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After looking at a lot of options, Alaric has decided that he wants to be the ninth Doctor for Halloween. This is good for us -- it's a simple costume, in theory, especially since I've already got a sonic screwdriver prop I can lend him. The Ninth Doctor has very simple clothing, especially compared to some of the earlier versions, and beats ...

Nick has done a very bad thing. He bought me Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Xbox 360 as a late birthday present. After the stress of this last week, studying for (and passing) the Microsoft 70-237 and 70-238 exams (two-thirds of the Microsoft Certified IT Professional - Enterprise Messaging certification; I passed 70-236, the third, back ...

One of my friends on LiveJournal posted a meme. Now, I'm normally not the kind to participate in various memes, but I like this one: go here and pick out five random quotes that somehow resonate with you (keep going until you find the right five), then post them. Here are mine: If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the ...

Stupid website, but it gives me a chance to taunt my co-worker Kevin. This morning I got a puzzled e-mail from him, asking me why this picture of me in Sydney from February (yes, that's Sydney, Australia; we were there for training for work) was the most-viewed picture in his online galleries (warning, probably not a worksafe gallery). I have no ...

Earlier tonight while reading my LiveJournal friends' posts, I saw this video: The Mean Kitty Song This video has been cracking me up for hours now. I've watched it, like, a gazillion times, and I still am laughing my ass off. I'm also madly wanting a cat, but that's partly Ryan's fault, since he just got a new cat and we went over to his place ...

First, I would like it to be known that I am only doing this under protest. I don't usually participate in blog memes, because most of them are damned silly. However, I got tagged on this one by Paul in what looks like a fairly typical spree of spreading the love, so I'll go ahead and do it. So here's the meme, in Paul's words: ...

You may have noticed that I posted a disclaimer in the comment thread on my previous Firefly review stating that I would delete comments that were personal attacks. Unfortunately, that wasn't a theoretical warning. I'd been given good advice -- which I full intended to heed -- that my comment was sufficient and that I should leave it alone. ...

Shout out to Jon Zeigler, who said it better than I ever could. Exactly, my friend. Exactly. (If this makes no sense to you, don't worry.)

The title of this post is appropriate in at least three different ways: Sometime this afternoon, my servers got knocked offline thanks to a transient power glitch. Normally, this is fixed just by rebooting the servers in the correct order, but this time it was made much more difficult by the fact that I'm currently in Arizona. Mad props to ...

I told you the new Doctor Who kicks ass. Yes, I am gloating. And ''Father's Day'' is still my favorite episode.

Can you still call it a s'more when: You're using Nutella instead of chocolate squares You're using pre-sized graham cracker squares You're using a propane grill to toast the marshmellows While we may not know the ultimate answer, we Washington Gangers are firmly committed to further research in as many upcoming evenings as possible. We ...

The new schedule seems to be working, for the most part. There's only one area where I have any complaints: I hit a point at night where I just shut off. Monday night, I was in bed promptly at 9pm. Steph didn't realize that my feeble mutterings of ''I think it's bed time'' meant that I was actually heading that way, but I was going while I still ...

I'm sitting here awake at 5:36am, waiting for my newly nuked breakfast to cool down enough for me to eat. This is by no means the first day this week that I've been awake at this time, but this is the first day this week that I'm awake because I've just gotten up. My sleep schedule has been all messed up lately; I'm hoping this is the beginning of ...

Stephanie and I were listening to the radio in the car tonight. We had it on our local country station since they were doing their weekly countdown and we both like a lot of the modern country music (although by no means all of it). As we were listening to Brad Paisley's ''Mud on the Tires'' Steph asked a question that demonstrates just how ...