Vulcan Bureaucracy

"Are you saying those Vulcan star charts aren't all that accurate? Well, if that's true, good luck getting them to admit it." ~ Commander 'Trip' Tucker, Enterprise

Tagline Graveyard

I just wanted to create a memorial to old taglines. And make a place to put other taglines in case I ever decide to give up "#1 in Colbert Fan Fiction." Yeah, like that's ever going to happen in this wikiality.

During our political heyday:
All the liberal, and twice the caffeine...

The shorter version:
Welcome to our virtual frontier cabin.

Our original tagline:
Welcome to the frontier. One day we will all be in our porch rockers saying, "Yep, I remember when internet space stretched as far as the eye could see and all you needed to get you a piece was set up a name. Back then you just staked your claim and you could have your own little place...." So consider this our virtual frontier cabin.

Do You Know the Cheese God?

The internet is a funny thing. As you know, Sunday is God and Cheese Day here at the Thoughts, so I went looking for new God or Cheese items today. You can imagine my surprise when I found a Cheese God and that, furthermore, that the Cheese God was a geek. Synchronicity, serendipity, whatever you want to call it, it's still cool. 2007 marks the 10th year of www.cheesegod.com. Some quotes to give you the flavor of the Cheese God....

So many troubles in the world. World hunger. Wars being fought. People dying from incurable diseases. Global warming (or a natural state of climate change if you're a mental midget.) But none of these will matter any more come this Friday. The iPhone is coming. ~ Here Cometh the iPhone

"To eat the Onion Rings" \too eet thuh uhn-yuhn rÄ­ngs\, verb:
To have a disappointing ending or outcome. Example: The 2004 election ate the onion rings. ~ Phrase of the Day

So, if this data is correct, there are people who are interested in driving a tank while eating a whole rabbit and washing it down with a gallon of milk. Afterwards, being tired out, they'll relax in some kind of space age capsule with an 'Inflatable Party Sheep'. Seems logical... ~ Amazon Tank

First of all, who in the Water World would be a Paris Hilton fan? Someone hoping one day to be an alcoholic? A drug addict? A whore? Someone who loves bad acting? Someone who loves staying at Hilton hotels? I don't get it. ~ Forget Paris

HSBC bank has denied God a checking account. ~ HSBC Denies God

All hail the Cheese God.

Purple and Pushy... Tell Me Something I Don't Know...

Your Gemstone is Amethyst

Dignified, impressive, and wise. You have a deeply spiritual soul

What Gemstone Are You?

You Have Many Alpha Tendencies

You're not a total alpha female, but you certainly know how to - and like to - get your way. You're forceful without being intimidating. You're confident without being vain. A perfect mix.

Are You an Alpha Female?

Desperately Seeking... Something

I was way behind the curve on finding out what searches were bringing people here from the intertubes. A sampling of recent searches that brought people to the Thoughts:

• csi: ny "you've been served"
• flaming bag of poop
• weather staions
• present sfspca analysis
• subspace fridays
• do you think utilitarianism is a theory that would work well in the united states? could we get past the concept of the individual for the greater goo
• "which way did he go george"
• history of parson's hat
• my toon paisley
• hyperintelligent shade of the color blue
• political party affiliation scott bakula
• self reflection candy treat

Even Soogle isn't quite sure what everyone was getting at. But it was nice of them to stop by.

Humor Me

Over at the Dilbert Blog Scott Adams has started a conversation about the subjectivity of humor. He shows two comic strips - one that he doesn't particularly like but that got a huge reaction of emails, and another that he loves but no one reacted to. He asks at the end of his post "Which comic did you like best?" My comment:

I didn't care for either one even though I "got" both of them.

Maybe we should work on creating some useful comic strip reader categories. Then I can know to only read stuff that falls into my category.

Examples of the ones I found incredibly funny, and this is just stuff I have at hand, not a full Dilbert archive analysis:

Wally: "One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee." (This is one of the reasons I say that Wally is my Yoda.)

Dilbert: "Try giving up hope. It turns the bad feelings into emptiness."

Dilbert: "Ed is an Unreachable." (God, I want to be Ed...)

Dilbert: "You haven't given me enough resources to do my project." Boss: "That's because your project isn't important and neither are you." Dilbert: "This took an ugly turn." (Yep...)

Asok: "I need your comments on this before I submit it." Boss: "Just leave it here and hope I become the sort of boss who gets around to doing that sort of thing."

So what would you say my category is? Cynic?

What category of humor do you have? And does Dilbert hit it for you? If not, what does?

Sidhe Walks In Beauty

The Rock Rag, November 2003
Cover Article
Here Sidhe Comes
by Sue London

This interviewer had a chance to sit down with the rock band “Sidhe Walks In Beauty” before the kick-off of the North American tour for their album “Unseelie Court”. In case you’ve been living under a mushroom cap while this British sensation has taken off, Sidhe is pronounced “Shee” and is the Gaelic word for fey or fairy.

I met the three guy, one girl band at New York’s swank Casablanca Hotel. Leanan looked amazing in a little flowing blue number, while the boys Pooka, Spriggan and Boggie were all decked out in black grunge finery. The first thing I asked was, of course, “Why Sidhe?”

Spriggan replied, “Why the [expletive] do you [expletive] think, you [expletive]? We’re [expletive] fey!”

Leanan broke in with her usual charm, “And the band name is a reference to a Lord Byron poem. Since Byron is a personal friend it seemed like a nice tribute.” (When I mentioned that Byron had been dead for some time the band reassured me that he was in fact enjoying time with some friends at a fairie ring in Northern Ireland where time passes slowly and was in quite good health.)

Pooka, who had been glowering at me, spoke up. “We looked at those rock bands tearing up their hotel rooms, luring young people away from their homes to follow them, having sex with everyone within five feet of them, and we thought, what a rip-off! We’ve been acting like that for thousands of years and now some mortal brats are going to come along and make money at it? [Expletive]!”

Of course, over the years there has been the odd fairy to gain popularity in entertainment. Bryan Ferry, the son of a dryad, was a 1980s pop sensation and right now Tina Fey, a nymph, does the news on Saturday Night Live.

When I asked her about this, Leanan mused, “Tina has done a good job of toning down her natural allure. There is a real pressure as a sidhe where you wonder if you can make it without your glamour – if you can just succeed on your own hard work.”

Well, it’s certain that this great band is making it on their own hard work. Check out Sidhe Walks in Beauty coming soon to a town near you!

(November 2003 Bad Fairy Challenge, OWW)

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Random Ten

1. The Show Must Go On - Queen
2. Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter - Squirrel Nut Zippers
3. You're in My Heart - Rod Stewart
4. Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
5. Book of Days - Enya
6. Someday - The Corrs
7. Waiting for a Girl Like You - Foreigner
8. Whatever You Do! Don't! - Shania Twain
9. "Oh drat these computers, they're so naughty and so complex!" - Marvin the Martian
10. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
    

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