Via CalTechGirl comes this quiz, from which I received this result:

Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 85% Green Lantern 75% Superman 70% The Flash 65% Iron Man 65% Supergirl 63% Hulk 55% Robin 53% Catwoman 45% Wonder Woman 43% Batman 35%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

So there is some common ground between UNC fans and Duke fans. Will wonders never cease?

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Note: Good Popeye guess in part IX. No cigar, but a good guess nonetheless.

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Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. I went to the store the other day. I was in there for only about 5 minutes. When I came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. I went up to him and said, "Come on, buddy, how about giving a senior a break?"

He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I called him a Nazi.

He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires. So, I called him a piece of dog sh*t.

He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket.

This went on for about 20 minutes. The more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote. Personally, I didn't give a damn. My car was parked around the corner. I try to have a little fun each day now that I'm retired. It's important at my age.

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I hear that the Puppy Blender has teamed up with OJ to find the real hobo killers. They've been spotted driving a white Bronco around local golf course. Anyhoo, while they're busy, we at the Alliance will entertain ourselves by doing something that the LA county courts have forgotten how to do: examine Glenn Reynolds DNA. Let's get started by powering up the old electron microscope.

Hmm. Interesting( I feel like I should insert a "Heh" or "Indeed" right now). It appears that while most humans have a spiraling double-helix DNA pattern(Ted Kennedy excluded), Glenn Reynolds' pattern is bit harder to pin down. It's moving so rapidly, almost like some spinning metallic blades. Must increase magnification... Here it is! Well, as least his DNA isn't likely to rust. Let's see what else we can find by digging into the gene sequence.

Odd. I don't see the standard adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine. This is a new sequence entirely. Let's decode:

Protosine
Ubenosine
Protosine and
Protosine again!. Is this the pattern?
Ytrosine. Weird. I've not seen this in DNA before.
Bradnosine
Lytosine
Ectosine
Nedrosine
Dynosine
Ectosine again. At least some of the bases are duplicated
Radnosine
Protosine
Ubenosine... Cool. I think that the sequence is repeating now.

I give up. It just doesn't make any sense to me. The pattern comprising Reynolds' DNA appears to completely random and nonsensical. I leave any further investigation to the reader.

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Bill Quick has had enough. Excerpt:

I no longer have many liberal friends, and I don't expect to in the future, not until they either learn some manners, or develop slightly more open minds. Nor does that situation bother me. In fact, to be honest, I no longer care about convincing them of anything, which is a fool's errand anyway . All I want to do is crush their malignant ideologies, destroy any hold they have on political power, and otherwise render them harmless enough that I can ignore them entirely, the same way I ignore the masturbatory conversations ranting lunatics have with themselves on the streets of San Francisco.

At this point I find the endless effort on the part of libertarians and conservatives to "communicate" with liberals, to "convince" liberals a bit unseemly. It smacks of masochism and a sort of "Stockholm Syndrome," as if those on the right seem to believe they need some sort of liberal validation or agreement before their own positions can be deemed "acceptable," even to themselves.

We're in charge, not them. They need to seek our agreement, not the other way around. It's time we started to act like it.

My liberal friends are still my friends, mainly due to the fact that even though they love the Kool-Aid, they agree that my preferring Coca-Cola, while incomprehensible to them, is a perfectly acceptable choice. They try and make me change brands periodically, but they know that, in my heart, I will always prefer Coke.

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If, like me, you spend a lot of time in front of your computer, it's likely that you take some of your meals there as well. Now your monitor is probably a little messy, what with flecks of food and spray from soda littering the glass. I've developed something that will automatically clean your CRT screen. Open the extended entry to see this invention. more...

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Since I was away from a computer for a while, feel free to believe or not believe the following predictions for games already completed:

Tampa Bay over Washington: Gah. I knew that Tampa's defense would dominate, but I did not anticipate Washington actually being able to score points anyway. Loss.

Carolina over NY Giants: The Panthers were my preseason pick to win the NFC, so I wasn't surprised by this result. I do expect the Giants to be pretty good next year, though. Win.

New England over Jacksonville: Really, was anyone outside of Florida surprised by this result? Win.

Pittsburgh over Cincinnati: Sure, Cincy won the division. I thought that Pittsburgh was the better team. Looks like I was right this time. Win.
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Indy over Pittsburgh in a squeaker: Pittsburgh played well down the stretch and the Colts struggled with some serious adversity, which is why I thought it would be close. Great game, but tell me the truth: had anyone ever heard of the "his knee was still down so it wasn't a fumble" rule before? Does anyone besides me think that the NFL entered this piece of crap into the rulebook last night to cover its ass today? It was the "tuck rule" part deux. Make up shit and then pretend it had always been there. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but something really stunk about that call. Steelers managed to win in spite of everything. Kudos to Bill Cowher for for not coaching like a pussy this year. He went for on 4th down at midfield nursing a small lead instead of wimping out and punting. It was the correct call. And now Pittsburgh heads to their 6th AFC championship game in 12 years. Sure, they've only won one so far, but there are a lot of AFC teams that would gladly trade places with them. I happen to root for one such team. Loss.

One other benefit of a Steelers' win is that John Cole came in off of the ledge on his own. Until next week, of course.

Denver over New England: Plummer finally sheds the undeserved label as a choke artist and the Broncos win their first playoff game since a guy named Elway was QB. And with Indy out of the way, Denver probably likes their chances for going to the Superbowl. Denver, by the way, was my preseason AFC champ/Superbowl champ pick. Which means that they'll probably lose next week to Pittsburgh, giving Steeler fans some redemption for last year's meltdown against the Patriots. Win.

Seattle over Washington: The better team won. And they were still the better team even without the services of Shaun Alexander. Win.

Carolina over Chicago: Two strong defenses, but only one decent offense. Bears' fans should be optimistic about next year. Win.

Playoff record so far: 6-2.

Predictions for next week: I picked Carolina and Denver before the season began, so I'll stick with them, which probably means they'll both lose. We shall see.

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1 I hope you're right. Those are my 2 teams. Talk about splitting hairs, I will be in torment if either of them wins or loses

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Thank you for your patience. Or in some cases, not. :->

Hey, I'm entitled to a little vacation with the wife and children sometimes, and I don't own a wireless enabled laptop.

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Battlestar Galactica returns with part 2 of season 2 this Friday. Got those TIVO/DVRs/VCRs ready?

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1 The waiting just kills me from week to week.

Posted by: Harvey at January 12, 2006 11:34 AM (ubhj8)

2 Dude, it's been like 9 days. Get over your badself already and post something. Even the stupid pictures is better then nothing!

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I've been a bit lax over the holidays keeping up with the Carnival of the Recipes. Number 70 is over at Not Exactly Rocket Science; number 71 can be found at World Famous Recipes; and Caterwauling host this week's version, number 72.

Go and get some cooking ideas to start off the New Year right.

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A guy in in the UK sued a locality for compensation because he soiled his pants. I am not making this up.

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Via Dean comes this article about a self-aware robot. The article doesn't mention it, but I believe its name is SkyNet.

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Or how my obsolete skills became useful again

Microsoft is reintroducing our old trusty friend, the C:\ prompt. It will, in theory, give Windows' users the ability to create programs similar to that available to Unix users as shell scripts. What Microsoft fails to mention is that this functionality has existed for quite some time as DOS batch programming. Anyone- like me- who has been geeking around computers since DOS' heyday will remember writing and using these things. Anyway, here is an excerpt:

While these new commands and scripts will interest primarily administrators and power users, less-technical types may benefit from Monad scripts that could circulate on the Internet as Unix scripts do. For example, a Monad script might quickly reorganize files and directories based on their name or creation date--a task that can take a fair bit of manual labor in Windows Explorer.

A beta version of Monad for Windows XP is available as a free download. Registration is required, and you will also need to have.Net Framework 2.0 (available at the same page) installed.

I dunno, but it seems that there's always some sort of catch with Microsoft. Or maybe it's the effing critical flaws that get discovered daily, ones that allow a hacker control of your PC. Nice, huh?

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Stephen and Melissa Green now have a bouncing baby boy, Preston Davis Green. Stop by and congratulate the happy parents.

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