Hastings looks hopefully toward the future with a dawning sense of the inevitability of all things NUMBER 5

Well, Halloween is right around the corner, after all.

Eggnog makes me violently ill.

I'm almost afraid to ask, but is there a story with the eggnog, or is it just something your body rejects for no reason?

ALSO, WASTE OF LIQUOR, WHICH IS ALWAYS WRONG.

The worst part is that, as usual, I can see what you are saying about the texture, and yet it doesn't change my mind. (Kind of like how I like firnee, this Afghani pudding, that A. says tastes "like a Glade Plug-In." He's kind of right, but I can't help it; I like it.)

Real eggnog is...not.
Both have too many 'g's in them.

John, you are hereby inlisted in the semi-torturous task of making a switchbox for all video game systems that I can't get SCART-type connectors for.
Needs 2 large 8-pin DIN(like the rocktron MIDI cable) connectors(female) at least one SMALL 9 pin(maybe??) and for sure at least one of these:
http://www.gamesx.com/misctech/mypin.htm
I think that's the same as a PC's serial port if i'm remembering correctly. Some systems don't have RGB outs natively and you have to go into them and create them, or you just have to make the cables, and this end is easier to work with than a DIN connector the size of a PS/2 port.

Can anyone commission John to make random electronic stuff? I'd like a machine that manufactures time, plz. I'd like to think I'd use the extra time to clean up a bit, but realistically, I'd probably just use it for extra study time. And to catch up on movies and tv.

And by assist I'm basically forcing him to help me work through weird dyslexic circuit path problems and find parts.

John doesn't pity me.

Mike would laugh at me.

I need a pointier soldering iron than last time.

This is why I dropped physics so long ago. Extra time wouldn't be worth weighing more. Although I suppose you mean it in a gravity-related way rather than how I'm thinking of it (no, I will not go up another jeans size...).

Alternatively, you write, if he manufactured time while on earth...

Well, what planet would work better?

There was an entire movie about the observation effect and the rapid move of combining physics and spiritual ideas on today. I only caught some of it. It wasn't very well made.
The interviews were good, but the original parts were mediocre bits of film-school symbolism and cheap digital cimematography.

It was called "What the Bleep do We Know?"

(And I admit that part of my reasoning for not going is that hey, I have other plans today and I'm a selfish bitch that way. BUT. Against medical advice...)

Now that the serious moment is over, I promise to go back to being an insensitive snarky asshole.

I'm off to a Very Nice Dinner.

Hope everyone has a fabulous (and safe and mostly sane) night...

CSPAN presents Let it Be

WRT Congressional Candid Camera... can we get Rep. Foley on that? Or is the NC-17 rating going to be necessary again?

Also John, just to reassure you, of course if anyone asks, I will tell them that you are an insensitive snarky asshole. You have your reputation to consider.

Clearly, I'm tired since if I had realized I was doing that, I would have at least chosen someone remotely attractive. And not a Republican. I have standards, you know.

Ned, I'm so jealous of the Malaysian food. My only consolation is that I ate some fantastic flourless chocolate cake with raspberry sauce for dessert. I'm feeling kind of fat myself... part of why I'm still up. I went to bed overly full of dessert last Monday night and had a dream that I was being trapped into a cave... by a person wielding a pastry bag of frosting.

(I am still tring to work out the spring class schedule thing and hoping to visit, but now must work robbing a bank into my scheme. And lying to A. and saying, "oh, we just ate at Taco Bell..." Details, details.)

October 7 is also the day our friend D0n had his kidney transplant several years ago. Clearly an auspicious day for many. :)

(now, in theory, I will always remember J031's birthday...)

But yeah, I hear you. Going back to school for me has the paradoxical effect of causing me to eat out more (due to the long drive and the fact that my classes are when I should be eating dinner) while I an afford it less.

I hate money, I love money, and I hate that I love money. Argh.

This is bigtime. I've been doing the same (minus the long drive).

On the other hand, eventually you are going to totally out-earn me...

It helped me sleep.

Here's a GZeus X-Mas if anyone feels enough pity:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=130026037293
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=130007829887

I've just spend more than enough one Genesis stuff, and can't buy more until I sell what I don't need.

http://i.imgur.com/WBOFT.jpg