yesterday yesterday’ which is the day before yesterday.
I asked my oldest if he knew the meaning of a word yesterday (out of curiosity) and he told me to look it up. I’m a bad speller, so there’s no hope of me being able to do that. My parents once told me to look up sikolojy and it wasn’t in the dictionary at all. I suppose I need to get an unabridged version.
News update!
You no longer need a Delorian to travel through time. Coming soon to a store near you are replica flux capacitors that will allow you to turn any vehicle from a Yugo to a Gremlin into a 4th dimensional automobile. Bat wing doors and flying cars not required.
The only question remaining is where to mount it in your ride.
Sometimes the coolest stuff just kind of falls into your lap.
My brother stopped by the other day to drop off something that he thought I might like. It was a clock. My first thought was, “Not another clock.” I think we managed to get a dozen clocks from different people when I got married. Maybe all my friends and family think I don’t know what time it is.
However, this was no ordinary clock. A coworker of my brother didn’t want it anymore, gave it to my brother, who passed it along to me. It’s a giant gear that turns around a stationary hand. There are other gears that serve only ornamental purposes, but it is still one pretty cool clock.
In the category of “cute robots” and just in time for the upcoming Pixar movie “Wall-E”, comes a drumming robot called Yellow Drum Machine. The thing can drive around, look at its environment, find something solid to drum on, and then start thumping away a cool little tune. It seems to have two arms to hit whatever it runs into, a thumper that can knock on the ground, and a little speaker to help with other sounds and beats.
Get a few of these things together and linked up on a network and you could make your own, real-life version of Animusic.
It doesn’t look like they’ve got any actual footage in the can yet, but the first trailer to the upcoming J.J. Abrams relaunch of the Star Trek franchise has hit the web. It may be gone soon, but here it is for now.
Marvel at welders… welding. Thrill at the fade ins and fade outs.
Seriously though. I really hope this is good. I’m definitely seeing it if for no other reason than to see Simon Pegg play Scotty.
I have been helping my first grader with his math homework and I’m surprised at some of what they have covered. It may just be my memory failing me but I don’t think I covered greater than and less than until 3rd grade and today they actually introduced the word function. It’s nice that they aren’t going to spring that one on him in high school when the concept is so abstract that it’s impossible to understand. This sets some groundwork for him understanding it later. Of course, if they don’t mention it again between now and then, this has been pointless. I’m optimistic though.
Well this is a pleasant little surprise just in time for the holiday season. A look into the possibility of LARPers acting in a nativity scene.
O, the horror.
Start with the peaceful scene of the Holy Family. Mix in D&D fanatics dressed as their characters. Animate it like a Japanese action anime.
It’s a wonder nobody’s thought of this particular mix of themes before!