Via Dave (a poster on the forums at Kaedrin)

In case you were ever wondering what the largest island in a lake that is on an island in a lake on an island is: it’s apparently Vulcan point, in Crater Lake, on Volcano Island, in Lake Taal, on Luzon (PHI).

I love reading Twenty Sided. While I’m not a RPGer, I’ve grown up around RPGers, and I love gaming in general. I was exposed to Twenty Sided through Mark over at Kaedrin. I’ve been reading Shamus’ blog for a while now, and it’s been interesting to see it growing as Lord of the DM of the Rings takes off. Lately, though, Shamus has been experiencing some of the more… shall we say, unpleasant sides of the interwebs. After an explosion of comments in the last couple of posts he made, Shamus put up a great piece about exaggerated disagreement a couple days ago, and a piece about pedantic nitpicking this morning.

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Take a look here!

Thanks go out to whichever one of you tossed them my post. Is it okay if I feel sort of giddy and excited that someone gave us a shout out?

Sorry I haven’t posted this week- I was in Kansas City on business, and I just got back this morning. I should be back to blogging soon. I need to recover first.

But, because I know you all miss it:

The Random Ten: I Almost Missed My Flight Edition

1. The White Stripes - “Isis”
2. Lily Allen - “Oh My God”
3. King Missile - “Betrayal Takes Two”
4. The Walkmen - “The Rat”
5. Weezer - “Surf Wax America”
6. Arcade Fire - “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)”
7. The Faint - “Posed to Death”
8. Soul Coughing - “Uh Zoom Zip”
9. Modest Mouse - “Black Cadillacs”
10. Ben Folds - “The Ascent of Stan”

-Total distance: 49.5 miles
-Total time driving: 48 minutes
-Total number of billboards featuring mostly nude women or close-ups of women’s stomachs/abdomens, asses, breasts that I noticed today: 5 (1 billboard for a hotel featuring a woman in a bikini and a tagline about rinsing off, 1 billboard for a radio show featuring a woman in a tiny bikini sprawled out on a table with “Eye Candy” over her, and the radio host with “Ear Candy” under him, 3 billboards for a casino with the tag “your attitude, your casino” under a closeup of a woman’s body part).
-Total number of billboards featuring mostly nude men or close-ups of men’s crotches, asses, stomachs that I noticed today: 0
-Total number of car haulers completely engulfed in flames that I passed on the way to work today: 1

So, I’m sick.

I’m not actually quite so sick as to think of myself as death warmed over, but I’m pretty effing close. My throat is burning and scratchy, and my sinuses have somehow managed to pull of the seemingly contradictory feat of both feeling dry and being runny at the same time. My head feels light and, and earlier I felt as though throwing up might be less unpleasant than not throwing up.

So. Yeah.

As soon as my boss returns, I think I’m going to see about taking the rest of the day, and maybe tomorrow, off.

This is also my way of explaining what, to me, is a rather significant lack of posting this week. I was all kinds of on fire last week and the week before, so I’m going to pretend that my lack of posts seemed odd, and that all four of my readers were thinking “I wonder what happened?”

Pranking your students by pretending that there’s a gunman trying to get at them?

Not funny.

Rachelle, over at Living Between Wednesdays posted a thoroughly geektastic 100th post extravaganza, wherein she treats readers to a photo-tour of some of her favorite geeky possessions (and challanges us to post our own nergasmic photo-tours).

I long ago embraced my inner (and, as it turns out, outer) geek. Tonight, I will endeavor to photograph some of my geekier possessions. Prepare to be whelmed- maybe even overly so- with my geekiness.

Yesterday was a pretty damned important day. No, I’m not talking about pagan fertility festivals or the raising of the dead- I’m talking about my friend N’s wedding!

Sadly, I was unable to make it to the wedding, but I hope it was every bit as wonderful as you deserve, buddy. Everyone wish the happy couple well. I expect pictures and reports on what a great time was had by all.

Best of luck, you two!

While cleaning out the old moderation list, I came across several pieces of spam for the typical pharm-crap. The interesting part was that each one of them ended with “This is a promotional message if you feel offended by it please delete it.”

Obviously, if I feel offended by it, I’m going to delete it. I don’t need your permission, Mister Spammer. Here’s an idea- if you’re concerned that your promotional message might offend, maybe you shouldn’t be sending it out in such an obnoxious fashion.

One can dream.

I expect there to be spam comments waiting for me when I log in. Usually, they’re just random plugs for some kind of male enhancement drugs, or the p0rn! OMG!

But, I was really disappointed last night. I came in to check for comments, and found there were several. All of them were spam.

The top one… *sigh*… it was a p0rn link spam. Not just any p0rn, though. Oh, no.

It was robot p0rn. I kid you not.

It almost brought a tear to my eye to see that my beloved Gundam have fallen on such hard times that they’ve turned to making roboporn to get by. I deleted the comment from moderation, but I, sadly, can’t delete it from my brain.

Poor Gundam.