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00:37 It's just past midnight. Websnark's four years old. It's old enough to have a conversation with, now. Next year I'll need to preschool it. #
23:44 Huh. So... actually posting content to my blog increases pageviews on said blog. Who would have thought it? #

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23:56 My teeth feel weird. And will feel weirder tomorrow. Teeth are weird. #

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16:39 Man, suddenly really tired. I think I have the eyestrain. #

...I desperately need to plan and make an upstate New York trip. Weds and I are in accordance on this issue.

It's been vastly too long. There must be Syracuse once more, and Ithaca and Cortland to boot. I must look upon Frank, Beck, John, Lisa, Karen, Kevin and more. I must see the Commons and the Carousel, using the eyes of a married man, and reintroduce them to the woman in my life, not as my friend or girlfriend but as my wife. They must all meet the Burns-Whites, and then there should be scotch.

I don't know when this can happen, or how, but happen it must.

....so this is what 'thinking clearly' feels like again.

Good to know.

So Weds and I are settling in to watch Recreational Christianity. Whatever else you can say about us, we give Christians a chance to testify to us. We are big fans of Bibleman and Davey and Goliath. We have become fans of the trainwreck which is Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible. And recently Weds infected me with The Flying House.

Today, we are just jumping into the newest of these entertainment abortions, and this seems to be the worst of the log. Nest Family Animated Stories of the New Testament. We're preparing to watch, and we expect this to be truly wretched, right?

And there is a bad watercolor painting that we're panning over in the opening credits, and bad music in the background, and we're gearing up to get our MST on, and...

"Screenplay by: Orson Scott Card"

Screenplay by Orson Fucking Scott Card?!

Okay, the trainwreck awesome potential of this show just skyrocketed to 5,000!

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17:13 Absolutely top critical projects? Two. Of those, projects that require outside vendor support? Two. Vendors I heard from today? Zero. Sigh. #

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10:16 Mac OS X Server 10.5 Leopard (that's seriously what they call it on Apple's support site) is the DEVIL. #
10:17 The reason Apple's advertising claims their Server can replace your IT staff? Is because using it will make your staff quit in disgust. #
18:54 Man. So freakin' tired. #
19:23 Apropos of nothing, Crossover Games now runs City of Heroes pretty well. Really low end graphics, mind, but hey. #

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02:55 I get tired of doing configuration work at 3 in the morning. Almost by definition really. #

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12:13 Teaching new teachers all day. I live in recursion. #

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02:28 Absolutely fascinating interview with Mickey Edwards on Radio Times tonight. #
02:43 We have a new Littermaid automatic litter box. Watching it run is fascinating, like watching a Zamboni clearing the ice. #

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02:57 3 am. And I'm still working. I am not bright. #

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03:15 Spore Creature Creator is a hungry beast. It demands more creations! #

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11:40 It's a *wheel,* Apple. There's lots of perfectly good *wheels.* Do not reinvent it! STOP REINVENTING IT! #

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18:35 A day of harnessing the sheer power that is Leopard Server is behind me, and only an hour plus late here. Time to go home. To my *wife.* #

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00:36 Tomorrow? I process shipping information for eBay, put the next round up on eBay, and start writing about William Bendix. #

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19:31 In much pain from much hoisting of many bags through airports. Very tired. Very jetlagged. In some discomfort. Also married. Life *rocks.* #
19:34 Officially back home. We've picked Sarah up from the kennel. She liked the cat condo fine, but she was *thrilled* to get home. #

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03:17 There are daquris the size of our spines here! #
05:44 And now we are back to the hotel room, and so I bid you all adieu. Back to NH when we get up. Good night, team force five. #
17:02 Layover in Dallas - off the plane and into an irish pub. Dude. #

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15:49 Must go shop and get shoes. I'm getting married in six hours. I shouldn't be in stocking feet. That would be gauche. #
22:39 Please note: Mr. and Mrs. Burns-White are well. #

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14:22 ...apparently, according to this presenter, the Web is now Web *2.0.* This is an innovative idea no one else thought of. Really. #
14:27 Fifteen minutes into "top ten Web 2.0 Applications for real life," we have watched three videos and identified 0 applications. #
14:35 Scott McLeod was responsible for that last, brain sucking video. I can't get away from comics. I can never get away from comics. Damn them!! #
15:00 ....is... is he really... telling us... about the exciting new innovation called "blogging?" #
15:03 ...he actually... he's talking about... that great new Web 2.0 technology... "webcomics." I have never been so tempted to storm the podium. #
15:05 A few things he missed, in talking about the top 10 web 2.0 applications: wikis, facebook, any social networking, twitter. He got 'blogs.' #
15:12 Oh thank God, we're done. I've only declined 19 I.Q. points and gained an odd appreciation for musak. #
19:40 Small happinesses: "A Certain Girl" by Zevon plays when she calls me. So on the one hand, she's calling me and that's awesome. Plus? Zevon. #

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14:50 Educomm is pretty cool this year. And I won 16 bucks last night. And on Friday I get married. :) #
15:59 Driving to lunch - Elvis was driving the next car over. #
17:44 Second Life in Education: this seminar scares me. But she's a good presenter. #
17:58 I am twittering... about the seminar... where they are talking about twittering in education. I feel so recursive. #
18:06 Second Life in Education: The Pedagogy of the Flying Penis #

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05:35 Totally exhausted getting ready. Things are tense and tired. But soon we leave, and then all is good. #
19:29 105 on the ground and we have an outdoor wedding!? #

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00:31 Sugar-free Lemon Italian Ice cups are the apex of Western Civilization. #

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00:15 Also, after twenty six years of writing about telepathy, I think I've finally started doing an okay job with it. #
00:21 Hrm. I should probably discuss this with Gary Olson. #
18:28 It is too damnably hot. Which is why I have air conditioning. #

So, I'm writing. And I need to have a moderately short scene in a dance club. Something happens there, you see. It's brief, but it's significant.

My brain is wired to get things right as often as I can, when writing.

Thus, I do research. I'm big on research.

...yeah. I'm a 40 year old male who lives in New Hampshire, trying to get into the brainspace of a 21 year old female living in a city hitting a nightclub to go dancing (which I haven't done since I was in my 20's myself) to music I don't actually listen to, and make the scene ring at least moderately true.

Oddly, there isn't a wikipedia page for that.

Mrph.

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16:56 Headache somewhat abated, now to Concord! #

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10:00 I'm your only friend I'm not your only friend, but I'm a little glowing friend, but really I'm not actually your friend but I am! #

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11:01 eBay is a many splendored thing! #

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02:27 tinyurl.com/5jehdx is my ebay page -- heap big stuff up there right now, and more being added. Enjoy! #
14:27 ....wow. That was a happy financial meteor, wasn't it? And so much impact! Such pretty lights! #

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18:12 Hrm. Livejournal claims 'Snark's RSS is borked. Damned if I can see it. Therefore, I blame communism. #

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18:41 little bit dumping. #
18:44 on the other hand, Speed Racer was awesome. #

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09:48 The radio signal is beamed from SPACE. It is SPACE RADIO. Those Canadian alt-rockers and random Darfur commentators are in SPACE! #

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23:37 Having a *girl* live with you *rocks.* #

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18:49 I am in America - with a fiancee who lives with me! #

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19:11 My whole body hurts, but it has been a good day's Moving! #

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22:49 I am here. It is Ottawa. Weds is beautiful. Life is good. Man I'm hungry. #

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10:52 My hatred is a palpable thing, full of all that is hate. It is a tasty hatred. #
11:20 There is very little in my life that could not be solved by simply acquiring 19.4 billion dollars. I suppose I would have to get nice shoes. #
11:25 Travelocity is the devil. That dumbass lawn gnome? Actually Belial in a form designed to cause children to approach him without fear. #
20:44 The 'joy' of IT in a school. When you have an outage, students all over the school use it as an excuse, giving you tons of false reports. #
22:27 and now I go home. And once home... I do the plethora of things I had to do *before* being called into work. And then up before 8 to drive. #
22:28 Man, do I piss and moan or *what?* #

Set the wayback machine to 1987, Boston, Massachusetts, Sherman. Got it? Good.

Ladies and gentlemen: Matthew DeForrest.

Thank you.

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11:51 I drink coffee and try to work out how to cope with the things that need coping. So far, no luck. I am low on cope. #
11:53 Mostly, I want it to be Sunday. On Sunday, she will be here. Everything gets better when she is here. It's like waiting for Christmas x 1000 #
12:54 And how bad can any day be when it involves free freshmade chimichangas? I ask you. #

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15:21 @ sometimes the meetings eat my brain. #
15:46 And then I just got sick of it. All of it. In one brief, shining moment I had absolutely no affection left in my soul, save for Weds. #

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15:48 Hm. At what point of sickness do you decide a cat needs the Vet vs. needing rest and care? #
21:18 Cat is better! #
21:18 City of Villains, where Delusion of Reference is just an excuse for a mission string! #
22:52 And now, this just in from City of Villains -- *FIFTY!* HAH! So... um. Hm. I guess that's it, then. #

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09:26 I am awake. I am ambulatory. All else is optional. #

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10:24 Major flooding reported in my hometown... and *Wednesday's* hometown. Coincidence? #
10:29 ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hUSAqRniLQgPSda1TEcBYrFJbKpwD90CM27O0 for the story of Floodgate 2008 #
10:47 They have also evacuated UMFK and sent the students to UMPI. Um... UMFK's on a *hill.* Like, out of Flood Plain level hill. #
19:07 I am full of delicious Korean food! Meat is good! And it was free! Who knew? #

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00:23 Mmmm... plans coming together.... #
15:16 My new GPS apparently claims to know the difference between Korean food and Chinese food. And Thai and Vietnamese for that matter. We'll see #

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12:00 That was about the weirdest dream I've had in years. And it involved Crown Royal. Which I am now craving. I've never even had it! #
15:41 My new indy rock band will be named "End Buffing Fae." Thanks, City of Heroes! #

So, I'd recently gotten into The Next Food Network Star. I hadn't seen season 3, and they'd started rebroadcasting it on Fine Living Network. (Fine Living Network -- what Food Network looks down on.) So, cool. I set my season pass, and each week another "new to me" hour of cooking and pathos showed up.

Well. I watched last night's episode... and it was a terrible episode. Everything was breakneck speed, nothing was being developed, things were just being sprung left and right. And then they moved to elimination... nineteen minutes in.

Clearly, the rebroadcasts aren't doing well, so they'd decided to edit them to half an hour and get them over with.

And so, it went from one of the best reality type shows on television to one of the worst half hours on television period.

I went to iTunes. It's not available for sale.

I went to Amazon Unbox. It's not available for sale.

I looked for DVDs. They're not available for sale.

I checked the website. No episodes available for watching.

This right here? This is why people fucking pirate television, idiots. It's not that we're evil. It's not that we're cheap. It's that we actually want to watch your shows and you either don't make them available, or you fuck them up when you do, and you don't give us options to spend money on the legitimate outlets for them. I don't know if I'll bother actually trying to find a torrent of them or anything (I'd need to actually get torrenting software first, and I'm not sure I can be bothered), but I promise you that I'm way lazy enough to spend money on them if you'd fucking let me.

Or, you know, you could actually show the full episodes the way you started to do, idiots. Then I'd watch them on your fucking network in the first place.

(Do I seem disproportionately angry? That's because I hate fucking stupidity. And I'm a dork.)

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09:49 I open with coffee for $200, Art. Otherwise, it's all a matter of getting my brain to work. Hopefully via writing. #
16:16 ....City of Heroes... Gamemaster... instincts... risssiiiing... #

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01:33 Luna di Luna Merlot/Cabernet is way better than any wine I bought sheerly because I thought the bottle was cool has any right to be. #
19:49 Who else wants to see Les "Survivorman" Stroud beat Bear "Man V. Wild" Grylls unconscious with a weapon made from driftwood and a otter? #

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01:36 Heading for bed, my neck muscles locking with weird tension. Time for Canadian Aspirin. I will miss Canadian Aspirin. #
14:55 Holy crap -- there was a Sad Sack webcomic? sadsack.org/SSwebcomic.htm #
22:41 No context conversation quote: "Dude -- everyone giggles at 'titmouse.' It's one of the gifts the British gave us." #

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01:01 Mrph. How can I be this tired and incapable of sleep? #
10:21 Okay, that's officially a headache. Sigh. #
16:53 It never fails to surprise me how hardwired we all are to equate "I disagree with your opinion" to mean "you are BAD!" Myself included. #
18:39 Every meal is an exciting adventure. Will I succeed at my "safely consume food" roll, or blow it. This time? Bad roll, marginal failure. #
22:40 Green tea, dragonwell extra special ( tinyurl.com/6y69l5 ) -- a perfect evening ritual tea. #

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