Primordial Ooze

So, I took off work today to move a bunch of boxes off my new back porch and some more boxes out of my garage.

We sorted through and parted with many items we will never use again. We donated, we chopped up, and we drove loads of crap to the dumps. I cut worn boxes down and moved lots of stuff into big plastic bins which are much sturdier. I stacked boxes. Lifted boxes downstairs, making dozens and dozens of trips up and down. Before I wrote this, I also went to two classes of Tae Kwon Do. That pretty much squeezed the last bit of moisture out of my body. My muscles are sore. My back is sore. My feet are sore. But I have the glowing feeling of a job well done and all of the activity has left me with a clear mind and peaceful spirit. I’m doing all of this again next week when I open the pool and setup the “fun” part of my backyard. I expect that day to be just as active as this one. The only difference is I’ll get to jump into a pool once it’s all over!

Time to head to bed now and back to my sedentary day job.

UPDATE: 4/7/2008: For some reason, I had insomnia and could not sleep. Go figure!

PS: Oh, and here’s a stupid video just because :

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 Darwinism at it’s best…

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This is a cute parody on the MacBook Air “manila envelope” commercial. ThinkPads still suck, though. They didn’t always suck, but they do now. There is a reason IBM dumped the line. IMHO, of course.

Via The Apple Core.

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My some loves the Alien vs. Predator series. He has a friend at school and they talk about the movies all of the time. At home, I have the Blu-Ray disk of AvP: Requiem and on the cover is a nice picture of the PredAlien hybrid. I had to explain to my son that all aliens are hybrids but in AvP: Requiem, the hybrid is a particular bad-ass who is half-alien/half predator.

We also just got finished watching Superman : Doomsday and so the inevitable question was asked…

He asked, “Papa, who would win in a fight… Superman or the PredAlien from AvP: Requiem?”

I just shook my head. I said, “Giovanni, remember what I told you about baseball? You remember, the whole thing about the majors and minors? Those are leagues. Players in the minors are simply not as good, by and large, as their major-league counterparts. Say you put a minor league team against a major-league team and had them play one another. The minor-league team would be considered ‘out of their league’ for that matchup. It’s the same way with Superman and the PredAlien. What happens when Superman gets shot with a bullet?”

“It bounces off,” he replied.

I continued, “and what happens to an Alien when it gets hit with a bullet?”

“It gets hurt or gets blown up…. oh! I get it!” he exclaimed. “The PredAlien is in the minors and Superman is in the majors!”

I shook my head. “Actually, Giovanni. If Superman were in the majors then, for this matchup, the PredAlien would be playing Tee-Ball with Marco (my 4-year old son).”

He did not like that answer. He liked the PredAlien and though it was a cool and downright bad-ass monster. Knowing Superman could rip off one of it’s arms and use the acid blood like cologne left him a bit disillusioned.

This is, by the way, why Batman is way more interesting than Superman.

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Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

Clever, very clever.

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I hope this never, ever, happens to me.

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Oh, you shouldn’t have wasted that. Here comes the T1000.

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I love the tagline on this one. Still hoping one day we’ll see the Green Lantern hold up that wonderful green ring on the silver screen and say:

In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil’s might,
Beware my power…Green Lantern’s light!

Until then… we have this.

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Impressive video depicting a landslide. Much more intense than you first expect.

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I don’t know how people have the time to do this. The great thing about this particular phrase is the varied and often dramatic expressions on people’s faces when they say, “what?”

Masterfully compiled!

Thanks John!

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